Science Fiction

Their combined military power could not stand up to the tremendous might of Earth's greatest battleship. But one force could yet smash it--and give the Dellians the freedom they sought!

When a stranger invades geneticist Mai Trung's office, he has to say only one word to get her interested in leaving with him: Xenobiology. Rumors have been rife about aliens on Earth, but only a select few know that they arrived on widely scattered lifeboats from a wrecked spaceship. Mai is brought into the secret group working with a few of the surviving aliens because they have one trait that is almost incredible for its implications: They can turn themselves into perfect humans. More than per... more info>>

The Sonderberg family doesn't know it yet, but this isn't going to be any ordinary road trip. After they pick up an unassuming hitchhiker, a quiet drive down Interstate 40 becomes a trip into an alternate reality. It turns out the family has just given a ride to an alien who has the fate of the universe resting on her shoulders. Now the Sonderberg family must fight evil alongside their new alien friend in a desperate attempt to save the world they love.

Can secrets and passion unify the sun and the moon? The morning Silver crosses paths with the beautiful blonde from an opposing species, everything he's been raised to believe fades in comparison. Intrigued by the lunar people, Sunny dared to question her own species, and in the process stumbles on an evil plan of betrayal from both sides. Now Sunny and Silver need to depend on each other in order to help both species survive. Giving into their burning attraction only draws them closer togethe... more info>>

Does time exist as a separate dimension? Does it have a unique place with definable limits in space? Does it move independently according to its own purpose? Or does it only move when other things move, completely dependent on prevailing conditions and binding dimensions in its surrounding space--a causal result bound to the whole? Perhaps it's just a simpleminded construct humans have concocted to explain the inexplicable. Is it vaguely possible that it's a set of branes slightly out of sync an... more info>>

It came to Earth to find a genius mathematician ... the one human in the solar system capable of understanding the ultimate prime number. Time is running out. The time-lock on the Beast's millennia-old Martian cage is about to open, and mankind will never be able to deal with the threat! A classic from the Golden Age of science fiction, originally published in the August, 1940 issue of Astounding Science Fiction.

As long as there is money to be made, there will be Wildcatters. Throughout human history wildcatters, the first great explorers and prospectors to lay claim to newly discovered lands, have marched to the beat of a different drummer--motivated by a deep yearning to be the first to walk on uncharted land and benefit from treasures yet to be discovered. In the future, wildcatters in space will travel to exoplanets, located in The Big Nothing, to search for new chemicals which, when transformed i... more info>>

In the third book of the Eyes of Light Series, the Yoolooets, Humans, and Newcomers struggle to build a governing body that can help everyone in the reconstruction of their cultures. In desperation an immense living space station, a wandering merchant captain and his faithful companion, all of whom possess remarkable gifts, are recruited to help. However, that does not mean peace is around the corner.

The question is asked: Are the famous Dancing Girls of the Hyperion Club androids? Michael Carmody, Special Investigator for Android Service, especially wants to know, and his work takes him all the way to Saturn's seventh moon just to find out. But will the answers be as important as his own life?

One second always makes the difference. The suspenseful tale of three students and one teacher trapped in one second of time, only to find out that something is there with them. Something no one has ever seen before, with an appetite none of them want to bear witness to.

In 1948, the future was 1984, but in 2002, we don't have to wait as long! Adjust your vision to 2020 as revealed in this collection. On an international highway system of never-pausing traffic, Nomads keep moving from cradle to grave. Bio-engineered kangaroos carry fetuses for busy mothers. And a foundering lunar resort makes a desperate bid to exploit one of humanity's great oversights--we forgot to name the moon! Wry and funny and appallingly probable, 2020 includes several of Robert Onopa's b... more info>>

By 3015, the world has changed a great deal; it is now divided into two main blocks comprised of The East and The West. Many of the old prejudices appear to have disappeared. A 'gene' for homosexuality has been discovered and has subsequently wiped out all justification for discrimination based on sexual orientation. However, some long for a return to the old values. A clandestine group called 'The Moralists' is still out there and are a constant threat to those with the 'gene.' When an alien ra... more info>>

Out of the blue, Megan Donner inherits a sailboat from a man her mother knew years ago. She asks Ed to help her sail it to Jacksonville, but her boat is mysteriously sunk by gunfire only a few miles from Miami during a test of repairs. Subsequent investigation discovers a damaged and leaking nuclear device had been built into the boat and a trail of residual radiation leads from Miami all the way to New York along Interstate 95. Within days of that discovery, three journalists are arrested on sp... more info>>

