Fiction - Science Fiction - General

Gods and Heroes is the first volume of the Itan-Legends of the Golden Age trilogy about the thousand-year story of the Yoruba people. It starts with the establishment of Ile-Ife by Oduduwa and the great sacrifice of the heroine Moremi. The ancient gods of...

Ignis (1883) is about the industrial exploitation of Earth's central fire by a multinational cartel. It also contains fanciful digressions into biological engineering, Utopian city planning, the possibility of brain control by means of electrical stimulation and the potential exhaustion of fossil fuels. Proving...

Joseph Battle, a registered nurse at Sylvania Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, has secretly loved his fellow colleague and best friend Mary Anderson since middle school. His dream of winning Mary's heart is destroyed when she falls in love and marries the handsome new Neuro...

The modern literary archetype of the mad scientist was wonderfully incarnated in the French proto-science fiction saga of The Mysterious Dr. Cornelius, a sprawling novel serialized in eighteen volumes in 1912-13, written by the prolific Gustave Le Rouge, author of The Vampires of Mars...

A soul collector is murdered and taken into the "city" his father designed for the dead, now he must plot to escape and get revenge on his murderer in Dale Carother's "Haunting the Painted City." A magical mirror allows an unexpected glimpse into the...

The only audio edition of At the Mountains of Madness authorized by the H. P. Lovecraft Estate A master of terror and nightmarish visions, H. P. Lovecraft solidified his place at the top of the horror genre with this macabre supernatural tale.When a geologist...

The wub stood sagging, its great body settling slowly. It was sitting down, its eyes half shut. A few flies buzzed about its flank, and it switched its tail. It sat. There was silence. "It's a wub," Peterson said. "I got it from a...

Having fled a battlefield in his youth, Owen Vander knew himself a coward, yet he went on to study law, rising from county advocate to magistrate at a young age. Dedicated, honest and just, he served his office well, but when Good King Tarten...

Author: Tyler KekacISBN-10: 1462866115ISBN-13: 9781462866113Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/25/2011Pages: 158Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.86lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d

In this classic science fiction novel, Romain S馮騁an, a brilliant scientist whose creativity is intimately linked to his erotic experience, particularly in its visual dimension, is struggling to develop a technology to capture and control the "waves of time," which will allow recurrent images...

"Serge, Emperor of the Earth" announced that he was about to begin his conquest of the world. He tries to force submission of America by consistently destroying shipping and naval vessels with his radio-directed fleet of one-man submarines. Two men, Hugh Leigh, Boston lawyer...

Jonothon Wyer had been told to fear the wizards from across the Dawn, but never did his small town expect to be the epicenter of the next world war of machines against magic! Jono's only hope was to enlist into the mechanized army of...

This is a collection of captivating and imaginative tales that explore the limitless possibilities of the future. Each story offers a unique glimpse into a world that is both familiar and foreign, taking readers on a journey through time and space.With themes ranging from...

The Memory of Mars, has been considered important throughout human history. In an effort to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to secure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for both current and future generations....

The Inheritors is a novel by William Golding that explores the conflict between two different groups of early humans, the Neanderthals and the Homo sapiens. The story follows the Neanderthal family of Lok, Fa, and their children as they live a simple life in...

What is The Penumbra?‣ It is the border between light and shadow, ‣ A series of loosely connected stories exploring horror, science fiction, and the fantastic, ‣ And a cult classic TV series from the 1960s, created by one troubled and brilliant man. Collecting...

REALMS... ...A diamond of the highest caliber, its radiance reaches through the galaxies, calling to those who thirst for an extraordinary adventure. A casino royale among the stars, Realms is home to fantastic venues such as two-hundred plus eateries, catering to the most refined...

In 2093, over twenty years after the end of the Third World War, where a tyrannical United States was defeated by the European Defense Initiative, a secret organization called the Sicarii are at the height of its power. Led by the High Council, the...

Coloring book for kids For kids who love outer space For kids 3-12 years old 40 images to color Spaceships, planets, stars and spacesuits are ready to get in kids' imagination Beautiful fictional outer space images to color No duplicate images Author: Filippos F....

Nick Doherty has a secret ability-so secret, in fact, he doesn't even know it exists. Outwardly, he has it all: a prestigious career, a bevy of eager women, and he is intriguingly well-liked. What no one can imagine is his possession of two overactive...

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 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...

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