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Science Fiction Books - SF classics - Hard SF - Space Opera

Science fiction is a broad genre of fiction that often involves speculations based on current or future science or technology. Science fiction is found in books, art, television, films, games, theatre, and other media. In organizational or marketing contexts, science fiction can be synonymous with the broader definition of speculative fiction, encompassing creative works incorporating imaginative elements not found in contemporary reality; this includes fantasy, horror, and related genres. Science fiction differs from fantasy in that, within the context of the story, its imaginary elements are largely possible within scientifically established or scientifically postulated laws of nature (though some elements in a story might still be pure imaginative speculation). Exploring the consequences of such differences is the traditional purpose of science fiction, making it a "literature of ideas". Science fiction is largely based on writing entertainingly and rationally about alternate possibilities in settings that are contrary to known reality.

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Goodkind First series Truth Rule Wizard's Book Terry NEW Sword

Wizards First Rule - Terry Goodkind- New Book Book 1 of the Sword of Truth series Get other Sword of Truth series books by Terry Goodkind click here Paperback The primary protagonist in Wizard’s First Rule is Richard Cypher a young woods guide. Richard lives in an area of the world known as Westland which is the only part of the world that at the time contained no magic. The Westland is separated from the other lands by a dangerous magical boundary that prevents anyone without powerful magic from passing through it. On the other side of the boundary lie many sovereign nations jointly known as the Midlands and the empire of D'Hara. Richard works as a woods guide leading important politi click here.....
Scalzi Novel Old

Old Man's War - John Scalzi - NEW Novel A stunning novel of the long war for human survival--in a universe replete with hostility. Description Old Man's War is a science fiction novel by John Scalzi published in 2005. It was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2006. A loose sequel The Ghost Brigades was published in 2006 and a more direct sequel The Last Colony was published in 2007. Synopsis The first-person narrative is about a soldier named John Perry and his exploits in the CDF (Colonial Defense Forces). Old Man's War is similar in overall structure to Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers and Joe Haldeman's The Forever War as it follows Perry's military career from CDF recru more information.....
Kim Mars Stanley NEW Green

Green Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson - New Get other Kym Stanley Robinson Books here - including Blue Mars and Red Mars The Mars trilogy is a series of award-winning science fiction novels by Kim Stanley Robinson chronicling the settlement and terraforming of the planet Mars through the intensely personal and detailed viewpoints of a wide variety of characters spanning several centuries. Ultimately more utopian than dystopian the story focuses on egalitarian sociological and scientific advances made on Mars while Earth suffered from overpopulation and ecological disaster. The three novels are Red Mars (1992) Green Mars (1993) and Blue Mars (1996). An additional collection of short stories and b more here.....
Jordan Heart Book Time Winter's

Winter's Heart - Robert Jordan - New Book Book 9 of The Wheel of Time Paperback Get other Robert Jordon Wheel of Time books here Perrin Aybara and his followers pursue the Shaido Aiel who kidnapped his wife Faile Bashere. Elayne Trakand attempts to solidify her grip on the Lion Throne and put down rebellious nobles. Mat Cauthon making his return to the series after his absence in the previous book is trapped in the city of Ebou Dar in Altara which is under Seanchan occupation. He plans his escape but in the end his plans are disrupted by the interference of a Seanchan noblewoman named Tuon who is revealed as the Daughter of the Nine Moons heir to the Seanchan Crystal Throne. Mat having heard more.....
Dies the Fire - S.M. Stirling - NEW Book Other S.M. Stirling Books click here Other The Emberverse series or "The Change" click here Paperback - the first Book in "The Change" Dies the Fire chronicles the struggle of two groups who try to survive "The Change" a sudden worldwide event that alters physical laws so that electricity gunpowder and most forms of high-energy-density technology no longer work. As a result modern civilization comes crashing down. Michael Havel a former Marine turned bush pilot is in the air over the Bitterroot mountains in Idaho when The Change occurs on March 17 1998. His passengers are wealthy industrialist Kenneth Larsson Larsson's wi more here.....
NEW Novel Eifelheim Flynn Michael

Eifelheim - Michael Flynn - NEW Novel In 1349 one small town in Germany disappeared and has never been resettled. Tom a contemporary historian and his theoretical physicist girlfriend Sharon become interested. Tom indeed becomes obsessed. By all logic the town should have survived but it didn't and that violates everything Tom knows about history. What's was special about Eifelheim that it utterly disappeared more than 600 years ago? Father Deitrich is the village priest of Oberhochwald the village that will soon gain the name of Teufelheim in later years corrupted to Eifelheim in the year 1348 when the Black Death is gathering strength across Europe but is still not nearby. Deitrich is an e extra info.....
Wyndham John Day NEW Triffids

