Science Fiction concerns itself with real or imagined scientific theory and its impact upon our world or others. Whether speculative fiction, alternate history, cyberpunk, or traditional sci fi, you'll find it here.
A near future in which bees have been extinct for years opens with what is then an extraordinary occurance: five seemingly random individuals - in Iowa, Ontario, Paris, New Zealand, and Sri Lanka - are each stung by a bee.
Arthur Dent, Trillian, and those froody Betelgeusian cousins Ford Prefect and Zaphod Beeblebrox have returned along with the rest of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' in the sixth installment of the series.
Far in the future on the planet Arbre, scientists and mathematicians are monastically cloistered apart from the religious sects and ugly consumerism of the outside society.
In the bleak future of "The Stone Gods," the unchecked consumption of fossil fuels has finally run its course. Global Warming is no longer a disputed phenomenon or a point for political positioning. It's time for a new planet.
Toby Barlow's free verse novel takes the werewolf myth to L.A., where werewolves form packs and vie for power.
In William Gibson's follow-up to Pattern Recognition virtual art and international espionage collide.
William Gibson is often referred to as the father of cyberpunk, a science fiction sub-genre that he "created" with his seminal work, "Neuromancer," in 1984. In "Pattern Recognition," he departs significantly to render a world set the present.
Cormac McCarthy traces the progress of a father and son through a postapocalyptic landscape in what is perhaps the author's most powerful novel to date.
Ten years later , many first person accounts were cobbled together to form this Oral history of the Zombie war...
A science fiction / psychological thriller in which the hero is caught in a war between a secret government security agency and an alien presence infecting our world.
Like a film written to be a summer blockbuster, supposed first-time novelist John Twelve Hawks' The Traveler has something for everyone...
A fleet of alien spaceships blows up Arthur Dent's planet setting him off upon a hectic and hysterically funny adventure that includes torturously bad poetry, a depressed robot, and the two-headed President of the Galaxy, Zaphod Beeblebrox himself.
Larry Niven blends awe-inspiring science with non-stop action and fun in this the fourth installment of his award-winning "Ringworld" saga.
Who is kidnapping and dismembering the fetching young vampiresses of the High Krewe of Vlad Tepes? Who is draining the blood of black preachers and dumping their bodies in the French Quarterlagoons? Andrew Fox's "Fat White Vampire Blues" introduced Jules Duchon, the fat, white, taxi-driving vampire of the New Orleans night. "Bride of the Fat White Vampire" finds Jules embroiled in mystery upon mystery, wrapped snugly in Fox's humor of the absurd and the undead.
In Andrew Fox's first novel Fat White Vampire Blues, he has created an Ignatius Reilly (A Confederacy of Dunces) of the undead and as in John Kennedy Toole's famous novel, Fox takes full advantage of the exotic and eccentric nature of New Orleans. Jules laments the decaying of his beloved city into a combination crack ghetto and homogenized strip mall.
Margaret Atwood’s new novel, Oryx and Crake, is so utterly compelling, so prescient, so relevant, so terrifyingly-all-too-likely-to-be-true, that readers may find their view of the world forever changed after reading it.
Art is a member of the Eastern Standard Tribe, a secret society bound together by a sleep schedule. Around the world, those who wake and sleep on East Coast time find common cause with one another, cooperating, conspiring, to help each other out. Or perhaps not. Cory Doctorow's second novel, Eastern Standard Tribe, is nothing if not misleading.
The world is contemporary Britain, or nearly so-a virus has been let loose that interferes with its victims' ability to interpret symbolic representations: words drift away on pages, street signs lose their iconic meanings, photographs blur beyond recognition, and mirrors have become a gateway to madness.
The planet is run by huge American corporations; the government has been marginalized to such an extent that it is unable to quell the war stirring between rival corporate loyalty programs; and elementary schools are sponsored by the likes of Mattel and McDonalds.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart walks into the sex change clinic, determined to have his “sprouter” snipped off. So begins The Amadeus Net, a satirical novel set in the year 2028.
