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A WOMAN OF TODAY IS CALLED ON TO HELP A WOMAN OF THE PAST Have you ever walked down a street and tried to picture it in an earlier, simpler time? Have you ever imagined yourself actually living in the past? Elizabeth Charles, a...

A space colony escapes Doomsday to make a new life on an icy new world; a young man is involved in a gruesome car crash, only to learn that his problems are just beginning; a dying man is befriended by an eccentric angel, and...

Gladiator, first published in 1930, tells the story of Hugo Danner, who is given superhuman speed, endurance, strength, and intelligence by his father as an experiment in creating a better human. We follow Hugo throughout his life viewed from his perspective, from childhood, when...

This story only ever has one ending. When Everly Tertium encounters a strange man in the park claiming to be her grandfather, she is invited to visit a mysterious apartment building. There, she finds herself in a constant state of déjà vu, impossibly certain...

The smuggling ring is a big case...‪...that got his partner killed.‪How will Simon go on without her?‪In 2029 Kansas City, Master Detective John Simon is a tough cop with a disdain for technology. His new movie quoting partner doesn't make him happy. How can...

'Clarke is one of the greatest imaginative writers of hard science fiction' New Scientist 'Arthur Clarke is one of the true geniuses of our time' Ray Bradbury 'Arthur C. Clarke is the prophet of the space age' The Times 'A one-man literary Big Bang,...

Jens a professor of linguistics at Trondheim University makes a breakthrough in bird communications. Hoping a similar break-through in delphinidae communications will occur, the Oceanic Sea Mammal Research Institute in Kristiansund, Norway convinces Jens to leave the University. Where he successfully communicates with a...

Viktor Haas served with distinction during the Andevan Wars as Captain of the Sydney. The Sydney was a Deep-Space Class, Heavy Cruiser in the fleet of the Terran Space Exploration Administration, or TSEA.Captain Haas takes command of a very different ship - the Admiral...

Popi has spent the last three years traveling and using her gift to help the people she meets. She has reached the last town on her trip and is surprised to find a large number of people in need of what she can offer....

THE GAUNTLET IS THROWN... Hanse Davion and Melissa Steiner have united two Great Houses of the Inner Sphere in a marriage that upsets the balance of power among the stars. Though some hope this may bring an end to centuries of war, Maximilian Liao...

THE FINAL ENGAGEMENT... The minions of Maximilian Liao are about to deliver a crippling blow to the forces of Prince Hanse Davion-discovering a way to use Hanse's own technology against him. Half a galaxy away, assassins stalk Hanse's wife, Melissa Steiner, and her mother,...

Diversions & Distractions is a collection of 13 disturbing and unsettling stories by William Boston, filled with remorse, revenge, deceit, betrayal, greed, loss, hate, regrettable decisions and unspeakable evil.The tales within contain normal, everyday characters dealing with abnormal and nightmarish scenarios. From a married...

Traumatized by the forces of biblical persuasion, a professor finally reaches his breaking point and then writes his own bible in the name of defending himself from those forces. Then, to his surprise, after completing his bible, he effectively healed his trauma and transformed...

236 PAGES + 24 PAGES OF summaries of the scenes and acts. ACT 1,12 Scenes, ACT 2 11 Scenes, Act 3, 18 scenes, ACT 4, 22 Scenes.A play decrying environmental hazards caused by general pollution, especially poor disposal of industrial and plastic wastes, human...

Max Cooper, a stoic straight-faced collector, receives an assignment that isn't quite what it seems: A woman with no past and possibly no future, he must choose between calling her in or saving her life. His decision made more difficult by her steady revealing...

Conquered long ago by a worldwide empire, the people of Thane toil like slaves on the land. Now three men come together to lead a rebellion and free them. The spirits have given one great strength. They have given the second magical insight. But...

No matter how hard we try, life doesn't always go as we plan. Just as Harry begins to pick up the pieces of his life, emotions once hidden away must be dealt with as old wounds are exposed. Although he finally meets a woman...

Jack Starkey, still struggling with clinical depression arising out of the deaths of his wife and son, is caught up in a secret war that threatens life on earth. Just out of a mental institution, he is attacked and narrowly escapes death, beginning an...

This story uncovers suburbia's darkest secrets--mostly in The Flying Swan, where Neville the barman and Archroy, owner of five magic beans, do battle with beasts of the occult--and in particular the rather unpleasant Pope Alexander VI, the last of the Borgias.Author: Robert RankinISBN-10: 055213841XISBN-13:...

What is Clare Wingate doing? One minute she's suffering in a pretty-in-pink gown she'll never wear again, and the next thing she knows it's morning . . . and she's lying next to Sebastian Vaughan, her girlhood crush turned sexy, globe-hopping journalist.After finding her...

Shoot first, ask questions never.Chess Harlow is a man without many purposes. Wake up, and compete in a Blood Running tournament- a worldwide Battle Royale phenomenon where the last one standing, in the end, walks home with the glory and a massive cash prize-...

Speculative poetry at its finest, with observations on self-discovery, the longing for a better place (hiraeth), the future of humanity, beings swept up in events, and classical romanticism. Often uplifting, sometimes darker, and here and there a mix of the two extremes, this collection...

The Mark of the DoveBy: Sydney SandersAfter humankind was taken captive on their own planet by a powerful intruder, the world's fate rests on the shoulders of an unlikely squad. An ancient prophecy foretells the salvation of the world by six teens with mysterious...

Will Saris, a recent graduate of the Space Fleet Academy, teams up with the owner of a supply depot and a princess to get revenge on a barbaric alien king and recover the mythical Eye of Icarus, which foretells future events through five Seers....

