Science Fiction

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A Journey into the Interior of the Earth
by Jules Verne - Pennsylvania State University , 2001
Jules Verne's classic science fiction adventure about Professor Liedenbrock and his nephew Axel who set off to Iceland with their guide, Hans, and enter the weird and wonderful world deep beneath the surface of the earth.
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Accelerando
by Charles Stross - Ace Hardcover , 2005
The Macz family has struggled for three generations to cope with the technological achievements that have rendered humans near obsolete. Then, something starts to annihilate all biological lifeforms. A novel destined to change the face of the genre.
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Accidental Creatures
by Anne Harris - Tor Books , 2000
An action-packed tale full of intrigue, betrayals, and flashy characters. This novel welcomes readers to the Detroit of the future: a city of extreme poverty and extravagant wealth, were life is overshadowed by the megalithic corporation GeneSys.
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Accidental Flight
by F. L. Wallace - Project Gutenberg , 2010
This etext was produced from Galaxy Science Fiction April 1952. Outcasts of a society of physically perfect people, they couldn't stay and they couldn't go home again -- yet there had to be some escape for them. Oddly enough, there was!
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After London, or Wild England
by Richard Jefferies - eBooks@Adelaide , 2009
Science fiction novel which describes an England of the distant future in which most of the people have died and a swamp covers the site of old London. The hero of the story sets out on a quest to win the hand of the daughter of a neighboring baron.
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Alien Deception
by Tony Ruggiero - Dragon Moon Press , 2006
Classic space opera where nothing is as it appears. Caught in the middle of the struggle for Earth domination, two humans unknowingly hold the key which can topple the tyrannical rule of the alien race-if they can stay alive long enough to use it.
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Alien Revelation
by Tony Ruggiero - Dragon Moon Press , 2007
Death has many meanings. For some it is an end while for others it is a beginning. Yet, for one human/alien hybrid, it is a way to have one final chance to try and save his home, the planet Earth, and a son he has never seen.
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Axiom-man [Audio Book]
by A.P. Fuchs - Coscom Entertainment , 2006
One night Gabriel Garrison was visited by a nameless messenger who bestowed upon him great power, a power intended for good. Once discovering what this power was, Gabriel became Axiom-man, a symbol of hope in a city that had none.
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Black Amazon of Mars
by Leigh Douglass Brackett - Project Gutenberg , 2010
Brackett is best known for her screenplay for The Empire Strikes Back, but her lush tales of interplanetary adventures were thrilling readers long before Star Wars. This short novel features the final magazine appearance of her hero, Eric John Stark.
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Blind Spot
by Bascom Jones - BooksFairy.com , 2009
Our civilization predates that of Earth's by millions of years. We are an advanced, peaceful race. Yet, since Earth's first rocket landed here thirteen years ago, we have been looked upon as freaks and contemptuously called 'bug-men' behind our backs!
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Blindsight
by Peter Watts - Tor Books , 2008
In this stimulating hard SF novel, the author explores the nature of consciousness. The book combines riveting action with a fascinating alien environment. In the late 21st century something alien is discovered beyond the edge of the solar system.
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Brood of the Dark Moon
by Charles Willard Diffin - Project Gutenberg , 2010
Brood of the Dark Moon appeared in the August, September, October and November 1931 Astounding Stories. Once more Chet, Walt and Diane are united in a wild ride to the Dark Moon - but this time they go as prisoners of their deadly enemy Schwartzmann.
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Darwin's Paradox
by Nina Munteanu - Dragon Moon Press , 2007
A devastating disease. A world on the brink of violent change. And one woman who can save it or destroy it all. Julie Crane must confront the will of the ambitious virus lurking inside her to fulfill her final destiny as Darwin s Paradox.
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Dominion
by J. L. Bryan - JLBryanbooks.com , 2009
In 2036 the US is ruled by a totalitarian regime controlling all information. Daniel Ruppert, the talking head for the popular nightly news program, begins digging for the truth. His urge to know puts his career, life, and family at risk.
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Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
by Cory Doctorow - Tor Books , 2003
A wholly original mix of a science fiction book and a satire. Jules is 10 year old young man, he's old enough to see the cure for death, to learn 10 languages and compose 3 symphonies, and he takes up residence in Disney World.
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Dwellers in the Mirage
by Abraham Merritt - eBooks@Adelaide , 2004
Two men in one body! That's how Lief Langdon had always felt. One part of him was a modern day adventurer, the other was a strange half-memory of another life where he was a High Priest sacrificing living people to Khalk'ru, a demon god.
