Fiction - Science Fiction - General

The Island of Doctor Moreau is a science fiction novel written by H. G. Wells. He was an English author, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels,...

The Moon Pool is a fantasy novel by American writer Abraham Merritt. It originally appeared as two short stories in All-Story Weekly: "The Moon Pool" (1918) and its sequel, "Conquest of the Moon Pool" (1919). These were then reworked into a novel released in...

"The journey in the tunnel of light was swift and long, joyful and painful, past memory, past history, past all knowledge of evil, past anger at his shooting and the separation from his family, until there was little that remained of the Earth being....

Halvar Danske, known as the Hireling, has come to Manatas to determine whether there's fraud afoot in the Feria. His master, the Al-Andalusian Calif Don Felipe, has had a letter from an old friend named Leon di Vicenza claiming part of the calif's share...

Stars in Chains Book Two: Liberator By Herbert Grosshans -- Chosen by the Mindgods to liberate the Galaxy from the tyrant Kaloor, David Stark must change to emerge victorious from the last battle. His craving for blood during sexual intercourse is only part of...

Stars in Chains Book One: Slave By Herbert Grosshans -- Abducted, Earthman David Stark is sent to the mines on an alien planet. After escaping and a brief time of happiness in the arms of T'Phira, the Golden Goddess and in the City under...

Stardogs - Book One Return to Redsky by Herbert Grosshans When the Stardogs set up a base on Redsky, the Terran Empire sends Major Griffin and his team of super soldiers to investigate. Griffin has a personal vendetta. If he has to tear open...

Written in collaboration in 1922 by the author of Felifax, this five-volume saga (of which this is the second), purporting to chronicle the early years of the 21st century, takes place in a quasi-utopia-like Earth, where, thanks to the genius of master scientist Oronius,...

Written in collaboration in 1922 by the author of Felifax, this five-volume saga (of which this is the first), purporting to chronicle the early years of the 21st century, takes place in a quasi-utopia-like Earth, where war no longer exists, poverty has been banished,...

The speculative motif featured in The Bad Dream--the possibility of suspended animation achieved by means of refrigeration--has a substantial literary history in works of fantasy. Jules Hoche's depiction of a technology of suspended animation is however, much closer in spirit and speculative technological depiction...

The Human Paradise (1930) is a scathingly sarcastic satire in which God offers to grant wishes expressed unanimously by the entirety of humankind. The wishes voiced are carefully extrapolated in such a way as to suggest that, however effective individuals might be at screwing...

In The Murderer of the World (1910), Gaston de Wailly imagined that the Earth is a living being, whose surface we inhabit as parasites. Moved by revenge against the "evil beast" which destroyed his family, a mad scientist schemes to literally murder the world...

Prince Bonifacio (1864) is a bold conte philosophique, which sets out to mock politics in the scathing fashion of Voltaire and Jonathan Swift, mimicking the form of folktales, but substituting pseudoscientific speculation for magic, and adding an element of satire directed against "mad scientists."...

Cindy Fiske hates her high school life from her vice cop father, Jake, to her biochemist mother, Anya. Of course, she runs away and into the waiting arms of Connie Samoa who runs a high price call girl ring. Then, Anya's boss starts sampling...

Edgar Rice Burroughs was born in 1875 in Chicago, Illinois. Although Burroughs wrote in many genres he is best known for creating the jungle hero Tarzan. Burroughs began writing for pulp fiction magazines and in 1912 he published Tarzan of the Apes. Thuvia is...

Have you ever wanted to talk to a dead man? A neurosurgeon did the unthinkable. He assembled a research team which made a complete computer map of a human brain. The map showed every cell and connection in the brain. A software set allowed...

Blood Ties chronicles the existence of Sabra Raine, a beautiful young woman, torn from her family in the sixteenth century by a malevolent vampire known as Ravenal and condemned to eternal life as one of the undead. In the year 2000, Ravenal crosses Sabra's...

Author: Albert ThonISBN-10: 1588203263ISBN-13: 9781588203267Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2001Pages: 184Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.61lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.42d

Author: James F. MilneISBN-10: 1587212110ISBN-13: 9781587212116Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/20/2000Pages: 540Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.40lbsSize: 8.06h x 5.06w x 1.34d

Author: Brad ProwseISBN-10: 1587212064ISBN-13: 9781587212062Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/20/2000Pages: 156Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 8.05h x 5.06w x 0.43d

Two, the last entry in the Gerald Knave science fiction series, was the final novel completed by Laurence M. Janifer before his death. Summoned from retirement and newly wedded bliss, Knave must solve an impossible (and impossibly complicated) case for the Emperor while balancing...

While on a routine photography mission in space, Gary Lane made a terrifying discovery. The universe isn't expanding, the way generations have been led to believe -- Earth's solar system is contracting, creating the illusion of expansion. And as the solar system contracts, its...

Author: L. H. MaynardISBN-10: 1587154455ISBN-13: 9781587154454Publisher: Cosmos BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2001Pages: 180Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.66lbsSize: 9.04h x 6.00w x 0.47dReview Citation(s): Asimov's Science Fiction 12/01/2002 pg. 138

The Best of John Russell Fearn brings together a selection of the best works by John Russell Fearn, a prolific British science fiction author. Known for his imaginative and inventive stories, Fearn's writing spans from the 1930s to the 1960s, covering a variety of...

This book introduces a new approach for modelling large enterprise systems: the software fortress model. In the software fortress model, an enterprise architecture is viewed as a series of self-contained, mutually suspicious, marginally cooperating software fortresses interacting with each other through carefully crafted and...

