Science Fiction category: 192947 books
What Makes This Book So Great
Re-Reading the Classics of Science Fiction and Fantasy
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
As any reader of Jo Walton's Among Others might guess, Walton is both an inveterate reader of SF and fantasy, and a chronic re-reader of books. In 2008, then-new science-fiction mega-site Tor.com asked Walton to blog regularly about her re-reading*—*about all kinds of older fantasy and SF, ranging...
In Other Worlds
SF and the Human Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale
At a time when speculative fiction seems less and less far-fetched, Margaret Atwood lends her distinctive voice and singular point of view to the genre in a series of essays that brilliantly illuminates the essential truths...
by James Blish
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
James Blish, in his incarnation as "William Atheling, Jr.," has written more than his share of the most incisive criticism of contemporary science fiction. In 1964 Advent brought out The Issue at Hand, a collection of Atheling's critical essays on stories in the science-fiction magazines.Now...
Red Star Tales
100 Years of Russian Science Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
**For over a century, most of the science fiction produced by the world’s largest country has been beyond the reach of Western readers. This new collection aims to change that, bringing a large body of influential works into the English orbit. **
A scientist keeps a severed head alive, and...
Dragonwriter
A Tribute to Anne McCaffrey and Pern
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
When Anne McCaffrey passed in November 2011, it was not only those closest to her who mourned her death; legions of readers also felt the loss deeply. The pioneering science fiction author behind the Dragonriders of Pern® series crafted intricate stories, enthralling worlds, and strong heroines that...
by Jules Verne
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2013
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth (French: Voyage au centre de la Terre, also translated under the titles Journey to the Centre of the Earth and A Journey to the Interior of the Earth) is a classic 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne. The story involves a German professor (Otto Lidenbrock...
The War of the Worlds: Science and Adventure Fiction
(With Audiobook Link)
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells, first published in 1898. It is the first-person narrative of the adventures of an unnamed protagonist and his brother in Surrey and London as Earth is invaded by Martians. Written between 1895 and 1897, it is one of the earliest stories...
Strangers Among Us
Tales of the Underdogs and Outcasts
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2016
There's a delicate balance between mental health and mental illness…
2017 Aurora Awards (Canadian SF&F) Winner
2017 Alberta Book Publishing Award Winner (Speculative Fiction Book of the Year)
2016 Foreword INDIES Finalist (Anthologies)
2017 Aurora Awards Winner (Best...
The H. Beam Piper Megapack
33 Classic Science Fiction Novels and Short Stories
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
THE H. BEAM PIPER MEGAPACK collects 33 novels, novellas, and short stories by H. Beam Piper, including such classics as LITTLE FUZZY, SPACE VIKING, and "He Walked Around the Horses."
Complete contents:
INTRODUCTION: MEET H. BEAM PIPER
TIME AND TIME AGAIN (1947)
HE WALKED AROUND...
Pawn's Gambit
And Other Stratagems
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
**A collection of career-launching short fiction by #1 New York Times–bestselling author Timothy Zahn, including the Hugo Award–winning novella Cascade Point.
Timothy Zahn shows an unparalleled mastership of science fiction in the fifteen tales gathered here.
“The Price of Survival”...
The Second Reginald Bretnor Megapack
14 Science Fiction & Mystery Novels and Short Stories
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
The Second Reginald Bretnor Megapack collects 15 great science fiction, fantasy, and mystery tales -- including two complete novels! Assembled here are: THE HAUNTING OF H.M.S. "DRYAD" FEGHOOT SHIPWRECKED THE GHOST CIVIL RIGHTS GNURRS COME FROM THE VOODVORK OUT LITTLE ANTON THE LADIES OF BEETLEGOOSE NINE...
by Vernor Vinge
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2002
Since his first published story, "Apartness," appeared in 1965, Vernor Vinge has forged a unique and awe-inspiring career in science fiction as his work has grown and matured. He is now one of the most celebrated science fiction writers in the field , having won the field's top award, the...
by Theodore Sturgeon
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Wondrous, horrifying, achingly human: The best short stories by “one of the greatest writers of science fiction and fantasy who ever lived” (Stephen King).
One of science fiction’s most beloved trailblazers, Hugo and Nebula–Award winning author Theodore Sturgeon wrote novels and short...
Yondering
The First Borgo Press Book of Science Fiction Stories
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
This is one of a series of anthologies of science fiction and mystery stories by Borgo Press writers that are being distributed at cost as both ebooks and paperback volumes. The first volume in the sequence, Yondering, includes a baker's dozen of original and reprint tales by fourteen writers.
In...