Fiction - Science Fiction - General

Set in 1968, The Cosmic Purple is a mind-churning thriller that mixes suspense, humor, and existentialism and guarantees to leave you guessing until the last second. On the planet Ute, a psychedelic metropolis ruled by a tyrannical government, a suicidal outlaw who dubs himself...

Their discovery on the third floor of Hickory Hill is almost too much to bear.Since the Beautiful Houses computer software worked so well for the Old Dears' family tree project, Abby's college roommate Kate hopes the computer program will help her find out more...

The Smoky God; or, A Voyage to the Inner WorldAuthor: Willis George EmersonISBN-10: 1481185993ISBN-13: 9781481185998Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/06/2012Pages: 46Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.18lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.11d

A powerful, ancient mummy is unearthed by adventurers. Soon the mummy is poised to take over the modern world. The mummy's powers over the global population prove more powerful than anything governments and leaders could have expected. The mummy asserts control over economies and...

What began as a simple encounter--a first date spent hiking--turns into a life-changing event for Steve. Once he found a crystal and understood the powers within it, he was able to develop a life outside of the one he had. No longer did he...

Determined reader beware, for these luxurious characters and their confounding antics are not for the faint of heart or morally upright. This is the incredible "true" story of a lovelorn white shark, the devil, an impossibly perfect woman, and a billionaire President of the...

It has been ten years since American archaeologist, Andreas, reunited with his wife, Eurydice, and began happily living among the mysterious people of an unknown land hidden under the ice of Antarctica. Now everything is about to change as Eurydice, high priestess and effective...

Harpie Colcek is a newspaper reporter assigned to write an article about a mysterious blip that appears on NORAD's radar screen every Christmas Eve at 11:55 p.m. As he heads to interview a four-star general at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Harpie...

In the year AD 4544, a confluence of events shatters a spacecraft in the outer reaches of the solar system, hurling its lone commander, Samantha Hunter, through time and space deep into the past.Meanwhile, in the near future, award-winning New York Times science editor...

As creatures from different worlds, Tesla and Lynx should never have met. The A-ones and Underdwellers don't mix in the Dome, but Tesla is no ordinary A-one. She isn't afraid to question everything. Her entire life, she had been taught that the Underdwellers lacked...

"The House on the Borderland (1908)-perhaps the greatest of all Mr. Hodgson's works-tells of a lonely and evilly regarded house in Ireland which forms a focus for hideous otherworld forces and sustains a siege by blasphemous hybrid anomalies from a hidden abyss below. The...

Trapped in an economic rat-race, Kevin Blake had little going for him but an over-active imagination-an attribute which brought him to the notice of Paul Trevainen. Trevainen made Kevin an offer he couldn't resist: find a billionaire's daughter, bring her back to Earth, and...

"WHO ARE THE WARBIRDS?Misfits mostly. Men who sought in the rush and tide of battle, an outlet for violent emotion. Society condemned them, yet admired their necessity. Cultures shunned them - yet gladly used their services. Wars there were, and wars there would be,...

On screen, the city lay shimmeringly beautiful in the morning sun. For a suspenseful moment we contemplated the confidently proud splendor, the towers and spires reared high, the orderly veins of traffic radiating to the city's horizons, the comic clusters of scurrying transportation microbes,...

CRIME TRAVEL features time-travel mysteries by a terrific lineup of authors. Included are: James Blakey Melissa H. Blaine Michael Bracken Anna Castle Brendan DuBois David Dean John M. Floyd Barb Goffman Heidi Hunter Eleanor Cawood Jones Adam Meyer Barbara Monajem Korina Moss Art Taylor...

Vampires, werewolves, mechanical men -- it's all in a day's work for Harry Challenge, agent of the Challenge International Detective Agency This volume collects both Harry Challenge novels by Ron Goulart, "The Prisoner of Blackwood Castle" and "The Curse of the Obelisk."Author: Ron GoulartISBN-10:...

The Fallen Cloud Saga: Book I The year is 1886...in an America that never was. George Armstrong Custer, Sr., is President of the United States, and his son, George, Jr., a captain in the U.S. Army, is about to fly an experimental dirigible out...

The utopian society of Mars has thrived in underground cities for over ten thousand years. The Martians have lived peacefully and tranquilly, tending their underground growing fields of fruits and vegetables. All their lives change when the Intergalactic Traders, ruthless killers, threaten to conquer...

Following a nuclear holocaust, Nathan Taylor and his family face grim choices in order to stay alive. Fleeing deadly radiation, plague and desperate men, Nathan, an army officer, leads his wife and their two teenage sons away from chaos and madness toward his ancestral...

This is NO storybook fairytale and NO happily ever after May 4, 2007 - Neverland, Kansas: It is a stormy night with tornado warnings in the county. A 1969 black Dodge Charger is being driven by Shade Sandman. The car is cruising down the...

I remember the moment I became aware. I can only describe it as if I was a camera. Slowly as the lenses are rotated; the picture comes into focus over the course of what seemed like a lifetime. Slowly shifting and unshifting until finally...

A 200-year-old treasure waiting to be reclaimed. Abby Thomas' 11-year-old student Merri is finally warming up to her. And her friendship with John Roberts is also heating up. He's definitely marriage material. Except for the fact that when she tells him about Beautiful Houses...

The short white called Wang and one of the students named Allen has been kidnapped. The team must learn where he has been taken and by who. They must discover clues to his location plan a rescue mission and fee them from their captors...

Tristan is a young wizard with dark hair and green eyes--but no cozy boarding school for him--he's been home-schooled by the old wizard who discovered him as an abandoned infant under an apple tree on Midwinter's Night. There's no one to tell Tristan who...