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Eternity's End
by Jeffrey A. Carver - Tor Science Fiction , 2001
Renwald Legroeder, escaped prisoner, has seen what the government doesn't want anyone to see. This book is a fast-moving high-space epic of complex intrigue, desperate action, and romantic love, set in a daringly imagined far-future universe.
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Eye of the Ocean
by Laurel Hickey - 2morrow press , 2000
A sci-fi/fantasy novel trilogy. Thirty-five years ago, the Empress Cassa did 'something' and turned a good chuck of the palace - and herself - to granite. Of course, nobody thinks she's really dead. And nobody thinks she's still quite human either.
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Facing the Flag
by Jules Verne - The F. M. Lupton Publishing , 1897
One of the first books dealing with problems which was to become paramount half a century after its publication: brilliant scientists discovering new weapons of great destructive power, whose full utilization might literally destroy the world.
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Final Transmission
by Robert S. Wilcox - DCW Industries, Inc , 2003
Jackson Wright, obsessed with reconnecting with his deceased wife, has discovered a signal that emanates from the brain at death. Wright works to secretly record this transmission in the midst of conflict with those determined to shut him down.
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From the Earth to the Moon
by Jules Verne - eBooks@Adelaide , 2003
Written almost a century before the daring flights of the astronauts (first published in 1865), Jules Verne's prophetic novel of man's race to the stars is a classic adventure tale enlivened by broad satire and scientific acumen.
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Grey
by Jon Armstrong - Night Shade Books , 2007
Michael is tall, handsome, fashionable, worshipped by billions of fans, and wealthy beyond measure. He is in love with Nora, his beautiful, witty and perfect fiancee. When an assassin's bullets pierce Michael's body, everything changes.
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Human Company
by Robert Petty , 2006
Bioengineered women have settled the marginally inhabitable planet Snowshoe. However, the collapse of a space elevator has plunged their Femdom into a dark age. Gypsy realizes that a second elevator threatens to destroy the re-emergent civilization.
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In the Days of the Comet
by H. G. Wells - eBooks@Adelaide , 2009
A provocative novel by H.G. Wells. In the midst of a world war, a comet brushes the atmosphere of earth, causing everyone to lose consciousness for a few hours. When the world awakens, everyone has an expanded understanding of the meaning of things.
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Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future
by Olaf Stapledon - eBooks@Adelaide , 2009
Epic science fiction classic. A work of unprecedented scale in the genre, it describes the history of humanity from the present onwards across 2 billion years and 18 distinct human species, of which our own is the first and most primitive.
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Little Brother
by Cory Doctorow - Tor Teen , 2008
Marcus is a seventeen years old guy who already knows how the system works. He has no trouble outwitting his high school’s clumsy surveillance systems. But his whole world changes when he find himself caught in the aftermath of a terrorist attack.
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Men Like Gods
by H. G. Wells - eBooks@Adelaide , 2009
Science fiction novel featuring a utopian parallel universe. It is about a group of people who are drawn into an alternate dimension, which turns out to be a paradisiacal version of Earth thousands of years in ahead of contemporary society.
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Newtons Sleep
by Daniel O'Mahony - Random Static Ltd , 2008
This science fiction novel combines wonderfully-written historical fiction with a dash of time-travel and interdimensional war. The characters are sharp, varied and entirely believable; the historical detail is accurately and intelligently presented.
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Off On A Comet, Or Hector Servadac
by Jules Verne - Classic Book Library , 2005
Although time has obscured this book, Jules Verne's Off on a Comet is a remarkable work. Verne takes his characters on a journey to the depths of infinite space, to present what astronomers of that time really knew of outer space.
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Planet of the Damned
by Harry Harrison - Tor Books , 1993
"Planet of the Damned" is classic science fiction and a coming of age story. The hero, Brion, is a young man given his first opportunity to prove his worthiness by trying to save Dis, a horrible planet that seems hell bent on self destruction.
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Police Your Planet
by Lester del Rey - BiblioLife , 2008
SF novel that would appeal to Mickey Spillane fans, this book features lots of violence, beatings, and blood. But this isn't just a crime novel put into space; this is a hard SF novel, and the terraforming of Mars is central to the story.
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Simon of Space
by Cheeseburger Brown - Lulu.com , 2008
Intelligent, humorous and quirky science fiction. Simon remembers his birth; he was 36 years old at the time. A victim of technology and circumstance, Simon's memory has been wiped clean, leaving him to rediscover his own identity.
