Fiction - Science Fiction - General

A time of 'Once' or a time 'Forth coming' is within the psyche of you who continues to read on. It covers much adventure, politics that parallels that of today, which entails greed, power and intrigue. Read on and 'Philantasize' how they dealt with...

When the Rho Project's lead scientist, Dr. Donald Stephenson, is imprisoned for his crimes against humanity, the world dares to hope the threat posed by the Rho Project's alien technologies is finally over.The world is wrong.In Switzerland, scientists working on the Large Hadron Collider...

D馗or don't usually go on vacation, but after their adventure in the Iota Cloud, Pet is looking forward to a week of relaxation on the planet Syzygy, an ideal vacation spot for aliens from all corners of the galaxy. The fancy resort they've chosen...

Hot rods and high magic - previously published in two volumes as Born to Run and Chrome Circle - meet in a fast-paced, tongue-in-cheek fantasy.Author: Mercedes Lackey, Larry DixonISBN-10: 0671578340ISBN-13: 9780671578343Publisher: BaenLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/1999Pages: 640Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.63lbsSize: 6.90h x 4.12w x 1.02dReview Citation(s): Ingram...

Confluence - a long, narrow, artificial world, half fertile river valley, half crater-strewn desert. A world beyond the end of human history, served by countless machines, inhabited by 10,000 bloodlines who worship their absent creators, riven by a vast war against heretics. This is...

On the radio you hear a familiar tune, something catchy that will be stuck in your head all day now. It's a real earworm . . .The last place Max Barker wants to be is back in his hometown. But his father's passing summons...

A.G. Pasquella's Welcome to the Weird America brings together three of his brilliant, fabulist novellas, each of which is filled with strange language and extraordinary surprises. In Why Not a Spider Monkey Jesus?, written like a comic-book adventure without the images, a talking chimpanzee...

Though published second after Altmann's Tongue, The Din of Celestial Birds (1997) consists of the best of Evenson's early stories. They take place in a country (perhaps several countries) that seems at once everywhere and nowhere, haunted by birds, ghosts, poverty, tyranny, and the...

Tris Carter Horne had dreamed of a beautiful girl with hair like flame and eyes of emerald green all his life. When he had grown, the dreams became nightmares so horrifying that he was afraid to sleep. Then the dreams became real, and he...

The Coventry Gardens Serial Killer promises to keep the reader in suspense from beginning to end. When a cleverly disguised evil presence infiltrates Coventry Gardens, a British west coast township nestling within a stone's throw of Lands End, two New Scotland Yard detectives arrive...

An encounter with a stranger frees Jasmine from her mundane, routine life and shows her that her destiny is fated for something greater. Now, arbitrator between two ancient races, amidst a diplomatic dispute, Jasmine begins to question everything she thought she knew. And the...

Louise has a mission. She has to deliver a black box through a Pacific Northwest that was ravaged by an offshore earthquake years ago. The box is seamless, with a single, blinking red light. Along the way she'll find friends and foes. Her best...

"Chapter 11 is watching you. " Silver is an intelligence operative working for an agency that doesn't officially exist-beyond any government and above the law. Chapter 11 is the kind of place a person can join but never leave. And it keeps a third...

A bio engineered Buck has been accidentally introduced into the Adirondack park. In three years, it will help the indigenous deer population rise to the top of the food chain. Meanwhile an older predator reemerges its dominance into the park and rakes havoc among...

Dominic Zein is overwhelmed. Work pulls him in every direction except where he wants to go-home to his wife, out with his friends, away from the constant strain.Then Nick shows up. He's the spitting image of Dominic, a man who can imitate him perfectly....

In a reality where magic exists and science reigns supreme, there are the guardians, the presiders of the universe. All but destroyed centuries ago by the god of chaos, the survivors now scour the cosmos in search of mortals capable of wielding aether without...

After years of fighting a war she doesn't believe in, Jade Cavvar is being awarded for her efforts. But when an assassin makes an attempt on her life, Jade is forced down a path she never dreamed she'd walk. Stolen away from her home,...

In the dark beneath the stairs, in the mist beyond the trees, in bubbling swamps and blackened deeps--this is where monsters lie in wait, eager to sink their teeth into the next fool who crosses their path. Or so we're told. If you ask...

A shipwreck; a deserted island; a single family, wondering if they can survive. Rich in suspense and surprises, The Swiss Family Robinson entices young readers to come along on a wonderful adventure, where each moment brings a new thrill. Featuring amazingly resourceful characters and...

The stories from the 2018 season of Shimmer Magazine.Author: Sam Rebelein, Rebecca Campbell, Dee WarrickISBN-10: 1730916902ISBN-13: 9781730916908Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/30/2018Pages: 376Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.11lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.78d

Sirius is Thomas Trelone's great experiment - a huge, handsome dog with the brain and intelligence of a human being. Raised and educated in Trelone's own family alongside Plaxy, his youngest daughter, Sirius is a truly remarkable and gifted creature. His relationship with the...

Meet James Cooper as Vesha Celeste continues her journey with Yesha Alevtina and learns about his recruitment and contributions. He becomes the third figurehead of the new organization called Pathway LLC. To help build all that Eliza and Yesha had envisioned during Part 2...

This is the second in the Pathway to the Stars booklet series. Please enjoy Pathway to the Stars: Part 2, Eliza Williams."We need to understand how dark energy and dark matter work, find ways to slow down the expansion or cause the Universe to...

