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This early work by Philip K. Dick was originally published in 1954 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Shell Game' is a short story about a group of mental patients shipwrecked on an alien planet. Philip Kindred Dick was born on December 16 1928, in Chicago, Illinois....

LIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF--and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy,...

Daniel Godfrey has been sentenced to be transported to a prison planet for a crime he didn’t commit--but something goes wrong with the transmatter device, and Daniel and his companions are thrust onto an alien world whose people are more human than they have any right to be. This is a place where pirate...

The 43rd Golden Age of Science Fiction MEGAPACK® again focuses on pulpsmith Chester S. Geier's science fiction, collecting 3 novels and 17 short stories from the pages of such classic pulp magazines as Planet Stories, Amazing Stories, and Fantastic Advelntures. Included are: MINIONS OF THE...

The author of sixty-two books, more than forty of them published commercially, Ardath Mayhar (1930-2012) began her career in the early 1980s with science fiction novels from Doubleday and TSR. Atheneum published several of her young adult and children’s novels. Changing focus, she wrote westerns (as...

Science Fiction is the genre that looks at the implications of technology on society, which in this age of exponential technological growth makes it the most relevant branch of literature going. This is only the start, and the close of the 21st century will look absolutely nothing like its inception....

Hand picked authors and a literary legacy... You may want to read it in one quick bite… or savor it slowly like fine swiss chocolate… one delicious prose at a time! For many years, SF lovers from around the world have enjoyed the stories and poems of the Tesseracts series, (Tesseracts...

Stretch your mind with stories of Flight, Prophecy, and Rites of Passage. Immerse yourself in the experience of Rearranging Worlds, Vice, and Frequently Repeated Actions. Sit down with Monsters and enjoy A Repast, talk Trade or revel in A Song, but beware of the Signs. Fill a few minutes or a day...

PROCYON SCIENCE FICTION ANTHOLOGY FOR 2016 In this inaugural science fiction anthology from PROCYON PRESS, twenty authors present twenty different views of the world that's coming. Here you’ll find a philosophy professor turned space Marine in a psychic war for Earth’s future—you’ll...

Andrew Barger, award-winning author, editor and engineer, has extensively researched forgotten journals and magazines of the early 19th century to locate groundbreaking science fiction short stories in the English language. In doing so, he found what is possibly the first science fiction story by...

Harl Vincent (October 19, 1893 – May 5, 1968) was the publication name of Harold Vincent Schoepflin, an American mechanical engineer and science fiction author. He was published regularly in science fiction "pulp" magazines. In this ebook: Vulcan's Workshop Creatures...

An eclipse is a rare and unusual event, when the world is transformed and the sky becomes a dark eldritch thing. It's a time when anything could happen, when any kind of story just might be true. That sense of the strange and wonderful guides Eclipse: New Science Fiction and Fantasy, the first volume...

An eclipse is a rare and unusual event, when the world is transformed and the sky becomes a dark eldritch thing. It's a time when anything could happen, when any kind of story just might be true. That sense of the strange and wonderful guides Eclipse: New Science Fiction and Fantasy, the second volume...

Six classic science fiction stories and commentary that illustrate and explain key algorithms or principles of artificial intelligence. This book presents six classic science fiction stories and commentary that illustrate and explain key algorithms or principles of artificial intelligence....