Author: Thomas SuttonISBN-10: 1585001651ISBN-13: 9781585001651Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/19/1997Pages: 200Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.54lbsSize: 7.95h x 4.96w x 0.54d

Author: Crawford Kilian,Crawford KillianISBN-10: 1583481168ISBN-13: 9781583481165Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/1998Pages: 368Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.98lbsSize: 8.03h x 5.01w x 1.07d

Poorly received when first published in 1857, The Confidence Man is now considered Herman Melville's "most nearly perfect work," and one that occupies a central place in the American literary tradition of masquerade and trickery. Set on April Fool's Day aboard a Mississippi steamer,...

Star Hunter is a thrilling science fiction adventure that takes readers on a journey to the mysterious planet of Jumala. The story follows Vye Lansor, an amnesiac with a mysterious past, who finds himself on a mission fraught with danger and intrigue. Hired by...

They laughed at his ideas of heavier-than-air flying machines. But he had the last laugh with the Albatross -- the most incredible flying machine ever built. Lord of the skies, Robur became the would-be conqueror of the world! A fascinating companion to 20,000 Leagues...

A surrealistic adventure set in near-future Europe. Two distinct, but incomplete personalities are brought together during the fulfillment of a Nostradamus prophecy.Author: Gordon GouldenISBN-10: 1553695569ISBN-13: 9781553695561Publisher: Trafford PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/27/2002Pages: 212Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.48d

An alien invades the hills of Arkansas. While government and law enforcement officials fight local prejudice and ignorance, their survival may depend on a brain damaged, mute child with a very special gift.Author: D. L. CharlesISBN-10: 1552125017ISBN-13: 9781552125014Publisher: Trafford PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/30/2000Pages: 280Format: PaperbackWeight:...

Etchings in the Ether is a science fiction cum philosophical work entailing concepts of creation, evolution and human interrelationships. An exploration of how both Disneyland and holocaust can exist on the same planet.Author: Christopher John MumfordISBN-10: 1552124223ISBN-13: 9781552124222Publisher: Trafford PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/22/2000Pages: 412Format: PaperbackWeight:...

From the bloodiest war zones of Africa to the shadiest hotels of Hollywood, ex-mercenary turned paparazzo Drew Cairns has seen some stuff. Drew-known to the gossip-hungry masses as SwarmLord-commands a unique technology that lets him see through walls and listen beyond doors. That means...

The World Set Free is a novel written in 1913 and published in 1914 by H. G. Wells. The book is based on a prediction of nuclear weapons of a more destructive and uncontrollable sort than the world has yet seen. It had appeared...

As if handling a boomerang flung into the future, the author tells astonishing, captivating, and incredible stories about what society may be like in the middle of this century. He gives the future a voice, just as if we were there. The originality of...

The appearance of a Crop Circle with a strange coded message in the village of Churchaven Suffolk, started Justin and Henrietta on an investigation that revealed the murder of Justin's ancestor in Victorian times effecting his family with startling consequences. The pair investigated two...

The Christmas Holiday was a special time for the Farmer Family on the Donkey Dan Show. The whole family, friends and pets were excited from Thanksgiving until the day after Christmas. This book has a mix of several different Christmas shows that were broadcasted...

Seven quietly disturbing tales that question the nature of reality itself: is it solid and permanent or just a thin curtain beyond which other worlds lie in wait? Ranging from psychological horror, dystopian paranoia to dark comedy, these stories will remain in the mind...

The aging soldiers of the Tears of Flame Division are celebrating an infusion of youth into their ranks as their sons and daughters come of age and join them on the line against the enemies of Niv. These young soldiers will not have long...

Your dreams belong to you. Theyre private, and no one needs to know what happens in them. But what if someone could invade your dreams? And once in, what if that someone could control what happens while you lie there, powerless to affect the...

In this second installment called Sammys Science Arizona, I deal solely with animals and plants inhabiting the state of Arizona. As always, I tell the science facts in this book using my mixed species animal family characters from our radio broadcast. The main characters...

Micah Hardy lives and loves imperfectly. He has a thankless job and his boss dislikes him. Hes lost his faith; his church is a trout stream. His wife has left him, hes estranged from one of his two grown daughters and he shares his...

Waking Mars is the third book in the series after The Medallion and The Rescue. In Waking Mars, the aliens, whose planet had accidently became part of the solar system, saw the potential in vitalizing Mars to a livable level. They were lucky to...

Norhem and So'hem share their continent, with more than just the mountain range dividing them. Both Norhem and So'hem believe they are the true followers of the one true god; the problem is, they worship two different gods. They both use fear of the...

I suppose I should introduce myself in a little more formal fashion. I am Andrea Ubutanga, a cyborg. Yeah, I am not even really a human being, regardless of the UEC officially declaring me to be one. I have an Asimov android body controlled...

The Nebula Chronicles, Vol. 1, Book 1: The Web Spinner When Mary Jane finds out that she is not Mary Jane, but Arris, and not from planet Earth, her world is turned upside down. To escape from being killed, Arris goes to the Nebula...

What if technology existed that allowed you to realistically experience a slice of time from the life of your forefathers? To what lengths would an individual go to acquire this advanced technology?Author: CL HughesISBN-10: 1546222820ISBN-13: 9781546222828Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/29/2017Pages: 120Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 8.00h x...

First time was a premonition of things to come. Now, her journey commences in love, courage, survival, and faith! A catastrophic event occurs, sending the earth into turmoil, disrupting earth's foundation as the devil walks the earth. The devil sends out his armies to...

The Earth Game is about to end The first hundred thousand years of existence ultimately leads to boredom. And from that derives a need to create increasingly sophisticated entertainment. Seven godlike creatures of Chroma, evolved over time to colored monstrosities of their choosing, ruthlessly...