Fiction - Science Fiction - General

Synopsis: It's dedicated to Artificial Intelligence. Jay, a retired boxer, is on a mission to find the man who wasted 5 million dollars. The backdrop is the production of a fashion show. The interesting thing about all the characters is no one is who...

On the threshold of a new era, the military horizon fades into the shadows of technological progress. "Autonomous Lethal Weapons" ventures into a future where the boundary between science and destruction dissolves, revealing a bewildering landscape of lethal robotic weapons that defy the limits...

Energy is around us, microwaves, cell-phones, electric lines, radar, and new inventions, scientific cyclotrons, plasma, and energy weapons.It's 2006, and E-R-Mag Labs, NM, turns on an AM radio antenna connected to "Enet", a communication net at the resonant frequency of earth, to communicate with...

A tragicomedy ∆ rife with symbols, savants, and satire, The Terrors of Wonder reads in the spirit of science fiction.* * *One of the world's most prominent heiresses is about to celebrate her 3rd birthday. A well-mannered and very precocious child, she is a...

An alternative history that poses the question: how would history have changed (or not) if President John F. Kennedy had survived his assassination attempt on November 22, 1963? But the differences in the time line actually date back even further, to the time of...

Author: James Van PeltISBN-10: 0981924395ISBN-13: 9780981924397Publisher: Hadley Rille BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/15/2009Pages: 292Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.66d

A book that has broken the line of the realm of what is real and what is fictional stories and legends. This book takes the reader on a journey into what is thought to be impossible, and yet if thirty years of conspiracy theories...

Author: Melanie RawnISBN-10: 0756403049ISBN-13: 9780756403041Publisher: Astra Publishing HouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/05/2005Pages: 560Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.28lbsSize: 8.98h x 6.44w x 1.16dReview Citation(s): Ingram Advance 07/01/2005 pg. 43

Embark on an interstellar odyssey with Black Hole Echoes: Cosmic Tales of the Unknown, a thrilling anthology penned by Oddness and vividly illustrated by the talented Mike Dubisch. This collection of short stories invites you to journey alongside a universe-hopping entity through the awe-inspiring...

Jason Velez lives a mundane existence installing EmuX virtual reality machines-scraping together just enough money to pay for his increasingly unsustainable science fiction collection-when he begins having strange dreams. He knows he has to make some personal changes if he hopes to get his...

With a brief memory of your past, what meaning do your dreams hold? In the many questions that Kaeda asks herself, this is the overarching one in a life riddled with confusion and deep thought. An adopted San Francisco student in 2036, Kaeda is...

The loss of the space shuttle Challenger in 1986 was felt across the world.Across the whole Universe.On Jupiter, they felt it so keenly that the King and Queen reverse-engineered the solar system back trillions of years, micro-adjusting the orbits of their moons.However, their plan...

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...

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...

Laney Bozeman works at a lonely roadside junk shop in a remote corner of New Mexico. He reads old paperbacks and daydreams on his two- week shifts, and by night he stargazes and dabbles in the kitchen of the tiny attendant's bungalow. He sleeps...

Maximus Karlson the Third, A.K.A. Max, is an average eighteen-year-old who recently graduated high school and sold his soul to a multinational corporation called Idolon. He inherited two things from his late father; an old wristwatch and an unwanted legacy. Max's father and grandfather...

An extraordinary animal sci-fi novella for the philosophically inclined! If you thought animal characters couldn't be endearing, witty, and express the epitome of what it means to embrace being alive . . . you'll have to read Pig Terrorism.Terror comes in many forms, none...

Samantha Clayburn doesn't have a lot to be happy about. Her family is poor, she's unpopular, and her mom's boyfriend is a jerk. But at least she has the frozen stream across the street. One Saturday morning, she sneaks out, laces up her ratty...

Reproduction of the original: Fighting France by Edith WhartonAuthor: Edith WhartonISBN-10: 3732652165ISBN-13: 9783732652167Publisher: Outlook VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/05/2018Pages: 82Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.31d

Book Two: Take Care of Your Men-part of the trilogy-continues with Jack and Mary Clarke's careers flourishing. Jack's training continues at the infantry school, air assault school, and in reestablishing his jump status. His mentor, Lt. Gen. Frank Stafford, is now commander of Eighth...

This is a book of strange tales about strange people and sometimes stranger places. It includes Weinbaum's novel The Dark Other, in which Nicholas Devine and his girlfriend Pat are deeply in love, but before they can fulfil their dreams they must exorcise a...

The Description of a New World: The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle. The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing-World, better known as The Blazing World, is a 1666 work of prose fiction by the English writer Margaret Cavendish, the...

In The Man Who Could Read Minds (1928), Jean Pilgrim manufactures strange spectacles that permit the observation of what is happening in the minds of others. Paul Gsell's novel begins as a Voltairean satire, but soon changes both tone and direction as it progresses...

The aweseome sequal to The Living Labyrinth. It's all fun and games with syntei until they fall into the wrong hands... Ingredients Rock Star - a planetless blue giant orbited by hundreds of millions of rocks forming a single vast asteroid field, subtly disobeying...

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...

In 1959, an ExtraTerrestrial incarnated on Earth. He doesn't remember who he is; but his cells hold his past-life memories. After twenty-six years of spiritual education as a human, Cosmic Thought Adjusters determine that he is ready to know the truth, so they awaken...

