Fiction - Science Fiction - Crime & Mystery

"Shadows" follows the relationship developed between an unhappy teenager and a powerful alien force he believes is a gift from God. The teen's enemies and problems begin to violently disappear. Only a savvy police detective comes to stand between the amoral invader and his...

Dark magic meets galactic warfare.Carina Lin has found her long-lost mage kindred, but her joy is tempered with pain. One of her half-siblings is a dark mage who is planning to lead a powerful clan to galactic domination.Only mages can prevent the horrors that...

Etidorhpa is an early science fiction novel depicting a man's descent into the bowels of the Earth at the instigation of a mysterious secret society - it is presented here complete with the original illustrations.Llewyllyn Drury is visited by a mysterious old man whose...

Author: Kaye BoesmeISBN-10: 1735740640ISBN-13: 9781735740645Publisher: Kaye BoesmeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/29/2023Pages: 150Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.36lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.32d

Award-winning author, screenwriter, and editor Gary Phillips gathers his most thrilling, outlandish, and madcap pulp fiction in an 17-story collection that straddles the line between bizarro, science fiction, noir, and superhero classics. Aztec vampires, astral projecting killers, oxygen stealing bombs, undercover space rangers, aliens...

"A fascinating story! It's got everything: science, technology, greed, power, love, religion, and even a pandemic."- Moshe Axelrod, Main Line Times. Three brilliant MIT graduate students develop a revolutionary plan to upload a brain into a supercomputer. Then they go even further, pushing the...

Between 1894 and 1914, Paul d'Ivoi (1856-1915) wrote a series of 21 volumes, collectively entitled The Eccentric Voyages, clearly inspired by and updating Jules Verne's classic Extraordinary Voyages. While not quite matching Verne for verve and invention, d'Ivoi succeeded in appealing to a new...

Johnny Clay's plan to rob the Long Island race track was daring and highly original. Johnny, an ex-convict, had spent his prison years thinking through every possible hitch to his scheme until he was sure it could go off like clockwork. His four confederates...

A grieving daughter's search for her mother becomes a journey across alternate realities in this dazzling new thriller from the author of The Shining Girls that is "sheer thrilling madness with a big, beating heart that reminds us we're all connected" (Grady Hendrix, New...

This is a tantalizing mystery driven by friendships and secrets. Maria-Teresa Rivera has no idea what's in store for her when she arrives at her childhood church in Mesa, Arizona for a routine planning meeting with the hot new priest. The effect the handsome...

A woman checks herself into an insane asylum to solve the mystery of her sister's murder, only to lose her memory and maybe her mind. From the subversive voice behind The Phlebotomist comes a story that combines the uncanny atmosphere of Don't Worry Darling...

Phillip G Asher was raised in Austin, Indiana, a small town in Southern Indiana. He graduated from Austin High School in 1965. He continuedhis education by going to Indiana State University, where he received his BS degree in Earth-Space science secondary education in 1970....

In the Socialist Utopia of the People's Republic of Britain a routine criminal investigation spirals out of control with world-shattering consequences. The Cold War ended thirty years ago, the Communists have won in Europe and the world has settled into two blocks divided by...

During his thirty year career, Lester Dent created several outstanding characters, starting with the immortal Doc Savage, but also including Black Mask's Oscar Sail, Genius Jones, and others. One of the most successful was the Gadget Man, who appeared exclusively in the pages of...

There is a quiet, deadly evil haunting the lush reservation surrounding the Godfrey family's estate and the town of Temple Falls, Vermont. An evil born of a curse that was never broken...until now.Author: Nathalie L'h GoldstonISBN-10: 8887032467ISBN-13: 9798887032467Publisher: Litprime SolutionsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/15/2023Pages: 286Format: PaperbackWeight:...

It's the event of the generation, the century, the millennium: the lowest of low tides laying bare the original streets of Tarry-by-the-Sea for the first time in living memory. Sea creatures splash for cover as the city's human residents descend for an epic, once-in-a-lifetime...

