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Beyond Broadhall by Keith A. Pearson
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsThe concluding installment of the acclaimed time-travel novel. To read the first installment, search for 'The '86 Fix' on Amazon. After his miraculous weekend in 1986, Craig Pelling returned to a future he could never have envisaged. Even by his own hapless standards, his plans have spectacularly backfired... -
Tuned Out by Keith A. Pearson
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratings"One of those books which leaves you feeling bereft when you get to the end. An addictive page-turner laced with hilarity, poignancy and nostalgia." Toby Grant spends his days working for a digital marketing agency and his nights stressing about how unfair life is for his generation... -
Neural Wraith 2 by K.D. Robertson
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFinance isn't Nick Waite’s strong suit as a detective, but he’s learning fast as he investigates the cover-up of a murder inside Neo Babylon’s oldest bank. The winds of conspiracy whirl around him, and everyone from the police commissioner to gang lords warn him to step back.Taking the easy way out isn’t in his nature, however... -
Neural Wraith 3 by K.D. Robertson
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNeo Babylon's neural implants are iconic, and are now implicated in a mass murder that threatens the foundation of the city. Detective Nick Waite finds himself struggling with the case. He's spent his entire life without a neural implant, excluded from the Altnet, and now needs to investigate a crime steeped in it... -
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The John Blake Chronicles - Volume 2: Reaping the Whirlwind by M. Tefler
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis is Book 2 in the ultimate erotic science-fiction series, the John Blake Chronicles! Follow John Blake and his beautiful companions on the assault cruiser, Invictus, as they continue their epic adventures. They might have acquired a powerful new warship, but with a mightier vessel comes far tougher challenges.. -
When the People Fell by Cordwainer Smith
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsA sweeping saga of the centuries to come, from the new dark age that followed a global war, to the new civilization that arose from the ashes to colonize the stars... -
Time Travellers Strictly Cash by Spider Robinson
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsHuman or otherwise, regardless of race, creed or dimension of origin, if you're looking for a good time in a place where the beer is always flowing, and the stories always out of this world, step up to the bar at Callahan's... -
Complete Stories of Robert Bloch: Final Reckonings (Complete Stories of Robert Bloch, Volume 1) by Robert Bloch
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBest known as the author of "Psycho", Robert Bloch is world-renowned for his stories of horror, mystery, fantasy, and science fiction. Many of the 25 stories in this first volume of "The Complete Stories of Robert Bloch" have been unavailable for decades. The stories are in his classic style of gripping suspense, science fiction and fantasy... -
The Creatures That Time Forgot by Ray Bradbury
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAward-winning narrator Mike Vendetti takes you to a mad, impossible world created by Ray Bradbury... -
The Terminator by Shaun Hutson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the Year of Darkness, 2029, the rulers of this planet devised the ultimate plan. They would reshape the Future by changing the Past. The plan required something that felt no pity. No pain. No fear. Something unstoppable. They created THE TERMINATOR... -
The Book of Dreams by Jack Vance
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHoward Alan Treesong gave a banquet to ten friends. All died in agony, save himself.Howard Alan Treesong went to his old school reunion to teach his former classmates the meaning of terror.Howard Alan Treesong was the most elusive of the five Demon Princes upon whom Kirth Gersen had sworn vengeance. A galaxy-wide guessing game proved his undoing... -
The Amazon Code by Nick Thacker
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsDeep within the Amazon rainforest, a secret lurks. A secret that could change the world....A secret worth killing for.When her company discovers a remarkable hidden message in the dreaming brains of her subjects, Dr. Amanda Meron unknowingly invites disaster unto her company. The clues seem to be pointing her to one of the remote places on the planet:The Amazon Rainforest... -
Breaking Gravity by Mitty Walters
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDale Adams has worked hard to leave his troubled past behind for a brighter future at Emory University. But when a freak accident leads to a discovery that will change humanity forever, avoiding the spotlight becomes the least of Dale's concerns. His revolutionary technology might just get him killed... -
The Pnume by Jack Vance, H.R. Van Dongen
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Pnume are native to Tschai, living underground in a vast network of caverns with their human slave-species, the Pnumekin... -
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The Hab Theory by Allan W. Eckert
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Eckert's plotline is terrifying and provides the reader with intense action, character developments that reek with reality, and some of the finest mind-bending writing in a long, long time."-Cincinnati Enquirer"Intrigue, love, high imagination, politics, White House and residential drama, cunning skill, technique and an overpowering sense of disaster... -
Before the Golden Age 1 by Isaac Asimov
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA Science Fiction Anthology of the 1930s, #1 of 4Contents:* The Man Who Evolved / Edmond Hamilton; * The Jameson Satellite / Neil R. Jones; * Submicroscopic / Capt. S.P. Meek; * Awlo of Ulm / Capt. S.P. Meek; * Tetrahedra of Space / P. Schuyler Miller; * The World of the Red Sun / Clifford D. Simak. Originally 26 stories published in one hardcover volume... -
