Fiction - Science Fiction - General

It began with fragmentary, incoherent psychic messages -- Earth had been found by the inhabitants of not one, but two alternate realities. Before long representatives from both of them had arrived in the suburbs of Washington DC, hoping to recruit aid in their own...

Jules Verne once more gives a sympathetic treatment to the Americans in this tale set during the English blockade of American ports. Originally published in 1871 as "Les Forceurs de Blocus." Translated from the French by Mrs. Arthur Bell. Includes a new introduction by...

_The Leaky Establishment_ is an atomic farce whose author David Langford once worked in the gentle radioactive glow of Britain's nuclear weapons industry, and hilariously satirizes its ghastly bureaucracy from the inside. Black comedy overtakes the unfortunate defence-scientist hero Roy Tappen when a "harmless"...

The world's leading physicist attempts to use string theory to bring his daughter back from the dead. A novel from award winning Maine journalist Mark LaFlamme.Author: Mark LaflammeISBN-10: 1591138531ISBN-13: 9781591138532Publisher: Booklocker.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/22/2005Pages: 276Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.78lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.62d

This is the third of an on-going series in the adventures of Jake, the Beer-Belly Kitty. In this episode they realize the underworld has expedited work in their secret laboratories. Also, the fearsome, Savage, Incorrigible, Cat-Creature (SICC) makes his markAuthor: Deborah MidkiffISBN-10: 1591138477ISBN-13: 9781591138471Publisher:...

Prepare to skew your view of the world: where jinni in the clouds of a future Tel Aviv aren't spirits but powerful computer programs; where a suburban garden hiding unrecognizable bones; to a planet colony that outlaws color; or the night when a lonely...

The Warlord of Mars is a science fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the third of his Barsoom series. Burroughs began writing it in June, 1913, going through five working titles; Yellow Men of Barsoom, The Fighting Prince of Mars, Across Savage...

When government supervision began to strangle him, Tommy made the best run he could to total freedom. Robots had created the utopian city he lived in and anyone could leave, but they said real escape was impossible. He didn't care anymore. Today he would...

In the Doorchusser Constellation, a rock planet hangs in a dark galaxy. Hidden on this world is the Miradoor, the only gateway into the evil realm of Agroanan Manbats, where Alignment Commanders and another are held captive. In the midst of a Huroid Revolution...

The Freaks of Origin is a story involving magic, powers, and alternate, interconnected worlds. Yet despite all that, the main focus consists of growing up under desperate circumstances and how this affects each character. There are several unique characters, and they all have a...

Humans have been intrigued with the sky and what lies beyond since the beginning of time. They looked at the moon, the stars and the planets while wished to unlock their secrets. An unexplainable yearning, a strange homesickness guided their attempt, a subconscious one...

A Little Yellow Cap teaches children the importance of throwing away trash and not littering. It introduces children to the concept of recycling and volunteering to help keep the world clean. Author: June MonroeISBN-10: 1546206965ISBN-13: 9781546206965Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/18/2017Pages: 24Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.22lbsSize: 11.00h x...

The Wind in the Willows: Large Print By Kenneth GrahameAuthor: Kenneth GrahameISBN-10: 1545593973ISBN-13: 9781545593974Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/28/2017Pages: 138Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.30dLarge Print

Full text.The Coming Race (also known as Vril, the Power of the Coming Race)is a powerful novel that fired the imagination of readers starting in the 1870's. Among the earliest examples of what would become the genre of science fiction, among many authors it...

The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing-World, better known as The Blazing World, is a 1666 work of prose fiction by the English writer Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle. Feminist critic Dale Spender calls it a forerunner of science fiction. It...

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...

The Napoleon of Notting Hill, like so many Chesterton novels, deftly straddles the fence between humor and philosophy. The place is London, in the far-future year of 1984. Inexplicably, not too much has changed since the turn of the century - except that the...

iGod is a science fiction novel with heroes, love, defeat and hope. But it is much more than that. This book aims to explore how societies may develop, given the technologies that we see at present. As Dirk Helbing describes it in his introduction:...

Marie's disciplined and orderly life is turned on its head, as she begins living into a new reality in a strange city, with people she does not know, and new responsibilities she was never taught. In addition to remotely opening and closing resident's doors,...

The Stories Behind the SeriesThough perhaps most famous as a novelist, Philip K. Dick wrote more than one hundred short stories over the course of his career, each as mind-bending and genre-defining as his longer works. Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams collects ten of...

King and Kyron were just average stick-up kids until one day, they stumbled across the lick of a lifetime. The best friends were not into selling drugs and would rather take money from local dealers who made their neighborhood drug infested. The two friends...

The cover on this book represents a vision of the end-time for planet Earth. It is a vision from Zyzie's mind of that upcoming event. In the foreground to the right is our wonderful home planet, Earth. Far to the right is our moon,...

Trylogia Ksiezycowa (The Lunar Trilogy or The Moon Trilogy) is a trilogy of science fiction novels by the Polish writer Jerzy Zulawski, written between 1901 and 1911. It has been translated into Russian, Czech, German and Hungarian, and has been reprinted several times in...

This is a posthumous collection of Blish essays, mostly on science fiction and fantasy. These include studies of Poul Anderson, James Branch Cabell, and the application of Spengler to science fiction. Other pieces range from "Music of the Absurd" (modern music-more fantastic than any...

