Science Fiction

LifeNeeds Corporation's Board of Directors are looking for the next big thing to meet the demands of an ever-changing market and fill their pockets. While the heads of LifeNeeds Research and Development departments scramble to survive in their cutthroat business, C'Bre Rah designs a marketing plan to die for. Will he save his project from budget cuts and make humanity the latest commodity hawked on the universal market? Intelligent design: Sometimes it's better to make up your own purpose for b... more info>>

In the finale of the trilogy, Nolan Harrison learns there are two stories of the Wyld Wynd. One version is considered folklore while the other is based in science, but which is he to believe? The pureblood races, gifted with psychic powers, have chosen an ancient world for their final battle and if Nolan chooses incorrectly, it will affect the outcome?and the future of mankind is at stake.

The gadget was strictly, beyond any question, a toy. Not a real, workable device. Except for the way it could work under a man's mental skin.... A science fiction classic, originally published in Analog Science Fiction, April 1962 issue.

The Army had a new theme song: "Anything you can do, we can do better!" And they meant anything, including up-to-date hornpipes! A classic science fiction tale from the pages of "If -- Worlds of Science Fiction," January 1954 issue.

In New York Times bestselling author Karen Joy Fowler's new collection, the fantastic and the uncanny lurk just below the surface of ordinary lives. In the award-winning title story, the narrator recounts the events of an expedition to the Belgian Congo in 1928 to collect gorillas for the Louisville Museum of Natural History. A mother invents a fairy-tale world for her son in "Halfway People." Twin sisters backpacking through Europe receive a mysterious invitation. A rebellious teenager is sent ... more info>>

A woman learns an alien language that enables her to see her future. A man endures the death of his wife at an angel's hands, but must learn to love God in order to be reunited with her in the afterlife. Students on a college campus make a political statement by disabling their ability to recognize beauty. Combining scientific curiosity and narrative intricacy, Ted Chiang's award-winning collection examines what it means to be alive in a world marked by uncertainty and constant change, and als... more info>>

Virtual ThoughtStream is a page-turning thriller set in the year 2085. In a future where a horrific virus has killed off most of the people on Earth, advanced androids run the world. To keep the remaining humans safe and ensure the survival of the species, the benevolent androids force people to live in luxurious but confining Parks. Jack Walker, a former Army captain, escapes from one of the Parks to seek his freedom. An android police detective, Agent Tesa, is assigned to capture h... more info>>

This collection of some of Judith Merril's best stories typifies her expertise in her craft. The romanticism is there in some of her work--showing a world where it is possible to find the mate of your dreams, an alien life from Mars yearning to go back to its world because of the Earth's weather--but the reflection of the zeitgeist of her generation is evident too. "Daughters of Earth" is about six women in six generations. Told through the eyes of one of them, their stories reflect the startl... more info>>

John Marks relationship with Naziah Rogers is unconventional. It starts with a slap across the face and it only gets hotter from there! This not-so-chance meeting leads to conspiracies, sabotage, and a search for a rare mineral in the seething atmosphere of Venus, culminating in a desperate battle in space.

This is a much revised, updated and re-edited version of a simple article I wrote years ago listing my 100 most re-readable science fiction novels. In this edition, that article has now grown to over 16,000 words and encompasses somewhere around 200 novels that entail untold hours of treasured reading experiences. So much new science fiction has come out in the last few years, as well as older titles I missed when this was first published, that I felt readers deserved a new, expanded edition wi... more info>>

Astrophysicist April Mullen has just been hired to monitor the deepest reaches of outer space. In this small outpost filled with scientists, she notices something amiss. Though the idea of searching for extra-terrestrial contact is permitted the practice of doing so is not encouraged. Not satisfied with the status quo, April decides to forgo the warnings of her superiors to make contact with the inhabitants of that speculative sky.

Mary was a misfit. She didn't want to be beautiful. And she wasted time doing mad things--like eating and sleeping... This story was the basis for a classic episode of "The Twilight Zone" TV show!

Arthur Caversham of 22nd-century Boston finds himself naked at a dinner party. Bearwald the Halforn battles the Brands from Mount Medallion. Ceistan seeks a parchment in the dead city of Therlatch filled with treasure that is now worthless. Dobnor Daksat is competing with artists of the top order to create worlds with the imagicon, a device unknown to him. What is the connection of these disparate tales? Not even the Brain of the Galaxy understands their full ramifications. First published in 1... more info>>

Something is hunting mercenary commander Romenel Devar, a monster disguised as friends and loved ones, so he can't even describe it. He knows it's slowly killing him, though, and he desperately needs help. Marya and Roke have retired to their house on the steppes, their lives finally peaceful and uneventful. When Romenel collapses on their front doorstep, Marya reminds her husband that no one retires from being a hero. Their journey takes them to the other side of the world where hordes of mon... more info>>

The reality of experimenting with the Universe is finally revealed, ominous forces are lurking at the edge of the dark dimension, and the time is running out to stop them implementing their dubious plans. A new breed of experimental super heroes has been created, and some of them stand between those Aliens and the destruction of the Universe for a second time. And some others only stand up for themselves.