Fortress of Solitude by Kenneth Robeson, Lester Dent
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe deep mysteries of Doc Savage are finally revealed! John Sunlight, poetic genius of evil, gruesome master of a thousand elements of screaming terror, discovers the innermost secrets of The Man of Bronze... -
The Third Level by Jack Finney
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsContents:The Third LevelSuch Interesting NeighborsI’m ScaredCousin Len’s Wonderful Adjective CellarOf Missing PersonsSomething in a CloudThere Is a Tide.. -
Ahriman: Sorcerer by John French
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAhriman, greatest sorcerer of the Thousand Sons and architect of the Rubric that laid his Legion low, continues to walk the path towards salvation, or damnation... -
Lungbarrow by Marc Platt
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Nonsense, child", retorted the Doctor. "Grandfather indeed! I've never seen you before in my life!"All is not well on Gallifrey. Chris Cwej is having someone else's nightmares. Ace is talking to herself. So is K9. Leela has stumbled on a murderous family conspiracy. And the beleaguered Lady President, Romanadvoratrelundar, foresees one of the most tumultuous events in her planet's history... -
Skull Island by Will Murray, Michael McConnohie
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen King Kong famously fell from his death perch on the summit of the Empire State Building early in 1933, the question on many moviegoers' minds was: Where the heck was Doc Savage? For the tallest skyscraper in Manhattan was also the world headquarters of the famous superman-scientist known as the Man of Bronze... -
Thorn Wishes Talon by Dan Abnett
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTHE STORYOn Malinter, the Divine Fratery, servants of the Runious Powers, do battle with Inquisitor Gideon Ravenor and his companions. But someone else is waiting in the shadows, someone that the Fratery want to see dead even more than they do Ravenor... -
The Beheading by Guy Haley
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAcross the length and breadth of the galaxy, humankind celebrates its salvation, and relishes the prospect of a return to peace. But the war against the orks has riven the political bedrock of the Imperium, exposing its rotten core... -
Twilight at the Well of Souls by Jack L. Chalker
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsThe rift in the fabric of space was fast approaching the Well World, and time was running out. Troops all over the planet were gathering for the final battle.Nathan Brazil and Mavra Chang somehow had to reach the Well of Souls in time to save the universe and before any of the hostile natives managed to kill them.At best, a difficult mission... -
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Wildside by Steven Gould
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsForget the lottery.Teenager Charlie Newell has just discovered something that will make him and his friends billionaires. What if a world existed in which no humans ever evolved? No cities. No pollution. No laws. A fantastic world filled with unimaginable riches in which everything—everything—was yours just for the taking?Charlie has found that world...Categorized as:
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The Return of Nathan Brazil by Jack L. Chalker
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn a desolate sector of space floats the Well World: the ancient Markovian supercomputer that first created and now maintains the Universe.While attempting to repel an insidious intergalactic invasion, Mankind resorts to a weapon of such awesome destructive power that it undermines the Well World's control of time and space and threatens the very existence of the Universe... -
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Quest for the Well of Souls by Jack L. Chalker
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsWelcome to the Well World: a construct of an ancient defunct race known as the Markovians. The Well World acts both as the controller of and the gateway to 1560 worlds created by the Markovians at the end of their time.Exiles at the Well of Souls left Mavra Chang captured by the Olborn and partially converted into a beast of burden... -
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension by Earl Mac Rauch
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"I speak Spanish to God, French to women, English to men, and Japanese to my horse." -- Buckaroo Banzai Buckaroo Banzai. A strange, elusive figure, his name whispered in barrooms and boardrooms, his advice sought by pashas and presidents, his exploits recounted in movies, novels, and comic books that seem somehow more real than life itself. Buckaroo Banzai... -
The Weapon Shops of Isher by A.E. van Vogt
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsWith the publication, in the July 1941 issue of Astounding Science Fiction magazine, of the story Seesaw, van Vogt began unfolding the complex tale of the oppressive Empire of Isher and the mysterious Weapon Shops... -
Dark Deeds by Mike Brooks
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn the third book of the “entertaining” (Kirkus Reveiws) Keiko series, Captain Ichabod Drift and his crew find themselves in another mess as a ship-wide vacation leads to their second-in-command taken hostage by the planet’s criminal mastermind.After the riotous civil war in Dark Sky, the crew of the Keiko decides to go on vacation at an illegal gambling port for a little fun... -
Maske: Thaery by Jack Vance
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThere is a Hole at the eastern fringe of the known universe. Deep within it hangs a lost star, Mora, with twin planets, Maske and Skay. On wild Maske there is a rocky peninsula inhabited by a clan of warlike dreamers, the Droads. The eldest son, Trewe, is by birthright Droad of Droad. The second son has no choice but to turn his face toward adventure. His name is Jubal Droad.. -
Hammer of Daemons by Ben Counter
