Fiction - Science Fiction - General

The story of the book begins in ancient Egypt during the reign of Pharaoh Amenhotep IV or, as he would later be remembered, Akhenaten. It moves to New York City over two thousand years later, where a young woman named Catherine Paul lives, whose...

Once only, in the occasional travelling of thirty years, did I lose any important article of luggage; and that loss occurred, not under the haphazard, devil-take-the-hindmost confusion of English, or the elaborate misrule of Continental journeys, but through the absolute perfection and democratic despotism...

The centrepiece of Brooke-Rose's Intercom Quartet, Xorandor and Verbivore explore the shifting language of technologies and their catastrophic potential. In Xorandor we meet Jip and Zab, two precocious teens who chance upon a stone claiming to have fallen from Mars, whose skill for absorbing...

Dr VENKATESHWARA IYER is an Artificial Intelligence expert, whose career is marred by a controversial failure. Together with his friends and Colleagues, Dr ANNA AINSWORTH and SHEN JIAMO, he creates 'ISAAC', an A.I with the naivety of an infant and near-free will of a...

One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin.' Thus begins The Metamorphosis, cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the twentieth century. A story of Gregor Samsa, a travelling...

1 place in the general rankings of eBooks for Kindle on amazon.it and stayed in the top 10 for over a month.The best of artistic output from one of the most original voices in Italian science fictionwho explores the most disturbing repercussions of future...

"The Second Deluge" features an eccentric scientist who predicts the coming of a new deluge due to Earth passing through a nebula. He built a new ark and soon enough the rain started. The world drowns, and few people remain.Author: Garrett P. ServissISBN-10: 8027333466ISBN-13:...

"The Black Flame" starts several hundred years after most of mankind is wiped out by a plague and tells the story of a family of immortals who seek to conquer the world with advanced science. Its story concerns a brother and sister who have...

Joe Valentine is a down-on-his-luck environmental service worker who robs a bank and is quickly captured. During his arrest, he reflects on the bad mistakes he made in his life and how he got to the point of robbing a bank. From getting a...

The story takes place in the year 2117. It follows the actions of several United Colonies of Earth military officers as they recover from an attack that followed a horrible discovery. They must pull themselves together and track down an enemy from another dimension....

No available information at this time. Author will provide once available.Author: Marco SavageISBN-10: 1984566768ISBN-13: 9781984566768Publisher: Xlibris UsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/16/2018Pages: 154Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.36d

Find out if there was or is a Native American connection in the life of Jake Hawks. Will Jake Hawks find out if his theories are correct about Bigfoot? Will he regain his memories of his past experiences in the forest when he was...

A beautiful Ozark woman's perilous rise from addiction and prostitution to respectability hinges on the killing of a dangerous criminal (read ABSALOM: Exit Hell). Alas, the dead felon has associations in dark places. Close your eyes. Now comes the Grim Reaper, a vengeful relic...

Invasive Legacy: Peter Stern is asked by the senior partner in his law firm to investigate the death of a lawyer in a tragic event where he is burned gruesomely while barbecuing a steak at his mountain cabin. With a double indemnity life insurance...

No Information at this time. Author will provide once available.Author: Jo Ann CruzISBN-10: 1984550942ISBN-13: 9781984550941Publisher: Xlibris UsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/11/2018Pages: 24Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.23lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.06d

The Invisible Man is an 1897 science fiction novella by H.G. Wells. Wells' novel was originally serialized in Pearson's Magazine in 1897, and published as a novel the same year. The Invisible Man of the title is Griffin, a scientist who theorizes that if...

An alien race. A shocking message. During an archaeological dig in Greece, Jeffrey Driscoll stumbles upon a miraculous find: ancient crystals with celestial coordinates that will connect humankind with the Kabrini, a highly advanced alien civilization. His discovery leads him on a quest from...

He enlisted for the money.He stayed for the girl.Now, his true test is whether this former maverick can lead a coalition of aliens against an ancient tyrant.Frank and Marine Space Corps-1 will pull out all the stops: Power armor? Check.Warships? Check!Taking the fight to...

The Iron Heel is a dystopian novel by American writer Jack London, first published in 1908. Generally considered to be "the earliest of the modern Dystopian," it chronicles the rise of an oligarchic tyranny in the United States. It is arguably the novel in...

Isbel Loment, engaged to the ordinary and unexceptional Marshall Stokes, leads a peripatetic existence as the ward of her aunt, Ann Moor. Their travels take them to the downlands of Sussex, to Runhill Court, an ancient home owned by Henry Judge. There Isbel discovers...

"Life asked Death, 'Why do people love me, but hate you?'Death responded, 'Because you are a beautiful lie, and I am a painful truth.' " Anonymous Supernatural, horror, speculative fiction, thriller Anthology of short stories Nearly 400 pages of thought-provoking fiction & fantasy A...

Full text.This masterpiece of science (and mathematical) fiction is a delightfully unique and highly entertaining satire. A work that continues to pose provocative questions about perception and reality, Flatland is a brilliant parody of Victorian society where all existence is limited to length and...

God appears on TV, takes questions. Ask anything.Mythos Revisited is a broad epic in a narrow package. It spins a new myth of creation using the things we know about; things like genetics, evolution, astronomy, biology, the big bang, and love. It's a book...

The wailing of wind through barren trees. Black ice on an unlit backroad. A baker's dozen of snowmen in your yard--they sprung up overnight. Halloween may be the season of tricks and treats, but on Planet Scumm the dead of winter is for horror....

