Speculative fiction Books

Instant Classic offers nine sardonic tales holding a carnival mirror to writers and stories. From a deal with the Devil to the ultimate AI vs human showdown, witness the terrifying spectacle of artists who'll do anything to clamber out of the creative...

Was würdest du tun, wenn mit einem Mal nichts mehr funktioniert? Kein Licht, kein Kühlschrank, kein modernes Kommunikationsmittel mehr. Woher bekommst du nun Nahrung? Und wie wertvoll wird die Sicherheit die einem eine Gemeinschaft geben kann?Mit diesen...

In einer nicht allzu fernen Zukunft taucht ein alter Mann auf.Seine verbalen Wutausbrüche sind schwer nachzuvollziehen.Er wird erforscht. Ihm wird nachspioniert. Einige seiner Geheimnisse werden gelüftet. - Geschichten, Kunstwerke ...Man freundet sich an...

À propos de l'ouvrage qui constitue l'origine de l'union évolutionnaire, Théodore Wåldo déclarait en 2057 sur Radio Å :"Lorsque j'ai commencé en 2013 l'écriture du journal d'un vagabond, je ne me doutais pas que ce "road novel" allait conduire à une...

Fed up of power struggles, confused in modern life, stressed out and weary? This book reveals what happened when such a person decided to find out if there was anything to experience outside the limits of daily consciousness.Written in a conversational...

I belong to Reaper, the ruthless biker president who loves to share me with his best friend.But what if two men aren't enough?Against all odds, I'm finding a home with the Steel Demons. Reaper worships and dominates me. Jandro sweeps me off my feet. And...

The nature of everything we know comes from what we learn and how we acquire that knowledge. The groundbreaking book Talking to Crows reveals that our wisdom might lie in a deeper place. T.Wong shows that this magical place mixes our understanding with...

Empathy, intuitions, dreams, visions - extraordinary ways to perceive reality. They stretch human awareness beyond what our five senses and data-gathering machines can detect, defying the established criteria of evidence-based knowledge. Are these...

In 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,...

As the heart of the alliance between Babylon and Egypt, Kassaya is determined to honour her father's commands. But a captivating newcomer to the Palace of the Ornaments brings unexpected change to a world she is only just beginning to understand...

In a thirsty, drought-stricken Australia, the country is well and truly sunburnt. As the Eastern states are evacuated to more appealing climates, a stubborn few resist the forced removal. They hide out in small country towns – somewhere no one...

Eerie. Provocative. Radical. From international bestselling author Marcus Martin.In a world where life and death are preordained, two lovers cheat the system.The Ministry controls mortality. Strict laws are enforced by their automatons - an untouchable...

Ellie’s life is just one long, bad case of déjà vu. She has lived her life before - a hundred times before - and she remembers each and every lifetime. Each time, she has changed things, but has never managed to change the ending...

Naomi Mitchison published her first novel, The Conquered, in 1923. In her more than seventy succeeding books she has produced an extraordinary out-put, especially in the novel and the short story. This selection of the shorter fiction is intended to...

In Book One of The Microvita Tree, the intrepid Doctor Dogalogue travels to Earth in the fourteenth century to recover the last remaining seed of the microvita tree in the long-submerged ruins of Atlantis. If he can find the seed and replant it, this...

The people of Visryan, a global theocratic superpower, lead lives unencumbered by the fear of death. Vexrus, the deity ruling over them, offers a simple deal to his followers: serve the state in your earthly life, and be rewarded in the next. One's...

In a far-flung future, where the world has been changed irrevocably by the far-reaching consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic, Alex of the Crimson Tribune sets out to find the Empowered Race.The halfbreeds.As an immortal, Alex hungers to find her true...

Tidal Effects is the sequel to Gray Tide in the East, the popular alternate history of the First World War. In Gray Tide, the Germans cancel their planned invasion of Belgium in 1914, turning their armies eastward to crush Russia without interference...

From the outside Maya had the ideal life - the well-paid job, the flashy car, the big house in the country - but something was stirring within her that could not be denied.No longer able to suppress her growing need to break free from the path that...

A great deep wound slashed across her back from shoulder to thigh - a wound that Timoth could not understand... When he looked past the agony and the deadness, he saw that this woman was not a stranger after all.When frontier teens Timoth and Martoth...

A supernatural secret, a race to thwart a sinister magic, and one young woman's strange inheritance, that could change her life, and history itself. Adapted from the one-of-a-kind online literary experience, where readers and characters worked...

Set in the year 2056, Jackson Glass is recruited by an ousted and shamed former President of a long gone America to help prevent control of the government from falling into the hands of the enemy. The unbelievable part is who is capable of such a...

