Fiction - Science Fiction - General

What does it mean to be human in a universe of shifting, sometimes terrifying realities? Eighteen stories from Jack Skillingstead's second decade of publishing feature intense and surprising explorations of who we are, who we wish to be, and who we can't be.In "The...

Adrian thought his time as a human experiment was over, that he was done suffering and had finally died. Never did he expect to wake up somewhere new, somewhere alien and far different than he could've ever imagined. Has he found salvation, or is...

In a disintegrating and lawless near-future, a young man journeys north to a mysterious island owned by one of the world's wealthiest men--and finds an entire new civilization waiting for him.Ben is a painter from the crowded, turbulent city. For six months his fianc馥,...

This classic work of science fiction imagines a subterranean race of beings who possess advanced technology and a utopian society. As the narrator discovers this hidden world, he grapples with questions of power, morality, and the nature of human progress. With its imaginative setting...

He could be dead, dreaming, or painfully alive. Does he really want to find out which? Timothy Smit is sick. He's stuck in middle management at a second-rate news aggregator when an intense coughing fit causes him to pass out at his desk. Tim...

In J'hanctum (ja hock tum), a galaxy twice removed from ours, a highly communicable contagion called the Wehtiko (weh tee co) has inexplicably escalated in its infection rate that is normally manageable by the unwavering vigilances of an alien military Corp. known as the...

Dead Theater is one of four book series.Author: Brad GarciaISBN-10: 1957676884ISBN-13: 9781957676883Publisher: Primix PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/14/2023Pages: 468Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.50lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.04dReview Citation(s): Foreword 02/23/2024

A team of extraterrestrials is visiting Earth once again, a surveying mission that is regularly sent from the Allegiance to monitor the Solar System. Shortly after their arrival, they uncover troubling facts affecting the Homo sapiens species which could potentially cause the extinction of...

The city-state of Percheron is in crisis. Zaradine Ana has been captured by the mysterious Arafanz and his desert warriors and is being held in their isolated fort. It is also suspected that she is pregnant with Zar Boaz's son, the heir to the...

Jenny and Burt are madly in love, but almost never get to see one another. As agents of the Dimensional Alliance, they are engaged in freeing the enslaved dimensions from the grip of the evil Inseni. Even Earth appears to be in danger from...

The Orange Catholic Bible is a fictional book set in the Dune universe.It is a compilation and fusion of different religious texts relevant to human history. A relaxed analysis on the common axes of religions, from the origins to incorporate technology as dogma.In this...

J. Manfred Weichsel's versatility, unique style, and refusal to be bound by genre conventions have made him a force to be reckoned with in the world of speculative fiction. Now, Weichsel invites you to strip down and expose yourself to his raw and unfiltered...

Join the renowned barbarian and thief in this sword-and-sorcery adventure from a Grand Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy. While The Lord of the Rings took the world by storm, Fritz Leiber's fantastic but thoroughly flawed antiheroes, Fafhrd and Gray Mouser, adventured and stumbled...

This acclaimed fantasy classic of men, elves, and gods is at once breathtakingly exciting and heartbreakingly tragic. Published the same year as The Fellowship of the Ring, Poul Anderson's novel The Broken Sword draws on similar Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon sources. In his greed for...

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser take to the sea in the third installment of this seminal sword and sorcery series that "has lost none of its luminous magic" (San Francisco Chronicle). Swords in the Mist, book three in the Lankhmar series, thrusts our indentured,...

A Chicago police detective is sent on an assignment after years of desk work in the middle of a blizzard in 1974. He stumbles upon dead officers that go missing and then all hell breaks loose and he has to save him and whoever...

[Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser is] one of the great works of fantasy in this century." --Publishers Weekly The Swords of Lankhmar finds the city characteristically plagued by rats. Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser are in the employ of Glipkerio, the overlord, to guard...

