Fantascienza

BioShock: Rapture

di John Shirley

It's the end of World War II. FDR's New Deal has redefined American politics. Taxes are at an all-time high. The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki has brought a fear of total annihilation. The rise of secret...

The Memory of Earth

di Orson Scott Card

High above the planet Harmony, the Oversoul watches. Its task, programmed so many millennia ago, is to guard the human settlement on this planet--to protect this fragile remnant of Earth from all threats. To...

The Rock Rats

Grand Tour #10, The Asteroid Wars #2

di Ben Bova

Visionary space industrialist Dan Randolph is dead-but his protégé, pilot Pancho Barnes, now sits on the board of his conglomerate. She has her work cut out for her. For Randolph's rival, Martin Humphries,...

Frozen Fire

di Bill Evans & Marianna Jameson

Bill Evans and Marianna Jameson first teamed up to write Category 7, vividly portraying the devastating impact of a powerful hurricane on New York City.  Now Evans and Jameson return with Frozen Fire, another...

Mind Over Ship

di David Marusek

The year is 2135, and the international program to seed the galaxy with human colonies has stalled as greedy, immoral powerbrokers park their starships in Earth’s orbit and begin to convert them into space...

Venus

Grand Tour #16

di Ben Bova

The surface of Venus is the most hellish place in the solar system. The ground is hot enough to melt aluminum. The air pressure is so high it has crushed spacecraft landers as though they were tin cans. The...

The Double Human

Tom Wilner #2

di James O'Neal

Tom Wilner is a cop.  At least what passes for a cop in this shattered world.  Plague and nuclear war have left most of the United States uninhabitable.  Many have fled to safer zones, forcing what’s left...

Jaclyn the Ripper

di Karl Alexander

In Time After Time, H.G. Wells used his time machine to chase after Jack the Ripper who was on a killing spree in 1979 San Francisco. After H.G. met Amy Catherine Robbins, the love of his life, and banished...

Agent to the Stars

di John Scalzi

The space-faring Yherajk have come to Earth to meet us and to begin humanity’s first interstellar friendship. There’s just one problem: They’re hideously ugly and they smell like rotting fish.

So getting...

EVE: The Burning Life

di Hjalti Danielsson

We all crave a purpose.

A fire to spark our lives into action.

It’s this burning life within that drives us to our destinies.

But when it burns too deep, or goes unchecked, it can shatter innocent lives...

Wild Cards I

di George R.R. Martin & Wild Cards Trust

Back in print after a decade, expanded with new original material, this is the first volume of George R. R. Martin’s Wild cards shared-world series

There is a secret history of the world—a history in which...

The Authorized Ender Companion

di Orson Scott Card & Jake Black

The Authorized Ender Companion is a complete and in-depth encyclopedia of all the persons, places, things and events in Orson Scott Card’s Ender Universe.  Written by Jake Black under the editorial supervision...

Dying Inside

di Robert Silverberg

In 1972, Robert Silverberg, even then an acknowledged leader in the science fiction field, published a book that was immediately hailed as a masterpiece. More than three decades later, Dying Inside has stood...

Brain Thief

di Alexander Jablokov

Bernal Haydon-Rumi, executive assistant to a funder of eccentric projects, drops by his boss’s house on the way home from a business trip. By the next morning, he’s been knocked out, his wealthy socialite...

Resurrection

The Domain Trilogy #2

di Steve Alten

What happens to us when we die?

Is there really an afterlife?

Do we possess a soul?

Does God exist?

For Michael Gabriel, the answers to these questions lie in another dimension, a realm of eternity where there is...

Half a Crown

Small Change #3

di Jo Walton

In 1941 the European war ended in the Farthing Peace, a rapprochement between Britain and Nazi Germany. The balls and banquets of Britain’s upper class never faltered, while British ships ferried “undesirables”...

Escape from Hell

Inferno #2

di Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle

Allan Carpenter escaped from hell once but remained haunted by what he saw and endured.  He has now returned, on a mission to liberate those souls unfairly tortured and confined.  Partnering with the legendary...

The Eternal World

di Clark Ashton Smith

For Christopher Chadon the day started as a normal one, but he was pulled into a cosmic battle for the Timeless Ones in the Eternal World...

Shadow Over Mars

di Leigh Brackett

How would Rick fulfill the prophecy that linked his name with the destiny of a dying world?

The Crystal Ray

di Raymond Z Gallun

From the bow of one of America's ships a beam of bluish light stabbed out and struck an enemy craft. It passed thru the vessel as tho it had been made of glass instead of thousands of tons of steel.