Fiction - Science Fiction - General

A healthy dose of Victorian meta physics outlines this story of a man's spiritual awakening after he meets a mysterious man and boy aboard a steamer ship touring the Greek isles. Always well written with beautiful prose... (Robert Williams) About the authorAlgernon Henry Blackwood,...

On a contract to fix a software bug, Trevo is shamed into entering a fencing tournament where poor folks fight for the entertainment of the wealthy. While diagnosing the bug will earn his pay, the insight from his fencing bouts may prove to be...

Elayne Dupree is a young woman studying at her local college. She carries with her a small heirloom that interrupts her studies by transporting her in various ways throughout time and space. As she embarks on her journey, she stumbles upon an extraordinary secret:...

Elmer Gantry is a satirical novel written by Sinclair Lewis in 1926 that presents aspects of the religious activity of America in fundamentalist and evangelistic circles and the attitudes of the 1920s public toward it. The novel's protagonist, the Reverend Dr. Elmer Gantry, is...

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in June 1926 in the United Kingdom by William Collins, Sons and in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Company. It is the third novel...

"This tree was strong once," Lonnie said, pointing to a mottled spot on the trunk. "Then it took the sickness. Not much you can do once that sets in except watch it die. And trees kin take a long time to die. Sometimes years....

70 years ago, the world was terrified of a nation named Clemence, who used soldiers with magical abilities to wage war, ravage and take over an entire continent. However, the leader of the country, along with thousands of its citizens and nearly every Magic...

A man who does not lose his monstrosity. With his uncomfortable desire, he wants to control the innocent people with his boundless deceptions, keeping them secret and rule them. Caught in his arms was a beautiful boy, Amman. This is his story. Gandhar makes...

When the second Amendment was abolished, two scientists joined together to fight against tyranny. However, One Biochemical engineer who desires to dominate the world takes over his right mind, sending him into a downward spiral. Creating a virus that will turn the politest person...

From stories about teleportation and an apocalypse on Mars to Twilight Zone-esque stories about parallel realms, dreamlike technological perceptions, and new worlds, The Second Sky and Other Stories is a far-future work that explores the depth of human nature, love, grief, existential threats, and...

Harry Harrison has created a Universe where humans have settled on untold numbers of planets and adapted to the planets rather than the planets being adapted to humans. This makes for a great read were you have an agency that finds people capable and...

Joshua Samuelson continues his journey through life in this second book. He has a birthmark on his right palm that symbolizes his ancestorial relationship to Judas Iscariot. Jesus, the Prince of Light, protects the family as he promised Judas's wife. This birthmark causes money...

Nothing stays buried forever at the Pole.In the frozen wastes of Antarctica, a research team discovers the frozen remains of an alien race in a mountain cave. They are dead, but not dead enough.At the bottom of a sub-glacial lake beneath the ice cap,...

Difficult times overwhelm Mara as she comes of age in the Atlanta of the2040s. She finds she must rely on friends for a way forward, crossing thestates in a country band. A young scientist shows her secrets and shefinds hope in a new love....

Galactic Odyssey is a fast paced game of daring space battles, swashbuckling adventures, and intriguing personal conflict set in the far future of the Milky Way galaxy. The Terrans have found their way into the stars, and though they proclaim to be an "advanced"...

Onstad Mythology: World of LegendsA proof of concept for an entirely new sub-genre of fantasy that blends magic and science, Onstad Mythology: World of Legends is a compilation of high fantasy short stories based on ancient myths, reimagined to accommodate our modern scientific knowledge...

Esperar could be a beautiful city, where all your dreams could come true. Where you can build for the future, for your family, where you can find relief.Author: Adem KirbasISBN-10: 109578563XISBN-13: 9781095785638Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/24/2019Pages: 142Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.48lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.33d

Illumen is a quarterly digest of science fiction and fantasy poetry, including minimalist forms such as haiku, haibun, empat perkataan, cinquains, and other forms, as well as more traditional formats for poetry. Featured Poet: Jennifer Lee RossmanPlus: Lee Clark Zumpe, Avra Margariti, Tony Daly,...

Six stories inspired by the planet Venus. Ranging from hard sf to science fiction fable, from social sf to prose poem, and covering a variety of topics - science and homelessness, female anarchists, refugees from Earth, sailing solar winds, a dying Earth... but all...

The first year of the new millennium has not been kind to Audrey. She's been dumped, expelled, and run over by a bus. She firmly believes her personal life, along with the entire planet Earth, is damaged beyond all hope of redemption. She jumps...

Dark matter, the invisible substance that constitutes the bulk of all matter in the universe, remains one of science's greatest mysteries. But what if it actually is nothing more than ordinary matter purposely hidden from our view? What if we are only allowed to...

From the author of the Seeds Of Civilization series-comes THE GUARDIANS. The third in a four-book series called Parallel Ops features Tony Nicoletti. After flying to Cancun to attend the wedding of his friends, Linda and Javier, Tony vanished for more than five years...

Immediately after their marriage in May of 2002, Linda (McBride) Reyes and Javier Reyes learn that their lives are being threatened by an unidentified group. They flee to Mexico's southern Baja Peninsula where they start a new life with assumed names. As we join...

An internationally renowned scientist who fears she's taken one scientific risk too many; a distinguished archaeologist who's haunted by taking too few; a world famous financier who's lost everything except his money; an art gallery owner with a heartbreaking burden; a fugitive filmmaker; the...

This selection of short stories offers a return journey through the future as it used to be. Time speeds backwards to the 1870s--to the alpha point of modern futuristic fiction--the opening years of that enchanted period before the First World War when Jules Verne,...

"'What would you do if you were the strongest man in the world, the strongest thing in the world, mightier than the machine?' He made himself guess answers for that rhetorical inquiry. 'I would run the universe single-handed. I would scorn the universe and...

