Science Science Fiction: 233 books

Here is high fidelity fiction at Philip José Farmer's story-telling best. It's a vibrant, distractingly different tale of three centuries into the future. And as you read you'll have a vague, uneasy feeling that it's all taking place somewhere in the unexplored parts of the universe, even today.

To the world the international cult leader Caldos Moriera is a saint and a healer. His healing touch has made him famous and allows him to charge whatever price he desires for his service. But the money and gratitude lavished upon him aren't enough. Caldos wants ultimate power,...

Adapted to film in 1951 as The Day the Earth Stood Still, this short tale contains a shocker not quite viewed in the movie.

A Playboy is someone with power, too much time on his hands, and too little sense of a goal worth achieving. And if the Playboy happens to belong to a highly advanced culture....

An intriguing anthology where reality is transient and the puzzle box holds the key to the meaning of life. Archeology Professor Albert Mallory understands reality. He knows the way the world works. When he steals an ancient puzzle box to pay off gambling debts, he thinks the only mysterious...

A group has to survive in post apocalyptic America.

When you have an engine with no fuel, and fuel without an engine, and a life-and-death deadline to meet, you have a problem indeed. Unless you are a stubborn Dutchman--and Jan Van Artevelde was the stubbornest Dutchman on Venus.

The Dragon Knight is the second book of Gordon R. Dickson's Dragon Knight series. The novel begins five months after the battle at Loathly Tower which took place in The Dragon and The George.

Through no fault of his own, the once human Jim Eckert had become a dragon. Unfortunately, his beloved Angie had remained human. But in this magical land anything could happen. To make matter worse, Angie had been taken prisoner by an evil dragon and was held captive in the impenetrable Loathly Tower....

Was this ill-fated expedition the end of a proud, old race--or the beginning of a new one? There are strange gaps in our records of the past. We find traces of man-like things--but, suddenly, man appears, far too much developed to be the "next step" in a well-linked chain of evolutionary evidence. Perhaps something like the events of this story furnishes the answer to the riddle.

One fateful night with a strange cyborg warrior whose name she doesn't even know changes Cathleen's life.  Just barely starting her career as a scientist, she is suddenly thrown into the unknown world of motherhood. Now living in a quiet town to have a fresh start, her work as a lab assistant...

Jesper, newly crowned king of planet Abalon, was celebrating. He'd finally ascended the throne and the entire capital city was celebrating with him. Rockwell, Jasper's close friend and High General suggested that they should have one last wild night and do something they wouldn't normally. Something...

Anna signed up for a new cross planetary immigration program. She was chosen as one of the first humans to travel to Rolar, an inhabited planet with intelligent life in a neighboring solar system. As the program is in its fledgling stages Anna is paired with a Rolarian mentor to help her settle into...