Science Fiction

When a cry for help cannot be ignored or a child cries or evil is made to serve good or the taking the high road leads to disaster, the only thing we can trust are our gut feelings and that goes for humans too.

Before the Venusians Could Conquer the Solar System They First Needed to Kidnap Earth Women for Their Slave Pens! Blood and thunder science fiction from the glory days of the pulp magazines. "A blue Mercurian, arrogance in every line of his shell-covered body, was leading a white Earth-girl up the street. The Earth-girl was practically naked. She walked with head bent, shoulders drooping-a creature without hope. The rope around her slender waist, by which the Mercurian hauled her along, had r... more info>>

If the religious fanatics had their way, all life on Earth would soon be destroyed. In the perverted view of their twisted leader, it was the commandment of God that they hasten the final judgment. The plan was nearing completion as the first ark carrying two hundred thousand humans, animals, and seed stock prepared to launch toward the newly discovered world. It would be a race between competing factions, one trying to save a remnant human civilization while the other sought to destroy it. It w... more info>>

For one boy and his friends, the path to Paradise comes at a cost--one they may not be prepared to pay. When a biking accident leaves 17-year-old Joss Kazdan with the ability to hear things others can't, reality as he knows it begins to unravel. A world of legends exists beyond the ordinary life he's always known, and he is transported to the same Paradise he's studying in World Mythology.

Field Accountant Richard T'Ssuh has just one task: get his spacecraft docked so that everyone on-board can get paid. Thanks to his Captain taking time to fulfill her 'personal needs', there's no room to park and the crew is about to mutiny. Rich has got a clever solution to the problem up his sleeve. Too bad it just might end his career and, possibly, his life.

Computing is mere decades young, a set of technologies we have scarcely begun to develop. It's already been quite a ride. Now: Imagine every gadget around you becoming ever faster, cheaper, tinier, more interconnected, more intelligent ... especially more intelligent. The stories in Creative Destruction explore what we could face in the next half century or so: artificial intelligence, malicious software to makes us nostalgic for mere viruses, ever-more-perfect virtual reality, direct neural int... more info>>

Part human. Part animal. These are the genetically-engineered races of the Creatura, the only survivors of a global pandemic, who slowly try to rebuild a world left empty and devastated by the death of the human race three hundred years before. Shana Feles, a scrappy Felinoid relic hunter, just wanted to finish the mission to the Buffalo ruins, collect her money, and maybe snuggle up to that cute medic Twilight. But then she and her friends stumble across an ancient secret dating from before the... more info>>

The Lost Adventures of Agent of T.E.R.R.A.'s Webley, Alien Symbiote! Before everyone's favorite, acerbic symbiote joined forces with Hannibal Fortune and T.E.R.R.A., "he" starred in three stories about the doings of Creatures, Inc. This trio of Webley tales has never been reprinted, and since it appeared in a poorly circulated British science fiction magazine, remained virtually unknown for more than four decades. Filled with the same delightful wit as the Agent of T.E.R.R.A. novels, these early... more info>>

Hugo Winning Author's Masterwork of Alien Invasion! Orejas de ellos, the things who listen, whispered the superstitious fishermen when the strange occurrences began off the Philippine coast. How else could you explain the sudden disappearance of a vessel beneath a mysterious curtain of foam? The writhings of thousands of maddened fish trapped in a coffin-like area of ocean? An alien intelligence gorged at the bottom of the Luzon Deep and made its plans. Radar expert Terry Holt and the crew of th... more info>>

For a thousand years the Great Awakening has spread the teachings of Islam to all of the far corners of the known universe. Without a Caliph at its head, the great Muslim empire had been a disparate conglomerate of power, for no one ruler had been able to bridge the great inter-planetary distances to make the requisite pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca. Then the Emir of Mars announced his plans to undertake this most ambitious of journeys and win the prize of the Caliphate, and Mars is thrust... more info>>

As a small child, Charlotte Galen believed in her beloved grandmother's tales that vampires lived. Charlotte's mother discovers Grandmother Smith telling the small Charlotte about vampires and becomes enraged. There is no such thing as vampires. Charlotte is sent to the Bad Room, a room with no windows, a room where a murder was committed. Years later Charlotte no longer believes in vampires until she meets Tassmand as both contemplate a lonely future.

Johnson is plagued by his absence of memory and the strange dreams of horrific futures that he somehow knows will become reality if he does not act. He was born in a hopeless future and is doomed to travel in the past and repair humanity's problems before they can happen. Unfortunately every time he returns to the abyss outside of time he loses all memory of what just occurred. The only information Johnson has of his existence is a one-page letter written to himself, reminding him of his duties.... more info>>

Boothenay Irons is an internationally known gunsmith, accustomed now to the unexplainable power with the antique guns in which she deals. That power is a catalyst able to carry her back in time. What she isn't prepared for is a time-traveler from the future who, in need of her expertise, kidnaps and thrusts her forward in time. Stranded in 2116, angry and unable to use her own powers, Boothenay finds she must help create a future instead of relive the past. She agrees to help Teagun Dill defeat ... more info>>

