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System Overclocked 2 by Randi Darren
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWrench is a Fixer.Someone born to maintain, fix, and correct any and every issue that could go wrong in the Habitat that he lives in. To make sure he and his fellow humans can remain on display and entertain their owners as any good human pet would.Or at least, that’s what he was born to be... -
![System Overclocked by Randi Darren]()
System Overclocked by Randi Darren
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWrench is a Fixer.Someone born to maintain, fix, and correct any and every issue that could go wrong in the Habitat that he lives in. To make sure he and his fellow humans can remain on display and entertain their owners as any good human pet would.Or at least that’s what he was born to be.He’d taken a different route in his life and had joined a resistance faction to help free Humanity... -
![The Essential Ellison by Harlan Ellison]()
The Essential Ellison by Harlan Ellison
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn April of 1949, Harlan Ellison was a lonely little kid living in Painesville, Ohio. A time traveler, observing him from within an invisible bubble, would not have marked him as anything more interesting than an undersized fourteen-year-old, seemingly always in hot water. Lively blue eyes, but basically just another kid... -
![Ashes and Metal by Naomi Lucas]()
Ashes and Metal by Naomi Lucas
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNo one messed with Gunner. No one. He was the Jackal, living chaos, the infamous Cyborg banned from civilized society. He was also the only Monster Hunter for the EPED who took the hard jobs, the under-the-table work. Jobs that often left a trail of blood and bones in their wake... -
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![All Tomorrows: The Myriad Species and Mixed Fortunes of Man by C.M. Kosemen, Beware the Qu]()
All Tomorrows: The Myriad Species and Mixed Fortunes of Man by C.M. Kosemen, Beware the Qu
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe story begins in the near future, as burgeoning population pressures force humanity to terraform and colonize Mars. After a brief but violent civil war between the two planets, the genetically engineered survivors begin a new wave of colonization, spreading across the galaxy. Everything is looking up for the human race.. -
![The Haar by David Sodergren]()
The Haar by David Sodergren
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratings“I don’t fear death... but they do.”Muriel McAuley has lived in the Scottish fishing village of Witchaven all her life. She was born there, and she intends to die there.But when an overseas property developer threatens to evict the residents from their homes and raze Witchaven to the ground in the name of progress, all seems lost… until the day a mysterious fog bank creeps inland... -
![The Gap Into Madness: Chaos and Order by Stephen R. Donaldson]()
The Gap Into Madness: Chaos and Order by Stephen R. Donaldson
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsAs the planetoid Thanatos Minor explodes into atoms, a specially-fitted cruiser escapes the mass destruction and hurtles into space only a step ahead of hostile pursuit. On board Trumpet are a handful of bedraggled fugitives from an outlaw world, old enemies suddenly and violently thrown together in a desperate bid for survival... -
![Eve of Destruction by Sherrilyn Kenyon]()
Eve of Destruction by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEve Erixour is a mercenary with a past no one would envy and more enemies than anyone should have. Death stalks her relentlessly. So when she gains the attention of a League assassin, she considers it par for the course.But Jinx Shadowbourne isn’t after Eve. Someone has it in for him and his brethren. High-ranking assassins are falling, and Jinx is convinced one of their own is selling them out... -
![A Bouquet of Viscera by Bridgett Nelson, Ronald Kelly]()
A Bouquet of Viscera by Bridgett Nelson, Ronald Kelly
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn overzealous vigilante, who sees her victims' auras, finds herself in a very uncomfortable situation. A young woman, injected with a microchip in a futuristic America, develops unusual and grisly cravings. Four high school graduates end up on the menu of a giant, mutant sea creature. Diary entries share shocking and disturbing confessions.. -
![Iniquity by Natalie Bennett]()
Iniquity by Natalie Bennett
