Fiction - Science Fiction - General

THE JEHOVAH CONTRACT Victor Koman's Prometheus Award-winning novel is back in a new edition A dying assassin is given one final assignment and one last chance for survival. The job: find God Almighty and destroy Him. The payment: eternal life. With the aid of...

College students Neil Carpenter and Mark Hudson set out to create "The Triumvirate," a comic book about a vampire, a werewolf, and a zombie who resist their evil natures and hunt their own kind. When Neil learns hypnosis in his Psychology class, he proposes...

The Vampires of Malibu High is the first collection of Chris Bunch's short fiction. We've gathered the very best of his stories published in magazines such as Absolute Magnitude, Fantastic Stories, Dreams of Decadence, and Realms of Fantasy. Each story is a polished gem...

When a plague wipes out most of humanity, fifteen-year-old Eric sets out to find his father. Sixty years later, Eric starts another long journey in an America that has long since quit resembling our own, but there are shadows everywhere. Shadows of what the...

It's the final day of the season for the annual Punktown Fair and excitement is high. For the couple in charge, Del and Sophi Kahn, it's a bittersweet day of transition. Little do they realize the trials they will face and how severely this...

Author: Arnould Galopin, Jean-Marc LofficierISBN-10: 0974071110ISBN-13: 9780974071114Publisher: Hollywood ComicsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/15/2003Pages: 260Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.66lbsSize: 8.10h x 6.22w x 0.63dReview Citation(s): Asimov's Science Fiction 10/01/2004 pg. 235

So I travelled, stopping ever and again, in great strides of a thousand years or more, drawn on by the mystery of the earth's fate, watching with a strange fascination the sun grow larger and duller in the westward sky, and the life of...

Meet Joe, the ill-fated tour guide at the center of a story that beings with the death of Abraham Lincoln, at Joe's hands. There are strange happenings going on at Dactyl, Inc., the world's first and only time travel tourism company. So strange that...

This startling erotic story is Kyle Stone's last novel. The Hidden Slave explores the dangerous a d hazy boundaries between fantasy, desire and reality. What happens when your fantasy comes true? And can you ever get back to real life again and find some...

Raised in a secret convent in Area 51, young Maggie is caught up in alien plans for global warming in this hilarious satire of political correctness featuring Amelia Earhart, J. Edgar Hoover, Elvis Presley, Jimmy Hoffa, Joseph Smith, Harry S. Truman, D.B. Cooper, Howard...

From the New York Times Bestselling author of the DUNE series comes a spectacular science fiction novel: Billy Jeeling is the greatest hero in the history of mankind, the scientific genius who designed and built Skyship, an immense flying city that has been cleansing...

Where are the symbols coming from? What do they mean? Why have they appeared in an Egyptian tomb, a Peruvian palace, and a shape created by a fakir's snakes? Could they be related to the astounding disaster at Stonehenge? Dr. Gatsby Donovan's work at...

A dictionary-style guide to the science fiction worlds of Jack Vance. A souvenir of the worlds you have visited in the past A planning guide for your next excursion off world A handy survival manual for unexpected occasions A reference work on the science...

A dictionary-style guide to the science fiction worlds of Jack Vance. A souvenir of the worlds you have visited in the past A planning guide for your next excursion off world A handy survival manual for unexpected occasions A reference work on the science...

Arnold Enright has been a prisoner for the past six years, confined to a cell not of his own making. Sentenced to viewing his world's reflection in a mirror and with little hope of escape, he is a man whose whole existence can be...

Flatland, see Flatlandblends three genres - the annotated novel, the parallel novel and the reimagined classic - into a fantastical editionof the 1884 science fiction novellaFlatland: A Romance of Many Dimensionsby Edward Abbott Abbott. Twelve designers collaborated to produce areading experience that is both...

A GRIPPING NEW SCIENCE FICTION THRILLER NOVEL SET IN 'NEW LONDON' 2049 AD, IN THE MIDST OF NANO-TECHNOLOGY. WE LIVED IN THE DIGITAL AGE, FUTURE WARS WOULD BE FOUGHT THROUGH TECHNOLOGY. NEW LONDON'S ARCHITECTURE KEPT GROWING; THEY BUILT BUILDINGS OUT OF NOTHING. FOREIGN ENTITIES...

