Science Fiction

Somewhere near the end of the year 2012 world governments are on the precipice of all out war. The United States has become a socialist state -- a part of a "One World Order". The global economies are falling apart and there is an effort to correct a pseudo-scientific theory that the world is suffering from global warming brought on by the industrial countries. The politicians have attempted to create a significant revenue source by correlating the warming theory to the burning of carbon-base... more info>>

If you are in a plague-ridden spaceship with no idea what is killing off your passengers and crew one by one, what do you do? How will you deal with the panic and the fear, and your own feelings of despair that you may not be able to save the people you love? The protagonist's sense of helplessness in this story--one of Kate Wilhelm's early science fiction work--leaps off the page, making it clear why Wilhelm is considered one of the great writers of her time. She provides psychological depth t... more info>>

Two More Never-Reprinted Classic Pulp Adventures of the Man Who Gave His Life to Save the Universe - Over and Over and Over Again! An encounter with aliens had given Johnny Mayhem an extrahuman power: He could travel anywhere mentally and enter the body of anyone on any planet. But if he stayed in one body longer than thirty days, Mayhem died. First. Mayhem is given an assignment that proves "Magellan was a Piker," when he is told, "If you lose this one, you are indeed lost. But if you win it yo... more info>>

In VENUS OF DREAMS, Iris Angharads, a determined, independent woman, set herself one massive goal: to make the poison-filled atmosphere of Venus hospitable to humans. She worked day and night to realize her dream, with only one person sharing her passion, Liang Chen. It seemed impossible to make Venus, with its intolerable air and waterless environment, into a paradise, but Iris succeeded. And in doing so, she also created a powerful dynasty, beginning with her first born, Benzi Liangharad. ... more info>>

For decades, people have wondered who the elusive woman that the inspiration for Beethoven's music is. Now, a young woman named Stephanie is about to go on an incredible adventure to find her place in history as the inspiration for the greatest composer to ever live.

Robert Metzger writes classic hard SF but he does so in a way that emphasizes excitement and adventure and which shows the science in a way that makes it accessible and fascinating. In PICOVERSE, a team of physicists in 2007 is trying to develop fusion power via a new development in plasma physics, a Sonomak, but accidentally stumbles on a method to create new, smaller-than-usual universes, which they call picoverses. These replicate everything in our universe but on a smaller scale. A disastro... more info>>

From the mind of Science Fiction Grand Master, A. E. van Vogt, comes five imaginative bizarre tales of the future. The Earth Killers--What if you were blamed for the destruction of the Earth? And what if you were the only one who had the key to what really happened? The Star-Saint--A superman of space is willing to save your colony, but at what cost? The Enchanted Village--As the only survivor of a doomed expedition to Mars, your only chance of survival is to live in a deserted Martian village ... more info>>

To Save the Universe Johnny Mayhem Risked His Life - Over and Over and Over. He could travel anywhere mentally and enter the body of anyone on any planet. But if he stayed longer than thirty days, Mayhem died. An encounter with aliens had given him an extrahuman power. But it had also put him beyond the pale of love and friendship forever. For the first time ever in book form, her are the never reprinted adventures of one of the most popular and notable pulp science fiction series heros of the m... more info>>

Young Stephen Drew, Martian,. Crosses Space to Visit an Earth He Has Never Seen--and Finds that His Destination Proves the Planet of the Double Cross! Follow the Adventures of an Earthman Who Views a Futuristic World of Wonder--and Longs for Mars! Stephen Drew is his Earth name, but Young Stephen Drew Crosses Space to Visit an Earth He Has Never Seen--and Finds that His Destination Proves the Planet of the Double Cross! Follow the Adventures of an Earthman Who Views a Futuristic World of Wonder-... more info>>

Two Novels of Supermen and Cosmic Peril from the Greatest of Space Opera Pulps! From the famous Superman, Batman, and Justice League writer Gardner F. Fox comes a tale of an amazing superman - The Man the Sun Gods Made. Original magazine blurb: To the vassal remnants of Lyallar, this man was a God. They called him a god and worshipped him. He neither ate nor drank, nor breathed the wild free air, yet he was mighty beyond belief. To the Ardth hordes he was Tyr the Terrible. But grief bowed thos... more info>>

Two Complete Book-Length Novels of Strange Aventures on Other Worlds in the Universe of Future Centuries reprinted from the pages of the legendary pulp magazine of colorful, poetic space opera, Planet Stories! In Emmett McDowell's gripping adventure, death was Jaro Moynahan's stock in trade, and every planet had known his touch. But now, on Mercury, he was selling his guns into the weirdest of all his exploits, gambling his life against the soft touch of a woman's lips - the fearful Red Witch o... more info>>

When the Dawn probe detects strange energy readings in the asteroid belt, Colonel Sydney Nichols and the crew of the Archimedes are sent to find answers. They soon discover evidence a fifth planet once orbited between Mars and Jupiter. Seeking clues as to the fate of this lost world, the crew travels to the dwarf planet Ceres where they make astounding discoveries that alter mankind's future.

