Science Fiction

Jennifer Prothero lives happily in the valley of New Garth, where she has been adopted by a group living off the land in self-imposed exile from civilization. Then, their rural peace is destroyed when ships carrying two species of alien, one friendly, the other hostile, crash nearby--the horrid Watermen, whose perverse, child-stealing ways are well-known on Earth. Jennifer and her companions must choose: defend themselves, or leave their hard work behind to begin new lives far from the odious Wa... more info>>

When Natica quits the Colonial Scouts, Impani follows her to her water-world home and learns that Natica's twin brother is missing. Their investigation becomes an adventure fraught with sea serpents and pirates as they search the floating city.

Doctor Orval Kwibee is faced with military encroachment upon his governmentally backed virtual flight simulator enhancement project. He devises a plan to salvage his career by using a special presentation to stave off a very insistent Colonel Hereford. Kwibee offers a briefing that largely escapes the Colonel, owing to the latter's lack of technical prowess, and follows the briefing with a live demonstration. Here, the Colonel comes to realize that one of the many enhancements includes the vast ... more info>>

The Commonwealth species may officially be at peace, but maintaining it is a struggle, especially with the frog-like Siderans who make a business of piracy and poaching, and a habit of hating Terrans. With alien technology, starships jump vast distances between star systems along safely mapped trajectories that create a webway for galactic commerce. The Terran Exploration Force was created to map new webways for Terran control in the continuing race among Commonwealth members. TEF Scout Jason W... more info>>

"World Fantasy Award Winner's Pulp Masterpiece of Earth Versus the Martians at West Point! The dirty Marties were infiltrating Earth and had penetrated its military defenses and secrets. Yes, it was a sorry day indeed for Earth when she admitted Martian Cadets to West Point for training. And only two cadets stood between Earth and the deadly peril of alien conquest, Garr Devlin, the son of a criminal, and Nola Rakkam, scion of an aristocratic family that had served with distinction in the planet... more info>>

During the Great Depression, a vagrant makes an extended stay with a struggling family, and wins their hearts with his lessons in decency and generosity. But the wanderer is learning as well as teaching, in ways that the young son of the family comes to understand through a profound and unsettling discovery.

Doctor, watch out! As Dore stood by, he saw the Doctor backing slowly into the corner where he would meet his fate. Initially defending himself with a torch, the Doctor searched frantically for a new method of defense. The crimson mass is lunging forward using long, tentacle-like attachments: what is that thing? Slowly the subhuman blob comes in to focus, and Dore realizes … it's a colossal radish! This is a monster never before wrestled with; what are they going to do? After reading this vegeta... more info>>

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>>

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!

Comic SF with a Point from the Hugo Winning Novelist. What if you were a personnel director assigned to prevent the company's most productive employee from resigning--and discovered her four-year-old daughter was creating havoc in the company's daycare center by making objects fly through the air? What would you do to halt a kindergarten poltergeist from turning your factory upside-down? That's what happens to Ralph Kennedy in Hugo Award winning author Mark Clifton's hilarious, but pointed, What... more info>>

Setting out across a dangerous planet, on the road to self-discovery, vagrant adventurers are on the expedition of their lives when they flee the authorities, venture to the other side of a far planet, and encounter many different challenges and people.

Classic pulp novel filled with action, romance and intrigue. She was a priestess, guardian of the the legend of Freedom. He was a soldier from the remote past. Together they would fall in love and lead a rebellion against Earth's conquering masters! But would they both live to enjoy their love, if they won and an age of peace followed? Earth had been conquered by Venus hundreds of years earlier. America was a legend of freedom preserved by the priestess who nurtured the memory of liberty. Everyo... more info>>

CLASSIC HUMOROUS SF FROM A HUGO WINNING AUTHOR! Ralph Kennedy, unassuming personnel psychologist, thought he had headaches when he was faced with clients who had psychic talents they couldn't control. (What Thin Partitions Renaissance E Books 2003). Now, through a case of mistaken identity, Kennedy is pressed into service by Space Navy, as an expert in extraterrestial psychology. The Space Navy doesn't have any aliens--or anything for Kennedy to do--they just want to be prepared. When his attemp... more info>>

A police officer and a serial killer search separately for a missing child while running a malevolent labyrinth populated by creatures they never knew existed. Former prosecutor William Chandler, disgusted with his past inaction, spills the blood of those who victimize children to correct the ills he sees in the world. A self-admitted serial killer and uncomfortable with his actions, Chandler attends the funerals of those whose lives he has taken in an effort to retain a true understanding of ... more info>>

