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Chill out. It's only the technological singularity. Blake Given's web-enabled fridge has pulled the plug on the Internet, turning its owner's life - and the whole world - upside down. Blake has modest ambitions for his life. He wants to have his job reclassified,...

When an eccentric professor acquires an ancient book, a riddle on a spare piece of parchment tucked neatly within its pages leads him and his nephew on an unparalleled adventure. The unlocked riddle brings them to a remote mountain on Iceland, where they enter...

A hurricane brews in the Pacific, grounding all military aircraft. The storm awakens an ancient predator from a decades-long slumber, a Kaiju bent on ravaging Tokyo. Storm conditions and a treaty banning nuclear weapons hinder offensive capabilities. A Joint Task Force turn to U.S....

Gerardo, formerly Bishop of the city of Nessuna in medieval Italy, writes his memoirs as he listens to the muezzin's call to prayer in the city of Lamakan. Exiled by his boyhood friend, Pietro, who has to power in Nessuna, Gerardo knows details of...

A novel of Interstellar Contact, Virtual Worlds, and the Essence of Humanity. Earth is empty of humans. This surprising observation stymies Rome and his shipmates, crew of the starship come to re-establish contact from the colonies. What could have happened in the 500-years of...

What could a depressed soldier, a bloodthirsty journalist, a strange dog, a writer in the making, a depressive commissioner, a hitman, a stripper and a poet possibly have in common? Well, they all live in Babylon, a city where everything is possible, including the...

Hunter Hawk is a quirky, ambitious inventor who invents a device that enables him to turn living matter into stone and reverse the process when he wishes. When he meets the lovely Megaera, who teaches him to turn stone into flesh, they head for...

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...

The world for some comes to an end, while for others it is a new beginning. Tam, who loves her privacy and hates children has her world interrupted by its ending. Faced with children with no parents and no one to look after them,...

Have you ever wondered just How Damon Swift went from the older Swift Company to having the mega-complex, Swift Enterprises?Well, the story is told in this new novel about his initial dream and announcement he intends to build a facility four miles on each...

Scuba diver Eric Rayner disappears while diving at Dean's Blue Hole in Long Island, Bahamas. Atlantis researcher Allison Chandley is approached by Italian billionaire Sergio Franca. USGS political liaison Walker Reade is studying a report by a young seismologist detailing a possible eruption of...

The recent reports of the twenty Americans in Cuba, in China too, who have suffered the effects of temporary concussions from audio and microwave signals reminds me of the telepathic hit I received in the 1960s. I've thus drawn the following conclusions: Telepathic controls...

In this book is the power of real magic No joke, no tricks. It's a game you can never lose if you learn the secret. Join me, Prometheus, as I take you on my lifelong journey in the search for real magic. I found...

What is terrorizing a nature preserve near a small town in rural Idaho? Half the town believes it's the Lake Lowell Ghost and the rest are convinced it's a diabolical beast. With no end in sight, they need help. Enter Special Agent Winifred Ford,...

Barnabas Collins and the Mysterious Ghost (January 1970) Collinwood is plagued with a series of menacing events when a ballet troupe arrives there to perform for the summer tourists. One girl in particular, the beautiful Diana Samson, whom Barnabas has come to love, is...

Beautifully made speculative fiction.The complete May 2018 issue of Metaphorosis magazine.Table of Contents Calm Folk, Come Forth - Adan Berkowitz On the Scales of Dragons - Kathryn Yelinek Suzy's Friend - David Hammond Chasing the Light - Gloria Wickman Cover art by Candra Hope.Author:...

Lieutenant Leah Samuels catches the first homicide case of the new year 2235, and a monster blizzard is obscuring the evidence. The Murder Scene Investigators find only blood and microscopic pieces of flesh and bone of an estimated twenty-plus people. With a winter that...

Hints of the Force From the Jedi Histories is a compilation of wisdom, lessons and spiritual insights from the STAR WARS novels. This comprehensive collection of citations, referenced to each source, provides "Hints of the Force" from both the the Jedi and the Sith...

In novel 18 of this series, Tom Swift gets the call to put his inventive brains to work for Hollywood. A producer for one of the studios wants to resurrect the old movie series that featured a hero using a flying rocket pack. But,...

Herbert George Wells, better known as H. G. Wells, was an English writer best known for such science fiction novels as The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man and The Island of Doctor Moreau. He was a prolific writer of...

Herbert George Wells, better known as H. G. Wells, was an English writer best known for such science fiction novels as The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man and The Island of Doctor Moreau.Author: Edibooks, H. G. WellsISBN-10: 1536845329ISBN-13: 9781536845327Publisher:...

An enlisted man on an alien planet discovers a method of living life and viewing the world that is so utterly simplistic and makes so much sense, it resonates across the universe. Seaman Noble aids the residents of Saffron, a beautiful world of wildly...

On her last cruise, HMS Vanguard - the most powerful battleship in the Royal Navy - barely survived her encounter with a deadly new enemy. Now, with her commanding officer accused of everything from mutiny to dereliction of duty and her crew under a...

The Charterhouse of ParmaStendhalTranslated from the French by C. K. Scott-MoncrieffThe Charterhouse of Parma chronicles the adventures of the young Italian nobleman Fabrice del Dongo from his birth in 1798 to his death. Fabrice spends his early years in his family's castle on Lake...

