Alien in the House
Alien in the House - By Gini KochACKNOWLEDGMENTSThe usual massive thanks to my epic Gang of Four: my amazing editor, Sheila Gilbert, who managed to keep me calm and writing when my deadline moved up and I was nowhere close ...
Science Fiction
Alexandria
Alexandria - By John KadenChapter OneThey gather around the bonfire, drunk and laughing, unaware of the malicious eyes spying them from the forest. The entire village, from newborn to elder, will join the ceremony tonight, payin...
A Girl Called Badger
A Girl Called Badger - By Stephen ColegroveONEThe forest smelled like rain and the hunters walked faster.Four carried wooden crossbows at the ready, metal staves bent and strings cocked. At the end of the single file a young ...
Pebble In The Sky
1. Between One Footstep And The NextTo my father, whofirst introduced me to science fiction.1. Between One Footstep And The NextTwo minutes before he disappeared forever from the face of the Earth he knew, Joseph Schwartz strol...
The Stars Like Dust
1. The Bedroom MurmuredThe bedroom murmured to itself gently. It was almost below the limits of hearing-an irregular little sound, yet quite unmistakable, and quite deadly.But it wasn't that which awakened Biron Farrill and d...
The Currents Of Space
PrologAll of the characters in this book are fictious,and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead,is purely coincidental.To David, who took his time coming, but was worth waiting forPrologA Year BeforeTBE MAN from Earth...
Foundation
THE STORY BEHIND THE "FOUNDATION"By ISAAC ASIMOVThe date was August 1, 1941. World War II had been raging for two years. France had fallen, the Battle of Britain had been fought, and the Soviet Union had just been invaded by...
Prelude to Foundation
Author's NoteWhen I wrote "Foundation," which appeared in the May 1942 issue of Astounding Science Fiction, I...
Forward the Foundation
Chapter 1Part IEto DemerzelDEMERZEL, ETO-... While there is no question that Eto Demerzel was the real power in the government during much of the reign of Emperor Cleon I, historians are divided as to the nature of his rule....
Foundation and Empire
Part I The General AcknowledgmentsThe date was August 1, 1941. World War II had been raging for two years. France had fallen, the Battle of Britain had been fought, and the Soviet Union had just been invaded by Nazi Germany....
Second Foundation
Part I Search By The Mule PrologueThe First Galactic Empire had endured for tens of thousands of years. It had included all the planets of the Galaxy in a centralized rule, sometimes tyrannical, sometimes benevolent, always ord...
Foundation's Edge
PROLOGUEThe first Galactic Empire was falling. It had been decaying and breaking down for centuries and only one man fully realized that fact.He was Hari Seldom the last great scientist of the First Empire, and it was he who...
Foundation and Earth
Part One Gaia The Story Behind the FoundationON August 1, 1941, when I was a lad of twenty-one, I was a graduate student in chemistry at Columbia University and had been writing science fiction professionally for three years....
The Light of Other Days
Part 1: THE GOLDFISH BOWL PROLOGUEBobby could see the Earth, complete and serene, within its cage of silver ligh...
The Lost Worlds of 2001
1. View of the Year 2000FOREWORDBehind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living. Since the dawn of time, roughly a hundred billion human beings have walked the pla...
Rendezvous With Rama
Chapter 1. SpaceguardSooner or later, it was bound to happen. On 30 June 1908, Moscow escaped destruction by three hours and four thousand kilometres - a margin invisibly small by the standards of the universe. Again, on 12 F...
Rama Revealed(Rama IV)
ESCAPE PROLOGUEIn one of the outlying spiral arms of the Milky Way Galaxy, an inconspicuous, solitary yellow star slowly orbits the galactic center thirty thousand light-years away. This stable star, the Sun, takes two hundred a...
The Garden of Rama(Rama III)
NICOLE'S JOURNAL Chapter 129 December 2200.Two nights ago, at 10:44 Greenwich time on the Earth, Simone Tiasso Wakefield greeted the universe. It was an incredible experience. I thought I had felt powerful emotions before, bu...
2010 Odyssey Two
Part 1: LEONOV Chapter 1 Meeting at the FocusEven in this metric age, it was still the thousand-foot telescope, not the three-hundred-metre one. The great saucer set among the mountains was already half full of shadow, as the...
2001 A Space Odyssey
ForewordBehind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living. Since the dawn of time, roughly a hundred billion human beings have walked the planet Earth.Now this is an...
2061 Odyssey Three
Chapter 1 The Frozen YearsI - THE MAGIC MOUNTAINChapter 1 The Frozen Years'For a man of seventy, you're in extremely good shape,' remarked Dr Glazunov, looking up from the Medcom's final print-out. 'I'd hav...
3001 The Final Odyssey
PROLOGUE - The FirstbornFor Cherene, Tamara and Melinda - may you be happy in a far better century than minePROLOGUE - The FirstbornCall them the Firstborn. Though they were not remotely human, they were flesh and blood, and ...
Dog Blood
Synopsis:The Earth has been torn into two parts by an irreversible division. Whether due to nature, or the unkno...
Hater
Synopsis:REMAIN CALM DO NOT PANIC TAKE SHELTER WAIT FOR FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS THE SITUATION IS UNDER CONTROL Societ...
Straight to You
Synopsis:The sun is dying and only days remain before all life on Earth is extinguished. Steven Johnson is alone...
Autumn The City
Synopsis:Autumn: The City This book is a work of fiction. The characters and situations in this story are imagin...
Autumn The Human Condition
Synopsis:The human race is finished. Mankind is all but dead and only a handful of frightened individuals remain....
Trust
Synopsis:The most important event in human history takes place in the middle of nowhere. Perspectives are altered....
Autumn
Synopsis:A bastard hybrid of War of the Worlds and Night of the Living Dead, Autumn chronicles the struggle of ...