Fiction - Science Fiction - General

Two short novels, including the title story and Black Fairy Tale, plus a bonus short story. Summer is the simple story of a nine-year-old girl who dies while on summer vacation. While her youthful killers try to hide her body, she tells us the...

For use in schools and libraries only. Interplanetary intrigue, hyperspace pursuit, and future technology combine with a desperate search for the planet Earth.Author: Isaac AsimovISBN-10: 0808522035ISBN-13: 9780808522034Publisher: Turtleback BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/1991Pages: 480Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 7.12h x 4.46w x 1.25dAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 6.8Point Value: 22Interest...

Eric Sommerson works at the Endless Crusts Pizza Crust Factory in a job that makes him question every day what he is doing with his life. Coming from a well-regarded family, a lot is expected of him but under all this pressure he prefers...

In Clone Ladies, dive into a near-future where medical advancements have made cloning not just possible, but commonplace. As technology evolves, it's not just organs that are replicated - entire humans can now be duplicated, possessing the same abilities, thoughts, memories, and skills as...

Wholehearted Half-Truths? Here's one: "I just couldn't make these characters work the way I wanted them to. Right now I keep all my rough drafts inside this bottom drawer. Once in a while I hear some noise down there. They're frustrated, half-finished, want some...

As the earth's environment and ecosystems become increasingly degraded, humans must rely on the advanced technology of the unfolding METAVERSE to survive. In this thrilling and fast-moving novel, we explore the transience of human frailty through themes of lust, jealousy, greed, betrayal, intrigue, murder,...

In The Secret of Axabur, time is not just a concept, but a force that can warp and bend reality. The intrepid explorers of the Pegasus are determined to unravel its mysteries, even if the price is astronomical. As they journey closer to a...

In The Secret of Axabur, time is not just a concept, but a force that can warp and bend reality. The intrepid explorers of the Pegasus are determined to unravel its mysteries, even if the price is astronomical. As they journey closer to a...

About the BookNear On is about the duality of all people. We're all good and bad- even the best of us. Interwoven in the book are three main elements: 1) Loss - The author's best friend lost his daughter at a very young age...

Her freedom comes with a price-her hand in marriage.After spending ten years behind bars, Leah is offered early release if she agrees to become an alien mail order bride. Though she's nervous about the prospect of marrying a complete stranger-a huge Martian, no less-she's...

Rem is completely taken by the beautiful dark-haired human who steps off the spacecraft from Earth. Tyra. His Tyra. After many years of solitude, he finally has a female to call his own. But he carries a dark secret, one which deeply affects his...

The legendary myths of Ancient Greece and Arthurian Britain are brought together in the search for a prized relic of limitless power born from the love and grief of the goddess Pallas Athena herself. The descendants of the Sacred Band of Thebes - one...

Imagine Anything, Create Everything. That's what they told us... All the marketing, all the campaigns to change the world, and cyclic was still being used for evil. It became stronger than the creators thought possible. But I should give you some context before we...

It's presently the year 2130, and the space academy's preplanned spaceflight to Mars is now well underway. Although after making a return trip to the red planet to gather more soil and rock samples, the risky journey winds up giving the crew of the...

Desperate to save her family from debtors' prison, Esmay signs up as an alien mail order bride. She'll travel to Mars to become a savage alien's bride, and in exchange for her sacrifice, all her family's debt will be forgiven. She prays she'll find...

Dr. Susan Miller is a brilliant, young, attractive marine biologist on a fast track career pathway at Memorial University of Newfoundland, doing behavioral studies on squid and octopuses, molluscan species noted for their high intelligence. Her studies are interrupted when the director oof NOAA's...

When we left Joseph "Jay Gee" Graham, he had overcome his bullies with the help of his family, his crew, and his mentor; Mr. Thompson. He went on to become the only underclassman on his basketball team and won the heart of his beloved...

What happens when friends, united in a cause, succeed in bringing the country to a standstill and sending most of its population into exile?What begins as an innocent footrace between friends ultimately leads to the death of two Chicago police officers and pushes a...

Count Geiger's Blues follows the adventures of Xavier Thaxton, arts editor at a major Southern daily called the Salonika Urbanite. Thaxton thinks himself a superior man. His aesthetic standards are so lofty that he regards superheroes as pop-culture cock-and-bull, rock music as audible rubbish,...

Wrath of the Gods is the eighth book in the epic 'Nexus' series, part of the growing Star Crusades universe that chronicles humanity's first steps away from Alpha Centauri and beyond. The opening battles of the bloodiest war in human history have been fought,...

Bridgette Livingston has spent the last six years on Deselvo Island hiding from Horace, the man who murdered her father and brother. Reoccurring nightmares of the military coup that took their lives haunt her nights. The frustration of knowing her father's murderer wears his...

2012 Reprint of 1958 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. The blurb on the thirty-five cent Ace paperback likens Charles Eric Maine's 1958 novel "World Without Men" to George Orwell's "1984" and Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World."...

In this final volume of the Dancing Gods series, Ruddygore and his heroes must face an ancient evil seeping forth from the Sea of Dreams. **** Long dormant evil is rising to challenge reality as we know it and it will destroy Earth and...

Haven, By N.S. Howard-- When the world of Haven was rediscovered 240 years after the colony ship Regal crashed landed, reporters Scott Pearson and Cindy Lorncroft were quickly sent to find interesting new stories. What they uncovered instead was a behaviour considered uncivilized and...

