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A minor Old-Earth bureaucrat became the surprise inheritor of an interstellar spaceship, but there were a couple of minor problems. The will did not tell Floyt how to find the ship, and someone was trying to murder him and his friend Alacrity Fitzhugh.Author: Brian...

Alacrity required only a few minutes at the White Ship's helm to learn that a captain's problems can be tougher than those of a knockabout spacer. Solving them could cost a piece of his heart.Author: Brian DaleyISBN-10: 1462061664ISBN-13: 9781462061662Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/15/2011Pages: 352Format: PaperbackWeight:...

The ultimate conspiracy begins... W.A. Harbinson started to uncover the nightmarish truth about Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) in the research for his bestseller GENESIS. Now, he has taken that groundbreaking work and expanded it, going back decades to create another astounding epic. INCEPTION is...

Is a global economic, social, and political collapse imminent? Flowing from actual world events, a damaged environment, dwindling energy resources, and a manipulated market-economy all come crashing together in this tale about the social and individual impact of stresses that overwhelm a precarious and...

Author: John Todd HewittISBN-10: 1456830775ISBN-13: 9781456830779Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/27/2010Pages: 388Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.86d

Doc is a bartender, and a damn good one. He dreams of escaping the bankrupt lifestyle festering in Connecticut - only the first of many states to go broke in a spent America. Seduced by the chance to leave his past behind, Doc agrees...

War is on the horizon, the all powerful Gold Witch is dead and her only daughter has been abducted. If she is turned by the shadows and unleashed on the world, no one will be able to stop her. In response, an elite strike...

Molly Jackson has lived a quiet life in the small town of Petacow since the tragic death of her husband, Tony, six years ago. While digging up a dead tree in her back yard, she and her dog, Annie, discover a small skeletal hand...

This book is a voyage in to the direction of tomorrow, long and short sci-fi/horror stories in which friendships are gained and people are sacrificed. But along the way in each of these stories things happen in which can't be explained in today's world,...

Starius Duro is forced to leave his home after a duel for his sister's honor ends badly and the family and adventuring team of the nobleman he fought are out for revenge. He, along with his two best friends Taj Xavier and Gunnar Holt,...

The end of time has finally come. Cramped together in a small fallout shelter, a loving family tries to survive post apocalyptic devastation which includes creatures which crave living flesh and attack their victims with endless abandon. Robbie will use every sense of wit...

What is going on? That has to be the question that the FBI and the Secret Service have to be asking themselves about Alfred 'Wulf' Abington. A boy living in a small town in the middle of nowhere, Wisconsin. How can he command the...

Author: Chris HarrisonISBN-10: 1450028160ISBN-13: 9781450028165Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/10/2010Pages: 166Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.88lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d

Introduction Moon People 3 Thank you for reading my book Moon People 3. My goal in Moon People 3 was to make it as action pact from start to finish just like my first two Moon People books. I had to make a "Grand...

The saga of the Hanson family and friends continues as the group realizes that, although they survived a massive geophysical cataclysm unleashed in the northwestern part of the United States, they must now face something even more devastating. Having found refuge on St. Thomas...

This early work by Philip K. Dick was originally published in 1955 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Unreconstructed M' is a short story about a murder and faked evidence. Philip Kindred Dick was born on December...

Rupert Ralestone is officially the Marquess of Lorne - but with no family money or prestige, the title is worthless. He and his younger brother and sister return to the old family homestead - Pirate's Haven. Their only hope is to find the sword...

Harvey was a musician that left his life of chaos and confusion for the simple ways of a wanderer. On the road he searched for signs that would point him to lost directions but then he falls in love with a stranger from a...

Twelve-year old Andi Johnston knows all about keeping secrets from the inhabitants of her island home. She's been hiding the truth about her grandmother's dementia for nearly two years in an effort to keep her family together. After finding a young golden dolphin hidden...

Daniel James Grey-DJ to his friends-is a seventeen-year-old genius with an aptitude for chemistry. As a child, he found a book filled with all sorts of alchemical theories and recipes, inspiring his hungry and agile mind and setting him on a path of discovery....

It is winter in Area X. A new team embarks across the border on a mission to find a member of a previous expedition who may have been left behind. As they press deeper into the unknown--navigating new terrain and new challenges--the threat to...

The bone-chilling, hair-raising second installment of the Southern Reach TrilogyFor thirty years, a secret agency called the Southern Reach has monitored expeditions into Area X--a remote and lush terrain mysteriously sequestered from civilization. After the twelfth expedition, the Southern Reach is in disarray, and...

Featuring "All You Zombies--," the basis for the movie PredestinationThis collection from Grand Master Robert A. Heinlein includes five short stories sure to please science fiction fans everywhere. The title story tells the tale of a young man who meets a time-traveling bartender whose...

The only audio edition of At the Mountains of Madness authorized by the H. P. Lovecraft Estate A master of terror and nightmarish visions, H. P. Lovecraft solidified his place at the top of the horror genre with this macabre supernatural tale.When a geologist...

