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World Between by Sarah Lyons Fleming
Rated: 4.73 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDanger can be anywhere in the world between.Trapped in the fairgrounds by zombies and circumstance, it’s impossible to move out—and tough to move on.Whether romantic or platonic, changing relationships prove tricky for Rose, Tom, Clara, and Craig—never mind adapting to the new not-so-normal... -
![Revenge of the Apocalypse by Benjamin Wallace]()
Revenge of the Apocalypse by Benjamin Wallace
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThere’s an empire to topple, a tyrant to kill and revenge to be had. They’ve taken everything from him. Now Jerry and Chewy are headed to Niagara Falls to take out the wasteland’s greatest villain once and for all. But the Librarian isn’t the only one looking for revenge... -
![The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard by J.G. Ballard]()
The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard by J.G. Ballard
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFirst published in 1978, this collection of nineteen of Ballard's best short stories is as timely and informed as ever. His tales of the human psyche and its relationship to nature and technology, as viewed through a strong microscope, were eerily prescient and now provide greater perspective on our computer-dominated culture... -
![Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick by David Wong, Jason Pargin]()
Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick by David Wong, Jason Pargin
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author David Wong's Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick is the latest—and arguably greatest–sci-fi thriller in the Zoey Ashe Series.In the futuristic city of Tabula Ra$a, Zoey Ashe is like a fish so far out of water that it has achieved orbit... -
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![The Traitor's Hand by Sandy Mitchell]()
The Traitor's Hand by Sandy Mitchell
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsCommissar Ciaphas Cain is a man who, despite his best attempts to avoid danger and live the easy life, is constantly thrust into fame and fortune. He will be a hero, whether he wants to be or not... -
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Untouched By Human Hands by Robert Sheckley
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe 1950s saw publication of Sheckley's 1st four books: short story collections Untouched by Human Hands (Ballantine '54), Citizen in Space ('55), Pilgrimage to Earth (Bantam '57) & a novel, Immortality, Inc. (1st serialized in Galaxy, '58)... -
![John and Dave and the Temple of X'al'naa'thuthuthu by David Wong, Jason Pargin]()
John and Dave and the Temple of X'al'naa'thuthuthu by David Wong, Jason Pargin
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe below tale of wonder and horror was written a couple of years ago as a "sequel" to my horror novel John Dies at the End. This unfinished adventure is not included in the print edition of JDatE that is coming out this fall, and right now is an online exclusive.This was part of an early draft of David Wong's totally rad novel This Book Is Full Of Spiders... -
![Skullcrack City by Jeremy Robert Johnson]()
Skullcrack City by Jeremy Robert Johnson
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLife as a corporate drone was killing S.P. Doyle, so he decided to bring down the whole corrupt system from the inside. But after discovering something monstrous in the bank's files, he was framed for murder and trapped inside a conspiracy beyond reason... -
![The Best of Fredric Brown by Fredric Brown]()
The Best of Fredric Brown by Fredric Brown
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Wit and Whimsy of Fredric BrownTwenty-nine of the best-loved stories by the man some critics call the O. Henry of science fiction… stories that range from the wryly humorous to the deadly serious, but are always unforgettable... -
![One of Us by Michael Marshall Smith]()
One of Us by Michael Marshall Smith
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt's not what you've done that counts it's what you remember....If you could sell your conscience, could you get away with murder?Hap Thompson works the gray area between truth and lies. He works for REMtemp, taking on other people's memories. It's illegal, but usually harmless. Maybe a petty criminal wants to pass a lie detector test. Or an unfaithful spouse wants to enjoy a guiltless affair... -
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Press Enter by John Varley
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis award-winning Science Fiction novella is part murder mystery, part romance, and more than a little bit scary.Victor Apfel, a troubled war vet, gets an odd, pre-recorded phone message, instructing him to go inside the house next door. He opens the door to find his neighbor shot through the head... -
![This Fallen World by Christopher Woods]()
This Fallen World by Christopher Woods
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe world has Fallen, but life goes on… Matthew Kade was a corporate assassin—one of the best agents Obsidian Corporation had. But then the bombs began falling, and the old world ended. Now he must navigate the new world he finds himself in, a world where the strongest survive, and the weaker do their bidding…or die... -
![The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, Volume II: Microcosmic God by Theodore Sturgeon]()