Somewhere, deep in the vast blackness of space, a wormhole waits to be found. Dorn Voss needs to find it. But, the stakes are high and he isn't the only one looking. Natural occurring wormholes are the lone means of intergalactic travel in the universe. Whoever controls them gains riches and power unimaginable. The coordinates of one such wormhole, the Mescalaro Gap, are lost, hidden behind conspiracy and murder. With a prize so great, many a man or alien would do anything to find those coordi... more info>>

In the future, whites have become a minority and are treated as second-class citizens by the colored majority. Whites are discriminated against, relegated to shantytowns and allowed to do only menial labor under segregation laws that are beginning to amount to little more than slavery. As conditions grow worse, white 'volunteers' are worked to death in mine pits and the tar sands, where conditions are so brutal that serving as test subjects on alien planets begins to sound better than anything o... more info>>

A remote scientific research expedition at the North Pole is invaded by a monstrous alien, reawakened after lying frozen for centuries after a crash-landing. The alien is intelligent, cunning and a shape-changer who can assume the form and personality of anything it destroys and soon it is among the men of the expedition, killing and replacing them, using its shape-changing ability to lull the scientists one by one into inattention and destruction. The transformed alien can seemingly pass every ... more info>>

When you have an engine with no fuel, and fuel without an engine, and a life-and-death deadline to meet, you have a problem indeed. Unless you are a stubborn Dutchman--and Jan Van Artevelde was the stubbornest Dutchman on Venus... A tale from the golden age of science fiction, originally published in the April, 1959 issue of AMAZING STORIES!

Corn World. Britland. After the great flood, only memories, debris and derelict buildings speak of a past civilization. Visions of these disturbing times haunt Cerridwen's dreams. When her dying mother sends Cerridwen to find a mural in Saint Eyes and lead Britland into a better future, the young healer has little choice but to set out on a life-changing quest. Her ability to perceive auras convinces her to accept nature-attuned Trevly's offer of protection. Bent on adventure and enthralled by ... more info>>

Refugees from the Downfall Wars, separated by centuries of spaceflight, clash on a far distant world. Caught between them are Tayree--native, Wind Walker, visionary, and a recent widow--and Arin, a foundling raised by the invading Colonists. Tayree's visions send her to find Arin, stolen from her tribe when he was an infant. She knows him from childhood dreams ... and because his twin brother murdered her husband and infant sons in an attempt to possess her. Arin and Tayree could be part of prop... more info>>

Two days after the battle for Rebel's Revenge, Bear and a small group of survivors awake to find themselves in a tropical paradise. Their new home is stunning in its beauty, with lush vegetation, palm trees and towering mountains. However, they soon discover that all is not as it appears. This is a place where animals from the past meet creatures of the imagination. A place where a number of caves, known as windows, lead to dangers here on Farn as well as other worlds. And their new friends are ... more info>>

A novel of earth-bound science fiction that is rich in contrasts. The story puts romance into the sphere of a war where the front is global and never defined. Here a budding sense of humanity is pitted against the insanity of state-terrorism. It is a story of love and honest efforts to hold a world together on several fronts that powerful forces would tear apart. The science appears to be fantasy at first glance. Indeed, the real often appears fictional, and fiction appears real. It turns out th... more info>>

THE PLANET HAD FALLEN OFF THE MAP. Rock-hard sci-fi adventure. No-one here gets out alive. When his spaceship crashes on an unknown and forgotten planet, scientist Karl Allman discovers himself hunted by an ancient race. The descendants of earlier colonists have reverted to a savage tribal culture of sacrifice, pillage and violence. When Karl falls in love with an outcast girl, he has only one goal: escape. But escape is a distant dream on this nightmare planet.

[Prequel to The Blood of Winterhold] "Blood, my boy. The blood of life and death." Spoken by the old Seer who watches the rise and fall of the powerful upon Winterhold, the phrase echoes throughout the book. Blood determines the place each must occupy in society and, in a very direct way, helps to provide the warmth so precious upon the winter bound planet. The story takes place in a ritual bound society, rife with court intrigues, upon a planet locked in perpetual winter. It concerns the genera... more info>>

"Will Inevitably Remind Readers of the Hyperion Series!" Says SF Sagas. In the final installment of this classic, and some say first-ever, science fictional bodice-ripper, it is up to Evela, witch of the Dark Star, and Moxol the Murderer, son of Aleta, heroine of Book I, The Woman from Eternity, to fulfill Aleta's vow and purge the galaxy of "the madness of war" forever! Why are there wars? Why have the followed humankind thousands of years into the future? What seemed to be a war of revenge bet... more info>>