The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham - New Book Paperback Triffids are fictional plants capable of animal-like behaviour: they feed on rotting meat are able to uproot themselves and move about on their three "legs" possess a deadly whip-like poisonous sting and appear to communicate with each other. The narrator and protagonist is Bill Masen who has made his living working with Triffids. Being an expert on the subject he speculates that they were deliberately bioengineered in the Soviet Union and that Triffid seeds were spread worldwide when an attempt was made to smuggle them out of Russia; the escaping plane is presumed to have been shot down literally scattering the seeds to t find out more.....
NEW Larry Ringworld Niven

Ringworld - Larry Niven The artefact is a circular ribbon of matter about six hundred million miles long and more than ninety million miles in radius with a surface area three million times that of Earth. This is the Ringworld.Pierson's puppeteers the strange three-legged two-headed aliens who discovered it are understandably apprehensive of a meeting with the builders of such an immense structure and set about putting together a team to explore it. Louis Wu a two-hundred-year-old human adventurer Speaker-to-Animals a kzin an alien rather like an eight-foot-tall red-furred cat and Teela Brown another human genetically engineered for good luck are recruited by Nessus a mad puppeteer to travel more details.....
Bear Novel Eon Greg

Eon - Greg Bear - NEW Novel Description Eon is a 1985 science fiction novel by Greg Bear. It is the first story written in The Way fictional universe. Events in Eon take place in the early 21st century when the USA and USSR are on the verge of nuclear war. In that tense political climate a 300 km asteroid appears within the solar system following an unusual supernova and moves into a highly eccentric Near-Earth orbit. The two nations each try to claim this mysterious object (dubbed "the Stone" by the Americans and or "the Potato" by the Soviets) with the US and NATO allied nations succeeding. The high technology of this civilization with their control over genetic engineering human augmentat more information.....
Ghost John Scalzi NEW Brigades

The Ghost Brigades - John Scalzi - NEW Novel The Ghost Brigades is the second book by John Scalzi set in the Old Man's War universe. Synopsis The main character in this narrative is Jared Dirac. He is instilled with the consciousness of a traitor Charles Boutin and has to deal with memories of a life he hasn't lived while trying to find out who he really is himself. Jared is a member of the Special Forces also known as The Ghost Brigades. Jane Sagan and Harry Wilson are the only primary characters returning from Old Man's War. All of the colonial defense forces are given genetically altered bodies with all sorts of upgrades but it is the special forces that really get the most out of them. T click here.....
Book Swing M Harrison

Nova Swing - M. John Harrison - New Book Paperback It is some time after Ed Chianese's trip into the Kefahuchi Tract. A major industry of the Halo is now tourism. The Tract has begun to expand and change but more problematically parts of it have also begun to fall to earth piecemeal on the Beach planets. We are in a city perhaps on New Venusport or Motel Splendido: next to the city is the event site the zone from out of which pour new inexplicable artefacts organisms and escapes of living algorithm - the wrong physics loose in the universe. They can cause plague and change. An entire department of the local police Site Crime exists to stop them being imported into the city by adventurers ent find out more.....
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The Keeping Place - Isobelle Carmody - New Book 4 of the Obernewtyn Chronicles Paperback Get other Isobelle Carmody books here After a kidnapping Elspeth Gordie and the Misfits are forced to join the rebellion against the oppressive Council using their extraordinary mind powers. But Elspeth must also seek out clues left by the long-dead seer Kasanda vital to her quest to destroy the Beforetime weaponmachines. One clue is lost in the past forcing Elspeth to travel the Dreamtrails stalked by a terrifying winged beast with the cat Maruman as her guide and guardian. Only there can she learn more of the Beforetimer Misfits and their enemy Govamen. Gradually Elspeth realises that her quest is inti click here.....
Twenty

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne - New Paperback Get other Classic Science Fiction books here As the story begins in 1866 a mysterious sea monster theorized by some to be a giant narwhal is sighted by ships of several nations; an ocean liner is also damaged by the creature. The United States government finally assembles an expedition in New York City to track down and destroy the menace. Professor Pierre Aronnax is a noted French marine biologist and narrator of the story; as he happens to be in New York at the time and is a recognized expert in his field he is issued a last-minute invitation to join the expedition and he accepts. Canadian master harpoonist Ned Land and Ar more information.....
Carmody NEW Chronicles