The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, Volume II: Microcosmic God by Theodore Sturgeon
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe second of a planned 10 volumes that will reprint all Sturgeon's short fiction covers his prolific output during 1940 and 1941, after which he suffered five years of writer's block... -
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![Punktown by Jeffrey Thomas, Michael Marshall Smith]()
Punktown by Jeffrey Thomas, Michael Marshall Smith
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the city they call Punktown, on a planet where a hundred sentient species collide, you can become a creator of clones. You can become a piece of performance art. You might even become a library of sorrows.. -
![氣球人 by Chan Ho-Kei, 陳浩基]()
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![I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom by Jason Pargin]()
I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom by Jason Pargin
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsA standalone darkly humorous thriller set in modern America's age of anxiety, by New York Times bestselling author Jason Pargin.Outside Los Angeles, a driver pulls up to find a young woman sitting on a large black box. She offers him $200,000 cash to transport her and that box across the country, to Washington, DC.But there are rules:He cannot look inside the box.He cannot ask questions... -
![Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits by David Wong, Jason Pargin]()
Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits by David Wong, Jason Pargin
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsNightmarish villains with superhuman enhancements.An all-seeing social network that tracks your every move.Mysterious, smooth-talking power players who lurk behind the scenes.A young woman from the trailer park.And her very smelly cat.Together, they will decide the future of mankind... -
![Citizen in Space by Robert Sheckley]()
Citizen in Space by Robert Sheckley
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsContentsThe Mountain Without a NameThe AccountantHunting ProblemA Thief in TimeThe Luckiest Man in the WorldHands OffSomething for NothingA Ticket to TranaiThe BattleSkulking PermitCitizen in SpaceAsk a Foolish... -
![The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, Volume III: Killdozer! by Theodore Sturgeon, Robert Silverberg]()
The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, Volume III: Killdozer! by Theodore Sturgeon, Robert Silverberg
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsKilldozer is the third volume of a series of the complete short stories from Theodore Sturgeon's career. It contains a few of his best and most famous short stories: "Medusa," "Killdozer " and "Mewhu's Jet." The series editor Paul Williams has dug into the background of each story, and come up with a lot of interesting lore about Sturgeon... -
![Nymphomation by Jeff Noon]()
Nymphomation by Jeff Noon
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsSet both in a real and imaginary Manchester, Jeff Noon's story concerns a revolutionary lottery game that is engulfing the city in a tide of gambling fever. As a group of mathematics students look at the mind-numbing probabilities involved, they soon find more sinister realities... -
![Crab Town by Carlton Mellick III]()
Crab Town by Carlton Mellick III
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn this town, everyone's a bottom feeder ... Five desperate criminals are robbing one of the last remaining banks in Freedom City, a town devastated by the previous nuclear war. But these are no ordinary criminals. They are members of the House of Cards, an organization designed to help the less fortunate citizens of the city... -
![Fantastic Orgy by Carlton Mellick III]()
Fantastic Orgy by Carlton Mellick III
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShark women, mutant cats, and strange sexually transmitted diseases. Over the past few decades, sexually transmitted diseases have evolved in unusual ways. Herpes, AIDS, Gonorrhea; these are all STDs of the past. These days, sexually transmitted diseases are more extreme and bizarre. Not exactly diseases anymore, they are more like sexually transmitted body modifications... -
![How Best to Avoid Dying by Owen Egerton]()
How Best to Avoid Dying by Owen Egerton
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratings[i]Lazarus Dying[/i]: the man Jesus raised from the dead is alive and living in New York City. [i]The Fecalist[/i]: an author whose best selling work is his latest poop. [i]Christmas[/i]: she loves you, you love her, she has a gun in your mouth. Welcome to the award-winning short fiction of Owen Egerton... -
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![Ultra Fuckers by Carlton Mellick III]()
Ultra Fuckers by Carlton Mellick III
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTony dreads the idea of going to his wife's company dinner party in Eagle Hills; the new upper-middleclass gated community that just popped up outside of Scottsdale, AZ. He hates these Southwestern-style planned suburban neighborhoods. All of the streets look the same. All of the houses look the same. All of the people look the same... -
![Grim Repast by Marc Collins]()
Grim Repast by Marc Collins
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA Quillon Drask NovelTormented by his past, Probator Quillon Drask’s reputation as the go-to detective for strange crimes has led him to the Polaris district of Varangantua. Warring families, corrupt officials, and a monstrous hunger stalk these streets, and Drask must overcome his own inner agonies to bring justice to the tormented city... -
