Fiction - Science Fiction - General

MARS ... Earth's first colony in Space. Men killed for the coveted ticket that allowed them to go there. And, once there, the killing went on.... MARS ... Ralph Graham's goal since boyhood-and he was Mars-bound with authority that put the whole planet in...

For a professor at Corndog University it's quite acceptable to purchase a robotic doppleg nger and have it teach your classes for you. But how does it reflect on your teaching skills when your doppleg nger murders the whole class? Follow the Dystopian Duo...

First published by The Women's Press in 1985 Diana hears the voice of Moosevan, an entity who inhabits a distant planet, in her head. Her world is threatened and she wants Diana's help. Yuri believes her, though he's usually drunk in charge of a...

A young boy is rescued from the cruelty of the Spanish Civil War. He is able to demonstrate a gift of learning that propels him to achieve high levels of scholarly performance and judicial responsibility at the Vatican, eventually becoming a cardinal. The stress...

Shipwrecked and alone, Edward Prendick is picked up by a passing vessel and brought to mysterious Noble's Island, the home of the strange and unsettling Doctor Moreau. Banished from his homeland for his radical and cruel experiments, Moreau conducts his tests on the animals...

Jenny is a robot. Her creator modeled her after the love of his life. Now she must learn how to walk, how to talk, how to behave. As she struggles to remember the woman she used to be, and tries to become the woman...

Berdan Geanar has had a difficult life. Unsure of himself, and apparently hated by the grandfather he has lived with since the death of his parents, he has no idea of what to do with his life. xxx But when his grandfather abandons him,...

*** 2010 Nominee for the Prometheus Award *** In the 22nd century people have spread into the Solar System. Born and raised in a twentieth of Earth's gravity on the asteroid Pallas, young skater Llyra Ngu is grimly determined to compete and win on...

Rand was a Russian born American author who pioneered the philosophy of "objectivism". Anthem is a futuristic science fiction novella. Man is in a dark age, because of earlier socialistic values. Technology is carefully planned and rarely allowed to advance. Individualism has almost ceased...

"Impressively Imagined" -Kirkus Reviews **** Earth is ruled by three mighty empires: The Saracen-Jewish Empire led by the Caliph of Rome, the Mughal-Arab Empire, ferocious in its determination to destroy its neighbor, and the great Sino-Aztec's Crystal Empire, led by a living God. ****...

More than a 150,000 women have been kidnapped without a trace or any ransom demand in the 'normal' world run by the Federalists and the bureaucracy. But that is not the only problem, because the freedom loving population in the 'alternate' reality of the...

Author: Ray Faraday NelsonISBN-10: 1587151480ISBN-13: 9781587151484Publisher: Borgo PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2000Pages: 192Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.63lbsSize: 9.06h x 6.07w x 0.55d

Author: Dennis GlaweISBN-10: 158500703XISBN-13: 9781585007035Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/19/1998Pages: 212Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 8.03h x 5.05w x 0.55d

Love... the grandest experiment of all. Resonance Mates, Book 3 As a young Alvian lab tech, Jaci knows her place in the orderly, emotionless society her race has established on the planet Earth. While preparing a batch of experimental skin patches, she is accidentally...

I lay watching him between half-closed eyelids. "He gave me the idea." "He gave you a nasty concussion," said Hammer. "It was probably the only way to the idea," I answered. "I tell you the cat is a wizard. He did it on purpose....

It was a dark and stormy night. Lord Byron, Mary Godwin (who would soon become Mary Shelley), Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John William Polidori were sheltering inside a Swiss castle reading ghost stories to one another to pass the time. Noting that everyone present...

The book comprises a collection of 20 fast paced, action packed, science fiction and science fantasy short stories. The lead story "Human Hunter" is based on a story arc pod cast on the Beam Me Up Pod cast site during 2014/15. In its desperation...

An unhinged British backpacker meets 'Michi': a desperate, underemployed Japanese 'Freeter' on the communal couch of a dilapidated Osaka hostel. The pair form a close bond while exploring the regular haunts of Japan's 'lost generation, ' but while drifting through the slums of Ho...

Jake's retirement consists of beer, brats, watching beach bunnies pass by his patio deck and trading wisecracks with Arlo, his pet chameleon. OK, so it's a one-sided exchange, Jake doesn't mind.That all changes when they are conscripted into service for the Federation of Thirteen...

A nuclear accident ravages a small town outside of Chicago, resulting in a government quarantine isolating it from the rest of the world. A generation later, with the quarantine still in place, strange mutations have affected the minds of the town's children -- mutations...

This book, for the first time, makes available a body of my work that has long remained inaccessible and largely unknown to American readers: the thirty-seven bimonthly columns that I contributed to the British science fiction magazine "Interzone" from 1998 to 2004. For while...

The Blockade Runners and Dr. Ox's Experiment In "The Blockade Runners" Verne again adopts a theme which is, at least nominally, American. In it he gives a very fair view of the British attitude toward our country during that tragic period of our suffering...

After the war with the Night Chasers, the group is left fractured and betrayed. Arjen, Julie, and Captain Williams were abandoned on Wyan, spurned by their former alien allies. Teamed with Amun the Pelosian, Arjen and his team work to repair his ship, hoping...

Orphaned at birth and born with strange, mystical powers, Cassandra Rho finds herself labeled an outcast at an early age. Her ability to fabricate spells using the arcane symbols that only she can see, and her uncanny ability to summon and control ravens only...

