Science Fiction category: 192947 books

A supremely entertaining selection of speculative short fiction from the author of Rocket to the Morgue and “The Quest for Saint Aquin.” Anthony Boucher was a literary renaissance man: an Edgar Award–winning mystery reviewer, an esteemed editor of the Hugo Award–winning Magazine of...

Someone has taken the original document of the U.S. Constitution and substituted another. The substitute is identical, just as old, and equally authentic -- except it has been signed by Aaron Burr! It contradicts history, but it is real and there for everyone to see! Such a crime calls for out-of-this-world...

When companies develop a new technology, do they ask how it might affect the people who will actually use it? That, more or less, sums up Brian David Johnson’s duties as Intel’s futurist-in-residence. In this fascinating book, Johnson provides a collection of science fiction prototyping stories...

An indispensible tool for all science fiction writers, Space Travel explains the science you need to help you make your fiction plausible. You'll engineer your rockets with accurate technical data. Show your characters' physical responses to weightlessness. Know the environment of space,...

This out-standing collection of lesbian erotic science fiction and fantasy was originally published as two anthologies, WORLDS OF WOMEN and STARS INSIDE HER. In these pages women writers turn their vivid imaginations to faraway planets, erotic futures, and sensual fairy tales, to celebrate...

THE ASTEROID MURDER CASE: A Science Fiction Mystery, by Arthur Jean Cox. The murder of UN observer Carl Neal on a lonely outpost of the Asteroid Belt would seem to be only a small human tragedy, and yet it opens up vistas both of millennia of time and of unimaginable distances. Inspector Tom Dooley,...

A guided tour though the many worlds of a New York Times best-selling master of authentic science fact and riveting science fiction.James P. Hogan stands among the foremost writers of science fiction today, and is renowned for his ability to combine accurate science from the cutting edge of present-day...

Tales of Cinnamon City is a Science Fiction and Fantasy Series set in the rich, deep world of Megarothia. Kamari Rising is the first trilogy of the series, mixing elements of military science fiction, epic fantasy, and hi-tech action.  Rachel always wanted to join the Security Forces, but...

If you wanted to know how one of the best editors and writers thinks, who would you want to know about? Gardner Dozois! Gardner has won more Hugo awards for editing than anyone, for his incredible work with Asimove's Science Fiction Magazine--where stories he selected and edited won tons more awards....

Hal Clement, one of the all-time greats of science fiction, was defining hard science fiction before such distinctions were even being thought of. He once described his approach to writing: “[T]he rules must be quite simple. They are; for the reader of a science-fiction story, they consist of finding...

This collection of stories showcases the work of George Zebrowski, one of science fiction’s masters and a writer Hugo and Nebula Award winner Robert J. Sawyer has called “one of the most philosophically astute writers in science fiction.” Like the writers Olaf Stapledon, Arthur C. Clarke, and...

SEVEN OUT OF TIME AND OTHER SCIENCE FICTION STORIES contains seven works by Golden Age scifi writer Arthur Leo Zagat, including his sci-fi/time travel adventure novel SEVEN OUT OF TIME.  In SEVEN OUT OF TIME, a young man is kidnapped and transported to a distant alien world where he encounters many...

Savage barbarians enslave Aleytys, the wearer of the Diadem, as she sails the stars in her quest to find her truth and her history in this science fiction adventure.   The second book in author Jo Clayton’s phenomenal Diadem science fiction space opera series continues the adventures of Aleytys,...

SCIENCE FICTION SAMPLER A world where everyone reads minds. A genetically altered upper class. Aliens. Mars. Reprogrammed human DNA. These hot new science fiction novels will stretch your mind, bend your preconceived notions, and take you on an adventure with a dash of romance. This sampler...