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI was born with a sickness that can't be cured, and I've been getting better at slowly getting worse. I’m no longer single, no longer lonely. I have Declan, Ethan, and the Andreous too. They nurtured my sickness, cultivated and molded it so I could control it. For a short time, things were close to perfect, but we’ve all been keeping secrets... -
![Axxios and Braxxus: Book Six in the Galaxy Gladiators Alien Abduction Romance Series by Alana Khan]()
Axxios and Braxxus: Book Six in the Galaxy Gladiators Alien Abduction Romance Series by Alana Khan
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTheir chemistry is off the charts. But Axx can't feel love.Minutes after being kidnapped from Earth, Brianna must breed with sexy gladiator Axxios. Their chemistry is amazing, but he can't feel love for any female.Brianna despairs for a loveless future, but when they rescue Axxios's twin, Braxxus is everything Brianna hoped for in a male. Strong, intelligent, and loving... -
![Bhyr by Penelope Fletcher]()
Bhyr by Penelope Fletcher
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWe are the destroyers of worlds. The scourge of the weak and the masters of creation. We are as one fist, one blade, one almighty force. We are horde. ~Unknown, Ranked Warrior of the Azteka Horde Bhyr, leader of the Azteka Horde, is committed to saving his species from extinction. Taking the human female as a breeder is his divine right... -
![The Divide by Erica Stevens]()
The Divide by Erica Stevens
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsIn less than a day everything they've ever known has vanished and the world is in chaos. Uncertain where to turn and who to trust in this strange new world, they must band together in an attempt to survive. However, they slowly begin to realize it’s not only the crumbling earth, and treacherous people around them that are a threat, but also something unseen and even more lethal... -
![The Stand by Iain Rob Wright]()
The Stand by Iain Rob Wright
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsWhat do you do when your rescuers can’t rescue you…The fungus cannot be stopped. Not even by an army.Ryan and Aaron finally reach ‘safety,’ but soon learn that there is far more at stake than just their own lives. Other people are in peril; people who will surely die without rescue. It’s time for Ryan to decide what kind of big brother he wants to be... -
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![There's an Alien in Your Book by Tom Fletcher]()
There's an Alien in Your Book by Tom Fletcher
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTom Fletcher and Greg Abbott have created a new interactive adventure, this time featuring an adorable alien who has crash-landed in YOUR book!You'll have to help Alien back up into space, because aliens don't belong on Earth . . -
![Star Science Fiction Stories No. 2 by Frederik Pohl]()
Star Science Fiction Stories No. 2 by Frederik Pohl
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsContentsDisappearing Act • short story by Alfred BesterIt's a Good Life • short story by Jerome BixbyThe Clinic • (1953) • short story by Theodore SturgeonThe Happiest Creature • [Quarantine] • short story by Jack WilliamsonThe Odor of Thought • short story by Robert SheckleyF Y I • short story by James BlishCritical Factor • short story by Hal ClementThe Remorseful • short story by C.M... -
![Ice Rift Salvage by Ben Hammott]()
Ice Rift Salvage by Ben Hammott
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAction adventure sci-fi horror set in Antarctica. The spaceship entombed in the huge iceberg calved from the Pine Island Glacier drifts towards the warmer air and ocean temperatures of the South Atlantic. The race is on to claim the alien technology before the ice melts and releases its hold on the trapped alien vessel... -
![Dark Vampire by Meg Xuemei X]()
Dark Vampire by Meg Xuemei X
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI'm Archangel Gabriel. I won't let my mate, the only female who matters to me, be doomed! For my witch, I venture into the vampires' lair and charm the wild princess who wants to make me hers! But I soon learned the Wicked Witch isn't one to tamper with. She doesn't recognise me... -
![Slippage: Previously Uncollected, Precariously Poised Stories by Harlan Ellison]()
Slippage: Previously Uncollected, Precariously Poised Stories by Harlan Ellison
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHarlan Ellison is undoubtedly one of the most audacious, infuriating, brazen characters on the planet. Which may help explain why he is also one of the most brilliant, innovative, and eloquent writers on earth. Slippage simply presents recent, typical Ellison. In a word, masterful... -
![The Abyss by Orson Scott Card, James Cameron]()