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the nightmare future of Warhammer 40,000, a superhuman warrior must battle his way free from a world of daemons... -
Forests of the Night by S. Andrew Swann
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSet in Cleveland 100 years in the future, this debut novel is the story of Nohar Rajasthan, Private Eye, who's a moreau--descended from genetically manipulated tiger stock. When Nohar is hired by a being illegally created from human stock to look into a murder, he finds himself caught up in a conspiracy of awesome proportions... -
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The Lost Oasis by Kenneth Robeson, Lester Dent
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhile seeking to solve the mystery of "the trained vampire murders," Doc Savage and his amazing crew suddenly find themselves prisoners of Sol Yuttal and Hadi-Mot aboard a hijacked Zeppelin. Their deadly destination is a fabulous lost diamond mine guarded by carnivorous plants and monstrous, bloodsucking bats... -
The Samurai by Barry Sadler, Carol Eason
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIngram Condemned to outlive the ages and wander the globe, Casca finds himself in feudal Japan, where he joins forces with the legendary samurai warrior, Muramassa... -
The Complete Professor Challenger Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis is the complete collection of scientific fiction stories featuring Professor George Challenger. Along with Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, Professor Challenger stands in the front rank of the immortal characters created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. These are scientific stories rather than science fiction; the stories are based solidly on scientific facts, not possibilities... -
The Voices Of Time by J.G. Ballard
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSusan Sontag, Anthony Burgess, Graham Greene, William Burroughs, Robert Nye and Angela Carter are among the host of admirers of J. G. Ballard's fiction...Categorized as:
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Legacy by James H. Schmitz, D.A. Lockhart
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWelcome to the Federation of the Hub, an interstellar mosaic of governments and people. When ancient living biological machines suddenly begin to move after millennia of inaction many of the Hub's most powerful people and groups begin vying for the secret locked in these machines. Enter Trigger Argee, the closest associate of the man who first discovered these machines, Holati Tate... -
Dark Advent by Brian Hodge
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLike a biblical pestilence, the plague left only a handful of survivors to face a savage new world. In a deserted midwestern department store, a few people banded together, but beyond their temporary haven an insidious evil was stirring! In the tradition of Stephen King's The Stand... -
The Great Explosion by Eric Frank Russell
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMISSION OF EMPIREEarthmen had colonized hundreds of planets in the four centuries of deep space exploration—independent new civilizations founded by the discontented and adventurous of Terra.Trouble was, they were too independent—and the Terran government had ambitions for a space empire... -
Watchers in Death by David Annandale
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe attempt to hunt down and kill the orks’ leader has ended in catastrophe. The Imperium is reeling from the loss of so many beloved heroes, and the military forces of mankind have been reduced to tatters... -
The Last Son of Dorn by David Guymer
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKoorland, the last son of Dorn, finally confronts the Beast in battle... -
Seedling by James Axler
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAmerica's post-holocaust nightmare continues as Ryan Cawdor returns to the monstrous urman slum that was once New York City...and discovers a piece of the future.. -
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The Circle War by Mack Maloney
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEmerging from the rubble of a decimated postwar America, ace fighter pilot Hawk Hunter hears rumors of a vast army equipped with Russian SAMs hidden in the Bad Lands and prepares for an ultimate showdown. Reprint... -
Land of Always Night: by Kenneth Robeson, W. Ryerson Johnson
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsused science fiction... -
Road Wars by James Axler
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTHE FUTURE UNCERTAINEmerging out of the ashes of the nuclear apocalypse, no one has been more successful and determined than Ryan Cawdor and his band of warrior survivalists. But if the wasteland's endless miles come between them, the odds for getting back together again -- for their very survival -- are not in their favor... -
Lake Ness: Extinction Is About To Be Redefined by Cherie Mitchell
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBeneath the inky black surface of Lake Ness lurks something too monstrous for this world...Gerry Lawson, a washed-up scientist slowly recovering from a life that got out of his control, finds himself saying yes when his cousin Marnie asks him to help her and her partner Jim with an outdoor survival program for disadvantaged kids... -
Regia Occulta by Dan Abnett
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOn a world wracked by storms, Inquisitor Eisenhorn investigates a series of bizarre murders. Aided by local officials and using arcane methods of detection, Eisenhorn must decipher the secret of the Regia Occulta and stop the bestial killer before it strikes again. Read it because Mysterious deaths, strange storms, a monstrous killer that defies belief.. -
Predator: If It Bleeds by Bryan Thomas Schmidt, Holly Roberds
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsAn anthology celebrating the 30th anniversary of the PREDATOR franchise, IF IT BLEEDS includes seventeen brand new, never before seen stories--exclusive to this collection--featuring the Predators throughout space and time...
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