From the edge of the Elflands to the top of World's Peak, drawn together on a quest whether they like it or not.... "The first-rate world building, the unique cast of characters, and the author's clever whimsey make it absorbing reading. Recommended." -BooklistAuthor: Will...

An amazing collection of classic stories from Mars. A must read anthology to add to your collection. Includes The Man Who Hated Mars by Randall Garrett - To escape from Mars, all Clayton had to do was the impossible... The Dope on Mars by...

Cosmonaut Yuri Kapalev has been sent on a secret Vostok voyage that was never announced by the Soviet space program. His mission? Surveillance on America's use of alien technology to jump ahead in the race to create newer, higher-tech space and spy plane equipment...

"Twelve Stories and a Dream" contains just that, twelve short stories and a description of a dream by H. G. Wells. It presents the readers with a variety of classic Wells tales. This fantastic collection is highly recommended for lovers of the short story...

Sarnac is a scientist and a leading figure in the field of chemical reactions of cells. Plagued by a beautiful and terrifying dream he had when he was a young child, he reflects on his early years in an attempt to understand the dream's...

These early works by various authors were originally published in the early 20th century and we are now republishing them with a brand new introduction as part of our Cryptofiction Classics series. 'Cryptofiction - Volume III.' contains a collection of short stories that include...

This early work by Robert W. Chambers was originally published in 1919 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography as part of our Cryptofiction Classics series. 'In the Valley of the Sorceress' is a short story of an Egyptian...

This early work by John Buchan was originally published in 1899 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography as part of our Cryptofiction Classics series. 'No-Man's-Land' is a short story about a student on a fishing and walking trip...

This early work by Jack London was originally published in 1901 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography as part of our Cryptofiction Classics series. 'A Relic of the Pliocene' is a short story about a man that hunts...

This early work by H. G. Wells was originally published in 1896 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography as part of our Cryptofiction Classics series. 'The Sea Raiders' is a short story in which a man notices a...

This early work by Ambrose Bierce was originally published in 1891 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography as part of our Cryptofiction Classics series. 'The Eyes of the Panther' is a short story about a homesteading family in...

John Buchan was one of the only historians documenting the course of the First World War as it happened. Here are both of his books on the Somme offensive, one of the most destructive and bloody battles of the first great war. Buchan was...

The story of the young Italian nobleman Fabrice del Dongo and his adventures from his birth in 1798 to his death, including his service in the Napoleonic Army.Author: Marie-Henri Beyle StendhalISBN-10: 1473306256ISBN-13: 9781473306257Publisher: Moran PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/14/2013Pages: 738Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.03lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x...

This early work by Sinclair Lewis was originally published in 1917 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. Sinclair Lewis was born in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, USA in 1885. A lonely and socially awkward child, Lewis tried unsuccessfully to...

The man on the moon was dead. They called him Charlie. He had big eyes, abundant body hair, and fairly long nostrils. His skeletal body was found clad in a bright red spacesuit, hidden in a rocky grave. They didn't know who he was,...

Tommy and his cat Snowy continue to develop their abilities when a beloved neighbor is murdered. Tommy and Snowy soon find themselves separated by emotion and circumstance, leaving Tommy seeking answers on his own... seeking answers in the lives and struggles of his friends...

1866 - only men uprooted by war had reason to ride into Tubacca, Arizona, a nondescript town as shattered and anonymous as the veterans drifting through it. So when Drew Rennie, newly discharged from Forrest's Confederate scouts, arrived leading everything he owned behind him-his...

Moonspell is an incredible journey in time and space. Software engineer Paul meets a mysterious beautiful woman, Mathy, in a deserted temple in India. She claims to come from thousands of years in the past, somehow transported to the present when her wish to...

Book Summary When Special Agent Michael Smith-of the F.B.I.'s Unusual Occurrences Unit-is sent to investigate strange deaths that cannot be explained, he feels a trepidation that he cannot comprehend. His father had disappeared years earlier on a strange quest-the driving force of which Mike...

Tim wants nothing more than to be a normal boy, with normal friends, normal family, and normal problems. However, Tim is anything but normal. He has a secret gift--many would call it a curse--that allows his conscious mind to slide to random places and...

Whilst meditating, I regressed and found myself in Atlantis. I discovered that I was a scientist, musician, and astrologer. My experiences there were amazing. All the inhabitants of Atlantis had the power to fly, using thoughts to propel themselves. We could also use our...

TIME CURRENTS Surfing the waves of paradox Time travel needn't be a stretch. We're all time travelers. In our waking world, we seem to "travel" or ride on a shared vector -- the time axis -- moving into the future at a fixed rate...

The earth was being destroyed by its inhabitants, and as many as possible of those who realized it left the planet in a massive spaceship fitted out to travel for generations, taking with it all the basics in supplies and information that the travelers...

Jack Ross, after serving his country in top-secret black ops missions during his early military years, realized the recently-discovered jumperdrive, a device that allows interstellar transportation, had immense possibilities - and not all of them good. The jumperdrive introduced the people of Earth to...

Jack London's dystopian novel 'The Iron Heel' posits a futuristic world in which the division between the classes has deepened, creating a menacing oligarchy that rules through terror. Anticipating the science fiction novels of the 1960s and '70s, the book stresses future changes in...

No sane airshipman will fly near a storm, but the cover of storm edge offers effective concealment for airship pirates who can strike quickly from above before anyone knows a ship is near. With the protection of Aide, the Basque goddess of air travel,...