The Stone Key- Isobelle Carmody - New Book 5 of the Obernewtyn Chronicles Paperback Get other Isobelle Carmody books here There was a great crash and wood splintered... I had a brief glimpse of a group of Herder priests bald and robed peering at me and then the sundered remnants of the locker door were torn aside and a rough hand reached in to hail me out by the hair. A Hendra captain stared into my face with eyes that burned with a fanatical fire above a thin nose and a lipless slash of a mouth... 'You will die in great pain and very slowly mutant ' said the Hendra master. When Farseeker Guildmistress Espeth Gordie sets out from Obernewtyn to travel to Sutrium at the end of Wintertime she q find out more.....
NEW Forest Anderson Saga Kevin Suns Book Seven Stars A J

A Forest of Stars - Kevin J. Anderson - New Book 2 of the Saga of the Seven Suns Paperback Get other Kevin J. Anderson books here Five years after attacking human-colonized worlds of the Spiral Arm the enigmatic Hydrogues maintain absolute control over the galaxy's gas giant planets. On Earth the government is tightening its iron grip on rebellious colonies while seeking to dominate the other humans throughout the galaxy. Reeling from renewed attacks by the hydrogues the Terran rulers don't realise the other dangers they face. Earth's alien "friends" the seemingly gentle Ildirans are secretly abducting and breeding humans in enforced breeding camps. Whilst the Terran Hanseatic Leag extra info.....
Book Machine Kevin Anderson Brian

Dune - The Machine Crusade - Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson - New Book Get more books in the Dune Series click here Dune: The Machine Crusade moves forward into the center of the Butlerian Jihad described in the first book of the trilogy Dune: The Butlerian Jihad. Leading the movement is the ex-slave and ex-machine trustee Grand Patriarch Iblis Ginjo. However Iblis appears more interested in politics and his own personal legacy than in the Jihad. Vorian Atreides despite the long life given to him by his father the Titan Agamemnon begins to show the vestiges of wanting to settle down after visiting the planet Caladan and meeting the woman Leronica Tergiet who is to become his long-term co more here.....
Graphic Long Dark Road Home Comic

The Long Road Home - Stephen King - The Dark Tower - New - Graphic Novel - Comic The rest of the Dark Tower series is here Other Stephen King Books are here In continuation of the events of The Gunslinger Born Roland Deschain and his ka-tet Alain Johns and Cuthbert Allgood are on the run from the Hambry posse hoping to return to Gilead with Farson's prize the evil seeing sphere known as Maerlyn's Grapefruit. The young gunslingers argue over Roland's insistence on carrying Susan Delgado's body to give it a proper burial and during this Roland shoots the Grapefruit. It transmogrifies into an enormous eyeball with tentacles that attach to Roland drawing out his consciousness and into the sphere more information.....
Daniel NEW Keyes

Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes - NEW Novel The ideas for Flowers for Algernon developed over a period of 14 years and were inspired by numerous different events in Keyes' life starting in 1945 with Keyes' personal conflict between his parents pushing him through a pre-medical education and his own desire to write. Keyes felt that his education was driving a wedge between him and his parents and this led him to wonder what would happen if it were possible to increase a person’s intelligence. Another key moment came in 1957 while Keyes was teaching English to students with special needs; one student asked him if it would be possible to be put into a regular class if he worked hard a click here.....
Crossroads Wheel Robert Time Jordan NEW Book Twilight

Crossroads of Twilight - Robert Jordan - New Book 10 of The Wheel of Time Paperback Get other Robert Jordon Wheel of Time books here Perrin Aybara continues trying to rescue his wife Faile Bashere kidnapped by the Shaido Aiel even resorting to torturing prisoners for information. In addition Perrin is approached with the suggestion of alliance with the Seanchan at least on a temporary basis to defeat the Shaido. Mat Cauthon continues trying to escape Seanchan-controlled territory while courting Tuon the Daughter of the Nine Moons the woman whom he has kidnapped and who it has been prophesied will become his wife. Mat discovers that Tuon as a potential sul'dam can be taught to channel the One more here.....
Brave Aldous World

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley - NEW Novel Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is a 1932 novel by Aldous Huxley. Set in the London of AD 2540 (632 A.F. in the book) the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology biological engineering and sleep-learning that combine to change society. Brave New World is the story of a futuristic World State where all emotion love art and human individuality have been replaced by social stability. An ominous warning to the world's population this literary classic is a must-read. Far in the future the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its membe more here.....

These may include:

* A setting in the future, in alternative time lines, or in a historical past that contradicts known facts of history or the archeological record
* A setting in outer space, on other worlds, or involving aliens
* Stories that involve technology or scientific principles that contradict known laws of nature
* Stories that involve discovery or application of new scientific principles, such as time travel or psionics, or new technology, such as nanotechnology, faster-than-light travel or robots, or of new and different political or social systems

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