"a gripping and hugely entertaining story that is difficult to solve and even more difficult to put down." - New Scientist At a London university, in 2010, a group of students meet in secret to conduct dangerous experiments that have already cost one person's...

What are we here for? Who set up the Earth and the Sun? How did we get to be what we are? What is life for or about? This book offers a rational philosophy and a new conception of life and the eternal verities...

A superb collection of weird fantasy tales by Arthur Porges (1915-2006). Includes four previously unpublished stories.Author: Arthur PorgesISBN-10: 095569423XISBN-13: 9780955694233Publisher: Richard SIMMs PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/08/2019Pages: 180Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.41d

An long-awaited anthology that will appeal to veteran sci-fi enthusiasts as well as newer generations of readers who are looking for rare, hidden treasures of the best in science fiction from Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, H.G. Wells and many more.Author: Forrest J. AckermanISBN-10: 0918736250ISBN-13:...

This third novel in the trilogy that began with The Lovecraft Code and continued with Dunwich concludes the globe-spanning tale of Professor Gregory Angell and his attempt to keep the Necronomicon out of the clutches of a gaggle of secret societies, and his life...

In the definitive biography of John Fante, English and film studies professor Stephen Cooper explores the life of a man whose muse was Los Angeles. Author: John FanteISBN-10: 0876857187ISBN-13: 9780876857182Publisher: Ecco PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/31/2002Pages: 168Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.40d

Masterfully combining fantasy, science fiction and Japanese mythology, the sequel to Kojiki takes us into the heart of a war that spreads across the worlds. On the planet of Higo, without the guidance of the Great Spirits, its people are descending into religious civil...

In this futuristic novel, the wilderness is disappearing due to human incursion and urbanization. Small pockets of nature remain and are used for tourist visits and historical interpretations. Television broadcasts pictures, sounds, and smells, and space travel is commonplace.The Yantuck Indians must find a...

This picaresque tale, first published in 1751, was Tobias Smollett's second novel. Following the fortunes and misfortunes of the egotistical dandy Peregrine Pickle, the novel is written as a series of brief adventures with every chapter typically describing a new escapade. The novel begins...

A major critical work from one of the preeminent voices of science fiction scholarshipAs the world undergoes daily transformations through the application of technoscience to every aspect of life, science fiction has become an essential mode of imagining the horizons of possibility. However much...

Mars in the human imagination from the invention of the telescope to the presentFor centuries, the planet Mars has captivated astronomers and inspired writers of all genres. Whether imagined as the symbol of the bloody god of war, the cradle of an alien species,...

The first collection of classic and contemporary German-language science fiction in EnglishThis entertaining anthology delivers great reading and an overview of German-language science fiction, including works by the "German father of science fiction" Kurd Lasswitz, the Austrian writer Ludwig Hevesi (author of "Jules Verne...

First English edition of a classic Verne adventure, with a unique feminist twist.Jules Verne (1828-1905) was the first author to popularize the literary genre of science fiction. Written in 1898 and part of the author's famous series Voyages Extraordinaires, The Mighty Orinoco tells the...

Exploring the hollow earth from the 17th century to the present.The bizarre idea that the earth's interior is hollow and, perhaps, even populated has been put to effective literary use by writers ranging from Edgar Allen Poe and Jules Verne to Rudy Rucker and...

First scholarly edition of this 20th century science fiction masterpiece.Widely regarded as one of the true classics of science fiction, Star Maker is a poetic and deeply philosophical work. The story details the mental journey of an unnamed narrator who is transported not only...

The definitive edition of an important 20th-century disaster novel.First published in 1927, Deluge is one of the most famous of the English catastrophe novels. Beautifully written and action packed--RKO Radio Pictures even filmed this story--the novel depicts a flood so severe that it destroys...