The Abyss by Orson Scott Card, James Cameron
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsLibrarian's note: There are Alternate Cover Editions for this edition of this book here and here.From the author of "Speaker's for the Dead", and "Seventh Son", this science fiction thriller is set in the Caribbean where a US submarine is mysteriously attacked. Foul play by the Soviets is suspected, and the world draws close to nuclear war. But the answer has nothing to do with human deeds... -
![Angry Candy by Harlan Ellison]()
Angry Candy by Harlan Ellison
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe Seattle Times said of Angry Candy: "Ellison's stories rattle the bars of complacency that people put around their souls . . . Razor sharp . . . piercingly profound." Once again, Ellison's writing defies all labels. These seventeen stories by a modern master are an "assembled artifact" of anger and faith - as bittersweet as a"jalapeno-laced cinnamon bear... -
![PSYCHO NYMPH EXILE by Porpentine Charity Heartscape]()
PSYCHO NYMPH EXILE by Porpentine Charity Heartscape
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsgurowave novella about a disgraced biomech pilot and her girlfriend, an ex-magical... -
![The Hill by Iain Rob Wright]()
The Hill by Iain Rob Wright
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAn ancient land breeds a new threat…The Scottish Highlands; a sparse, mountainous region some say was carved by the gods themselves. Few places are as untouched as this harsh, prehistoric landscape. It is no place for man... -
![Rogan the Gray by Cara Wylde]()
Rogan the Gray by Cara Wylde
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen the orcs invaded the human dimension, no one could stop them. War raged for years, and now the monstrous beasts have agreed to peace on two conditions: one, the human scientists must rebuild the machine that brought them into this world; and two, they must be provided with fertile brides to bear them orc babies.Tara Caraway has been sentenced to death for a crime she didn’t commit... -
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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.. -
![Hello World by Peter Cawdron, a Man with a Cat]()
Hello World by Peter Cawdron, a Man with a Cat
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratings(This is Hello World, the short story. For the anthology of the same name, see: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...)Hello World represents a decade of science fiction by author Peter Cawdron. This collection of 16 short stories and novellas, including four previously unpublished stories, will take you out of this world... -
![Matched to Xycho by C.Y. Croc]()
Matched to Xycho by C.Y. Croc
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBeauty and the Beast type alien romance. With monstrous romantic suspense, action and adventure, some dark moments...and a giggle or two.More than anything, I want to work my own space station.To do that, I'm required to join the internal dating app of the space company I work for.Today I received confirmation of a possible space station placement. I'm practically jumping around my cabin with joy... -
![Quit Your Waning by Etta Pierce]()
Quit Your Waning by Etta Pierce
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJihae is hungry for home. As the colony's first Halloween Festival approaches, Jihae becomes nostalgic for ghosts, ghouls, and goblins. Unlike in the West, South Korea's spookiest season is the dead of summer, once the humid air goes still and the shadows hang heavy in the trees and alleyways.. -
![Garden of the Gods Vol. 1: Books 1-5 by A.A. Dark, Alaska Angelini]()
Garden of the Gods Vol. 1: Books 1-5 by A.A. Dark, Alaska Angelini
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis is Vol. 1 of the Garden of the Gods series, books 1-5. These books are DARK and despite having romantic elements are considered HORROR.With the death of Whitlock, a new home for horror is born…Garden of the GodsBook 1:Main Master Beauty. Drive. Desperation.Charlotte Wyce spent years captivating the world on the big screen... -
![The Campfire Collection by R.L. Stine]()
The Campfire Collection by R.L. Stine
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Curse of Camp Cold LakeGhost CampWelcome to Camp NightmareSchool's out! And you're packed up and ready to head off to the best summer camp ever! Boating on the lake, tennis courts, campfires -- this place is all fun and games. But little do you know that the camp of your dreams is about to turn into the camp of your screams! Because the counselors aren't exactly what you expected... -
![Spider Kiss / Stalking the Nightmare by Harlan Ellison]()