A thrilling retelling of the ancient Epic of Gilgamesh from the Hugo and Nebula Award-Winning author of Lord Valentine's Castle. Gilgamesh's appetite for wine, women, and warfare is insatiable. As the King of Uruk, he oppresses his people and burdens his city. To temper...

In the magic woods of Lyra, a noblewoman struggles to escape from a faceless manTrouble is brewing in Alkyra. While the kingdom's noblemen squabble, on their borders an ancient enemy, the Lithmern, raises an army. As the head of the Noble House of Brenn...

The psychopathic obsession of Waylon Ross drove him to capture and collect the rarest of Earth's most endangered creatures. It started with ones known to man, and spiraled into legendary beasts and undiscovered nightmares...Through a series of interconnected tales that culminate during the 2024...

Winner of the Nebula Award: "A lovely and literate exploration of the dark moment where myth and science meet" (Samuel R. Delany). When night falls over the Yucatan, the archaeologists lay down their tools. But while her colleagues relax, Elizabeth Butler searches for shadows....

The maritime ubarate of Cos and her allies are mounting an attack on Ar on two fronts, from the South with a major invasion force and in the North with an expeditionary force besieging Ar's Station, Ar's base of power in the vast arable...

Pop Culture is the Opiate of the Masses Come follow a mysterious, glitchy narrator who races through the universe, tasked with warning any sentient species about humanity's cautionary fail. Our narrator attempts to answer humanity's greatest philosophical questions to create a history of what...

Tarl Cabot must prove his final loyalty to the harsh and caste-bound planet known as Counter-Earth. "Surrender Gor, ' reads a message sent from the Others, a mysterious people from the worlds of steel. Either the proud rulers of Gor must submit or be...

Taken as a possession, Judy Thornton, an Earth resident, is found meandering in the wilderness of the Earth-like planet of Gor. In keeping with the culture of the Goreans, she is trained and used as a slave. What her masters don't know is that...

Jason Marshall, an Earthman enslaved by the Goreans, is learning a valuable lesson in gender roles and must prove himself on the planet Gor. Determined to find the beautiful Earthwoman who was kidnapped with him, Jason is caught in the middle of a devastating...

Music, myth, and magic mix in this tale of a melody not meant for human ears, from the New York Times-bestselling and award-winning author of Darwin's Radio. Michael Perrin is an aspiring poet, struggling to express the chaotic cadences of his thoughts on paper....

The games of Gor are diverse, as are their players. There are the games of planetary politics, in which worlds are contested. And those of cities and ubarates, of ponderous cavalries and fleets of lateen-rigged ships. And smaller games, bloody games, played on a...

It's been 45 years since the end of the Zurvan reign. The Earth is a peaceful planet where solar panels cover the deserts and green pastures feed communities who have phased out currency in place of a local trade system. Michael and Melody are...

"14 thoughtful speculative tales centered on issues of reproductive freedom and female agency."--Provided by publisher.Author: Raven BelascoISBN-10: 1619762501ISBN-13: 9781619762503Publisher: Aqueduct PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/16/2023Pages: 308Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 8.30h x 5.60w x 1.20dReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 08/14/2023

"Pratchett's fantastic imagination and satirical wit are on full display." -- Publishers WeeklyThe 31st novel in the Discworld series from beloved New York Times bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett. This new recording is narrated by Jon Culshaw, Peter Serafinowicz (Star Wars: Episode I -...

Jake Hawks has been interested in Bigfoot since the 1970s and has been an avid reader of all Bigfoot literature. He has developed his own theories about the mythical creature, which he has taken into the field to test. Once Hawks began to have...

Archer Le Veq owes his life to the woman who rescued him from certain death at the height of the Civil War...a woman known only as "the Butterfly." Now, in the dark, waning days of Reconstruction, he needs the courageous and beautiful former spy...in...

When first published in 1983 The Entropy Exhibition was the first critical assessment of the literary movement known as 'New Wave' science fiction. It examines the history of the New Worlds magazine and its background in the popular imagination of the 1960s, traces the...

