Fiction - Science Fiction - General

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

"You shut us down in the darkness, you skin people oh so bright beneath your lovely skies. You buried us among the filth and the poison and the old machines and the chemicals." Max and Abby race against time to find the Machine Men...

Growing up as a nerd in a small midwestern town, Liza didn't have the easiest life. Then she met the Paragon, the super powered man whose poster she kept over her bed. By accident they traded places. Liza's life didn't get any easier.Author: Anthony...

Amandine Sand lives to fly. Unfortunately, she's hobbled by a life-threatening secret: she's one of the spotted humans wrongly accused of being a plague carrier. These "leopards" are hunted by zealots to protect their offworld colony from the scourge. Despite this threat, Amandine spends...

What if we knew how to live forever? Is any cost too great? Ava Brandt has been plagued with indecision her entire life; her direction influenced by the people around her, not her heart. When a chance encounter with a stranger challenges everything she...

The most mysterious disappearance of the 20th century is solved as New York Supreme Court Justice Joseph Crater goes undercover for the FBI in this hilarious satire set in mid-century America, with an eccentric cast of characters including Amelia Earhart, J. Edgar Hoover, Orson...

The SEQUEL to Winter squad. The Light Half of the Year has come to Arbouron, our nearest neighbour in the multidimensional Cosmos. Nevamarsya, faces a new challenge, life in the Roots of the Existentialist Apple Tree that is alive and sentient in many different...

HE SOUGHT TO FLEE HIS TRAGIC PAST, but when Thomas Usher hears a clockwork voice on the phone, and sees ever-more disturbing visions in a derelict warehouse, Usher realizes that he has to return home - for the sake of his own sanity. Meanwhile,...

On Planetoid Three, Jaguar Addams enters the minds of criminals. She lives in the shadows of their fears . . . and chases them into the light. The followers of the Revelation Sect are preparing for the Second Coming. Stockpiles of weapons were found...

John Henry Mackay (1864-1933) wrote in a variety of styles. This volume of his shorter fiction contains twenty-five stories, ranging in length from one page to the longer novella. In this range, it is essentially complete. The themes also vary considerably, for Mackay did...

Author: Anna Billion BrownISBN-10: 0595182224ISBN-13: 9780595182220Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2001Pages: 216Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 9.04h x 6.02w x 0.59d

It is a time of breathtaking Singularity technology. A time when most human beings spend the majority of their lives in the alternate worlds of the cyberverse, the global mesh of full-immersion virtual realities. Traditional social and political structures are breaking down under the...

Roughly a quarter-century from now life as we know it is no more. The Stewart and Davis families are managing to hang on and even thrive on their farms in southern Tennessee. But when sixteen-year old Tim and his best friend Bobby decide to...

What starts out as a covert military operation to exterminate all the Taliban goat herds in Afghanistan quickly ends up going badly awry! The dead goats suddenly reanimate and begin attacking their herders. Soon the entire Afghan population becomes an army of undead, spreading...

Meet Californian Téa Caruso . . . her mother drives her crazy, her sisters give "advice." She has a family just like any other, except for one tiny difference . . .Her grandfather isn't just in the mob . . . he is the...

When Moxie Brecker chose her kicky nickname back in college, it suited her perfectly. But now she feels it's one big misnomer. After graduation, she set out to command her own seventh-grade science class and was stunned to find the job too challenging. She...

'A stunning book. Banks' powerful imagination is joined to a rare ability to be truly funny while exploring a nightmare world' Sunday Times A man lies in a coma after a near-fatal accident. His body broken, his memory vanished, he finds himself in the...

A follow-up to the original groundbreaking collection, Again, Dangerous Visions features forty-six short stories from giants of the science fiction genre.Grand Master of the Science Fiction Writers of America and winner of countless awards--including the Hugo, Nebula, Edgar Allan Poe, and Bram Stoker--Harlan Ellison...

EVER VIGILANT Shrapnel: The Official BattleTech Magazine is your latest intel report on enemy movements across the war-torn, BattleMech-dominated battlefields of the 31st century and beyond! Among the shattered remnants of the Free Worlds League, a Marik Protector vows to track down a missing...

RAISE YOUR GLASS Shrapnel: The Official BattleTech Magazine is your guide to celebrating your latest triumphs amid the hard-fought BattleMech combat of the 31st century and beyond! A young Colonial Marshal on a new assignment in the Fronc Reaches must lead an untried local...

Planet of Love, the sequel to Love Beyond Orbit, is the fourth in the Brent and Edward series of future romantic science fiction by the creative author, Richard Jeffery Wagner. In this hard science fiction book, he details a near-future world where intercontinental rockets...

Synopsis: This is an unusual novel that blends real places and science fiction. Also, a number of real people (known by the author) and current time, 2012-2025. Also, real current events all woven into a science fiction story. The Mirror is actually the "main...

When memories become maps, dreams become the only way home.Eugene and Will believed freedom lay ahead, yet paradise proved only a passing crossroads. Will drifts toward Leyla, a woman chasing the ghost of a dream, while Eugene's creation becomes her fragile salvation.Reunited at last,...

ENTER THE ARENA! Shrapnel: The Official BattleTech Magazine is your spotlight for tales of brutal, one-on-one BattleMech action in the no-holds-barred gladiatorial arenas of the 31st century and beyond! A patsy expected to take a fall must utilize every asset at his disposal to...

