Science Fiction

The future is always stranger than we expect. What happens when a man who sought to escape the past awakes a thousand years in the future and discovers it is dedicated to preserving the past?

What good is a lifeboat in hyperspace if it can't hold the equipment needed to return to normal space? Can it be more than a security blanket of metal? Perhaps.

Alien Fringe is a fantastic collection of stories: a novella about contact with aliens, plus stories about backpackers who tempt death in Asia, a dark-skinned beauty in a Java massage parlor, a redwood tree planter who has mystic insights high up on a wintery mountain, a tale of women's revenge, and more.

When the B29 Superfortress Mary Jane is discovered in 1945 sitting in thick jungle with no visible damage, and her crew and mysterious payload are missing, the incident is hushed up and forgotten. But in 1990, mysterious radar images start to appear. F18 crews sent up to investigate discover a B29 flying towards Japan. What is this mysterious plane? If it is the Mary Jane continuing her mission, how can they stop it?

A roguish figure terrorizes the ultra-rich, never leaving more in her wake than the dubious name, Diabla Thane, always scrawled in lipstick, and usually found on the foreheads of any bound and gagged security guards unfortunate enough to cross her. Is she a modern-day Robin Hood, or the picture of a terrorist that her victims paint? And what are her ties to the Riley family? Frank Riley was once a penniless vagabond. Now a wealthy widower, he is thrust into the precarious role of a single parent... more info>>

Most time travel stories concentrate on the movement through time. This is a story about how the dream of travelling through time can become a human obsession, relegating time travelling to a sub-plot.

Join the last priestess, Qwana, on her journey as she leads a group of refugees away from the bloody city of sun worshippers to a place of safety high in the Andes. Will she escape the high priest's wrath and be accepted in a place where she can live out her days in peace?

Follow Qwana as she leads the old priestess A'ruz, Lalan, Mouse and the starman Rowlland as they flee the High Priest Xilpu's malice and search for a place of safety high in the Andes. Nazca Star is the second in the Bride of the Condor series by Terry L. White.

Join Qwana on the Nazca Plain where she is the last priestess to the Temple of the Moon. Follow the last priestess through her initiation, then onto the plain where visitors from another world wait to catapult her into another world.

Explorer ship Captain Kate Landay is on her way home from what should be her final mission when she becomes caught up in a sector-wide coup. She is accused first of insubordination, and then of treason, for refusing to sacrifice her ship and her crew to cover up a superior officer's actions.

Poul Anderson, Murray Leinster, Robert Bloch, Isaac Asimov, and Robert Sheckley pool their talents in a classic round-robin novella that stretches humanity almost to the breaking point on the wrack of Time and Space. Humanity was falling before the onslaught of the Cloud People, soon the last remains would be wiped out. So they sent Ban to the Prophetess for an oracle. "What you must overcome is Time itself," she told him and sent him off accompanied only by the youngest of her handmaidens. But ... more info>>

In the aftermath of the Second American Civil War, civilization collapses throughout the world. A Planetary Government (known as the PLAG)--an elite hegemony of crafty bureaucrats who survived the evil times--reestablishes what the rulers call "civilization." Having gained absolute control over the lives of the powerless masses, the bureaucratic overlords wield that power ruthlessly. A young mathematician, Isaac "Crash" Tyson, presents proofs of his Reactive Mathematics Theory to the World Scien... more info>>

THREE CLASSIC SCIENCE FICTION GREATS IN ONE EBOOK! Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, The Mysterious Island, From the earth to the Moon in one eBook--for one low price. Here are three legendary science fiction novels by the father of futuristic prediction, Jules Verne. Twenty Thousand Leagues tells of the Nautilus, the first submarine, helmed by Nemo, a vengeful scientist who hates war and munitions manufacturers. The Mysterious Island brings a group of castaways face to face with a dying Ne... more info>>

There is no lie so totally convincing as something the other fellow already knows-for-sure is the truth. And no cover-story so convincing ... A classic from the Golden Age of Science Fiction, edited by the legendary John W. Campbell, Jr. for Astounding Science Fiction!