Nic Granger didn't plan to save the world. He just wanted to play The Three Kings of Orr online and defeat the Deceiver. The Deceiver was the land of Orr's nastiest villain and had other ideas. He escaped into the real world when the...

In a world where the incubation of men is banned, a brilliant, empathetic scientist rescues an illegal man from his sadistic owner, launching a power struggle between the status quo and the agents of change.One hundred and fifty years after the incubation of men...

A mysterious sorcerer tries on numerous occasions to bury Joe six feet under the ground! Joe's fraternal twin sister, Jill (who is also a sorwolf), is visiting her brother's forty acre Volusia County farm in Florida. She witnesses the strange vicious creatures the rogue...

Katsuk, a militant Native American student, kidnaps 13-year-old David Marshall-the son of the US Undersecretary of State. The two flee into the deepest wilds of the Pacific Northwest, where they must survive together as teams of hunters try to track them. David begins to...

Dark As Life features dark stories of trying to stay alive under dismal living conductions. Some of those conditions are created by ourselves, others are creared for us. In a South American country, a government is 'disappearing' its dissidents. A psychotic woman has to...

Contained within this anthology are dark stories and works of art that explore the shadow side of reality. They are disturbed works that journey hopelessly through the downtrodden fringes of society, across the deepest reaches of space, and into the darkest, most troubled corners...

The Hungur Chronicles focuses on vampires in or from outer space as well as those encountered on Earth. Published twice a year, on Walpurgisnacht and Samhain, it features stories, articles, illustrations, and poetry by new voices as well as familiar ones. Anemia by David...

Illumen is a quarterly digest of science fiction and fantasy poetry, including minimalist forms such as haiku, haibun, empat perkataan, cinquains, and other forms, as well as more traditional formats for poetry. The Featured Poet for this issue is n a spencer.Author: Tyree CampbellISBN-10:...

On the edge of a war-weary and devastated galaxy, charismatic Lewis Orne makes planetfall on Hamal. His assignment: to detect any signs of latent aggression in this planet's population. To his astonishment, he finds that his own latent extrasensory powers have suddenly blossomed, and...

It is a time of armistice in the distant galaxy of Zaundos as Grand General Raymond Justice welcomes new recruits to the Republic of SWIFT's Amphibious Army Corps. Shortly after Raymond takes star recruit Kate Aloe under his wing, an attack from a mysterious...

"Rebel Prince" tells the story about a prince and his quest for his missing beloved in an unknown world. Justin Joshua Jordan is the youngest son of the king of Jordan. Joshua is the leader of a Q group, a Special Forces unit composed...

A secret makes you play its game. And when you play it, the secret wins. Always.How do you keep the biggest secret in history, especially when a master spy is snooping around? In A Universe Revealed, Diyami Red Hawk is pursuing a sacred mission...

Born "on-ground" in a time near forgotten, O is the last of a dying breed in a post-sun era. Now the world lives underground in a state of virtual darkness. Family, light and personal choice are things of the past and Child Development Units,...

In the sequel to her first time-traveling adventure, Joliette from Montreal must once again use her time machine to get answers. She travels to the distant future, where she encounters a host of challenges, strange characters, and Gibson's true motive on her quest to...

A visionary anthology of climate fiction from Grist.For many of us, the thought of our planet centuries in the future signals a volatile dystopia: our world devastated by climate change, our people bitter and broken. But this shining anthology presents an alternative future. These...

David Hume is known for his philosophical writings, but he also wrote on politics, history, and economics. This eBook contains 7 economic essays which were first published in Hume's Political Discourses (1752) and republished in Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects, Volume 1 (1758,...

Space trash is a book about the future where Collin finds out what to do with his inability to fit in.Author: Gareth W. ErwinISBN-10: 854213740XISBN-13: 9798542137407Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/22/2021Pages: 28Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.01w x 0.06d

Another excellent collection of SFWA Grandmaster Damon Knight's always-excellent stories-five novellas in this case, generally circling around "the great unsolved problem of politics: how to keep the bastards from grinding you down."Rule Golden-what if the Golden Rule were enforced in reverse by some force-the...

Life on Damara stands on the brink of destruction...Isis Pnina Mahmoud, daughter of the President of Cairo, leads a privileged life, but it's not what she wants.She longs for purpose.Purpose finds her when the mighty Retrograde threatens to destroy her planet. To fend off...

The strange and deadly event that occurred in the projection room at the Milwaukee Art Museum were almost a distant memory for Bruce Mallory, a talented scientist and inventor. Several years had passed and Bruce has settled into family life, but his contented existence...

A story of the future, when Earth no longer exists as a habitable world due to the breakdown of its magnetic field. Humankind, however, with all its incredible ingenuity, was able to evacuate their dying planet, colonising newly discovered Earth-like planets in the system...

Set in a time of fable, Rishi is a human-sized boy born with blue skin to a family of giants who escaped from slavery and years of persecution. They have taken refuge on a frozen Halo-like ocean in mystical ice glaciers suspended above the...

Science fiction has always provided a rich resource for Philosophy. What is different about this collection of twenty short sci-fi stories is that were all written by a Philosopher. They cover every aspect of science fiction. All the familiar 'tropes' are here - with...

Mike Beaumont, a CIA agent, undergoes a flash black where he was molested as a young boy, which sent him on a journey to confront pedophiles. He enlisted assistance from a dark haired beauty and they, within a few days, found they had similar...

The Secret of the Earth By Charles Willing BealeAuthor: Charles Willing BealeISBN-10: 1986585328ISBN-13: 9781986585323Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/23/2018Pages: 116Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.36lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.24d

A Voyage to Arcturus is a novel by the Scottish writer David Lindsay. First published in 1920, it combines fantasy, philosophy, and science fiction in an exploration of the nature of good and evil and their relationship with existence. It has been described by...