"Red Dawn meets Escape from New York and The Hunger Games" (Booklist) in an action-packed dystopian fantasy filled with "prose [that] is gorgeous and brilliant" and "tells a satisfyingly dark tale through alternating the two sisters' points of view" (VOYA, starred review). It's been...

In a world of digitized euphoria, the lights shine bright. The future that humans have desired has finally arrived. The year is 2050, and all that shines is gold, except for one man. Named Patrick Shields, the man is a dark spot in such...

For more than a thousand years, in Wales and environs, those who were strangers or without land have been known as "outlanders." These strangers never quite fit in with the native peoples, never quite belonged, and the appellation followed them wherever they roamed. In...

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...

The action packed sequel to "The Phoenix Gambit". It's 1877 and the Confederate States of Mexico has received a delegation from the German Empire. The Kaiser has sent an astounding offer. The two countries should ally themselves and declare war on the Empire of...

Synopsis for "The Life We Live" "The life we Live, a succinctly written story, puts you on the scene with Gatty, Black, JR, and B-Jah, Comin live from the Virgin Islands, strap yourself in and take a vivid ride with four adolescent thugs as...

The Great Pyramid of Cheops: geometrical perfection.The Piri Reis maps: ancient cartographs that showed Earth as seen from polar orbit -- they have recently been confirmed by satellite photography.Myriad proofs that Earth has changed its axial tilt during near-historical times: perhaps as recently as...

John Boyd is back to delight readers of his superb first novel, The Last Starship from Earth. Robert A. Heinlein wrote of it: "This is the best anti-Utopia, the strongest satire on trends in our present culture, I have seen since '1984' appeared. I...

Avram Davidson (1923-1993) was an American writer of fantasy fiction, science fiction, and crime fiction, as well as the author of many stories that do not fit into a genre niche. He won a Hugo Award and three World Fantasy Awards in the science...

Acclaimed science fiction author George Zebrowski conducts interviews with four Grand Masters of Science Fiction: Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, and James Gunn. These conversations cover a wide variety of topics, from writing and science fiction to science and the future. One...

THE MAN WHO LOST HIMSELF tells the story of Michel Bed馥, a brilliant scientist whose work on the new element that he's discovered--sirium--has alienated him from his mother, his sister, and his wife. He cannot bear the fact that, although he loves his wife...

IT HAD ALL BEEN A DREAM Karl, Will, Pierre, and others realize that they are really only part of something greater than themselves. As they are plunged straight into a place where nothing is impossible, they become pawns for great beings fighting amongst themselves...

A young man finds himself slipping into the dull gray oblivion of ordinary, day to day life in the city. He is struggling against being absorbed by the mundane routine, when his perception of the natural world around him, is suddenly and dramatically changed....

Jaden Foxx has had a rough past that includes the untimely death of his mother and a history of abuse, but the 18-year-old tries to maintain a normal life as much as he can. With a group of friends that he can rely on,...

In this world, memories are the only thing we hold dear to us. Memories are the moments we feel we should never forget, but, are our memories really what we remember them to be? What if you could have a second chance in life?...

The ultimate prank is pulled on Marcus, but the prank is not a prank and uncovers a deep secret revealing a reality hidden from plain sight that takes him and his friends on an unexpected journey with turns that change their lives and their...

"I looked away from the wound and down to the face in the mirror. It was a good face. Tired, I guess. Fortyish, but firm. Some grey around the temples, but nothing that you noticed right away. Good jaw line. Could use a shave,...

Hide and Seek is a book about games. Reckless, dangerous games. Games you might even want to play yourself if you're with the right people. But shouldn't. Not ever. In a small Maine town, a group of thrill-seeking college kids finds a game of...

Gateway is the first novel in the series of novels that chronicle Acara. Gateway is the story of the refugees of Acara that flee to Baltimore through a crystal lined gateway to hide the savior of their people. The refugees are able to blend...

Author: Graves Stickman, LagrouISBN-10: 1477145915ISBN-13: 9781477145913Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/21/2013Pages: 344Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.45lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d

The second book in the Chardin Chronicles, For Generations to Come, continues the saga of three men who must confront the consequences of their past choices and learn how those choices will determine their futures, for better or worse. After serving in the military...

H G Wells Herbert George Wells, an English writer, was born on 21st 1866 and died on 13 Aug 1946. He was renowned for his works of science fiction especially 'The Time Machine'. He is also referred as 'The Father of Science Fiction' AndThis...

This book is a collection of eight short stories written by H. G. Wells. "The Short Stories of H. G. Wells" constitutes a must-have for lovers of the short storm form and is not to be missed by fans of Wells' fantastic work. Herbert...

"The Underground Man" is a science fiction novel introduced by H. G. Wells. After mankind has undergone a radical social evolution in regards to group cooperation and herd behaviour, the sun unexpectedly dies, forcing the survivors underground. They take with them the greatest works...

This book is a collection of short stories written by H. G. Wells. Containing over fifty tales, "The Short Stories of H. G. Wells" constitutes a must-have for lovers of the short storm form and is not to be missed by fans of Wells'...

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 IV.' contains a collection of short stories that include...