Seven stories from award winning science fiction author J Alan Erwine that explore the future of both the Earth and the Moon.Stranded astronauts, intelligent dolphins being used by the government, a soldier struggling with orders he knows he shouldn't have followed, lovers waiting for...

...In Britain's darkest hour, a hero will arise... When alien starships from a hostile interstellar power arrive in orbit, Britain is one of their first targets. Swiftly, the aliens take control of Britain's cities and force the remainder of the British military to go...

On the mist-shrouded planet of Venus, advanced civilizations blessed with eternal youth co-existed with cities haunted by the living dead, while bloodthirsty man-beasts stalked the luminous nights. Earth man Carson Napier knew how to survive the planet's many perils-but now a merciless tribunal had...

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.Author: Ray D. Bradbury, VariousISBN-10: 1532837321ISBN-13: 9781532837326Publisher: Createspace...

The battle for Orrins Fort is a fairly easy endeavor. Not one shot is fired and only Navee Ordor bloodies a blade. Taking this fort gives the Scarecrow, Jarl Hawkins, and his small force a warm base from which to operate and fight against...

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...

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.Author: Philip K. DickISBN-10: 1497431824ISBN-13: 9781497431829Publisher: Createspace...

This is the story of an alien convicted of murder. He is sentenced to death, but due to lack of prison space on his planet, he is exiled to Earth for one year until his sentence can be carried out. While adjusting to his...

This book is a set of interviews I made across the United States and the United Kingdom and I'm probably the very first journalist to have accessed Area 51. I didn't know, when I started this investigation, where it would lead me, but what...

Teenage inventor and scientist, Tom Swift, begins an all new series of adventures. In this first story he must find ways to tackle two seemingly disconnected problems: repair the fragile ozone cap over the Antarctic; and bring a vital supply of water to a...

"Utopia doesn't come easy... and it takes a monster to enforce it."Juan is a disabled vet, a recovering addict, and a professional extractor in Arizona's drug tourism trade. He is also a man with too many challenges. His only real friend in the world,...

Jazmyn is a fox woman, just one of many breeds of Companion morphs, and thus rather unremarkable. That is, until the day she needs to flee for her life through an extraordinary storm that leaves her in a strange new place where her kind...

Scott Harter was an average man. He wasn't dumb, but he'd never be invited to join Mensa either. He'd liked to have married a beauty queen, but his average looks certainly did nothing to attract any. Neither did his vanilla personality. No, Scott was...

Australia ... a huge, sprawling land filled with danger ... but nothing as dangerous as this ... Deep beneath defense headquarters in the Australian Capital Territory, the last ranking Army chief considers the collapse of his country, and the contingency plan to win it...

When a weakness of Valkyrie sight is uncovered, Kara, Kate and an unlikely ally, must race against time to stop a saboteur before Valhalla falls. Arina copes with being a new type of Valkyrie and defies Odin while reminding the ruling caste what the...

Dr. Susan Rogulski knew instantly that the cells in the petri dish had been destroyed. And the destroyer was a virus. She was sure of that. And then she thought - how stupid that the two men peering over her shoulder wore no masks...

Have you heard about the coming rapture and tribulation period? Do you believe it will happen? Muriel and David had heard about it but didn't take it seriously. Now they're having to live through it. What do you think it will be like? Follow...

Maya is born in the year 2000, at the end of the Piscean Age, a time when the triumphs of technology provide comfort and convenience for the privileged, though many people are still impoverished and oppressed. As an Indigo child, Maya personifies the potential...

Often referred to as "The Father of Science Fiction," Jules Verne wrote many fanciful tales. But, in 1870, he wrote a forward-looking sequel to his tale about space travel using surprisingly accurate calculations. The Baltimore Gun Club had launched a manned projectile all the...

This exciting and complex alien-odyssey adventure book encompasses themes of socialism, capitalism, science, and magic. On a planet similar to Earth, a scientist with a supernatural past is tasked to work on a flu vaccine only to discover that she was really deciphering alien...

The Valkyrie Kara stood alone against the Ragnarok horde on Earth to ensure that the Asgard race and Valhalla could escape. For five thousand years she has fought and evaded the Ragnarok race on Earth, just waiting for her people to return. A human...

In the Second Starfaring Age, humans travel the universe via a technology they barely understand, propelled by a space drive consisting of mysteriously complex mechanisms and, symbiotically linked to it, a living woman, the Void Pilot. Pilots are rare, and the ability to be...

In the exotic interstellar civilization of the Second Starfaring Age, youthful wanderers are known as Children of Fortune. This is the tale of one such wanderer, who seeks her destiny on an odyssey of self-discovery amid humanity's many worlds. Arresting and visionary, Child of...

Dave Warner is an aerospace engineer located in Houston. After reading several studies on the ancient megalithic structures and the monolithic stones used to build them, some weighing several hundred tons, Dave had to know how they did that with only manpower and ropes....

Lawrence consists of two novels. The first one, Goldweaving, is set in the near future, where a new art form revolutionizes society. The second one, Elaborynth, is set over five hundred years in the future. The humans of Western civilization remain on the planet...

Author: Dee KrullISBN-10: 146535705XISBN-13: 9781465357052Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/07/2011Pages: 212Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.03lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d