Science fiction

An Ancient Heritage. A Silent Coastal Town. A Ritual Older Than Humanity. Summoned by the traditions of his forefathers, a lonely traveler arrives at the isolated, snow-covered fishing village of Kingsport, Massachusetts, for Yuletide celebration.

A Monstrous Deity. A Nightmare from the Deep. The Chaos That Threatens Sanity. Humanity lives on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, completely unaware of the ancient terrors that sleep beneath the waves.

A Modern Metropolis. An Ancient Mystic. A Nightmare Trapped in Time. Desperate to find inspiration among the historic architecture of New York City, a lonely young poet wanders the labyrinth of Greenwich Village by night.

A Chilling Apartment. A Bizarre Medical Secret. A Breath Away from Death. Deep within a suffocating New York City brownstone, a young writer discovers that his upstairs neighbor is no ordinary man.

Alima Ahmed has spent her life trapped between duty and desire in modern Cairo. When she escapes into the Egyptian desert, she discovers a hidden cave that leads to an impossible world fifty kilometers beneath the Earth.

Humanity has lost everything. Now they barely survive, oppressed by the Tzylaxian Empire. But when the crew of the Independence uncovers long-buried secrets, they find more than lost technology. They find a chance to fight back.

The War of the Worlds has two parts, Book One: The Coming of the Martians and Book Two: The Earth under the Martians. The narrator, a philosophically-inclined author, struggles to return to his wife while seeing the Martians lay waste to southern England.

The Unfolding is a gripping science fiction epic that blends cosmic horror with a gritty, dystopian struggle for survival. A colony descending into chaos as a deeper threat is rising from the planet’s living fungal network as first contact.

The system still runs. But it is already outdated. Inherited structures resist. Here is a concrete strategy, a vast action plan. Escape lines toward alternative models where Generation Z ceases to be an adjustment variable and becomes the agent of change.

In "Third Warning - A Mystery Story for Girls" by Roy J. Snell, join Florence Huyler on a thrilling adventure on Lake Superior. As a fire threatens the picturesque Isle Royale, Florence and her cousin Dave, along with a loyal band of characters.

Comparison with Other Works: The Worm Ouroboros is often compared with J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings (which it predates by 32 years). Tolkien read The Worm Ouroboros, and praised it in print. C. S. Lewis wrote a short preface.

I'll take beer, son, and thanks again for the offer. As you can see, I'm kinda down on my luck. I know what you're thinking, but I'm not really on the bum. I usually make out all right—nothing fancy, mind you, but it's a living.

The World Set Free is a novel written in 1913 and published in 1914 by H. G. Wells. The book is based on a prediction of nuclear weapons of a more destructive and uncontrollable sort than the world has yet seen.

The Time Machine is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, published in 1895. It is generally credited with the popularisation of the concept of time travel by using a vehicle that allows an operator to travel purposefully and selectively.

It is written that after the Giants came to Tellura from the far stars, they abode a while, and looked upon the surface of the land, and found it wanting, and of evil omen. Therefore did they make men to live always in the air and in the sunlight.

The San Martin, a single-screw cargo steamer of 3050 tons, was on her way from Realejo to Tahiti. Built on the Clyde twenty years back, this Peruvian-owned tramp was no longer in her prime.

"The Mind Master" is a sequel to the short science fiction novel "Manape the Mighty." Three months after the events in Africa, Lee Bentley and Ellen Estabrook are back in New York - and so is Professor Barter, who is not dead, but is very much alive.

"The Man Without a Country" first appeared in the Atlantic Monthlyfor December, 1863. It was the author's wish that it be published anonymously, in the hope that it might be ascribed to some officer of the Navy; but unfortunately, the man who compiled.

Austin Hall (c. 1885 – 1933) was an American short story writer and novelist. He began writing when, while working as a cowboy, he was asked to write a story. He wrote westerns, science fiction and fantasy for pulp magazines.

Mr. Hungerton, her father, really was the most tactless person upon earth,—a fluffy, feathery, untidy cockatoo of a man, perfectly good-natured, but absolutely centered upon his own silly self. If anything could have driven me from Gladys.

The Lost Continent, A classic "lost race" story, with all of the required elements: a seductive empress, a straight-arrow hero, battles, escapes, sorcery, and earth-shattering cataclysms!

The only island known to exist in the region in which my uncle was picked up is Noble's Isle, a small volcanic islet and uninhabited. It was visited in 1891 by H. M. S. Scorpion. A party of sailors then landed, but found nothing living thereon.

The stranger came early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the year, over the down, walking from Bramblehurst railway station, and carrying a little black portmanteau in his thickly gloved hand.

When xenoarchaeologist Clio Cormack accidentally awakens a dormant alien megastructure, she unearths a threat that could consume humanity.

When xenoarchaeologist Clio Cormack accidentally awakens a dormant alien megastructure, she unearths a threat that could consume humanity.

Joseph Heidel looked slowly around the dinner table at the five men, hiding his examination by a thin screen of smoke from his cigar. He was a large man with thick blond-gray hair cut close to his head. In three more months he would be fifty-two.

This was the rainy year. Last year had been the dry one, and it would come again. But they wouldn't be here to see it, Captain Louis Carnahan thought. They had seen four dry ones, and now had come the fourth wet one, and soon they would be going home.

The Book of Dragons is dedicated in the confident hope that she, one of these days, will dedicate a book of her very own making to the one who now bids eight dreadful dragons crouch in all humbleness at those little brown feet…

“Star Maker”, regarded as one of the true classics of science fiction, Star Maker is a poetic and deeply philosophical work. The story details the mental journey of an unnamed narrator who is transported not only to other worlds but also other galaxie

After years of a bloody war, they came to finish the job. They did not account for our tenacity.