Lightning flashed above them, and thunder cracked. It was a sharp, ragged sound-like the crunch of a busting tree trunk. The man flinched, and Napoleon turned to face him. The two of them stared at each other through the rain and the steel mesh."So,...

A quasi immortal malcontent, Stan and office manager Marge protect humans in modern Chicago. It will take rule breaking, abuse of ancient technology and luck to protect a new recruit and solve the mystery of why he is important. While defending against other dimensional...

This is the fourth book in the Galactic Warriors series written by James Floyd. This book continues the story of the teenage warriors as their allegiance with the former enemies, the Neptonians, continues to grow. In the third installment, Czar Xavier attempted to invade...

This is Metropolis, the novel that the film's screenwriter -- Thea von Harbou, who was director Fritz Lang's wife, and a collaborator in the creation of the film -- this is the novel that Harbou wrote from her own notes. It contains bits of...

Vesha Celeste journeys with Yesha Alevtina and her dream-angel, Sky, following a long life of high hopes, dreams, and professional achievements in astronomy and astrophysics. Yesha shows and teaches Vesha about biopods, spaceports, tech cities that are hidden, cloaked with invisibility, and located solar-system-wide....

"A fairly good time capsule of sf starting to become a genre of its own, and "Amazing Stories" in particular., for the pulp fiction fan, this will be an interesting and fun read And all of 1926's covers are reprinted on this anthology's back...

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott, first published in 1884 by Seeley & Co. of London. Written pseudonymously by "A Square", the book used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to comment on...

Although Russian fiction master Fyodor Dostoyevsky is best known for epic, sprawling novels that detail psychological and philosophical problems in minute detail, his more concise work is also remarkable in its scope and depth. This collection of stories will please fans of classic Russian...

The Iron Heel is a novel by 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 which Jack London's...

If you wanted to know how one of the best editors and writers thinks, who would you want to know about? Gardner Dozois Gardner has won more Hugo awards for editing than anyone, for his incredible work with Asimove's Science Fiction Magazine-where stories he...

Deep in an unexplored jungle, Brian Raft sought the secret of the legendary VALLEY OF THE FLAME. Somewhere there was a radioactive fire that could perform miracles of super-science. Somewhere there was a place where cat-people prowled, where time was altered, and incredible mysteries...

Former Earthman Ulysses Paxton served Barsoom's greatest scientist, until his master's ghoulish trade in living bodies drove him to rebellion. Then, to save the body of the woman he loved, he had to attack mighty Phundahl, and its evil, beautiful ruler.Author: Edgar Rice BurroughsISBN-10:...

When Adrian meets Jessica, he is utterly devastated by her. He has never met anyone like herHe has no idea how true that is.Soon he is dragged into another world. A world hidden in plain sight by a people that will kill to keep...

Book #4 in the bestselling "Immortal Warriors" series Josiah Reign is a lover and a fighter, and now he's building his own Mani army to take on Krull for a future battle of epic proportions. Old and new loves reveal themselves as Josiah comes...

H.G. Wells best-selling classic THE TIME MACHINE.Author: H. G. WellsISBN-10: 1612930824ISBN-13: 9781612930824Publisher: Tribeca BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/11/2011Pages: 106Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.32lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.25d

Armchair fiction presents extra-large editions of classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. The first novel, "The Terror Out of Space" is a nail-biting space thriller. Fred Boone was in a no win scenario. He was hunted by agents of a powerful interplanetary...

THE MARS GIRL (Joe Haldeman) Carmen Dula was just like any other girl. Or she used to be, before she spent six months on the spacecraft, John Carter, as part of the first nine families to settle on Mars. ) Just like any other...

When the last great war came, a small group of survivors hid themselves below the fields of Kansas, living in a place of eternal twilight. *** Over time the energy surrounding the descendants of these survivors turned them into Duendes, ghost-like beings, never having...

Retired Union officer is given the gift of Skin-walker (Native American shape-shifter). Not long after learning about his abilities to shift into many animal forms, including a half-man, half-wolf form. A Lone Werewolf is forced to use his abilities against evil. When General Custer's...

On a remote planet on the edge of the galaxy, Hawk Hunter, a pilot with a unique talent for design, whose own abilities, origins, and past are a mystery, is drawn into a state-sponsored gladiatorial contest that pits pilot against pilot, a competition that...

The landscapes of the soul are more wonderful than the landscapes of the starry sky. Not only are their Milky Ways thousands of stars, but their shadowy abysses are a life multiplied by a thousand...In the Venezuelan jungle, a team of scientists led by...

The deadly Madame Atomos is a brilliant but twisted Japanese scientist who is out to revenge 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 and Yosho Akamatsu...

In The Discovery of the Austral Continent by a Flying Man (1781), Victorin devises a set of artificial wings to abduct his beloved Christine, before setting her up on top of a mountain as queen of her own utopia. Then he relocates to the...

The Virgin Orient, an Epic Novel of the Year 2000 (1897) is the account of a preventive strike by Europe, united under the government of Anarchism, against the perceived Yellow Peril. Even though his accounts of two crucial battles fought in India are extended...

After fifteen years of absence at the North Pole, a man rediscovers Europe on the verge of war in 1929. Written in 1919, four years after World War I, The Engineer von Satanas is a classic of futuristic fiction, thirty years ahead of its...

Delphine de Girardin (1804-1855) was the daughter of famous writer and playwright Sophie Gay (1776-1852). She began writing at an early age, publishing two books of poems in 1824 and 1824, and a popular collection of children's stories in 1833. She later married writer-journalist...

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,...