In the spring of 1938 Inspector Max Hamilton leaves the village of St. Basil in the Midlands of England for a holiday in London. He soon meets Sir John Cross, the head of the Special Operations section of Scotland Yard. At the urging of...

The deadly Madame Atomos is a brilliant but twisted Japanese scientist who is out to avenge herself against the United States for the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where she lost her family. Opposing her are Smith Beffort of the FBI, Dr. Alan Soblen,...

NEW FRONTIERS If you like Heinlein, you'll enjoy POINT ULTIMATE. Welcome to the future where the Enemy rules the world. Resistance is futile: The Enemy maintains control by having released a lethal virus, then forcing everyone to get a monthly antidote injection, lest they...

The third novel in the Philip K. Dick Award-winning author's fantasy trilogy set in Renaissance Italy, featuring archangels, dragons, and Lucifer. Set against the turbulent backdrop of the Italian Renaissance, this alternate history takes place in a world where real faith-based magic exists. Weakened...

In Lucifer's Weekend, Digger cannot convince a crazy widow to take a million dollar settlement for accidental death, and ends up uncovering a complicated murder plot involving a baby with a surprising father, a rogue cop, and a scheming millionaire with a sexy younger...

There have been many wars in human history, many ways in which we have learned to destroy ourselves with noise and flame. For a time however, things remained peaceful. Nations worked together in harmony and mankind was at peace. Now, in the year 2047,...

The return of the legendary magazine Startling Stories under the editorship of Doug Draa is one of science fiction's publishing events of the year. Jam-packed with fiction, art, and even a poem, here is a brand new issue of the classic pulp magazine, featuring:...

For Raymond Rodriguez, becoming a slave to the notorious pirates of Jupiter is out of the question. He and his friends, Mike and Sonja, devise a desperate plan to unite a group of kids, rescue their families and take back the mighty spaceliner 'The...

The famous novel News from Nowhere (1890), written by socialist pioneer and artist William Morris, combines utopian socialism and soft science fiction. Starting on January 11, 1890, it was first serialized in the Commonweal newspaper. In the story, William Guest, the narrator, falls asleep...

"Cosmic Crusaders" episode 1 is an epic science fiction novel that takes you on a thrilling journey through space. Join a brave crew of humans and aliens as they band together to save their galaxy from destruction. From battling deadly defense systems to exploring...

"With a technologist's understanding of how Silicon Valley works, a futurist's vision of what's coming next, and a novelist's sense of irony and suspense, Hodjat dramatizes, in this sharp-edged novella, a bleeding-edge breakthrough in storytelling..."-BookLife ReviewsWith the advent of ChatGPT, comes this timely thriller.Imagine...

Seven billion years from now, long after the Sun has died and human life has become extinct, alien beings reconstruct homo sapiens from our fossilized DNA drifting as debris in deep space. We are reborn to serve as bait in a battle to the...

"Echoes of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest reverberate through this cinematic tale...readers looking for an adrenaline-inducing resistance plot will find this worth their time." --Publishers WeeklyFrom award-winning author J. Michael Straczynski, The Glass Box is a hard-hitting, fast-paced sci-fi novel about the choices...

Three years have passed since the Jamaicans caused the apocalypse, and things in post-Armageddon Chicago have settled into a new kind of normal. Unfortunately, that "normal" includes collapsing skyscrapers, bands of bloodthirsty maniacs, and a dwindling cache of survival supplies. After watching his family,...

Experiencing time travel is just a paper-fold away for Mike the insurance salesman. The problem is, he never knows which "where-when" reality he'll experience. Being crucified, or being gassed at Auschwitz, or marooned in space in a Russian capsule. The bigger problem is, he...

In his acclaimed collection Tales Before Tolkien, Douglas A. Anderson illuminated the sources, inspirations, and influences that fired J.R.R. Tolkien's genius. Now Anderson turns his attention to Tolkien's colleague and friend C. S. Lewis, whose influence on modern fantasy, through his beloved Narnia books,...