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Sojourn
by Jana G. Oliver - Dragon Moon Press , 2006
Victorian London is a dangerous place for the unwary. Mysterious shape-shifters haunt the streets, making friend and foe indistinguishable. In a few days, Jack the Ripper will add to his bloody legacy. But he isn’t the only threat in Whitechapel.
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The Baum Plan for Financial Independence: and Other Stories
by John Kessel - Small Beer Press , 2008
From the seductive relationships of people of questionable virtue, to encounters with Frankenstein, to Matriarchal lunar colonies, it's a collection with something for fiction readers of every genre. These stories deliver a powerful emotional punch.
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The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: Sixth Series
by Anthony Boucher - Doubleday , 1957
The wide range of science fiction is presented here, from short-short stories to novelets, from parody to tragedy, from quiet fantasy to lively interstellar adventure, from the distant past to the even more remote future.
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The Citadel of Fear
by Francis Stevens - Gaslight , 1918
The tale of an Irishman and an American who come upon the lost Aztec city of Tlapallan. After witnessing many fantastic sights there, the Irishman is kicked out for inadvertently stirring up a civil war, and the American is held prisoner.
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The Coming Race
by Edward Bulwer-Lytton - eBooks@Adelaide , 2009
An Englishman is deep in a mine when he falls through a deep chasm into a subterranean world. Here he encounters an ancient race of superior beings. This 1871 fantasy describes the futuristic world where females dominate and technology is advanced.
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The Country of the Blind and Other Stories
by H. G. Wells - eBooks@Adelaide , 2009
H. G. Wells explores the relationship between the fantastical and everyday. Here horror meets humor: this is a marvelous literary universe showcasing the author's fascination with the wonders and perils of scientific progress.
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The Escape
by Poul William Anderson - Project Gutenberg , 2010
The trap had closed at sundown. In the last red light, the rabbit had battered himself against its walls until fear ached home and he crouched shaken by the flutterings of his heart. Otherwise there was no movement in him as night and the stars came.
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The First Men in the Moon
by H. G. Wells - eBooks@Adelaide , 2009
Wells' novel, first published in 1901, describes a thrilling voyage and a moon of his own splendid imagination. It is a beautiful land, alive with vegetation. There are strange creatures who threaten the explorers and fill their days with adventure.
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The Food of the Gods and How it Came to Earth
by H. G. Wells - eBooks@Adelaide , 2009
An examination of scientific ethics that helped define an important genre in science fiction. Two scientists invent a miraculous substance nicknamed "The Food of the Gods." Its consumption causes accelerated uninterrupted growth in all forms of life.
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The Goddess of Atvatabar
by William Richard Bradshaw - J. F. Douthitt , 1892
"The Goddess of Atvatabar" is full of marvellous adventures on land and sea and in the aerial regions as well. The author has given carte blanche to his imagination. He has created a complete society, with a complete environment suited to it.
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The Invisible Man
by H. G. Wells - Classic Book Library , 2005
An obscure scientist had found a way to turn skin, flesh, blood and bones invisible--and tried the formula on himself. The Invisible Man had only two problems. He couldn't turn visible again. And he had gone quite murderously insane.
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The Island of Dr. Moreau
by H. G. Wells - Pennsylvania State University , 2004
The Island of Dr. Moreau, originally published in 1896, is a science fiction novel written by H. G. Wells that addresses the ideas of society, community and human nature. Wells also touches on the concepts of eugenics and Darwinism.
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The Last Man
by Mary Shelley - eBooks@Adelaide , 2008
Set in an apocalyptic future ending in the year 2100, this novel concerns a plague that destroys almost all of humankind. Published in 1826 after the death of her husband and three children, The Last Man is Shelley's look at an apocalyptic future.
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The Lost World
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Tor Classics , 1997
Classic adventure by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle which uses the written word to visualize the mysterious world of pterodactyls, plesiosaurs and iguanadons roaming the earth in the 20th century. An SF adventure into the dense jungles of South America.
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The Master Of The World
by Jules Verne - Classic Book Library , 2005
A series of unexplained happenings occur across the eastern US, caused by objects moving with such great speed that they are nearly invisible. The first-person narrator John Strock travels to the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina to investigate.
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The Metal Monster
by Abraham Merritt - Project Gutenberg , 2009
A classic science fiction novel first published in 1920. In the Trans-Himalayan region, a quartet of adventurers stumbles upon a tribe of human primitives, forgotten since the age of Alexander the Great, and an awesome being of living metal.