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by Mary Shelley about a creature produced by an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was eighteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty-one. The first edition was published...

In a world of ubiquitous surveillance by machines too small to be seen, real crime is a thing of the past and human agents are only rarely necessary. So when a girl is found murdered in the former U.S. territory of NorCal, U.S. Marshal...

The United Federation Vessel INFERON was one of three machines designed to provide a fast and powerful first line of defense within a federation of worlds numbering in the thousands. Its genetically prepared crew trained from birth for a lifetime of service, and the...

A human embryo is allowed to preview the world before deciding whether to be born. The embryo named Prospect will meet a range of people to help him make up his mind. Among them, a greeting card writer, a sociopath, and Prospect's very own...

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - As I sit down to write here amidst the shadows of vine-leaves under the blue sky of southern Italy,...

In between worlds, in between genres.Pledge of Honor is a story of one woman who finds herself in extraordinary circumstances. Jamie MacGivens finds her boyfriend cheating on her and runs away. Tony Stone is rushing home after receiving good news. Both disappear without a...

Harry Dante was what he wanted to be: a gumshoe. He had wanted to be a detective from childhood, and in the 1940's he was pretty good at it. Then things went wrong. Things started happening that shouldn't be part of a hard-boiled Kansas...

Dandelion Seeds: Karen Durning finds herself captain of a spaceship containing the last remnants of humanity: 500 nerds and one insane A.I. * Flesh and Blood: A super-intelligent A.I. refuses to do anything useful until it gets a precise definition of "harm". * Temp...

Genesis II: Mission to Colonize New Worlds The Trilogy Book 1By: John LincolnWith a fascinating mixture of fact and fiction, Genesis II maps the course of mankind and his development of a unique propulsion system that makes the ambitious plan to colonize the far...

Later described as "the lost giant of American science fiction," Edward Page Mitchell wrote many science fiction and fantasy short stories, nearly all of which were published anonymously in the The Sun daily newspaper of New York. Mitchell was editor-in-chief of The Sun and...

"I proclaim the coming of the Uberzombie." Thus speaks Zombiethustra, an undead reincarnation of one of the 19th century's most famous fictional philosophers. As in Friedrich Nietzsche's original, Zombiethustra comes to tell the world of a higher form of being, a transcendent state of...

Doctor Who has been a British institution for fifty years, enthralling generations of fans. In this book, Andrew Hickey takes a personal critical look at one story from every one of those fifty years, starting with the very first story, An Unearthly Child, and...

In 1912, Jack London written a book 'The Scarlet Plague'. It is a futuristic story, depicting mystery of a horrible disease spreaded rapidly. The Scarlet Plague is very devastating, it has almost depopulated the planet. James Smith is only survivor, telling about the disease....

This is a sequel to " Valley of the Queen " for thousands of years the earth has held a secret left by an ancient civilization that promises unlimited prosperity and power for whomever finds it. The secret remained hidden until recently. A professor...

Pepemagick: The Manual to Become Chaos Wizards with MemesImmerse yourself in the mysterious and fascinating world of chaos and meme magic with 'Pepemagick', a book that will take you on an extraordinary journey to uncover the hidden secrets of the digital reality. Narrated by...

Francis wanted a love to call her own until death do us part.Author: Patricia BradshawISBN-10: 8890611324ISBN-13: 9798890611321Publisher: Newman SpringsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/08/2024Pages: 328Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.06lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.73d

The king is dead. His daughter's life in chaos. Will his holographic cries for justice destroy everything she loves? Crown Princess Henley is reeling after the sudden death of her father, the King of Elsinore Station. And her mother's rushed marriage to the king's...

Now, for the first time, the complete Tels three-volume set in one book! Jonathan Kortel always sensed he was different, but never imagined how different, until two rival factions of a secret group called the Tels approach him out of the shadows of government....

A collection of science fiction tales from the 1950s by the renowned short story writer Arthur Porges.Author: Arthur PorgesISBN-10: 0955694264ISBN-13: 9780955694264Publisher: Richard SIMMs PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/26/2010Pages: 144Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.49lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.34d

Sam Winston's WHAT CAME AFTER was that rarest of achievements-a post-apocalyptic adventure that appealed equally to readers of both sci-fi and literary fiction. Despite an unknown author and no marketing budget, WHAT CAME AFTER quickly found an audience and became an Amazon bestseller in...

Florence is at war with Pisa. Leonardo is commissioned to divert the river cutting off Pisa from the sea and thereby protecting Florence. At this time the political and social climate in Florence is unfavorable to Leonardo and he is encouraged to accept the...

Mars conquered Earth the year my mother died, and it haunts me. Because without me, none of it would have happened.Firebird is rising, Unity has fallen, and the Worlds between have caught the flame we sparked. But as the three Martian Overlords contend for...

(A Machina Novel, Vol. 1) Machinas were made to be the galaxy's greatest super soldiers. Split into four academies, each with their own deadly abilities, machinas were thought to be machines sent from the gods. Enhanced human beings who blurred the lines between synthetic...

New York Times bestselling author Kristen Proby continues to delight the senses with the latest novel in her delectable Fusion series.As the take-charge wine bar manager of Seduction, Portland's hottest new restaurant, Katrina Meyers is the definition of no-nonsense, and she isn't afraid of...