![I Am AI by Ai Jiang]()
I Am AI by Ai Jiang
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIf you have the opportunity to give up humanity for efficiency, mechanical invincibility, and to surpass human limitations. . . would you? Ai is a cyborg, under the guise of an AI writing program, who struggles to keep up with the never-blinking city of Emit as it threatens to leave all those like her behind... -
![The Same To You Doubled And Other Stories by Robert Sheckley]()
The Same To You Doubled And Other Stories by Robert Sheckley
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCan You Feel Anything When I Do This? (1969) storyCordle to Onion to Carrot (1969) storyThe Petrified World (1968) story Game: First Schematic (1971) story Doctor Zombie & His Little Furry Friends (1971) storyThe Cruel Equations (1971) storyThe Same to You Doubled (1970) story Starting from Scratch (1953) story The Mnemone (1971) storyTripout (1971) storyNotes on the Perception of Imaginary... -
![Parasite Milk by Carlton Mellick III]()
Parasite Milk by Carlton Mellick III
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIrving Rice has just arrived on the planet Kynaria to film an episode of the popular Travel Channel television series Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern: Intergalactic Edition. Having never left his home state, let alone his home planet, Irving is hit with a severe case of culture shock. He's not prepared for Kynaria's mushroom cities, fungus-like citizens, or the giant insect wildlife... -
![The Zombie Combat Manual: A Guide to Fighting the Living Dead by Roger Ma]()
The Zombie Combat Manual: A Guide to Fighting the Living Dead by Roger Ma
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsStatistics reveal that during a zombie outbreak, most individuals will have to destroy their undead opponent without the aid of a firearm. To prepare you for the inevitability of hand-to-hand combat with the living dead, The Zombie Combat Manual demonstrates how anyone, from the seasoned fighter to the untrained citizen, can become an effective warrior against the undead... -
![Turn of the Cards by Victor Milán]()
Turn of the Cards by Victor Milán
Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsPursued by the CIA, the DEA, and the Wild Card mistress of the winds, Mistral, renegade biochemist Mark Meadows uses the three personalities buried in his psyche in order to outwit his pursuers... -
![Tik-Tok by John Sladek]()
Tik-Tok by John Sladek
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"A Robot shall not injure a human being, or through inaction allow a human being to come to harm".That's Asimov's celebrated First Law of Robotics. And in the 21st century, all domestic robots are programmed according to that Law... -
![The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction by Mike Ashley, Pat Cadigan]()
The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction by Mike Ashley, Pat Cadigan
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHere are 25 stories of science fiction that push the boundaries, by the biggest names in an emerging crop of high-tech futuristic writers including Charles Stross, Robert Reed, Alastair Reynolds, Peter Hamilton and Neal Asher... -
![Spider Kiss by Harlan Ellison]()
Spider Kiss by Harlan Ellison
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHe claims he's not a fan of rock-and-roll, but somehow Harlan Ellison's seminal novel based on the career of Jerry Lee Lewis ended up in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. One of the first -- and still one of the best -- dissections of the wildly destructive rock-and-roll lifestyle, Spider Kiss isn't about giant cockroaches that attack Detroit or space invaders that smell like chicken soup... -
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![The New and Improved Romie Futch by Julia Elliott]()
The New and Improved Romie Futch by Julia Elliott
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMeet the South’s newest antihero: Romie Futch. Down on his luck and pining for his ex-wife, the fortysomething taxidermist spends his evenings drunkenly surfing the Internet, then passing out on his couch. In a last-ditch attempt to pay his mortgage, he becomes a research subject at the Center for Cybernetic Neuroscience, where “scientists” download humanities disciplines into his brain... -
![Alien: The Cold Forge by Alex White]()
Alien: The Cold Forge by Alex White
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA dramatic new Alien novel, as Weyland-Yutani seeks to recover from the failure of Hadley's Hope, and successfully weaponize the Xenomorphs.With the failure of the Hadley's Hope, Weyland-Yutani has suffered a devastating defeat--the loss of the Aliens. Yet there's a reason the company rose to the top, and they have a redundancy already in place... -
![Deus Ex: Black Light by James Swallow]()
Deus Ex: Black Light by James Swallow
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsILLUMINATE THE SHADOWS The year is 2029, and the shining promise of a new age of human augmentation is in ruins in the wake of the devastating ‘Aug Incident’ – a horrific catastrophe triggered by a cabal of shadowy power brokers, where millions of cybernetically-enhanced people suffered a forced psychotic break... -
![The Fourth Wall by Walter Jon Williams]()
The Fourth Wall by Walter Jon Williams