If there is a party at the end of the universe, Matt Wallace's The Next Fix will be the drug of choice. Two-time Parsec Award-winning author teams with Apex Publications for a new collection of 12 short stories and one novella. With characters as gritty as Sam Spade but as real as your next-door neighbor, The Next Fix cooks up a cocktail of futuristic trips that range from haunting to comedic to don't-turn-out-the-lights. From Wallace's introduction to The Next Fix: You're in my own little chime... more info>>

Culp Robinson is exiled to Hobson's Planet in the year 2104, after a failed presidential run in America. On Hobson's Planet he is reluctantly drawn into battle by the same forces that led him to act on Earth. Can he accomplish on his new planet what he failed to do on Earth?

&Arial: The Beginning by Brett Venter introduces us to a gritty cyberpunk future, that blurs the lines between the real and the virtual worlds, presided over by the ever watchfull &Arial--a presence in the machine, the metal-studded goddess of the wire, the mesh, the electronic ether. &Arial: the Begnning was originally published in Something Wicked SF & Horror Magazine #3. Part Two--&Arial: Overload is available in Something Wicked SF & Horror Magazine #6--available now from fictionwise.com

Something Wicked magazine is a quarterly Horror and Science Fiction short story magazine. To date Something Wicked has published fiction by John Connolly, David De Beer, Evan Morris, Sarah Lotz, Brett Venter, Diane Awerbuck, Miranda Sherry, Digby C Young and Ryan Saunders to name but a few. Featuring art by some the best new artists around. Featured interviews include John Connolly, Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Ed Neumeier and Jolene Blalock. Issue 6 features Part 2 of Brett Venter's &Arial: T... more info>>

THE PLANET STRAPPERS started out as The Bunch, a group of student-astronauts in the back room of a store in Jarviston, Minnesota. They wanted off Earth, and they begged, borrowed and built what they needed to make it. THE PLANET STRAPPERS got what they wanted--a start on the road to the stars--but no one brought up on Earth could have imagined what was waiting for them Out There!

No one knew where the mysterious space-black ships came from. Only a handful of survivors reported how they brought swift and merciless vicious death to entire human-populated worlds. Penum IV was the first target for the alien death fleet after it slipped into the system and assumed orbit around the planet. From this high frontier came rainbow-hued death rays that scoured the world below, killing only humans and leaving behind the fruits of an entire planet for plundering. The world dead and th... more info>>

A traitor is on the loose. A treacherous navy captain plans to sell military secrets to the alien Il Ronn. The only man who can stop him is Sam McCade. Betrayed by his friends, stalked by his enemies, McCade is the only one standing between a terrifying alien threat--and the unimaginable devastation of the Terran Empire?

Aleya awakens from a terrible nightmare only to come to terms with her reality: she is one of Reyzmon's ghost-slaves. Her purpose for being is to serve Reyzmon by finding the human victims that feed his strength. Can Aleya escape her fate? She will have to call upon all of her knowledge of magic to defeat her immortal foe.

Have you ever thought what the world might be like if the present-day vices of society are allowed to continue to run rampant? That is the subject of The Last To Fall, a look at the legacy we leave our children. Civilization as we know it has fallen and the United States has been broken into a series of dictatorships, each with its own army. Death and disease, poverty and starvation, walk hand in hand with greed and madness. Three teenagers seeking a safe haven are caught up in a commune's battl... more info>>

Best-selling science fiction print author Travis S. "Doc Travis" Taylor and best-selling eBook author Darrell Bain have combined talents to produce a new science fiction thriller. Several alien lifeboats make it to earth in widely separated spots after their interstellar spaceship malfunctions. One of the aliens comes down near the home of Kyle Leverson, a former army intelligence officer and now a widowed science journalist. The aliens think they can never go home but they are able to convert t... more info>>

Now on Krinis, the Algidan home planet, Cathy has to come to grips with being the Chosen One, as well as her growing powers. Her first task is to go to Infitalis, the City of the North, to enlist the help of their Council in the struggle for power between the Algidans and Antediluvians. But once there, she learns that she and her friends are trapped inside the mesmerizing city unless she kills the city's Consciousness. Reluctant to commit such a deed, her actions set into motion a chain reaction... more info>>