Science Fiction / English literature

Isle of the Undead

by Llyod Arthur Eshbach

A gripping, thrilling, uncanny tale about the frightful fate that befell a yachting party on the dreadful island of living dead men... Excerpt A drab gray sheet of cloud slipped stealthily from the moon's round...

World of a Thousand Moons

by Raymond Hamilton

Grim death was the only romance to be found on this world that boasted a thousand moons... Excerpt Lance Kenniston felt the cold realization of failure as he came out of the building into the sharp chill of...

Stop Look and Dig

by George O. Smith

The enlightened days of mental telepathy and ESP should have made the world a better place, But the minute the Rhine Institute opened up, all the crooks decided it was time to go collegiate! Excerpt Someone...

World War Two Will Not Take Place

by Bill James

Set during an alternative version of 1938 with Bill James' trademark satirical take on events - England,1938. War looms, but the Prime minister's talks with Hitler in Munich seem to result in a pact of peace....

Dillon's Dream: Water & Earth

by Shawn H Phillips & Kyla Buckingham

Rocket scientist and martial arts expert Dr. Shawn Phillips launches the first novel of his amazing epic adventure. Dillon was a soon-to-be high school graduate living in California's modern day Antelope Valley...

Hammered

The Jenny Casey trilogy #1

by Elizabeth Bear

Once Jenny Casey was somebody’s daughter. Once she was somebody’s enemy. Now the former Canadian special forces warrior lives on the hellish streets of Hartford, Connecticut, in the year 2062. Racked with...

The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Peerless Peer

by Philip Jose Farmer

Holmes and Watson take to the skies in the quest of the nefarious Von Bork and his weapon of dread... A night sky aerial engagement with the deadly Fokker nearly claims three brilliant lives... And an historic...

A Good Old-Fashioned Future

by Bruce Sterling

From the subversive to the antic, the uproarious to the disturbing, the stories of Bruce Sterling are restless, energy-filled journeys through a world running on empty--the visionary work of one of our most...

The Great Dome On Mercury

by Arthur Leo Zagat

Trapped in the great dome, Darl valiantly defends Earth's outpost against the bird-man of Mars and his horde of pigmy henchmen. Excerpt Darl Thomas mopped the streams of perspiration from his bronzed face and...

Foundling On Venus

by John de Courcy & Dorothy de Courcy

Venus was the most miserable planet in the system, peopled by miserable excuses for human beings. And somewhere among this conglomeration of boiling protoplasm there was a being unlike the others, a being who...

Stalemate

by Basil Wells

The rules of a duel between gentlemen are quite different from the rules of war between nations. Is it because gentlemen do not fight wars, or is it that men in war cease to be gentlemen? Excerpt The bullet...

Second Sight

by Basil Wells

Basil Wells, who lives in Pennsylvania, writes that he has been doing research concerning the keelboat age prior to and following the War of 1812 on the "locally famous section of portage-keelboat-rafting stream...

Moment of Truth

by Basil Wells

Basil Wells, who lives in Pennsylvania, has been doing research concerning life in the area during the period prior to and following the War of 1812. Here he turns to a different problem--the adjustment demanded...

First Born

by Mary Armock

I wonder what dying is. And death. I listened hard and heard Mother talking about it, but I guess even she doesn't know. Excerpt Mother talks to me a lot. I'm even getting so I can talk to her a little. I think...

A Soldier's Duty

Theirs Not To Reason Why #1

by Jean Johnson

Ia is a precog, tormented by visions of the future where her home galaxy has been devastated. To prevent this vision from coming true, Ia enlists in the Terran United Planets military with a plan to become a...

Heaven's Shadow

Heaven's Shadow #1

by David S. Goyer & Michael Cassutt

The science fiction epic of our time has arrived.

Three years ago, an object one hundred miles across was spotted on a trajectory for Earth's sun. Now, its journey is almost over. As it approaches, two competing...

For a Good Time Call...

by Donald Ladew

William Fennimore is bored and depressed. He is a short man trapped in a tall world. While at a bus stop, waiting for his ride, he notices a perfectly written, copperplate script ad on the wall of the bus stop....

Hero's Walk

by Robert Crane

It had come-the dreaded bombardment from outer space. The mysterious voices had warned Earth; but ambition and vanity had driven a few powerful men to disregard the warnings. Now Neil Harrison of InterCos (the...

Rule 34

Halting State #2

by Charles Stross

Meet Edinburgh Detective Inspector Liz Kavanaugh, head of the Innovative Crimes Investigation Unit, otherwise known as the Rule 34 Squad. They monitor the Internet for potential criminal activity, analyzing...

Warped

by K.W. Jeter

Political tensions on Bajor are once again on the rise, and the various factions may soon come to open conflict. In addition, a series of murders has shaken everyone on board the station. While Security Chief...