Fiction - Science Fiction - General

The Napoleon of Notting Hill is a novel written by G. K. Chesterton in 1904, set in a nearly-unchanged London in 1984. Though the novel deals with the future, it concentrates not on technology nor on totalitarian government but on a government where no...

This is the first volume of Lawrence's collected short stories. It contains thirteen tales set in both England and America, including "The Rocking-Horse Winner", Lawrence's most popular short storyAuthor: David Herbert LawrenceISBN-10: 1974387496ISBN-13: 9781974387496Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/09/2017Pages: 292Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.87lbsSize: 9.00h...

Published by Grand Mal Press (www.grandmalpress.com) Benny tries to ignore the payment-overdue messages he keeps getting from "Forget What?," a memory removal company. Benny's a slacker, after all, and couldn't pay them even if he wanted to. Then people start trying to kill him,...

Having saved the distant world of Caeles and its interstellar empire - not to mention the life of its ruler, Queen Dornoccia - Jim (aka Kid Sensation), returns to Earth with two notable prizes. The first is his long-missing grandmother, the alien princess Indigo....

There was nothing unusual about the traffic accident victim with a broken leg until intern Frank Corson found he had two heartbeats. He thought that strange, but not as strange as passing the identical man in the street a few minutes later. One by...

From the crazy house to the edge of insanity... Mallory Haulms escapes from the mental institution. As he fights his way back to sanity after the brutal killing of his father, he finds solace in his new friend 'EGO' - a lawless vengeful apparition...

Mostly forgotten today, Henri Falk was a comedy writer who, not unlike Thorne Smith in America, penned several sardonically humorous speculative fiction stories, three of which have been translated and collected here for the first time. In 'The Age of Lead' (1922), the Sun's...

We seem to be falling with frightening acceleration through a shrinking world of violence and corruption, self-absorption and alienation, hatred and fear. A world that claws at the soul and withers the spirit, with a growing gulf between the elite and the downtrodden, and...

There are such things as monsters, but slaying them is little use when the factory keeps sending more.When Dana is troubled by disturbing dreams about a girl imprisoned in a nightmarish hospital, and a boy from school who seems to know far too much...

Two novellas in one bookThe God Road by David GullenThe City of Flesh is falling apart. Food and resources are running out. With LucasAna's enemies gaining the upper hand, there seems little choice for him and his people but to leave the city and...

Cassie is a young girl who was just looking to make a little money for her senior year in high school. She was surprised to learn that she could possibly get a job at the Main Cleveland Public Library in downtown Cleveland, from a...

'The AFS might have the navy, a constitution and a civil militia, but it was a fractious and small population spread out over a vast continental state, half of whom still had an anarchic frontier mindset only held together by The Code and a...

★★★★★ "Almost, but not entirely, completely unlike Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams." - David MacKinnon_____Getting yourself killed can seriously mess up your plans for the weekend.But for Hercules Leek, newest recruit of Heaven's IT department, this is only the start of his problems.Hapless neo-nazis...

An inquisitive woman goes through the motions of life in a not too distant Los Angeles that has lost its vivacity. Vera escapes her hollow world through searching deep within herself to avoid a deluge of commercial information. She develops the capacity for independent...

The New Adam finds himself not in Eden, but in a crowded world of men and women who look like him but who cannot comprehend his powers or his unique mentality. Nature had placed Edmund Hall a rung higher on the ladder of evolution...

Mars has become divided by love. Not one, but two princes and a Jeddak are vying for the love of Thuvia of Ptarth. When she is mysteriously kidnapped, treachery threatens to throw Barsoom into bloody war. Now Cathoris must follow in the footsteps of...

Settle in for a rollicking science-fiction adventure from golden-era star Murray Leinster. In The Fifth-Dimension Tube, a prominent scientist and his beloved daughter have become stranded in another dimension. In order to survive, they must cast their lot with rogue mathematician Tommy Reeves. To...

Life underground seems like paradise compared to what's left above the surface. However, nobody knew that it would be this bad. Famine, death, mutations and corruption; sounds like nothing can be worse. A glimmer of hope shines still for those who wish to survive...

One of the world's top scientists, Nigel Mitchell, is driven by a nagging fear: that life on Earth is a cosmic accident, a mistake the universe is trying to correct. This compels him to make the most of every day, dedicating himself to helping...

In 2075, continental emperors rule with stratocracy, intent on controlling everyone and everything by using military strategy. Determined to win, the emperor of The Americas orders the chief of the Science Coalition, Dr. Luther Deimon, to send someone back in time to acquire victorious...

Maurice Marie Émile Leblanc (11 December 1864 - 6 November 1941) was a French novelist and writer of short stories, known primarily as the creator of the fictional gentleman thief and detective Arsène Lupin, often described as a French counterpart to Arthur Conan Doyle's...

"He wants to talk to you again," the girl winced. "I want to bust his nose," I muttered, making the girl laugh. I hefted the tray up and carried it to his table. "I had to wait two clicks to get in here." "I...

The High Demon race is dying, and nothing short of a miracle will save it. Kifirin has promised to provide that miracle, in any way he can. * * *Reah has worked in the kitchens of her family's restaurants since the age of eight....