Would you sell your hand for a million dollars? Regan "Roz" Osbourne is broke. Her ex-boyfriend won't take no for an answer, and no one is taking her artwork seriously. So when a mysterious stranger offers her a million dollars and safety from her...

What happens when you're pulled into an alternate version of your life?Cassidy Marchand is abandoned, on the run, and out of money. She's just gotten arrested for stealing, but that's the least of her worries. When she wakes up, everything seems normal-at first. She...

A New Beginning, Maybe? is a fast-moving crime drama and is the 3rd installment of the adventures of the crime-solving team of twin sisters, Captain Jane Sparks of the SFPD and Special Agent Fran Morris of the FBI. This book takes the sisters into...

An activist entrepreneur, a maligned AI, and a newly minted homicide detective with a haunted past catastrophically intersect in The Sandbox. The Silence of the Lambs meets Ex Machina in this groundbreaking techno-thriller that redefines the meaning of murder in the twenty-first century. When...

The fate of India lies in the hands of a young street urchin and the alien living inside her head in this rollicking sci-fi adventure from the author The Lives of Tao Ella Patel--thief, con-artist and smuggler--is in the wrong place at the wrong...

Book 1 The Backrooms: No Way OutJoin a lone explorer as they navigate the inescapable maze known as the Backrooms - an infinite expanse of rooms and corridors. Their quest for freedom grows urgent as the dread of eternal entrapment becomes ever more palpable....

Who murdered a popular law professor on a northern Michigan college campus?Judge Rosaline Maxwell is living the good life. Retired from the circuit court bench, she now lives in the home of her dreams, lakefront in scenic Harbor Springs, Michigan. She's written a fascinating...

Tim Major delivers an intriguing murder mystery that pays homage to Asimov's seminal robot stories and also to the classic detective tale. Investigator Abbey Oma is dispatched to a remote and failing Martian colony tasked with solving the murder of scientist Jerem Ferrer. The...

2023 Foreword INDIES Finalist in Thriller & Suspense Long List for 2024 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award When a massive asteroid hurtles toward Earth, humanity braces for annihilation--but the end doesn't come. In fact, it isn't an asteroid but a three-mile-tall alien that drops...

In this reality-bending thriller from the author of The Shining Girls, a grieving daughter's search for her mother becomes a journey across alternate realities.It was a game they played; the other worlds, the other lives. It was part of her mom's grand delusions. It...

Delve into the lawless underbelly of the vast city of Varangantua in this fantastic Warhammer Crime novel. Within the vast sprawl of Varangantua lies the Spoil. It is a broken crossroads, forsaken by the Lex, abandoned by the city's uncaring masters, where the only...

Khalifa's life couldn't get any worse. He's a 30-year-old detective drowning in debt, struggling to quit smoking, and still living with his parents in Dubai. But when he stumbles upon a string of global killings with a mysterious connection, he sees a chance to...

Khalifa's life couldn't get any worse. He's a 30-year-old detective drowning in debt, struggling to quit smoking, and still living with his parents in Dubai. But when he stumbles upon a string of global killings with a mysterious connection, he sees a chance to...

A New York Times Bestseller.A Washington Post Bestseller.A USA Today Bestseller. Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment in Martha Wells's bestselling and award-winning Murderbot Diaries series.Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Following the events in...

The Renegat Renegades finally learn their fate in New York Times bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch's The Court-Martial of the Renegat Renegades, the gripping new novel in her award-winning Diving series and an Asimov's Readers' Choice Award winner.As the surviving crew of the Renegat...

"A MAN AT THE END OF HIS ROPE MUST UNRAVEL A MYSTERY IN A FAR-FLUNG SECTOR OF THE GALAXY. THE WEB OF CONSPIRACY IS TIGHTLY WOVEN, AND JOHN ABBOTT IS BUT ONE MAN FIGHTING THE DARKNESS. John Abbott is all in. He's up to...

In this action-packed sci-fi thriller from the bestselling author of the Sol Saga, a man is on a mission to stop his family's killer no matter what-or when. Andrew Frost had been gone no more than fifteen minutes. It was just supposed to be...

