Science Fiction category: 192947 books
The Calculating Stars
A Lady Astronaut Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Mary Robinette Kowal's science fiction debut, The Calculating Stars, explores the premise behind her award-winning "Lady Astronaut of Mars."
Winner 2018 Nebula Award for Best Novel
Winner 2019 Locus Award for Best Novel
Hugo Finalist for Best Novel
2019 Campbell Memorial Award Finalist
Locus...
Carbide Tipped Pens
Seventeen Tales of Hard Science Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Seventeen hard science fiction tales by today's top authors
Hard science fiction is the literature of change, rigorously examining the impact-both beneficial and dangerous-of science and technology on humanity, the future, and the cosmos. As science advances, expanding our knowledge of the...
by C.M. Kornbluth
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
THE SYNDIC AND OTHER SCIENCE FICTION ADVENTURES contains one novel and three other works by science fiction writer C.M. Kornbluth (1923-1958). As a teenager, Kornbluth was a member of the Futurians, an influential group of science fiction fans and writers. While a member of the Futurians, he...
by Ray Cummings
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
To anyone interested in the roots of modern science fiction, the name of Ray Cummings should be well known. He wrote science fiction and fantasy before the name "science fiction" had been coined, publishing fantastic yarns in Argosy, Munsey's Magazine, and other mainstream pulp magazines. Of course,...
The Arthur Leo Zagat Science Fiction MEGAPACK ®
15 Classic Science Fiction Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Arthur Leo Zagat was one of the most versatile pulp writers in the 1930s-1950s, the author of more than 500 short stories in many different genres. His work appeared in most of the top science fiction, mystery, and adventures magazines, including Astounding Stories, Planet Stories, Weird Tales, Thrilling...
The Science Fiction Megapack: 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories
25 Classic Science Fiction Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
Hours of great reading await, with tales from some of the 20th century's most renowned science fiction authors, Here are 25 science fiction stories (plus a bonus short-short):
ARENA, by Fredric Brown
EXPEDITER, by Mack Reynolds
ONE-SHOT, by James Blish
SHAMBLEAU, by C. L. Moore
SHIPWRECK IN...
Soldier of the Legion
a military science fiction adventure
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
HE JOINED THE LEGION AND SURVIVED TRAINING ON PLANET HELL. HE THOUGHT HE’D SEEN IT ALL. HE WAS WRONG.
His Legion designation is Beta 3, warname Thinker. This will be his first real mission, the first mission for all the members of Beta squad-young men and women given immortality but trained...
March of the Legion
a military science fiction adventure
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
IN THE ERA OF TOTAL GALACTIC WAR, CAN ONE SQUAD REALLY MAKE A DIFFERENCE?
On a hostile planet, Legion trooper Thinker and his comrades of Squad Beta are ordered to assault the invading encampment of alien Omins. But the moment they are dropped into the atmosphere of Andrion 3, little goes as...
Das Erbe der Uraniden (Science-Fiction Klassiker)
Liebesroman, Abenteuergeschichte und Science-Fiction in einem Roman
Language: German
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Dieses eBook: "Das Erbe der Uraniden (Science-Fiction Klassiker)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Hans Dominik (1872-1945) war ein deutscher Science-Fiction- und Sachbuchautor, Wissenschaftsjournalist und Ingenieur...
Partners in Wonder
Women and the Birth of Science Fiction, 1926-1965
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2005
Partners in Wonder revolutionizes our knowledge of women and early science fiction. Contrary to accepted interpretations, women fans and writers were a welcome and influential part of pulp science fiction from the birth of the genre. Davin finds that at least 203 female authors, under their own female...
by Locus Magazine
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Locus is the magazine of the science fiction, fantasy, and horror fields, with reviews, interviews, news, and listings.
Locus Issue #604, May 2011, contains a Roundtable Discussion of Theodore Sturgeon; an interview with David D. Levine; a new column by Cory Doctorow titled “Techno-Optimism”;...
The Jack London Science Fiction MEGAPACK ®
The Complete Science Fiction and Fantasy of Jack London
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Most people think of The Call of the Wild or White Fang when Jack London's name comes up -- and rightfully so, for these are his two most famous works, and both are classics. It's an interesting but far less well known fact that London also wrote a substantial body of science fiction and fantasy (before...
by Avram Davidson
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
Avram Davidson (1923-1993) was an American writer of fantasy fiction, science fiction, and crime fiction, as well as the author of many stories that do not fit into a genre niche. He won a Hugo Award and three World Fantasy Awards in the science fiction and fantasy genre, a World Fantasy Life Achievement...
Dying Planet
Mars in Science and the Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2005
For more than a century, Mars has been at the center of debates about humanity’s place in the cosmos. Focusing on perceptions of the red planet in scientific works and science fiction, Dying Planet analyzes the ways Mars has served as a screen onto which humankind has projected both its hopes for...