Infinity: 1105 books

This is a historical-fictional book of two identical twins that were separated at birth and grew up in different circumstances. When Japan bombed Pearl Harbor they both joined the Air Force; at different times. They came together at Guadalcanal as two fighter pilots who looked similar but one was...

Three all-American jocks from Hinson, Iowa, sow their wild oats as they reconcile very intimate obstacles holding them back in life.

Pearl is a beautiful lady who was found naked and covered with blood after what appeared to be some kind of a cult ritual. She was found by Matt Mueller and his wife, who adopted her after they realized that she had amnesia and had acquired the ability to bring the dead back to life. The Muellers help...

The Elephants Trunk and Other Stories is a collection of five stories. The first story describes how the elephant got its long trunk. The second one tells how some clever animals help their human friend win a kingdom, and the third story reveals why the aspen leaves tremble if there is as much as the...

William Wilson returns to his roots in the East Tennessee Mountains. His large family and neighbors strive for happiness and survival in the beautiful but demanding regions--Brimstone Mountain--the refuge he needs.

'I survive. I live from day to day – a Meridian day which humanity has created from one eternal stretch of daylight.' Meridian, twenty light years from Earth and with just a tiny scattering of inhabitable islands, seems the perfect place for Bob Benedict to escape the tragedy of his past....

Over the course of a career spanning twenty five years, Eric Brown has written just a handful of horror and ghost stories – and all of them are collected here. They range from the gentle, psychological chiller “The House” to the more overtly fantastical horror of “Li Ketsuwan”, from the...

"The stories in this collection are among the best science fiction. These are stories imbued with a rich intelligence and a deep sense of humanity. These are mature stories, tales of love and loss, of pleasure and pain. Cherish them." - from the foreword by Stephen Baxter Parallax...

Emerging from flux after three months of mind-pushing a starship through the nada-continuum, Thorn realised he could not hear. He was on his second drink, an hour later, when a sound startled him. But it was the wrong sound... Classic short science fiction, and winner of the 1988 Interzone poll for best story of the year.

In myth Tartarus was the lowest region of hell. In reality it is a world about to die... I'd heard many a tale about Tartarus Major, how certain continents were technological backwaters five hundred years behind the times; how the Church governed half the planet with a fist of iron, and yet...

The Spacetime Pit Plus Two collects three collaborative stories by two of science fiction's finest writers. Never before published in one volume, the triptych showcases the authors' ability to create narratives on a vast scale, and yet never to lose sight of the all-important human element. In...

**Philip K. Dick Award nominated writers Tony Ballantyne and Eric Brown bring together forty-two fantastical short-short stories, featuring new takes on every SF trope from alien invasion, robots, and time-travel, to stellar exploration, the future of computing, and the nature of the human soul. ** Tony...

Deep Future collects ten tales of the past, present and future by the award-winning author of the best selling Helix. Whether he's writing about aliens coming to Earth, virtual reality, alternate worlds or immortal men, Brown imbues his fictions with a concern for character and an abiding passion...

Rites of Passage gathers four long stories, one of which is original to the collection. "Bartholomew Burns and the Brain Invaders" features a Victorian London facing the threat of alien invasion and the mysterious 'Guardian' who saves the day. "Guardians of the Phoenix" is...