Dominic Flandry is the Terran Naval Intelligence equivalent to James Bond. Dashing and debonair, he is deadly both to human women and his enemies. His foes are remarkable for their skill in manipulating people, but Flandry is matching them wit for wit. With his extremely good luck and keen mind honed from years of experience being a spy in various guises, Flandry is able to survive one near-fatal disaster after another. He seems indestructible and unmatched in all of the Terran empire. The Adm... more info>>

A Never-Reprinted Pulp Classic! Written during the darkest days of WWII, this thundering novel of a super-scientific secret tended by a mysterious tribe in the remote fastness of the jungle sought for by both sides in the conflict with its color and strong mood setting could only have been penned the king of pulp SF, Edmond Hamilton! From the author of the Star Kings and the Sun Smasher comes this tale of the legendary Flame of Life that made those who bathed in its fires invulnerable and immort... more info>>

On the planet Pyrrus, human colonists have fought a centuries-old war with the native life forms. These life forms adapt to human tactics and technology, evolving new species so rapidly that natives returning from even brief trips off planet must be carried in protective armor canisters from their ship to the safe buildings, where they will learn of the latest deadly threats. "The Ethical Engineer" is the second volume in the DEATHWORLD series. It was originally published as a two-part serial i... more info>>

Old Earth is gone. Humanity has been scattered to the stars. Some left their dying planet in spaceship arks, in search of new worlds to inhabit. Others, nanoengineered for near-immortality, explore the far reaches of interstellar space in gargantuan macrolife mobiles. An earthlike human society endures on the einvironmentally volatile planet of Tau Ceti IV--a rigid community of the faithful that has declared evil the science that caused the homeworld's destruction. The Church is the absolute po... more info>>

The war continues and opposing forces struggle for control of the Universe. The true effect, of mans tinkering with reality, is about to be revealed; which could lead to the destruction of the Imperium, and perhaps the very fabric of the space and time itself. Unlikely heroes emerge to change the outcome of this desperate conflict. And some, as usual, only try to manipulate the situation for their own benefit.

Subtitled A Mobile Utopia, this pioneering novel about the meaning of space habitats for human history, presents spacefaring as no work did in its time, and since. A utopian novel like no other, presenting a dynamic utopian civilization that transcends the failures of our history. Epic in scope, Macrolife opens in the year 2021. The bulero family owns one of Earth's richest corporations. As the Buleros gather for a reunion at the family mansion, an industrial accident plunges the corporation i... more info>>

Robert Sheckley (July 16, 1928 -- December 9, 2005) was a Hugo- and Nebula-nominated American author. First published in the science fiction magazines of the 1950s, his numerous quick-witted stories and novels were famously unpredictable, absurdist and broadly comical. Sheckley was given the Author Emeritus honor by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2001. Included in this collection are nine of some of his best stories written in the 1950s. Includes the following stories: WA... more info>>

No man had yet survived a landing on the black planet, till Raspold dared to venture his body and his mind in the cavern of Voittamaton, where the dracocentaurs gazed at some fabulous yonder! Farmer's variation on the Chthulu Mythos of Lovecraft. First published in Fantastic Stories of Imagination in the April, 1963 issue.

High Crimes Call for High Punishment. It is the twenty-first century. Convicts are sentenced to asteroids that move in ever-widening solar orbits, timed to return when their terms run out. But a few ambitious administrators discover that small "errors" in velocity can rid them of selected groups altogether: the hardcore violent, the mentally defective, and especially the political dissidents. Enduring the black vise of interstellar space-time, these human rejects--men and women mixed together--c... more info>>

They have to be lying when they tell her she was dead. With no memory of her past, and no idea who she actually is, Nora has little options. Alone, and at the mercy of the Mercenary Defense Conglomerate, she searches for clues into her past, and the truth about her supposed demise. If she is a prisoner, robbed of memory and held against her will, then she must trust no one. If she has, in fact, returned from the dead, then who could possibly help her? Armed with only her wits and her inexplicab... more info>>

Robert Sheckley (July 16, 1928 -- December 9, 2005) was a Hugo- and Nebula-nominated American author. First published in the science fiction magazines of the 1950s, his numerous quick-witted stories and novels were famously unpredictable, absurdist and broadly comical. Sheckley was given the Author Emeritus honor by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2001. Included in this collection are nine of some of his best stories written in the 1950s. Includes the following stories: ME... more info>>

A cat's life isn't always leisurely...especially if you're a talking one. "Gunner" Dahlquist makes a living piloting his freelanced ship, The Rockside Hopper. A cynical, but optimistic veteran of Beast War III, Gunner brought one good thing away from the wars -- his roommate Max. Max just so happens to be a talking cat. Together, Gunner and Max pick an odd set of allies in their quest to find the truth to Max's creation. First, there's the veterinary student who's a martial arts expert and ma... more info>>

NATURE'S MISLAID MADHOUSE! Beneath dense gray clouds through which no sun shone lay a forgotten planet. It was a nightmare world of grotesque and terrifying animal-plant life. Gigantic beetles, spiders, bugs and ants filled the putrid, musty earth--ready to kill and devour anything in sight. There were men amidst this horror--men who cringed and ran from the ravening monsters and huddled in the mushroom forests at night. Burl was one of these creatures. But one day inspira-tion hit Burl. He woul... more info>>