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDagmar Shaw got out of the game... and into the movies.Sean is a washed-up child actor reduced to the lowest dregs of reality television to keep himself afloat. His life was a downward spiral of alcoholism, regret, and failure... until he met Dagmar.Except Sean has secrets, dark even for the Hollywood treadmill of abuse, addiction, and rehab. And Dagmar is a cipher... -
![I'd Really Prefer Not to Be Here with You, and Other Stories by Julianna Baggott]()
I'd Really Prefer Not to Be Here with You, and Other Stories by Julianna Baggott
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratings“Reading this story collection is like stepping in front of a fun house mirror…Julianna Baggott’s words ground us with the familiar truths that allow us to see the ordinary as something truly extraordinary... -
![State of Decay by James Knapp]()
State of Decay by James Knapp
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsView our feature on James Knapp’s State of Decay.Just because you're dead doesn't mean you're useless... A thrilling debut novel of a dystopian future populated by a new breed of zombie They call them revivors-technologically reanimated corpses-and away from the public eye they do humanity's dirtiest work... -
![Slaughtermatic by Steve Aylett]()
Slaughtermatic by Steve Aylett
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSet in the blood-drenched chaos of Beerlight, "a blown circuit, where to kill a man was less a murder than a mannerism," Dante Cubit and his pill-popping sidekick, the Entropy Kid, waltz into First National Bank with some serious attitude and a couple of snub guns... -
![Bone Wires by Michael Shean]()
Bone Wires by Michael Shean
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the wasteland of commercial culture that is future America, police are operated not by government but by private companies. In Seattle, that role is filled by Civil Protection, and Daniel Gray is a detective in Homicide Solutions... -
![Crash Deluxe by Marianne de Pierres]()
Crash Deluxe by Marianne de Pierres
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsParrish Plessis, sometime coup leader, paid assassin and ex-bodyguard, is finding life tough... -
![The Morbidly Obese Ninja by Carlton Mellick III]()
The Morbidly Obese Ninja by Carlton Mellick III
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThese days, if you want to run a successful company . . . you're going to need a lot of ninjas. Neo Tokyo, California is a city built so high that none of its residents have ever seen the ground. It is a place where citizens cosmetically alter their bodies to look like Japanese anime characters. It is a place where ninja battles determine the fate of corporate business ventures... -
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![Swallowing a Donkey's Eye by Paul Tremblay]()
Swallowing a Donkey's Eye by Paul Tremblay
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFarm is the mega-conglomerate food supplier for City, populated with rabidly bureaucratic superiors, and sexually deviant tour guides dressed in chicken and duck suits. City is sprawling, technocratic, and rests hundreds of feet above the coastline on the creaking shoulders of a giant wooden pier. When the narrator’s mother disappears, he fears she has been deported under City to Pier... -
![Stranger to the Moon by Evelio Rosero]()
Stranger to the Moon by Evelio Rosero
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe writer Evelio Rosero has never been one to shy away from the darker aspects of Colombia’s history and society. His magnificent Stranger to the Moon portrays a world that seems to exist outside history and geography, but taps into the dark myths and collective subconscious of his country’s harrowing inequality and violence... -
![Terminator Salvation: From the Ashes by Timothy Zahn]()
Terminator Salvation: From the Ashes by Timothy Zahn
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsFrom The Ashes, written by Hugo Award-winning author Timothy Zahn, sets the scene for the events chronicled in the movie Terminator Salvation, revealing the full story behind John Connor, the man fated to lead the human resistance against Skynet and its army of Terminators... -
![Diary of the War of the Pig by Adolfo Bioy Casares]()
Diary of the War of the Pig by Adolfo Bioy Casares
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Obelisk edition of Diary of the War of the Pig marks the first time in paperback for this fictional chronicle about street terror and disappearances by the greatest living Argentine author... -
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rekt by Alex Gonzalez
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA disturbing examination of toxic masculinity and the darkest pits of the Internet, Alex Gonzalez’s rekt traces a young man’s algorithmic descent into depravity in a future that’s nearly here.> be me, 26> about to end it all> feels good, man Once, Sammy Dominguez thought he knew how the world worked... -
![Zanesville by Kris Saknussemm]()
Zanesville by Kris Saknussemm
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWHO IS ELIJAH CLEARFATHER?Futuristic bioweapon or good old-fashioned messiah? Reincarnated ex-porn star or mutant information-age revolutionary? The man who awakens in New York City’s Central Park with no memory of his identity and the enigmatic message FATHER FORGIVE THEM F carved into the flesh of his back may be all of these things and more...
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