The Moon Pool is a fantasy novel by American writer Abraham Merritt. It originally appeared as two short stories in All-Story Weekly: "The Moon Pool" (1918) and its sequel, "Conquest of the Moon Pool" (1919). These were then reworked into a novel released in...

Jerry Haskins was a successful insurance agent with a wife, a split level home, and two cars. Then he went and got himself killed in an auto accident.By all rights that should have been the end of him, but the little Hindu Mystic, Jahawarlal...

Enter the spell-binding worlds of best-selling author Robert Stanek and dream a new dream. This book contains: "Absolutes" Expertly melds science fact with science fiction. The brilliant boy scientist, Krzysztof Steelbridge, is blinded by ambition and ultimately consumed by it. "Silence is Golden" In...

The Secret Power is a novel written by Marie Corelli. The story revolves around a young man named Paul Vallincourt, who inherits a vast fortune from his father. However, he soon realizes that his newfound wealth comes with a curse - he is plagued...

The Sky is Falling by Lester del Rey is a science fiction novel that explores the idea of a society on the brink of collapse due to the forces of both internal and external threats. The protagonist, Dave Hanson, finds himself thrust into a...

Rick Raphael (1919-1994) was a US writer and journalist who began publishing sci-fi with "A Filbert is a Nut" for Astounding in November 1959 and established a considerable reputation in the field with a comparatively small output of about ten stories, most of them...

In the remote past, evidence was left behind, documented, written down, painted on cave walls and in paintings throughout time. Evidence that was ignored by the mainstream academics. Some would see this evidence and ask about it, only to be ridiculed for it. Let...

Mars is colonized. Yet its inhabitants are cut off from Earth. An event known as the "Pulse" is eating the light on Earth. And Mars has been blamed for it. In the years after, Darion Wallace and his 10-year old daughter wander the darkened...

Jemma is a young librarian in a comfortable rut. One night, without warning, the world goes mute. Every person in every country is rendered unable to speak. Jemma thrives, a little too well. Soon, she's being watched, and she and a new friend are...

The saga continues. At the compound in Junction, life settles into a peaceful routine. Tom Haskins is regarded as a local hero for his role in killing the Garza gang and for putting their bodies on display as a warning to other marauders. He's...

In a world torn apart by war, three nations stand divided. THE FREE NATION Senator Burton and his son Ben arrive in the Tula Strongholds for peace talks, but find that a treaty between their two nations has a price. Confronted by a world...

"No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they...

Author Brandi St. Amour's science fiction novel portrays a strong female protagonist whose destiny was forced on her by fate. However, she's able to take control of her own destiny as well and change what others thought she would do and in essence, make...

Jodi's parents love children, but they are unable to have their own. Instead, they literally have a baby handed to them. In their desperation, they keep Jodi's mysterious arrival a secret. When Jodi needs a brain implant to stay alive, her parents face a...

The greatest prize at the London 2012 Olympics isn't gold...it's the Holy Grail. There's a rumour there's treasure buried beneath the 2012 Olympic site. And that a secret army is going to find it. Only nobody believes it. But when a mysterious group of...

Claire is a story set in the future, in the last vestige of civilization left after nuclear winter. At it's heart, it's the classic tale of Beauty and the Beasts. One monster who is a beast on the outside, and one man who is...

Jules Verne was born in 1828 in France. His dream was to write a new kind of novel, which combined scientific fact with fiction. Verne eventually wrote 40 novels in his Voyages extraordinaires series. "What one man can imagine, another will someday be able...

Jules Verne was born in 1828 in France. His dream was to write a new kind of novel, which combined scientific fact with fiction. Verne eventually wrote 40 novels in his Voyages extraordinaires series. "What one man can imagine, another will someday be able...

Th e adventure is about aliens who w The adventure is about aliens who want to make slaves out of humans by dominating and ruling along with inhabiting earth. These aliens implement their plan by using a weapon that starts to melt the South...

A romp through the mind of Dr. C. Thomas Mallory, elicit genius that is involved with giving the truth about UFOs, Roswell and the Secret Government to everyone that will listen. His friends include a dumbfounded lawyer, a beautiful Alien Princess, a phase changing...

James Bond: an Orphan; a man without a family, must defend his few friends in MI6 against a crime family that thinks its drugs have no effect on the rest of the families of mankind...and along the way, he makes a horrific discovery about...

Indestructible men with tortured souls. New kids learning how to be the hero of which they dream. Victims plotting revenge against godlike beings. Cops learning they are nowhere near the top of the food chain. Criminals learning the same thing. In a world where...

""The World Set Free"" is a science fiction novel written by H.G. Wells and published in 1914. The book explores the concept of atomic energy and its potential for both destruction and liberation. The story is set in the early 20th century and follows...

The Mucker is a novel written by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It tells the story of Billy Byrne, a tough and uneducated street fighter from Chicago who is forced to flee to San Francisco after killing a policeman. In San Francisco, he meets and falls...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

Scarlet Hopewell finds herself caught between two worlds as she takes on the responsibility of her magical destiny. With an ancient wolf who she thought was her family dog, a wizened old Tounder (the elder of the Keepers of the Light), and her family,...

The An'Atee are so peaceful that they cannot bring themselves to take the life of another sentient being, including the Harbok. The Harbok shoot on sight-but are they the enemy? The An'Atee are desperate for help, but before he can commit to anyone, Greg...