Ben Bova's universe is always more than the sum of its parts... In TWICE SEVEN, "Conspiracy Theory" reveals the startling truth about those so-called Martian canals and a patch of New Mexico know as Roswell. In "Appointment in Sinai," the technology of virtual telepresence...

A stinging SFnal, futuristic satire on the TV industry, based on Ben's and Harlan Ellison's involvement in a real TV series, THE STARLOST. (Bova dedicates the novel to "Cordwainer Bird", the pen name Harlan Ellison uses when he does not want to be associated...

Herland is a utopian novel from 1915, written by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The book describes an isolated society composed entirely of women who reproduce via parthenogenesis (asexual reproduction). The result is an ideal social order, free of war, conflict and domination.Author: Charlotte Perkins...

What would you do if you found yourself face to face with: -A computer that you fear may drive you insane? -A mathematical equation that proves you are about to die? -A seductive siren who promises you sex and death in outer space? -A...

The Galactic Empire has fallen, In its wake two new governments have risen, The Republic Empire, rulers of the inner systems, And the Order of the Empire, that controls the outer rim. These two governments live in an uneasy alliance. The Jedi Order has...

The Island of Doctor Moreau By H. G. Wells. The Island of Doctor Moreau is an 1896 science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells. The text of the novel is the narration of Edward Prendick, a shipwrecked man rescued by a passing...

A small group of survivors fight to rebuild civilization after the Earth is devastated by a huge solar flare. Cities became ovens. Grasslands became seas of flame. As the touch of dawn swept westward across the spinning planet Earth, its fiery finger killed everything...

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a grotesque but sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was...

In the 19th adventure, Tom is asked for a double-header. Canada wants a version of his bullet train and Europe wants a high-speed cargo transportation system.Both point to similar solutions and each one brings him a new enemy, one political and one deadly dangerous.Canada...

Martha, a British pensioner, is targeted by the North American Mafia, who have teamed up with Al-Qaide to plan a covert war on Western countries, using secret electromagnetic technologies. Martha learns how to turn the tables on the perpetrators, and later discovers how the...

In Stevenson's suspense-filled masterpiece of horror, a shameless, repulsive creature stalks the streets and he's becoming harder to control... The charming Dr Jekyll could not be more different to the violent and depraved Mr Hyde - until, that is, he takes a potion of...

The stranger arrives early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow. He is wrapped up from head to foot, and the brim of his hat hides every inch of his face. Rude and rough, the stranger works with...

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is the world's most famous gothic novel and the first work of science fiction, with Frankenstein's monster being a symbol of science gone awry. Shelley's masterpiece has inspired numerous films, plays and other books. This, the 1831 edition, contains the author's...

H. G. Wells (1866-1946), alongside Jules Verne, has been given the title "Father of Science Fiction" In 1898 he wrote the War of the Worlds: "Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the...

The Underground City by Jules Verne centers around one of the most important natural resources that was behind the Industrial Revolution: Coal. The events of the story take place among the mining community of Aberfoyle, near Stirling, Scotland. All starts when a superior named...

She was far away, this woman he'd been. He knew her child's and husband's names. He could see their faces. But Natalie was a ghost. Natalie Keller was a happy, attractive woman in the prime of her life: a mother and a wife. The...

When gay becomes illegal: 2037 is a bold look at a future world gone mad, where men and women are jailed for being gay or simply for being different. Join Stephe Stafford as he becomes embroiled in the conflict and, while hoping to preserve...

"I don't enjoy violence. I'm just-" She shrugged. "-good at it."She comes to life in a place she'd never have been caught dead: The stage of a strip club. Aghast, confounded, she turns to bolt, only to find herself staring into a wall of...

Why has Roger Manning suddenly gone dark? Can his pal Tom Corbett really be dead? What caused the strange trouble on Titan-and how is it connected to a rocket race in outer space? These are but a few of the mysteries confounding Captain Steve...

A blood delivery ship takes on extra weight. Mysterious words appear across a young woman's body. The door in the forest is getting harder and harder to ignore.Find a safe spot to hide and enjoy 16 tales of weird fiction--the place where science, the...

In the 27th novel of this new series, Tom is now back from his adventure on Neptune and had a small mission to accomplish before he feels the previous one is complete. His small unmanned test submarine was lost on its deep sea test...

Escape on Venus is the fourth book in the Venus series (Sometimes called the "Carson Napier of Venus series") by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It consists of four interconnected stories published in Fantasic Adventures between 1941 and 1942: "Slaves of the Fishmen," "Goddess of Fire,"...

EXTINCTION is the follow-up to The Trail of the Oent'rfazr, a story about time travel and the Johnson family. It takes place along Route 66 in Arizona in the first part of the twenty-first century and is a story about what could happen or...

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is an 1889 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The book was originally titled A Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Some early editions are titled A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur. In the...

3 enemies... 2 cities... 1 sheriff... BOOM For Sheriff Duke, the danger has reached the final countdown. Captured, tortured, beaten but undefeated, it's sixty seconds to midnight and the only way to save his wife and daughter is through the fugitive he left home...

In book 26 of this new series, Tom Swift is requested to head a consortium of nations in developing and flying a new type of mission into space. He finds himself developing a brand new vessel, one that likely needs to fly into the...