Spider Kiss / Stalking the Nightmare by Harlan Ellison
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn May 1996, White Wolf announced what remains its most ambitious publishing program of a single author: 20 volumes of the collected fiction, essays, teleplays and columns of the writer The Washington Post calls "one of the great living American short story writers... -
![Herbert West: Reanimator and Other Stories by H.P. Lovecraft]()
Herbert West: Reanimator and Other Stories by H.P. Lovecraft
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe first horrible incident of our acquaintance was the greatest shock I ever experienced, and it is only with reluctance that I repeat it. As I have said, it happened when we were in the medical school1 where West had already made himself notorious through his wild theories on the nature of death and the possibility of overcoming it artificially... -
![sickEST B*stards by Matt Shaw]()
sickEST B*stards by Matt Shaw
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSickEST B*stards continues from the end of SickER B*stards. To understand this short story, and wrap the events of Sick B*stards up, you need to have read the previous two titles. READERS TAKE NOTE: This is A SHORT STORY. It is intended for the members of Kindle Unlimited who have been requesting me for short, sick, bedtime stories... -
![Vengeance by Amy Miles]()
Vengeance by Amy Miles
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEven though memories may be altered, a heart can never forget its true love. Peace has come to Calisted under Illyria’s new reign as Queen. Volunteers return to Earth to help its people begin to rebuild. With her new husband at her side, Illyria has many things to celebrate and yet she worries that this time of peace is only fleeting... -
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![Matched to Wrath by C.Y. Croc]()
Matched to Wrath by C.Y. Croc
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMonstrous alien romance. Romantic suspense. Action and adventure…and a giggle.Wrath! Wrath! Wrath! I could say his name all day long. It just slips so easily off my tongue.I wonder what else of his will slip off my tongue—wink, wink!Okay, I admit it! I joined a space exchange dating app.Please don't judge me. At least not until you see the male dregs left here on Earth... -
![The Power of the Night by Chris Walley]()
The Power of the Night by Chris Walley
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the spirit of C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lamb among the Stars series weaves the worlds of science and the spirit, technology and the supernatural into something unique and haunting. On the faraway planet of Farholme, humans live in peace under the gentle rule of the Assembly. War and evil are ancient history. But suddenly, almost imperceptibly, things begin to change... -
![The Devil's Mercy by Chani Lynn Feener]()
The Devil's Mercy by Chani Lynn Feener
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCalix Valimir doesn’t know what’s going on anymore.He thought he understood this dark attraction between him and the doctor, but it turns out he didn’t understand a thing. Not only is Aodhan not who he thought he was, with every torturous touch and forced embrace, Cal is starting to realize he might not have known himself very well either.Aodhan Solace is done playing nice... -
![Brain Cheese Buffet by Edward Lee]()
Brain Cheese Buffet by Edward Lee
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsYou've seen Cannibal Holocaust. You've seen Salo. You've seen Nekromantik. You ain't seen shit! Zombie prostitutes, religious rapists, horny werewolves, death by vomit, and sexual fetishes scraped off the sidewalk. From sex prisons to mafia torture chambers, hold on tight because you're about to enter the perverted and twisted mind of Edward Lee... -
![Rogue; Planet Athion by Debbie Cassidy]()
Rogue; Planet Athion by Debbie Cassidy
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEach Victory is another day I get to continue breathing. Each Victory is a reprieve from Death. Ever since I was betrayed and taken from my home planet, ever since they pumped me with poison and abandoned me on this asteroid to fight or die, I’ve been surviving.But I’m not alone.There are others with me, alien to me, just as I am to them... -
![Caviar by Theodore Sturgeon]()
Caviar by Theodore Sturgeon
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsContents:1 · Bright Segment · nv * 28 · Microcosmic God · nv Astounding Apr ’41 59 · Ghost of a Chance [“The Green-Eyed Monster”] · ss Unknown Jun ’43 77 · Prodigy · ss Astounding Apr ’49 89 · Medusa · nv Astounding Feb ’42 112 · Blabbermouth · nv Amazing Feb ’47 138 · Shadow, Shadow, on the Wall · ss Imagination Feb ’51 149 · Twink · ss Galaxy Aug... -
