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Author
Publisher
CreateSpace
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
You heard nothing happened on December 21, 2012, right?
Not exactly. Here's where the cosmic shift began:
As election year 2008 unfolds, Tess Vaughn's deepest desire is to give up romance and live a quiet life in rural Arizona. But when the former investigative journalist jogs into the arms of married presidential candidate Senator Harris Cantrell Henry, she finds trouble galore.
Not only does Henry tell her things she doesn't want to hear about...
2) Star Dragon
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The SS Cygni probe sent back hours of video, captured by the Biolathe AI, but only a few minutes mattered-the four minutes that showed a creature made of fire, living, moving, and dancing in the plasma fire of the double star's accretion disk. A dragon made of star stuff, so alien that only a human expedition to observe and perhaps capture it, and could truly understand them.
It's a perilous journey into the future, however, for SS Cygni is 245 light-...
3) Alien House
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Phil Collins is thrilled to be chosen as one of the advance scouts for the invasion of Earth, but when he gets here his ship is sabotaged and he loses his weapons, papers--and his clothes--outside near the campus of Newton College. Homeless and reduced to petty theft, he finds himself adopted by the brothers of Alpha Tau Ceti fraternity, a step up for Phil and a step down in the opinion of anyone else on campus. Now Phil is trying to fit in on Earth...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
What is an Amish couple doing riding away from a spaceship in a horse-drawn buggy? In this clash-of-cultures science fiction story we follow Aaron and Martha Stoltzfoos (an Amish couple from Lancaster, PA) as they take leave of the spacecraft that carried them light years to the planet of Murna. The purpose of their expedition is to homestead Amish style and set an example of exceptional farming to the local inhabitants and encourage an era of agricultural...
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Series
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
TWO PLANETS CLASH FOR LUNAR TREASURE Gregg Haljan was aware that there was a certain danger in having the giant spaceship Planetara stop off at the moon to pick up Grantline's special cargo of moon ore. For that rare metal-invaluable in keeping Earth's technology running-was the target of many greedy eyes. But nevertheless he hadn't figured on the special twist the clever Martian brigands would use. So when he found both the ship and himself suddenly...
6) E Being
Author
Publisher
Worlds of If Science Fiction
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
I was the first man to reach the speed of light. I am also the answer to what happens to energy divided by the speed of light. Now I am an E Being and I'm hungry. I feed on energy-and to my horror, even the energy of humans!
7) Triptych
Author
Publisher
Short Fuse Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Part District 9. Part Lost in Translation. Part Stranger in a Strange Land.Triptych was nominated for two Lambda Literary Awards and named one of Publisher's Weekly's Best Books of the Year.Kalp is a widower, burdened with an unimaginable grief, who escaped his dying world with nothing but his own life and a half-finished toy for a child that will now never be born.Gwen is a language expert covertly recruited for a United Nations plan to integrate...
Author
Publisher
Feedbooks
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This is a classic science fiction short story by Robert Sheckley and illustrated by Ashman that first appeared in Galaxy Science Fiction magazine. The following passage is part of its intriguing intro: 'He said he wasn't immortal-but nothing could kill him. Still, if the Earth was to live as a free world, he had to die. ' This work is part of our Vintage Sci-Fi Classics Series, a series in which we are republishing some of the best stories in the...
9) Legacy
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This is a classic science fiction novel by James H. Schmitz that first appeared in Analog Science Fact and Fiction. It tells the story of the beautiful and deadly martial artist Trigger Agree and her quest to find her associate Holati Tate. Tate disappeared after discovering the Plasmoids, ancient living machines that were banished to a far off part of the galaxy but no-one knows why. Will she succeed and unravel the mystery? Find out in this thrilling...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
An Australian is digging in his property and uncovers a giant sphere containing the accumulated knowledge of an advanced civilisation. The mysterious sphere also contains a woman, asleep in a state of suspended animation for two thousand years.
Out of the Silence, Erle Cox's first imaginative novel, was written over a long period during the years between 1913 and 1918. It appeared as a serial in The Argus in 1919, and was published in book form in...
Author
Series
Darkover novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Darkover was experiencing a flare-up of trailmen's fever, a disease that would decimate the entire human population of Darkover, from the Comyn to the Terrans. The Medical Branch at Terran HQ had the start of a cure, but in order to finish it, they needed trailmen to come out of their mountain heights and donate blood. Only one man on Darkover stood any chance of persuading the trailmen to help, but he occupied the same body as the doctor capable...
12) Sound of Terror
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
What is more frightening than the fear of the unknown? Johnny found out!
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
A trumpet-tooter in love can be a wonderful sight, if Local 802 will forgive our saying so; when extraterrestrials get involved too—oh brother! V. R. Francis, who lives in California and has previously appeared in men's magazines, became 21 and sold to fantastic universe all in the same week.
This was love, and what could be done about it? It's been happening to guys for a long time, now.
15) Uniform of a Man
Author
Publisher
Feedbooks
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
After rescue, revenge was uppermost in Chet Barfield's mind; the hideous, bestial Agvars had to be taught a lesson they'd never forget. His rescuers seemed to disagree, however-until Chet learned his lesson too!
16) Pariah Planet
Author
Series
Publisher
Amazing Stories
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
When the blue plague appeared on the planet of Dara, fear struck nearby worlds. The fear led to a hate that threatened the lives of millions and endangered the Galactic peace. But the Med Service ship Aesculapius 20 with Calhoun and Murgatroyd the Tormal aboard are on the job and have stumbled into the horrible mess caused by unreasoning hatred, quarantine, mass starvation and worse. Calhoun must use all his medical knowledge and significant skills...
Author
Series
Publisher
Feedbooks
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Grimly Eric John Stark slogged toward that ancient Martian city-with every step he cursed the talisman of Ban Cruach that flamed in his blood-stained belt. Behind him screamed the hordes of Ciaran, hungering for that magic jewel-ahead lay the dread abode of the Ice Creatures-at his side stalked the whispering spectre of Ban Cruach, urging him on to a battle Stark knew he must lose!
18) Brain Teaser
Author
Publisher
Worlds of If Science Fiction
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Tom Godwin (1915-1980) was an American science fiction author active throughout the 1950s into the 1970s. In his career, Godwin published three novels and around thirty short stories. He is best known for his short story, "The Cold Equations". Published in 1954, the short story was Godwin's fourth work to be published and was one whose controversial dark ending helped redefine the genre.
Godwin was born in Maryland in 1915. He had a rough
...20) Barbary
Author
Publisher
Book View Cafe
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Barbary is emigrating from Earth to Einstein, an orbital space station. But she has a secret - and no one she can trust.The Writer's Cut: I wrote Barbary in 1986, when security at airports was less stringent than it is today. Will security at spaceports be equally stringent? I hope that won't be necessary.I considered revising the text, but once a writer begins revising a published book, there's probably no stopping. The book, which I wrote for younger...
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