A mild-mannered actuary, Fletcher Weschel lives at the crossroads of Bland and Humdrum--or so he thinks until a cosmic contest catapults him into the fantasy world he made up as a boy. Suddenly his childhood bedroom is aswarm with aliens, all bent on discovering...

This collection speaks to common themes and strategies in women's writing about their different worlds, from Margaret Cavendish's seventeenth-century Blazing World of the North Pole to the "men-less" islands of the French writer Scudery to the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century utopias of Shelley and Gaskell,...

Winner of the 2008 American Studies Association's Carl Bode-Norman Holmes Pearson Prize "for lifetime of achievement and service" This selection of unusual storeis by important American writers-Hawthorne, Melville, Poe, Bellamy and Twain-and by less well-known tellers such as Ambrose Bierce, S. Weir Mitchell and...

A century ago, H.G. Wells was one of the men who all but created the science fiction novel. Wells wrote three classics in four years: The Time Machine (1895), The Invisible Man (1897) and The War of the Worlds (1898). The Invisible Man, owes...

In D. L. Birchfield's Field of Honor, a secret underground civilization of Choctaws, deep beneath the Ouachita Mountains of southeastern Oklahoma, has evolved into a high-tech culture, supported by the labor of slaves kidnapped from the surface. Underground, long yellow rows of corn stand...

The discovery of a falling golden meteor and the race to find it form the core of this exciting tale from the master of science fiction, Jules Verne. An asteroid wanders into the earth's gravitational field and is spotted by two rival Virginia astronomers....

Mark Twain's unsettling imagination and passionate curiosity roamed far and wide--racing across microscopic worlds and interstellar voids, leaping ahead to fearful futures, and speculating on dazzling inventions to come. Tales of Wonder features some of the most notable but little-known science fiction available, penned...

In this exhilarating sequel to The Skylark of Space, momentous danger again stalks genius inventor and interplanetary adventurer Dr. Richard Seaton. Seaton's allies on the planet Kondal are suffering devastating attacks by the forces of the Third Planet. Even worse, the menacing and contemptuous...

A young man in modern America is terrorized by visions of an earlier, primitive life. Across the enormous chasm of thousands of centuries, his consciousness has become entwined with that of Big-Tooth, an ancestor living at the dawn of humanity. Big-Tooth makes his home...

The finest tale ever written of fabled Atlantis, The Lost Continent is a sweeping, fiery saga of the last days of the doomed land. Atlantis, at the height of its power and glory, is without equal. It has established far-flung colonies in Egypt and...

In the world's upper hemisphere, only one small group has survived World War III: fourteen people, sheltered deep within a limestone mountain in Connecticut and with enough supplies and equipment to maintain their subsistence for upwards of two years. The group includes a forward-thinking...

In the twenty-first century, a battered world is ruled by a crafty old tyrant, Genghis II Mao IV Khan. The Khan is ninety-three years old, his life systems sustained by the skill of Mordecai Shadrach, a brilliant young surgeon whose chief function is to...

Deep in the bowels of Junk Moon, the finest scientists of Planet Immortal are nearing completion of Project Amphora, which aims to unlock the secret of immortality. The Project is run by the Consortium, twelve of the planet's most influential movers and shakers, but...

A legend of Space Opera is back with Knight, the second book in New York Times bestselling author Timothy Zahn's Sibyl's War seriesNicole Hammond was just trying to survive on the streets of Philadelphia, then she and her partner Bungie were abducted by a...

From the pen of acclaimed writer M. Shayne Bell, winner of the Writers of the Future Contest, here are futures to make come true . . . and also futures that should never come true -- but will.Author: M. Shayne BellISBN-10: 0759550069ISBN-13: 9780759550063Publisher: Grand...

This edition brings together a range of works by Alfred Bester. It includes the novel "The Demolished Man", "Hell is Forever" and "The Four Hour Fuge", there are also Bester's writings on noted celebrities such as Woody Allen, Rex Stout and Issac Asimov.Author: Alfred...

The book, The Wharf at Port Townsend Bay, describes an 1869 Makah whale hunt that leads to the discovery of a derelict sailing ship with about 400 dead on board and to a ship log explanation. The story moves to 1982 to describe a...