![Muscle Memory by Steve Lowe]()
Muscle Memory by Steve Lowe
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBilly Gillespie wakes up one morning to discover his junk is gone. In its place is his wife's junk. Billy is now Tina, and Tina is dead. That's because Billy's dead. His lifeless body is still in bed and empty beer bottles and a container of antifreeze litter the kitchen counter... -
![Doctor Who: Tales of Terror by Jacqueline Rayner, Rachael Stirling]()
Doctor Who: Tales of Terror by Jacqueline Rayner, Rachael Stirling
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPenguin presents the audio CD edition of Doctor Who: Tales of Terror read by Sophie Aldred, Adjoa Andoh, Rachael Stirling, David Bailie and Derek Jacobi.A new spine-chilling collection of twelve illustrated adventures packed with terrifying Doctor Who monsters and villains, just in time for Halloween . .Categorized as:
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![They All Died Screaming by Kristopher Triana]()
They All Died Screaming by Kristopher Triana
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt’s called The Scream... Once you get it, you simply cannot stop screaming. You can’t eat or sleep. It drives you more and more insane until you can’t stand to be alive a second longer.When the phenomenon hits Chuck's city, the chronically unemployed pervert joins a band of misfits to make his final stand... -
![Feast of the Vampire King by Violet Taylor]()
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![The Hideous Book of Hidden Horrors by Annie Neugebauer, Sarah Read]()
The Hideous Book of Hidden Horrors by Annie Neugebauer, Sarah Read
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWinner of the Shirley Jackson AwardThe horror is closer than you think. From Bram Stoker Award-winning editor Doug Murano and today's biggest names in dark fiction comes a new vision of terror. It's lurking under the surface. It's waiting around every corner. It's hiding under your bed. it's buried in the backyard. It's whispered, implied, unspoken. This is The Hideous Book of Hidden Horrors... -
![Shards by Ian Rogers]()
Shards by Ian Rogers
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the award-winning author of the collection Every House Is Haunted comes Ian Rogers's horror story, "Shards", a Tor.com OriginalA group of five friends rent a cabin in the woods—the next day only four are alive. What happened and why is something the survivors are desperate to unravel.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied... -
![Taken by the Pack by Adrian Blue]()
Taken by the Pack by Adrian Blue
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWith her last year of university starting in a few weeks, Lucia is expecting a relaxing weekend camping with her classmates. But there is something in the vastness of the forest. Something monstrous is on the hunt. What will happen when the pack of hunters catches Lucia’s sweet scent?Thick, musky saliva dripped down her throat to slip beneath the neckline of her shirt... -
![Easy to Be a God by Robert J. Szmidt]()
Easy to Be a God by Robert J. Szmidt
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsScience Fiction-The Richest Of Its Kind-A Real Feast For Lovers Of Speculative Fiction! In the twenty-fourth century, Humankind has colonized over a thousand planets, and explored most part of the Orion Arm. There was also a bloody civil war. A hundred years later, human civilization faces revolutionary changes... -
![The Book of Queer Saints by Mae Murray, Eric LaRocca]()
The Book of Queer Saints by Mae Murray, Eric LaRocca
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn this debut horror anthology by editor Mae Murray, queer villains reign supreme. The Book of Queer Saints features 13 short stories and a lineup that includes renowned authors Eric LaRocca, Hailey Piper, and Joe Koch. Joining them are the innovative visions of Briar Ripley Page, Nikki R. Leigh, Joshua R. Pangborn, Eric Raglin, Belle Tolls, Perry Ruhland, James Bennett, LC von Hessen, K.S... -
![Witch Piss by Sam Pink]()
Witch Piss by Sam Pink
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsI noticed it was beginning to get dark. And for a couple seconds, it was scary—like that meant the world was breaking, or expired, or bruised, or something worse. It was really scary for a couple seconds but then I calmed down. Up above, the moonlit clouds looked rippled, like the ribcage of some giant thing digesting me...
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