Six years have passed since Area 51 and S-4 were destroyed in Fallen Angels. It has been almost two years since the biological threat of The Yellow Death was stopped in Fallen Angels Biogenesis. Now a new threat has arisen. The Keeper has malfunctioned and the creators are returning to Earth to find out why.... In Egypt, an ancient prophecy is found dating back 5,000 years that points to something horrific. It's up to Dr. Alex Robinson and Jason Griggs to decipher its meaning and search for the ... more info>>

The problem of separating the friends from the enemies was a major one in the conquest of space as many a dead spacer could have testified. A tough job when you could see an alien and judge appearances; far tougher when they were only whispers on the wind. A tale from the Golden Age of Science Fiction, originally published in the September 1958 issue of Amazing Science Fiction Stories!

When she called him a savior he actually began to comprehend what he had accomplished. By any measure he wasn't a savior in the sense she meant it. But she was dying and any hope was worth hanging on to. As events unfold the fragile existence of man is threatened by his own creation. Through it all one man seeks to find the ultimate solution for mankind's ills. What he uncovers is so shocking and powerful it leads to world changing events unfolding in the White House and the Vatican--from space ... more info>>

Everyone, male or female, who drinks very much and frequents singles bars has probably woke up one morning with a less than desirable bedmate, one who looked very good right before the bar closed. The less appealing a person is physically, and the more they have had to drink, the more likely it is that such an event has occurred. Timothy Meeker was so physically repulsive that it happened often to him. Going home with a bar hag was about the only time he ever got laid. Finally he decided to do s... more info>>

Fathers and sons ... Friends and lovers ... Revenge and redemption ... It is the year 2218, ten years after alien invaders have devastated much of the world and left the survivors recovering from fear and destruction. James Poole, the son of a famous military hero, gets his chance to hunt down the aliens and avenge his father's death at their hands. With Earth's most sophisticated warship and a secret new living computer, he flies into space burning with revenge, a powerful enemy waiting just be... more info>>

EARTHMEN IN TROUBLE Harris was caged in an underwater "zoo" by a pack of blue lobsters. Maria drew a five-year sentence on a puritanical planet for trying to buy a souvenir--and for being excessively feminine. Taranto & Meyers had committed the crime of being shipwrecked on a planet that didn't like strangers. Gerson was simply kidnapped. And nobody had any idea why five citizens of Terra were being held on other worlds--and the ultra-secret Department 99 existed only to set them, and others lik... more info>>

Damage Time is a rock-hard sci-fi thriller from the acclaimed author of Winter Song: no-one here gets out alive. NEW YORK IS A MESS. It's 2050 and sea-levels have swamped the coastal regions. The walls are failing, the city has been carved up between the Chinese and the Muslims, and the USA is bankrupt. Detective Peter Shah serves with the NYPD as a Memory Association Specialist - reading the last memories of murder victims. When he's accused of killing a glamorous woman in a bar, he must fin... more info>>

Among the outer planets, the space jockeys who shuttle cargo have a society of their own, risking much for their lifestyle on the edge of civilization. Four of these stories, set around Jupiter, appeared in Analog; the fifth is original.

In this first volume of the two-volume sixth novel of the series, Sebastian, Chief of Internal Security of the Military Complex, captures and interrogates Marianne, a Gaean spy who accessed secret data. Knowing that if Milhauss discovers that she entered the Arsenal, he'll confine her in a military penal work force, Sebastian conceals evidence. He offers to confine her in his aunt's home, but demands that she engage in sexual exchanges in which he'll indulge his penchant for inflicting pain. Mar... more info>>

One second before the last program dropped, Stewart punched his last tracer, an automated information agent he had just adapted. And on it's tail rode the Nano Nuke. Asta La Vista, Baby. The name of the hacker he had just hacked, and bombed, appeared on his screen--just three simple words: "World Security Agency" Exhilaration turned to fear, tingling with the acrid scent of panic. What have I done? Above the Earth, cradled next to the moon, lay the Sternkind. Earth's first colonization ship. A s... more info>>

The sequel to Journey blends science fiction and family saga to create a complicated and vibrant world, the people who cherish it, those who want to conquer it and those who bring it to the edge of ruin. The Kennerins pursue their desires and hatreds from the reaches of deep space to the smallest islands on Aerie, in a series of dangerous games whose stakes include the world and space and tauspace, beyond the reach of time.

Included in this memorable collection of 33 original stories are 7 winners and 13 nominees for the prestigious Hugo and Nebula Awards. Lester Del Rey / Robert Silverberg / Frederik Pohl / Philip Jose Farmer / Miriam Allen deFord / Robert Bloch / Harlan Ellison / Brian W. Aldiss / Howard Rodman / Philip K. Dick / Larry Niven / Fritz Leiber / Joe L. Hensley / Poul Anderson / David R. Bunch / James Cross m/ Carol Emshwiller / Damon Knight / Theodore Sturgeon / Larry Eisenberg / Henry Slesar / Sonya... more info>>