The Classic Science Fiction Novel by H.G. Wells in its original form, with illustrations for the 21st Century Audience. The book that popularized Time TravelAuthor: Kevin Jain, H. G. WellsISBN-10: 1534822410ISBN-13: 9781534822412Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/22/2016Pages: 68Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w...

It is 2032 as a Land Cruiser carrying five scientists drives into the Egyptian desert. Inside is Dr. Sarah Michael, a top Egyptologist, and four students thrilled to finally reach their destination after months of searching. Moments later they enter a tomb, hoping it...

Well here we go again; I'm waking up to start my day. Waiting for the artificial flood waters to recede just like every morning. We are told it's a "CONTROLLED" tide. The Tessians created the tide to keep the "Bombies" away. The Bombies only...

MAIA has lived her entire life in the comparative security of Compound West. Deep in her forested sanctuary, far from the prying eyes of the Civil Enforcement Corps' reconnaissance drones, her days have mostly been spent in quiet communion with nature, exploring the sleepy,...

A planet made entirely of anti-matter bears down on Earth. A Swarm ship from the distant future with deadly stolen technology is on the loose. And a robotic fleet has been taken by the angry Valarisi, who now hunt their old friend Granger, who...

In Clone Ladies, dive into a near-future where medical advancements have made cloning not just possible, but commonplace. As technology evolves, it's not just organs that are replicated - entire humans can now be duplicated, possessing the same abilities, thoughts, memories, and skills as...

Long ages after the god-like Others unleashed the Genetic Wars that annihilated the Old Earth, war is once again threatening to consume the planet, shattering an uneasy peace between the remnant races of that primordial conflict. Kiel, First Commander of the reptilian Eligor Empire's...

From floating cities in the Sea of Japan, a rescue team sails for the South.Both Human and Synth, the team travels the Andean spine from quaking Cotopaxi to the storm-battered Patagonian fjords. The team saves thousands of climate refugees, victims of eruption, drought, fire,...

My name is Cary Harrison. I was born in Paris, France, while my father was stationed there in the US Army. I traveled around while growing up. We normally didn't live in a place for more than two years at a time until he...

Riley has lived her whole life as an elite daughter of one of the five ruling earthen corporations. She was supposed to be a beautiful figurehead working behind the scenes to help her husband. But the dresses they stuff her in are uncomfortable, social...

For hundreds of years since the Great Wars, the peoples of Midgard have lived in isolation. Age-old feuds and fears have bred so much hatred that they have almost forgotten their common enemy behind the Dark Mountains in Nilfordor. Their only hope against the...

Who is the Aquanaut? An interstellar explorer, his ship crashed on a distant world. Disintegrated on impact with world's ocean, sank to the seabed... Never to fly again The Aquanaut washes ashore on an island, unconscious until ocean water revives him. He is alone,...

In 2014, Jay Hagaki's life as a famous actor and musician is filled with fame and fortune. But when a brush with death sends him back to 2007, the world of celebrity fades, replaced by a seemingly average life-until the danger and intrigue begin.Hunted...

As the inter-dimensional enemy closes in on humanity's last stronghold, the saga continues.Commodore Richard Morian and the crew of the Avenger find themselves at the forefront of the battle against the Blues. As they face off against unimaginable foes and navigate treacherous political waters,...

WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY PATTON OSWALTDubbed "the most significant and controversial SF book" of its generation, Harlan Ellison's groundbreaking collection launched an entire subgenre: New Wave science fiction. With contributions from legendary authors and multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, Dangerous Visions returns to...

April Kek and James Wallace have each other--and not a hell of a lot else. Each the only one who understands the other, they're bound together by a friendship that endures everything the future can throw at them: horrific family lives, war, mental illness,...

As the inter-dimensional enemy closes in on humanity's last stronghold, the saga continues.Commodore Richard Morian and the crew of the Avenger find themselves at the forefront of the battle against the Blues. As they face off against unimaginable foes and navigate treacherous political waters,...

About the BookStories, Legends, and Truths from the Blighted Earth is a book of fictional narratives and artifacts which progressively knit together a hidden world existing outside what humans perceive as our reality. Earth Mother is sentient, and all manner of life on our...

This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted,...

Paridaiza, a sense-stimulating game invented at the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century, is a three-dimensional reproduction of Earth; a vast holographic territory referred to by its devotees as Biearth to distinguish it from what they now-and not without irony-call Old...

Dystopian, is a continuation to Fiction of Not, This Is What I Got.... The novel in which a Thought Reading Machine linked to the DNA of the Anchor means Complete Loss of Privacy yet can help protect those whose spirit and body are taken...

Eye of the Owl is a fantasy fiction that takes place in the small town of Prickly Pears located at the edge of a mystical oasis along the San Andreas Fault, where the paranormal and social misfits were not unusual. The protagonist-Darla Fleaurant, a...

Praxton 3: The Proposal By N. S. Howard -- Jennifer Hexall finds her life in freefall. First she loses a promotion to a new hire and then her boyfriend breaks up with her. She decides she hates her job, doesn't understand men and now...

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...

Author: Avram DavidsonISBN-10: 1587150778ISBN-13: 9781587150777Publisher: Borgo PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/1962Pages: 192Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.49lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.06w x 0.51d

Although The Chronicles of Ghaz saga end with Terjjah vanquished and Ambrithya at last risen from the ashes, there's no rest for the weary. The Pearls of Ijnar, begins a whole new adventure for Earl Dagarth and the motley heroes of the future universe...