West Haven has its secrets of legendary proportions.When Jack Taylor goes missing, a tight-knit group of high schoolers decide to take matters into their own hands. None of them believe the media stories after seeing the crime scene. Something super natural might be happening...

West Haven has its secrets of legendary proportions.When Jack Taylor goes missing, a tight-knit group of high schoolers decide to take matters into their own hands. None of them believe the media stories after seeing the crime scene. Something super natural might be happening...

Death Makes Great TV.Frankie Percival is cashing in her chips. To save her brother from financial ruin, Frankie--a single stage performer and mentalist who never made it big--agrees to be assassinated on the most popular television show on the planet: Death Warrant. Once she...

The Mediterranean Mystery There is bloodshed and hysteria when an unknown man of Mediterranean appearance is murdered on Brighton beach. His body is discovered under a towel by Winnie, who herself is later found battered and left for dead.Experienced DCI Harry Webb and new...

Spontaneous Human Teleportation, otherwise known as Unexplained Temporary Temporal Displacement is an event that very few have experienced and for those that have they are not oft believed. Stephon King is one of those seeking to meet those unfortunate souls who for unknown reasons...

It is 1962 and Will Johnstone is sent back to his twelve-year-old body. What's more, he is about to escape his abusive father ... by committing suicide. Will recoils from the act, resuming his troubled but jarringly changed life. Helped by unexpected allies, he...

Part-time constable Ella Manning never thought she'd have to investigate her ex-fiance 's murder. But that's exactly what happens when tech entrepreneur Lincoln Shan is found dead in his study the morning after a controversial product launch - with the door locked from the...

A lyrical, queer sci-fi retelling of Shakespeare's Hamlet as a locked-room thriller A Twenty-First Century Hamlet. Hayden Lichfield's life is ripped apart when he finds his father murdered in their lab, and the camera logs erased. The killer can only have been after one...

"Delicately weaves generations of women to the lasting wounds of nuclear destruction and the hubris of war. A unique and unforgettable novel." --Kali Fajardo-Anstine, author of Woman of LightA literary thriller about the effects of nuclear power on the mind, body, and recorded history...

The Renegat Renegades finally learn their fate in New York Times bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch's The Court-Martial of the Renegat Renegades, the gripping new novel in her award-winning Diving series and an Asimov's Readers' Choice Award winner.As the surviving crew of the Renegat...

The main character is a hateful, dirty, and disgusting individual, which makes your stomach upset as you read it. This story is based on some true events at Manhattan's center in the early 2000s. After making successful investments, a middle-class hard-working immigrant family was...

Cowboys, magic, and murder. Roger Anderson is a member of the most notorious gang in the West. As he's growing increasingly tiresome and conflicted with his life as an outlaw, he's confronted with the death of his sister. Likely killed by another member of...

Thaddeus Andrew Cain grew up in a cold, narcissistic household with a twisted view of life. He learned manipulation and murder at the hands of his father and sexual perversion under the tutelage of his mother. He was brilliant. So ingenious, he was able...

As humanity's bloodiest conflict ends, those left behind struggle to carve a path free of its shadow, but old hates die hard. Under the weight of this new future, a former soldier and a young psionic girl fight to scrounge up enough credits to...

Gregory D. Davis, best-selling author of Blood Related Tomorrow Never Came, presents us with Blood Related True Crime. Blood Related True Crime is a fictionalized true-crime story about a bizarre case in Arkansas where the directors of a failing funeral parlor hired a killer...

They call it The Cascade.Ajay Andersen has heard rumors. The darkest corners of the network have mentioned something so dangerous it could threaten his granddaughter's life. He doesn't know what it is, and he doesn't know how to fix it.But he knows he's going...

A farm girl out in the big city. The drug dealing black sheep of the family. And a hippie chick guiding them on a mushroom trip. What could go wrong?(A Psychedelic Sci-Fi Short Story) Bella Erdmann's time had come. She was made to leave...