Science Fiction Fantasy category: 175005 books

The classic science fiction horror novel of possessed children that inspired the terrifying Village of the Damned films. In John Wyndham’s classically elegant, calm style, this novel explores the arrival of a collective intelligence on earth that threatens to eliminate mankind. The quiet,...

It's been five years since the disappearance of the Matriarch. With the siege of Triyard and the mass evacuation of its citizens, the Consortium has been plunged into chaos and its standing in the Charted Known diminished considerably. This loss has prompted a number of floaters to secede from the ancient...

After discovering plans that the Freestates were intending on launching an attack against the Consortium from their facility on Ettad, Sabas Yan rushed back to Advent territory to warn the Senate of the threat. Coming down from their mad escape and the revelation that one of his companions — the...

How would you like to be shanghaied to the stars? Does whether you’re human or not make a difference? A night at a carnival takes an odd turn for Martin Henshaw, a humble digital mechanic who is tricked into a job with Transgalaxian, tending cybers far from home. But when he finds himself in the...

Ce recueil de nouvelles, où cinq écrivains déploient leur imagination, conjugue à merveille l’érotisme au fantastique ou à la science-fiction. Que les histoires racontées soient drôles ou tragiques, elles savent envelopper le lecteur dans une atmosphère onirique et très chaude. La...

J.-H. Rosny aîné, pseudonyme de Joseph Henri Honoré Boex, né le 17 février 1856 à Bruxelles et mort le 15 février 1940 à Paris, est un des grands fondateurs de la science-fiction moderne.   Extrait : C’était mille ans avant le massement civilisateur d’où surgirent...

Un roman fantastique aux teintes comiques Roman qui débute de manière très classique mais où il est bientôt question d’une religion devant succéder à toutes les autres, où le personnage principal est un mythe antique, où perce même la science-fiction, Les Fils de Judas est à coup...

Becoming something Other. Becoming something more. Thrilling, terrifying, life-altering. In these tales of human transformation, ordinary men and women encounter the truly extraordinary and are forever changed in body and soul! ACTAEON -- Time travelers discover a terrifying secret! THE...

In the year 2185, reality is a terrifyingly ugly place. The only time teenage Rigs feels alive is when she's breaking heads as a member of Poseidon's Angels, feared San Francisco biker gang. Rigs has devoted her life to violence and getting ahead within the world's societal confines--add...

Gifted with superpowers she can’t refuse, her life spirals out of control. Bounced from a jungle battle, to an Islamist stronghold, to a corrupt Columbian trial, Em Roberts, your average school principal, knows that something is dreadfully wrong. Now she must challenge “the voice”...

Its 2217, and humanity is mostly governed by the solar systemwide government called the Sol Governance. Suddenly, as if from nowhere, the crew from several governance military stations is abducted by the arrival of a group of lights from outside the Sol system! Eventually, the governance operation...

Voellers prose is both poetic and robust, taking readers on a heightened, hypnotic journey that complements the surreal, dreamlike nature of the world the characters inhabit. The books first 30 pages are particularly excellent, composed of very short chapters, as each character presents him- or herself...

"The Collective Legacy" continues on from where the Vanguard Chronicles leaves off. The book moves the reader forward in the ongoing struggles of the settlers from Earth on their new home world "Legacy". Faced with predatory creatures, internal treachery and alien invaders it seems...

The captain of a family-owned starship arranges a marriage for her son in hopes of achieving faster-than-light travel and maybe, just maybe, marital bliss. Before Hisako Saski is even born, her parents make a deal on her behalf. In exchange for a first-class education and a boost out of poverty,...