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The Rhesus Factor
by Sonny Whitelaw - Double Dragon Publishing , 2005
SF novel about the impact of climate change on us as a global society. It charts the breakdown of our health care system, the failure of insurance companies, and the economic crisis that leads to the dispossession of people across the country.
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The Time Machine
by H. G. Wells - Classic Book Library , 2005
The novel is considered one of the earliest works of science fiction and the progenitor of the "time travel" subgenre. Wells advanced his social and political ideas in this narrative of a nameless Time Traveller who is hurtled into the year 802,701.
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The Underground City
by Jules Verne - Classic Book Library , 2005
Receiving a letter from an old colleague, mining engineer James Starr sets off for the old Aberfoyle mine. From the outset, mysterious happenings start to occur around the main characters, attributed initially to goblins and firemaidens.
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The War in the Air
by H. G. Wells - Project Gutenberg , 1997
In 1907, a naive Londoner Bert Smallways finds himself an unwitting passenger on a fleet of German airships heading over the Atlantic to attack New York. What unfolds is a clash of early flying machines that unleashes the terrible age of Total War.
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The War of the Worlds
by H. G. Wells , 1898
The most famous science fiction novel which caused the mistaken panic after Orson Welles’s radio dramatization in 1938. The human civilization is under threat, Martians build killing machines and burning rays. The Earth proves harder, however.
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Twelve Stories and a Dream
by H. G. Wells - Pennsylvania State University , 2004
A collection of short stories by H. G. Wells. His normal mixture of science and speculative fiction includes these stories: The Magic Shop; The Truth About Pyecraft; The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost; The New Accelerator; The Stolen Body; etc.
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Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
by Jules Verne - Puffin , 1995
The tale of Captain Nemo and his submarine the Nautilus. A French professor travels underwater with his captors battling sea creatures, collecting gold, sinking ships, and eating aquatic delights. Exciting adventure for all ages.
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Uncommon Paradigm
by Sim Pern Chong - Studiorola , 2010
Uncommon Paradigm is a 3D science fiction Art Book as seen through the camera lens of a fictitious space faring photographer. Very cool futuristic vehicle models, awesome landscape renderings, they have an aura of seeming real.
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Under Arctic Ice
by H. G. Winter - Project Gutenberg , 1933
Planes sent out to search for the missing polar submarine Peary returned without clue to the mystery of is disappearance. The close search that has been conducted through the last two weeks, involving great risks to the pilots, has been fruitless.
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Uranium Fist
by Mark Cantrell , 2006
A political SF fantasy with a nuclear-cored point that marked the author’s début as a novelist. This 2006 ebook edition is still available FREE from this site. On the colony of Greyermede, an ancient human dream is about to explode.
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Ventus
by Karl Schroeder - Tor Science Fiction , 2001
A terrifying artificial intelligence scattered seeds of itself throughout the galaxy. Ventus is an epic journey across a planet with two mysteries: why have the winds fallen silent? And is Armiger, or Jordan, carrying a resurrection seed?
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Virtual Evil
by Jana G. Oliver - Dragon Moon Press , 2007
Jacynda's latest assignment is a double-edged sword: find the greatest of all Time Rovers and send him to 2057. If she returns Harter Defoe to the future, she ll be branded a traitor to her kind. If she fails, the punishment is a decade in prison.
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When Graveyards Yawn
by G. Wells Taylor - PublishAmerica , 2008
A dead lawyer enters the office of Wildclown Investigations and hires the detective to find his killer. Wildclown and his dead sidekick soon find themselves entangled in a battle for control of a secret that offers either hope or doom for humanity.
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Worlds Apart
by James Wittenbach - worlds-apart.net , 2007
Fine example of a free on-line science fiction novel. The stories reimagine classic science fiction themes with a quirky style and a cast that includes a smart-mouthed cat, a boy-crazy Artificial Intelligence, a warrior-artist, and a sardonic ghost.
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Ye of Little Faith
by Roger Phillips Graham - Project Gutenberg , 2010
The disappearance of John Henderson was most spectacular. It occurred while he was at the blackboard working an example in integration for his ten o'clock class. The incompleted problem remained on the board while the police worked on the case.
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Zero Hour
by Alexander Blade - eBooksJungle.com , 1956
This is a short science fiction story produced from 'Imagination', April, 1956. By accident Bobby discovered the rocket was about to be shot to the Moon. Naturally he wanted to go along. But could he smuggle himself aboard?
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