She took a step backward and threw the key on the ground. With the voice now shrieking at her, the young girl took another step back. Sweat trickled down her face as she struggled with the voice in her head, but she could feel...

"Pray for another in this series. Two are not enough. This fictional struggle between Heaven and Hell in Heaven's Judge is indeed fascinating speculative fiction." - Edward Squires, Not Quite a Novella Arndt Schorr's first book in the series, Heaven's Intent, answered the question:...

Scientists from every inhabited planet have predicted that the Earth's sun would one day become a supernova and destroy everything within millions of miles. Jarod Dask is the leader of the planet Umbria, located twenty-five light-years from Earth. When the Umbrian scientists inform Jarod...

Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838-1926) was an English clergyman, schoolmaster, Shakespearean scholar, and theologian best known as the author of the 1884 satirical novella Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions. Written pseudonymously as "A Square," the book used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to...

The crew of a sail boat wrecked in a storm is rescued and finds themselves held by an alien civilization under the South Pacific. The Homakuwa city of Ocealla nurses Kent (Kit) Carson and his friends back to health, and then has to decide...

The book "Escape on Venus" first appeared as four separate stories, published in the pulp magazine Fantastic Adventures, comprising "Slaves of the Fish Men", "Goddess of Fire", "The Living Dead", and "War on Venus". We present the original texts as they first appeared in...

In 2076 AD, Earth has been conquered and humanity brutally enslaved under the cruel tyranny of the Kalkar invaders whose evil was spawned from Va-nah, the Moon's hollow interior. Julian 7th, descendant of the great hero who led the first expedition to Va-nah and...

Do you know where your parents were when you were conceived? No, not many people would. Ivan knows, and he knows that's why he is "special." Many years after Ivan's conception, his father, Niels Borgue, is returning from a successful mission to Ceres when...

3 Tales of Horror features: The Solution by Rick McQuiston, The story of a vampire invasion, an evil book, and a strange little girl; ...The Colour of Time by K.R. Gentile, The unauthorized biography of the notorious super-villain, Dr. Peppermint; and Eden Succeeding by...

Paige Aldridge's adventures continue as she learns more of her developing powers, while she deepens her relationships with her partner and her sister. Can she regain control of her own mind before the powers that threaten to tear her apart claim her sanity and...

Jamaica Wong, a bi-racial Tracer (earth homicide detective) is assigned to the Galileo and orbiting space satellite to investigate the unusual deaths of the human and non-human dwellers. Are the deaths related? Is there a new disease? Is someone or something trying to start...

"Ageless is a debut for the ages and Inman is a talented new writer for readers to watch out for." -- Examiner.com Imagine that you never aged -- that you would forever remain young and vital, impervious to the ravages of time. For Alessandra,...

Blake is heading back to college after just a few days of his Christmas vacation at home. He and his father have once again argued over Blake's taking the next three years to finish his college education before going on a mission for their...

"STICKS AND STONES" HAD IT WRONG.Words can hurt you, as elementary school teacher Jon Wanamaker learns while working to preserve a dying language. Already mired in the aftermath of a failed marriage, Jon is suddenly tormented by ghostly, ribbon-like sentences that stream across his...

David Gerrold sits alone in a room and types. This is the only warning you're going to get. Here are seven little horrors, specifically designed to creep you out in all the strangest ways. From the mundane to the bizarre, this master storyteller will...

Dr. Donald Ellis lost everything on 9/11. He lost his wife and daughter in the south tower of the World Trade Center. But while others grieved, or plotted revenge, Dr. Ellis threw himself into a long-dormant research project. He traded his lab at the...

A science fiction novel set in a completely built up world where vertical values are prized while all horizontal tendencies are suspect. An illicit underground group is hoping to break through to the elusive outside but special agents of the IVT (Institute for Vertical...

Nearly two decades have passed since the fall of the United States. And the rise of the church to fill the void. Nearly twenty years since Ian Sumner lost his father. And the dead took to the streets to dine on the living. Now...

Evil reigns throughout much of the western world in the mid sixth century. Following the collapse of the Roman Empire, a group of blood-drinkers called the Lamia begin the search for a long, lost relic that will restore power to the Roman Empire. After...

"Archaeologists are not supposed to believe in ghosts." In this short, powerful novella, Torger Vedeler has created an alien world all but destroyed by climate change and mass extinction. Led by Karl Chikelu and his wife Deborah, a team of human explorers find that...

Jene Halfner awaits the end of a hundred-year-long, deep-space colonization journey begun by her ancestors generations before. She has spent her life preparing for planetfall on Epsilon Eridani III, taking care of the growing number of victims of interstellar radiation aboard Ship. What she...

Super Friends meets Gorillas in the Mist Four students and their anthropology professor journey to a remote island to study its indigenous population. But this is no ordinary native culture. They're super heroes and villains with flesh costumes and outlandish abilities like self-detonation, musical...

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,...

This is the second in a series of seven volumes presenting the classic works of J.-H. Rosny A n , the second most important figure in French science fiction after Jules Verne. Until now, Rosny, a member of the Goncourt literary academy, has best...

J.-H. Rosny A n is the second most important figure in modern French science fiction after Jules Verne. Rosny, who was a member of the distinguished Goncourt literary academy, was also the first writer to straddle the line between mainstream literature and science fiction....

The Ice Company series is the sprawling saga of a future Earth in a new Ice Age. Mankind lives in domed cities, connected by extended rail networks, controlled by powerful companies which effectively rule the world. This new Ice Age was created when the...