"ADVENTURE TRAVEL" IN COLOMBIA - MOMENTS OF MAYHEMOr, Colombia Revisited is a return to the author's travel and research in Colombia years ago, but now revised and made into "historical and cultural fiction."Professor Michael Gaherty and "Adventure...

"A Modern twist on the story of David and Bathsheba." Set in a future where clones are seen as second-class citizens and Normals are threatened by their own creation, Scarlet and her Mate Dagmar must fight for their own freedom and the survival. Scarlet...

Reina is smart, irreverent, and wise beyond her years. At age sixteen, she dies. Shortly after seeing her physical body buried, Reina enters the astral world and meets her higher self. Her life just lived is reviewed instantly in detail.Afterward, she is...

In 1519, at the Chateau Clos Luce in France, Anne Boleyn is the formal apprentice of Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo is now an old man and working feverishly to build a clock that will end Anne's dark curse. Set upon her by the Goddess years ago when Anne...

As 1941 comes to a close, Europe is at war. Meet German General Heinz Guderian as he battles a resurgent Soviet Army at the very gates of Moscow during the worst winter in 100 years. Owing to General Erwin Rommel's providential battlefield death in...

The Four Gates of Heaven is a tantalizing sci-fi adventure in which Professor Daniel Johnson and his fiancée, Dr. Helena Edward, embark on an epic journey in search of the staff of Eden, the twelve stones of Joshua, and the lost Ark of the Covenant.Their...

Anthem is Ayn Rand's classic tale of a dark future age of the great "We"-a world that deprives individuals of name, independence, and values. Written a full decade before George Orwell's "1984," this dystopian novel depicts a man who seeks escape from a...

In this novel of mystery and suspense, murder and foul play, the zeal for understanding the human condition collides head-on with dimensions of spiritual and ethical experience that are intellectually unfathomable.

Here are narratives by "nobodies" who were privileged (or, in some cases, not) to be employed by or otherwise to have served famous people. They include corpulent Horatio, who serves as "a sort of muse" to a grieving William Shakespeare; Mose, a runaway...

Want to take control of life and live your dream? Follow Annalia on a personal journey that transforms her world from a nightmarish act to one shining with divine promise. Take instruction from Lazy Lapis who directs a child to reach within self and...

Aramay is defiant, attractive and intelligent. Shes an empath who feels peoples emotions. Resiliency and strength are part of her nature as being an empath carries a burden. In the silence of slumber she sometimes finds moments of peace in her dreams,...

Set in a world governed by grammar, Grime 314 is a dystopian drama that satirizes political correctness in modern culture. It follows a court case, from the initial arrest to the courtroom itself, with the narrative shifting between the defendant, the...

The Guard: A Tale of Two Lives is a story about a girl with no freedom to choose. She is made a guard, and her story is the story of the lives of millions of girls in Africa who travel from crib to grave with no control over their lives. Reva the Guard...

The Answer, a compelling tale, unfolds as eight friends discover they all have recently encountered an unusual elderly gentleman. Mysteriously and inexplicably, this kindly stranger appears to them in different settings around the world. On each...

Sometimes a story can open a door to a new way of perceiving the world. We build a culture with the stories we tell. At this moment in our history we need to share new stories. We also need to retell old ones that carry essential wisdom from the past.

"Mukti: Free to Be Born Again" is a history-based autobiographical nonfiction created on three decades of fieldwork in Muslim-majority Bangladesh and Hindu-majority India. Many strands of real-life drama have been weaved together with 1947 Hindu-Muslim,...

Two enthralling novels by Robert Silverberg about a future in which the minds of the living can be changed for a price—often with dire consequencesIn To Live Again, thanks to the Scheffing Institute, death is not the end. For a hefty fee,...

After seven hundred thousand years underground, one tribe emerges to explore the new worldThe time of falling death stars ushered in the Long Winter—eons of cold that caused plants and animals to vanish from Earth and drove people to take refuge in...

Humans have emerged to reclaim the Earth after the Long Winter. But they never anticipated the battle that awaited them . . .As Earth thaws after the Long Winter, the remaining human tribes journey from beneath the continent to the fertile land above...

A sequel to his first book, Archie Stanley's Journeys II offers alternative family migrations that parallel the DNA-based migrations described in Journeys. These alternative migrations branch off from the main family migration pathway from Africa to...

The intent of writing this book was not to scare anyone but to make everyone of us, including myself, aware of the fact that there is life after death. Our soul keeps on living in another dimension. We are all accountable for our actions, thoughts, and...