The celebrated career of Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud is well known to readers of French literature. This comprehensive collection--the first to be translated into English--introduces a distinct and dynamic voice to the Anglophone world. In many ways, Châteaureynaud is France's own Kurt Vonnegut, and his stories are as familiar as they are fantastic. A Life on Paper presents characters who struggle to communicate across the boundaries of the living and the dead, the past and the present, the ... more info>>

Justin Imperiale returns from Ifrequeh, after winning battles against Warlords there. He's managed to acquire a third scroll and he begins to try to acquire the knowledge contained in the scroll. Once again, He finds drug smugglers operating in his territory. Justin figures out a way to defeat them and also a way to obtain the high tech mini submarines that the drug smugglers were using. In addition, he raids the ship that's smuggling in the drugs and obtains a valuable cargo. The real source... more info>>

The Man who Saved the Universe - Without a Body - Returns! As the editors of Amazing Stories, the magazine where the Mayhem stories appeared, described him in one issue: "If you've never read a Johnny Mayhem story before, you are in for a treat. Johnny, who wears different bodies the way ordinary people wear clothes, is one of the most fascinating series characters in science fiction." Here three more the the never-reprinted Johnny Mayhem novelettes. The first story, "A Place in the Sun," takes ... more info>>

Love transcends. This doesn't hold truer than in this pulp classic by Jack Williamson. Melvin Dane has been seeing a vision of a green girl since he was a child. Images of her came over the ether. Is she just fantasy? Or a reality that managed to cross time and space? And now, with the Earth under threat of extinction, will Melvin ever meet that girl of his dreams? With an alien force trying to bring Earth back to the Ice Age, Melvin and his foster father, scientist Sam Walden, embarked on a h... more info>>

An investigation turns personal for Detective Thadeus Rede when the priest who practically raised him is slaughtered by a serial killer. 2037 was turning out to be a bad year for Thadeus Rede. After an unexpected promotion over his former partner in the Seattle Police Department, he's now the lead investigator in a politically charged case of brutal murders. A serial killer is targeting members of a powerful organization--a group that promotes a ban on the deliberate genetic alteration of any l... more info>>

by Ray Morand The Red Knight Chronicles roll on in volume 3, as Captain Isobel and the Scaled Fist join forces with the Nexus to combat enemies of Niadhardal and the Elven Queen. But combining the two groups proves harder than anyone expected. Each has its own officers, loyalties, agenda.... Secrets revealed about Isobel's past make her begin to doubt her own sanity as new memories arise to haunt her. Is she a traitor to the Crown or merely a pawn in an arch-mage plot to overthrow Niadhardal?... more info>>

The Red Knight Chronicles roll on in volume 3, as Captain Isobel and the Scaled Fist join forces with the Nexus to combat enemies of Niadhardal and the Elven Queen. But combining the two groups proves harder than anyone expected. Each has its own officers, loyalties, agenda.... Secrets revealed about Isobel's past make her begin to doubt her own sanity as new memories arise to haunt her. Is she a traitor to the Crown or merely a pawn in an arch-mage plot to overthrow Niadhardal?

Straight from the pages of Fantastic Adventures magazine, and the wild days of the pulps, comes this tale of action, romance, intrigue and dinosaurs! A homage to Burroughs, and a treat to pulp and Tarzan fans, KING OF THE DINOSAURS, is a rollercoaster ride written by a master of the pulps, and editor of Fantastic Adventures, Raymond A. Palmer -- who had also published some John Carter and Carson of Venus stories by Burroughs himself! If you like adventure, dinosaurs, invading a barbarian heroi... more info>>

Is it possible to outrun fate? The night two intruders dressed in black break into Gypsy's store, a mysterious, sexy man comes to her rescue. Calvin has one objective--to keep both a secret organization and an alien clan from finding and taking Gypsy. But after they meet, his duty is overridden by his desire. Together, Gypsy and Calvin travel halfway across the country, trying to stay one step ahead of their pursuers and dodging danger at every step. When they give in to their mutual attractio... more info>>

Spread across postapocalyptic North America, the nine great cities ruled by the alien-human hybrid barons have crumbled…ushering in not defeat, but a new epoch of alien rule of Earth. But their assault is threatened by a force of extraordinary humans, the Cerberus rebels, dedicated to freeing humanity from the aeons of slavery that the alien Annunaki race have placed upon it. In Louisiana, a salvaged piece of sentient spaceship signals the beginning of the long-awaited second salvo. In the wi... more info>>