Disease, radiation, and violent storms have ravaged the earth, laying waste to all that was civilised and good. Now, it is every man for himself in the struggle for survival against tyrannical despots who would exploit the innocent and vulnerable for their own gain....

Travel to Ebony Island where two lives connect. One is a female Velociraptor and the other is a woman veterinarian named Laura Sinclair. Both find a common bond when the lives they care for the most are threatened. Facing insurmountable odds, like running into...

This product will make you feel emotions even deeper than pain.Author: Brendan M. P. HeardISBN-10: 838947199XISBN-13: 9798389471993Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/21/2023Pages: 188Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.42lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.40d

About the Book "Worlds, the King's Pawn" is an epic battle of good versus evil. The story is written from multiple character's point of view as it follows the journeys of several sentient super beings in the Zynon Galaxy. The characters explore a wide...

Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Quarter-finalist. In the not-too-distant future, in a country covered by state-sized office complexes, one man goes on a dangerous quest ... to find a new office chair. Publishers Weekly (April 2013): Set in the year 2169, this inventive novel takes...

Andre Washington is a streetwise young thug with something to prove and attitude to spare. When he finally decides to step up to the Big Time, he doesn't care who pays the costs. Marshall Hightower doesn't want to make any waves. Finally settled into...

Moon People This story focuses on one man by the name of David Braymer and his adventures from High School teacher to 1st Science Officer on The Lunar Base 1 base station. One of three. This book is based on the turning point for...

Your kind of reality is 'the state of things as they actually exist' for you. They exist in your world because you are consciously aware of them. They are three-dimensional and measurable. But is that the only kind?Author: Steve BennettISBN-10: 1035801809ISBN-13: 9781035801800Publisher: Austin MacauleyLanguage:...

Excerpt from the closing pages of the Time Machine. "One cannot choose but wonder. Will he ever return?" This and a host of other questions have played on the minds of all who have read the Time Machine by H.G. Wells. What happened to...

The absence of an Emperor to lead an Empire will inevitably bring on madness and chaos, the current state of the Imperium proves this to be true. Once a beacon of peace and prosperity, corruption and petty rivalries have now crippled the bureaucracy, while...

Orphaned and alone. Eros Wolf is a brilliant, gifted, but socially awkward, misunderstood young student. Determined to succeed and armed with only sheer will, he learns to control his danger-ous potent abilities before they consume him.Graduating from law school at the age of nineteen....

"Atlas Hugged signals a revolution in the way we see the world and our rightful place within it. Not a violent revolution, thankfully, but an intellectual revolution."With these words, David Sloan Wilson invites readers into a fictional world that mirrors events taking place in...

Since Dawn of time; Man has always been on the quest to find out where we have come from. Up on the quest of a professor, and his old students. Not knowing they will encounter the supernatural being from the past. Coming to light...

Upon neighbouring stones, earth fast, like two islands of an archipelago, in an ocean of heather, sat a boy and a girl, the girl knitting, or, as she would have called it, weaving a stocking, and the boy, his eyes fixed on her face,...

Drew knows there are two rules to using the time portals. One, be precise in thought. Two, never visit the future.On his second practice run, a stray thought of wanting to see life 1000 years in the future lands him, along with Oz, the...

The Fifth Dinosaur Lake Book: The predator dinosaurs, amphibious, land-crawlers, air flyers, small and large, were dead; dead in all the forests, mountains, deserts, towns and cities of America and across the planet. They were still hunted, sought and exterminated when found, and these...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 1892 short story, The Yellow Wallpaper is a valuable piece of American feminist literature that reveals attitudes toward the psychological health of women in the nineteenth century. Diagnosed with "temporary nervous depression - a slight hysterical tendency" by her physician husband,...

Ten years after Dorjan trusted a boy's word over his superior officer's, he and his best friend, Areau, are still living the aftermath--and trying to stop the man responsible. Locked in a careful dance to bring down a corrupt government, Dorjan struggles to balance...

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Historical Section Shawmut College, Boston, December 26, 2000 Living as we do in the closing year of the twentieth century, enjoying the blessings of a social order at once so simple and logical that it seems but the triumph of common sense, it is...

Capable of carrying hundreds of passengers and crew members, the elegant airships have become the preferred method of travel and are the crown jewels in the Airship Ministry. But one of the airships is now a target for greedy pirates. As darkness descends on...

Author: Damon CooperISBN-10: 1441581804ISBN-13: 9781441581808Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2010Pages: 130Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.31d

The years is AD 1147. King Arthur of Britain is still an unseasoned monarch. He has yet to meet his betrothed, Guineviere, and Camelot is still a little more than an idea in his mind. He is visited at the castle by a gentleman...

Dystopian Science Fiction It is a sin to write this. It is a sin to think words no others think and to put them down upon a paper no others are to see. It is base and evil. It is as if we were...

The lord of Erl is told by the parliament of his people that they want to be ruled by a magic lord. Obeying the immemorial custom, the lord sends his son Alveric to fetch the King of Elfland's daughter, Lirazel, to be his bride....

A Most Anticipated Book of Fall at Associated Press, Booklist, Chicago Tribune, Goodreads, Good Housekeeping, Literary Hub, Time, The Week, and W Magazine The bestselling, award-winning author of The Power delivers a dazzling tour de force where a handful of friends plot a daring...