Mysterious, untraceable uses of Amaran energy fields in the vicinity of The Grand Canyon are noticed by automated monitors. Thinking someone has somehow stolen or constructed field manipulation devices, 3rd World Products sends Ed to discover the source of the field emanations. Instead of illicit devices, he encounters a young woman who can manipulate field energies using only her mind. She's the first natural field user in history, but she's also hiding from Arizona drug dealers and a possible ... more info>>

Searching for an NSA agent's missing sister turns up hidden gold and an Amaran flitter buried in the 17th century by an eruption of Glacier Peak volcano. Missing Russian suitcase nukes are discovered in Las Vegas and several other US cities and new AI flitter goddess Catherine is born in the midst of a crisis.

A pleasant day off is interrupted by a woman on a mission of bloody vengeance and her hunt for a Cuban drug runner. As if that weren't enough, a shady government agency sets up a final showdown over Ed's privately-owned flitter. 4/2009

Someone - A government? An anti-Amaran group? - tries to use an implanted ricin capsule to control Earth's only known natural field user with the threat of death. After removing the capsule from Lori Mackenzie's jaw, Ed takes her into protective custody, introduces Lori to a level of power that makes her almost invulnerable, and teaches her to hone her skills by annihilating huge icebergs.

Aria Wilson is an eight-year-old eleventh-grader at the Amaran asteroid factory station. As if her exceptional intelligence wasn't unusual enough, she exposes herself as a natural field user when she saves another kid's life at a birthday party. Shocked and alarmed school and station officials immediately ship her to Earth, where Lori and Ed have to foil the federal government's attempt to take seize possession of Aria with a phony Child Services warrant. Ed, Lori, Aria, and her mother manage to... more info>>

A beach, a bottle found, and a beautiful woman. Just another day in paradise, right? Nope. That would be too easy. This is a new take on an old story.

Of all the wonders that lie in the infinite reaches of space what small few might we witness? In the infinite stretch of time that lies before us, everything can and will happen, and the fun of discovery has already begun. A Binary Convergence is dual contributor science fiction at its best, bringing the complementary talents of Brian L. Porter and Graeme S. Houston together and giving them free reign to take us beyond our wildest dreams. Within are three stories from each author with a co-autho... more info>>

The much-acclaimed A Circle of Arcs, which is a unique blend of time travel, actual historical figures and speculative fiction. The sequel to A Circle of Arcs, A Distant Bell is in the works and is anxiously awaited by her readers. Joan of Arc and an alien sorcerer, time travel and a centuries-old mystery, Gilles de Rais on a modern city street, why?

In the future, cancer has been eliminated on Earth. Despite his diagnosis, celebrated artist Jimson Alleca can live peacefully for another twenty years if he stays on the planet to receive his medication. But, Jimson doesn't want peace; he wants love. Even though it will shorten his lifespan to one single year more, Jimson leaves space-normal to enter "the Hype," a shimmering space outside of space. He goes in search of his former lover, the starcaptain Russell O'Neill. What he finds is enough a... more info>>

The Nebula Nominee Story and More! Here is the only collection of stories by the Nebula nominee author of Skyclimber, Bioblast, and Dawn of the Demi-Gods. One of the only two writers to produce science fiction of increasing quality and sophistication from the earliest days of the pulps and into the last quarter of the 20th century, the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction hails Raymond Z. Gallun as "the best of those pre-1939 writers who failed to remain well-known." Featuring "A First Glimpse," one ... more info>>

What would happen if someone invented a machine that could create an exact duplicate of anything? That is the simple but remarkable premise of Damon Knight's classic 1959 novel, A for Anything. "The Gismo," as the machine is known, seems like it will end poverty and need forever. But of course, things are not that simple. Like any truly great work of science fiction, Knight's novel boldly pursues the ramifications of his premise. What will people do if there is no longer any need to work for any... more info>>

The ambitious Sultan of Alpha Centauri can only claim the illustrious title of Caliph if he makes a ritual pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca. This journey completed, he will rule the entire population of the greater Islamic universe. But human knowledge has not yet been able to overcome the significant challenges presented by interplanetary travel. However, the Sultan resourcefully enlists the help of Abdul Hamid-Jones, a clever fugitive with a price on his head and the law on his heels. Thro... more info>>