Science Fiction category: 192947 books

This is a posthumous collection of Blish essays, mostly on science fiction and fantasy. These include studies of Poul Anderson, James Branch Cabell, and the application of Spengler to science fiction. Other pieces range from "Music of the Absurd" (modern music—more fantastic than any fiction ) to...

The name "Mythic Orbits" was simply intended to suggest both science fiction and fantasy and to identify this book in a distinctive way, along with any that follow after it in a series. Ideally this collection would include the best stories published in a particular year, but that...

SFR Galaxy Award 2015 Winner Rumors emerge that Catherine Shahrazad has returned from the fringes and been seen in Federation space. Wherever she goes, her name and her history cause civil unrest, riots and worse. The Federation Board doesn’t want her there. Neither do the leaders of Cadfael...

The complete Interspace Origins science fiction romance series in one boxed set. Follow the adventures of Catherine Shahrazad, possibly the oldest human in the known galaxy, and her gifted pilot, Bedivere X, as they return to Federation Space from the vast and unknown fringes. Cat’s history...

How does someone afraid of their own shadow become a hero and win love? Pint-sized Noa Doria and her “loser” friends help a stranger in trouble—none other than Haydn Forney.  Haydn is the son of the most hated man on the Endurance, Fornell Acardi, leader of the psychotic Caver movement. ...

Rex has never been worthy of Belen’s love.  Can he change that? Life aboard the Endurance is disintegrating—unemployment, inflation, crime and destitution, all ignored by the super-rich, including Rex Julyan, the wildly successful and most hedonistic man on the ship.  When Rex meets an...

Can Bedivere win Cat back? Bedivere is trapped in a snare of drugs and violence, deep in the bowels of the galaxy, while Catherine works with Devlin Woodward, who campaigns tirelessly for Varkan rights.  Devlin’s great deeds make him the most influential man in the known worlds. When...

They can’t stand each other. Devin Bronson has climbed from an abject childhood, determined to reach the pinnacle of the Endurance, the Captain’s chair. Association with the wrong people could destroy her hopes. Adam Wary is a typical skinwalker, living hard and fast, for life can...

TODAY'S TOP WRITERS PAY TRIBUTE TO A MASTERFor seven decades, L. Sprague de Camp was a giant in both science fiction and fantasy, renowned for his fast-moving action-adventure tales filled with genial humorous touches and backed up with a profound knowledge of history and science. He was also renowned...

VOLUME 1 IN A STERLING COLLECTION OF STORIES FROM LEGENDARY HARD SCIENCE FICTION MASTER BEN BOVA. Selected stories from Bova's amazing career at the center of science fiction and space advocacy. He is the creator of the New York Times best-selling Grand Tour science fiction series, a six time Hugo award...

C. A. Higgins’s acclaimed novel Lightless fused suspenseful storytelling, high-caliber scientific speculation, and richly developed characters into a stunning science fiction epic. Now the dazzling Supernova heightens the thrills and deepens the haunting exploration of technology and humanity—and...

Picasso's Cat & Other Stories showcases the broad talents of one of science fiction's more versatile writers. This collection contains 15 tales of humor, hard science, cyberpunk, near-future SF, and space opera--including the three-story "Stealing the Sun" series that first appeared...

In a deluxe collector's edition hardcover, four classic novels from science fiction's most transformative decade, including the landmark Flowers for Algernon This volume, the first of a two-volume set gathering the best American science fiction from the tumultuous 1960s, opens with Poul Anderson's...

James Henry Schmitz (1911– 1981) was an American science fiction (SF) writer. Schmitz wrote mostly short stories, which sold chiefly to Astounding Science-Fiction, which later became Analog Science Fiction and Fact, and to Galaxy Science Fiction. Gale Biography in Context called him "a craftsmanlike...