Based on a true story, The Martian Child is a heartfelt novel about a single gay father adopting a son--the basis for the major motion picture starring John Cusack, Amanda Peet, and Joan Cusack.When David Gerrold decided he wanted to adopt a son, he...

Author: Piers AnthonyISBN-10: 0738811513ISBN-13: 9780738811512Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/20/2000Pages: 248Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 8.60h x 5.55w x 0.65d

Insecure American graduate student Crispin Leads has come to the Vatican to study burial rituals and catch up with her oldest friend, Sister Lew, historian for the Shroud of Turin. Within hours of Crispin's arrival she witnesses a murder and is drawn into an...

Benjamin Reagan has spent his entire life aboard Victoria, towing ships and (sometimes illicit) cargo across the skies. When Disaster strikes, Ben and Vicky go from towing damaged ships to picking up damaged survivors. First to be rescued is Thorbin, a fighter pilot reeling...

This Signet Classics edition of Agatha Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd includes an exclusive Introduction by Ruth Ware. In the small English village of King's Abbot, a widow's suicide has stirred up dreadful rumors of blackmail and deception. Most shocking of all is...

Dr. Douglass Garnett is about to break all the rules to save himself--and push mankind into the future.He's one of America's most brilliant neuroscientists. He's also Black and dying of cancer. But he has a plan--a brain transfer. He'll put his gifted mind into...

The year is 1889 and the San Francisco gold rush is in full swing. Seeking adventure, Duncan MacLeod, member of an age old race of immortals, sets out for the Alaskan territory. He and his friends soon find themselves trapped in a frozen hell.Author:...

A wonderful novel from Isabel Sharpe, the author of As Good As it Got, Knit in Comfort joins the women of Comfort, North Carolina, as they come together to knit and make lace-and find that the intricacies of both echo the complexities of their...

Roger Rosenblatt's dazzling comic gifts are on enviable display....Beet will settle the issue: is Roger Rosenblatt our most audacious comic visionary, or our most audacious visionary comic?"--Joyce Carol OatesBeet College is doomed...and nobody really cares. The Board of Trustees, led by developer Joel Bollovate,...

The five members of the Truants -- Richie, John, Brian, Jerry and Tim -- graduated from toney Chase Academy in New Hampshire 30 years ago. Before they left, they managed to record an album called "Out of Site." Nearing the age of 50, they...

This is the lifetime story of Oh-y-Yee, the big, strong, and dapple-gray mare owned by Awanatu. She feels angered by the way he treats her and is determined to rid herself of him when possible. Her story is observed and told by an old...

Space Platform is a young adult science fiction novel by American writer Murray Leinster. It was published in 1953 by Shasta Publishers in an edition of 5,000 copies. It is the first novel in the author's Joe Kenmore series. The next, Space Tug, picks...

Imagine you wake up in a future where the great social-ecological transformation has succeeded, democracy is flourishing, peace and prosperity prevail, the economy is oriented toward the common good, and the climate crisis has been averted successfully. How would this new world look like?Utopia...

Melbourne, March 2100. Against her better judgment, Trainee Doorkeeper Emma Cartwright returns to the Productive Citizen's Bureau.Emma's son Jack is on bail, pending his trial on charges of organizing an illegal demonstration. Her new man, Cal, is under surveillance, and Emma struggles to maintain...

Father God the Creator was an entity without form in space. God became self-aware when He created His own likeness. After creating the Angles in His own likeness, God tasked the Angles to conjure up mankind for God's enjoyment. The Angels failed with 1st...

What do you fear? Gunter lives as a digital folder in Bali Hai, an after-death VR Eden. He fears his past and the memories he is forced to relive as his files fragment. He fears change and the rumors of merger that threaten his...

The End Times are upon us, again. Frank Johnson is a falsifier of reports for the Bureau. Management is concerned that Frank is coming too close to the truth for his own good. The battle between experience and vicariousness has begun and leaving the...

Ancient secrets run deep.The mission was supposed to be simple: travel to the gas giant Stratos, inspect the newly discovered alien artifact, and file a report-a perfect opportunity to shakedown his new ship and crew. What Alden Northcliff finds, however, is a planet on...

A hidden enemy. A legacy born. A path through fire.Zack fled his homeworld to escape his inheritance and wound up the governor of a star system anyway. After three years leading the Venturi Nebula, Zack Lancestrom is on the verge of pulling the whole...

Our current world system is flawed. Under the disguise of economic prosperity, technological advancement, and instant information access through social media, it has resulted in prejudice, discrimination, divisions, wealth imbalances - the perfect formula for the crumbling of the current system. A New World...

As a young boy camping in the foothills of the West Wall, Giem Kyler stumbles across a wonderfully bizarre creaturethought not to exist within the miles high confines of the Basin crater. Curiosity turns this first encounter bloody, leaving the eleven year old with...

From the Perseus Arm of the Milky Way galaxy came high energy carriers to shield Earth from the advancing planets. The energy carriers, called Cosmic Visitors, needed abandoned earthbodies for their planets' DNA diversity and their Cosmic Quest.Author: C. ArgonISBN-10: 1665540451ISBN-13: 9781665540452Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

Finally Jonathan comes to know 'THE TRUTH' but surprisingly, his name isn't Jonathan by birth. The truth which was revealed had led him to an another quest. "Will he be able to complete it ?" (BEST STORY FOR A SERIES OF MOVIES)Author: Prerith MenezesISBN-10:...

A young boy, looking for something to eat; lacking that, something to sell for food. In the process he helps foil a crime; gets himself embroiled in numerous adventures; loses a Father, Sister and Mother to cannibals (but not all at once) and before...