Science fiction: near future

The Fifth or Zurichthal glaciation of the Pleistocene began on the morning of April 1, 1962, on a Sunday about nine o'clock by eastern time.

He appeared in glory and sank with out a trace.

Tin Tony Trotz had only one job-to watch out for something a little odd-in a universe that was insane!

Adam had three brothers, named Etienne, Yancy, and Rreq.

We are proud to present the People of Color Take over FSI Special Issue!

The secret lay hidden at the end of nine landings, and Medusa-dark was one man's search for it-in the strangest journey ever made.

Sally watched the molten gold glow in the sky.

Edward Prendick is rescued from a damaged ship and brought to a small island where an infamous doctor performs a series of experiments on animals.

Brilliant young scientist Victor Frankenstein's drive to create life leads him to animate a creature assembled from the bodies of the dead.

An epic adrenaline-filled space opera, The Human is the final thrilling book in Neal Asher's Rise of the Jain trilogy.

The Soldier is the first novel in the no-holds barred Rise of the Jain series, by bestselling science fiction author Neal Asher.

A high-octane space opera adventure about the battle for humanity's future.

Shortlisted for the 2023 Hugo Award for Best NovelJurassic Park meets Parks & Recreation in The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi - a thrilling, fast-paced adventure set on an alternate Earth.

John Scalzi's Head On, is a chilling near-future SF with the thrills of a gritty cop procedural.

A once peaceful planet of refugees faces complete annihilation in this hard science fiction sequel to Brightness Reef.

Memory, morality, and immortality merge in this "e;haunting and lyrical triumph"e; from the bestselling author of Schismatrix Plus (Time).

The final three books in the bestselling hard-boiled, science fiction detective series by the legendary actor who played Captain Kirk on Star Trek.

Books four through six of the bestselling, hard-boiled, science fiction detective series by the legendary actor who played Captain Kirk on Star Trek.

The Nebula Award-winning author's "e;masterful SF trilogy"e; is a multigenerational epic of human colonists terraforming the second planet from the sun (Publishers Weekly).

The complete Hugo and Nebula Award-nominated cyberpunk trilogy by an author whose work is "e;wry and black and savage"e; (George R.

The first three volumes of the bestselling detective series set in the twenty-second century by the legendary actor who played Captain Kirk on Star TrekIn the twenty-second century, mankind has expanded the horizons of science and technology.

The Nebula Award-winning author of The Forever War explores a world where time is money-and for some, both are running out .

There's a heavy price to pay for the manipulation of nature in this novel from the revered author of The War of the Worlds and The Time Machine.

From the New York Times-bestselling author: A new kind of phone awakens the dead in this "e;really excellent"e; technological horror novel (Stephen King).

After two decades in space, a man returns to Earth as something new and not completely human, in this "e;enormously inventive"e; novel by a Nebula Award winner (Galaxy Science Fiction).

A gem trader and a feline mutant unite to find the truth behind a mysterious stone rumored to be the key to all the power in the universe.

In the "e;excellent"e; sequel to The Zero Stone, Murdoc Jern searches for the source of the mysterious gem that leaves violence in its wake (Kirkus Reviews).

In an untamed garden, a woman discovers the price of freedomAniya is a perfect creature.

A castaway government official is stranded on an island of man-made monsters in this bold reimagining of the H.

At the end of the millennium, as Armageddon looms, two young women from opposite sides of the world unite as humanity's last hope for salvationIn New Orleans, private investigator Felicity LeJeune has made it her mission to bring down the corrupt televangelist Reverend Mullin, leader of the United Ministries, who filched two million dollars in lottery winnings from Felicity's unassuming grandmother.

This award-winning science fiction classic explores a far-future world inhabited by intelligent canines who pass down the tales of their human forefathers.

On a savage prison planet, a reluctant killer searches for his memoryHe awakes in the cell, his mind blank save for a faint memory of standing over a dead man with a gun.

The Nebula-nominated novel of "e;abrave new world of nearly constant future shock"e;-plus all the short fiction of the Shaper/Mechanist universe (The Washington Post).

In a future world of rampant inequality, a martial-arts video star finds himself in a real fight for survival, in this novel by the author of Schismatrix.

In a near-future new age of corporate control, hacker mercenaries, and electronic terrorism, a public relations executive on the rise finds herself caught in the violent epicenter of a data warTwo decades into the twenty-first century, the world's nations are becoming irrelevant.

Two dozen tales of future shock and twisted history from an undisputed king of cyberpunk science fiction, including Nebula Award finalists "e;Sunken Garden"e; and "e;Dori Bangs.

A science fiction thriller by the author of Night Watch, the hit novel that inspired two major motion picturesFive months after the horrific accident that left him near death and worried that he'd never fly again, master-pilot Alex Romanov lands a new job: captaining the sleek passenger vessel Mirror.

Four novellas in one volume-the thrilling science fiction saga of a female robot who becomes sentient and fights to save humanity from destruction.

An insane, broken pulp-art painter gets chance at redemption in a phantasmagoric science fiction wonder from a true master of the weirdBefore his stroke and the onset of old age, Frank Lazorg was the king of the fantasy illustrators with an ego to match.

A humanoid robot serves as a perfect female companion-until she achieves consciousness-in this wildly different story from a New York Times-bestselling author.

An ecological disaster spawns an eight-legged sea monster in this collaboration between the science fiction author and acclaimed nonfiction writer.

The second in a New York Times-bestselling author's wildly imaginative series about the nature of consciousness, set on a planet of unusual animals.

Far-future convicts get "e;ringed"e;-and lose their free will-in this novel of "e;chilling extrapolation"e; cowritten by the New York Times-bestselling author (Clifford D.

A romantic tale of wizardry and botany!

A thought-provoking tale of female robots and sentient animals by a New York Times-bestselling author.

Players compete in a virtual reality game of sexual challenges in this erotic fantasy from the New York Times-bestselling author of the Xanth series.

A Nebula and Hugo Award Finalist: The first novel by the New York Times-bestselling author of the Xanth series.

Set against a backdrop of Cold War paranoia, this futuristic novel about identity and technology is "e;one of the unrecognized classics of SF"e; (Locus).

Published less than a decade into the Internet era, this remarkable science fiction novel foreshadows many of the world's technological advances One of the world's wealthiest and most influential men, journalist Laurent Michaelmas lives in a penthouse overlooking New York City's Central Park with his superintelligent computer, Domino.

A science fiction thriller by the author of Night Watch, the hit novel that inspired two major motion picturesFive months after the horrific accident that left him near death and worried that he'd never fly again, master-pilot Alex Romanov lands a new job: captaining the sleek passenger vessel Mirror.