Where can you run from the secrets in your head?Douglas is fading, worn thin by life, while his wife Adrie balances caregiving with a quiet obsession, chasing a story that reveals itself only in dreams.Eugene, still reeling from a recent tragedy born of chance,...

Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" is a satirical adventure that takes readers on an extraordinary journey through fantastical lands and bizarre societies. Follow Lemuel Gulliver, a disillusioned surgeon turned traveler, as he encounters the miniature Lilliputians, the colossal Brobdingnagians, the enigmatic flying island of Laputa,...

A revolutionary technology that can capture an image from your dreams.Eugene has spent most his life alone, gaining wealth from the grey side, exploring, dreaming. To reach further for the truth he developed the dream interceptor, some fancy AI and a way of capture...

An end-of-the-world love story, an epic full of pathos and humor, asking what can be saved of our planetWell, that's about it for the story of planet Earth, poor Earth, reduced to not much more than a piece of burnt coal. But, as Deb...

A series of copycat crimes end in absurd messages meant specifically for Chicago's FBI Special Agent in Charge Kerry O'Malley. Just as a direct connection to Kerry's brother is uncovered, Kerry falls seriously ill. Neil secludes her in a secret Group facility and forges...

Desperate and shellshocked, the survivors of Dome Six face a foreign and terrifying threat: The outside world. To Owen and his fellow Domies, the forest west of the Willamette River might as well be an alien world. Every sight, smell, and sound is new....

As the world descends into chaos, a fractured resistance makes its final, desperate play to stop Cytocorp and free the Domes. Having landed a critical blow against Cytocorp, Novi, Owen, and the rest of the Phage hope to break the Company's power once and...

In the pristine city of Nexum, your life is a line of code written at birth. Every thought is monitored, every future assigned. Sixteen-year-old Soren Reid never questioned the system's perfection. He had no reason to-until Assessment Day. Designated an "Anomaly," Soren discovers his...

Hera by Mohammed Forghani is a book about a middle-aged man who collides with the electric car of a young woman fleeing her own wedding. A doctor, infatuated with the young woman, performs a groundbreaking experiment, merging the brains and bodies of the two...

From the author of The Slaver Wars comes a new military science fiction series. To the Kleese, the Earth is nothing more than a planet full of conscripts to fight in their numerous wars of aggression. The Kleese are one of three large Galactic...

Heather can't believe she is the only person on Earth who can protect Storm, the ambassador from Vespia. It has something to do with a pheromone the Vespian male exudes. Although everyone tells her she is immune, she doesn't agree. There is something about...

**Galactic Enigma** is an enthralling space opera set in the year 2525 aboard the starship "Odyssey." As it ventures into the enigmatic Andromeda galaxy, Captain Elara Jaxon leads her crew in their quest for discovery. Raised on stories of the wonders of space, Captain...

In 2525, decades after humanity has moved into their new home, the Sirius System. A place filled with planets and moons created to spotlight different unique cultures, people can thrive or be another spec of sand. A small group of people with illegal habits...

Rings of PoseidonA team of archaeologists led by Afro-Caribbean Alycia Graham is escavting a stone age site in the Orkney Islands when they uncover a remarkably well preserved copper ring ... a ring which seems to have the power to give the wearer a...

A time travel expedition through the stories of SFWA Grandmaster Damon Knight. Here are six of his stories and two essays, including a story never before published.Includes Damon's analysis of various definitions of Science Fiction, an interesting discussion for science fiction writers.Stories include "I...

Johnson is plagued by his absence of memory and the strange dreams of horrific futures that he somehow knows will become reality if he does not act. He was born in a hopeless future and is doomed to travel in the past and repair...

The Poison Belt is a science fiction novel by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle, the second book about Professor Challenger. Written in 1913, much of it takes place in a single room in Challenger's house in Sussex. This would be the last story written...

Moonchild is a novel written by the British occultist Aleister Crowley in 1917. Its plot involves a magical war between a group of white magicians, led by Simon Iff, and a group of black magicians, over an unborn child. It was first published by...

Earth. The distant future. An immense planetary ring dominates the sky, drowning the humbler stars in its borrowed light. Moulded by aeons, humans have evolved into diverse new forms. The people are born, they toil and they die, their lives at the mercy of...

Eamonn Murphy is back with another collection of short stories that will enthrall you, take you to other worlds, leave you thinking, and maybe even tickle your funny bone.Another collection of short stories that were first published in Nomadic Delirium Press magazines, you are...

Something strange is going on in Pomegranate City. People are whispering about the "end times," protesting in the streets, and suggesting that recent events are connected to something called, "The Clock of Legend." This is the backdrop to the surprising death of the city's...

Usually I don't write science-fiction, about space travel and life in outer space. Usually, it's about light murder mysteries or biographies. But the James Webb Telescope has really caught my attention lately so that I launched my imagination into outer space.My story starts with...

UFOs represent an enduring mystery that captivates both public imagination and scientific curiosity. While many sightings can be explained by known phenomena, the small percentage that remains unexplained continues to drive interest and investigation. Whether these unexplained sightings point to new natural phenomena, advanced...

It is 2071, 29 years after Earth's Great Climate Catastrophe. Syd, a chemist at a powerful mega-corporation, meets Jake who takes her to a cave that contains a portal to another planet, Cascadia, an oceanic world suffering its own climate crisis. Meanwhile on Cascadia,...

After a misconceived alien attack, Archer and his men have no choice but to flee. They search for refuge, as the aliens are now in pursuit. Archer is granted sanctuary by one nation, who do not know what the consequences will be of doing...