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Smallworld: A Science Fiction Adventure Comedy
by: Dominic Green
publisher: Fingerpress Ltd, published: 2010-12-17
ASIN: B004GNFMLO
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"A showcase for Green's bone-dry satire and deadpan humour ... Green's agile imagination constantly wrong-foots the reader. A delight."
-Peter Ingham, The Telegraph
"The work of a talented writer having lots of very smart fun"
-- S F Winser, Booksquawk.com
Smallworld is like nothing you've ever read before... truly innovative speculative fiction from Hugo-nominated Brit SF writer Dominic Green.
Mount Ararat isn't your average extrasolar agrarian colony. A world the size of an asteroid yet having Earth-standard gravity, Mount Ararat plays host to a strangely confident family whose children are protected by the Devil, a mechanical killing machine, from such passers-by as Mr von Trapp (an escapee from a penal colony), the Made (manufactured humans being hunted by the State), and the super-rich clients of a gravitational health spa established at Mount Ararat's South Pole. But it soon transpires that the Devil is harbouring an ancient and deadly secret.
Enjoyed Smallworld? Its sequel Littlestar hugely expands on the universe established in the first book, with an astounding story arc that follows troopers Beguiled-of-the-Serpent and Only-Begotten as they become embroiled in the second star-spanning war against the Made.
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The Golden Age of Science Fiction: An Anthology of 50 Short Stories (Unexpurgated Edition) (Halcyon Classics)
by: Various
publisher: Halcyon Press Ltd., published: 2010-02-03
ASIN: B0037Z70MQ
sales rank: 7492
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This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories by more than forty authors. Many of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1950s.
Included within this work are stories by Poul Anderson, Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Phillip K. Dick, Randall Garrett, Paul Ernst, Kurt Vonnegut, Jack Williamson, Phillip Jose Farmer, Lester Del Rey, Leigh Brackett, Murray Leinster, Ben Bova, and many others.
This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.
Contents:
A Strange Manuscript found in a Copper Cylinder (James De Mille)
A World by the Tale (Randall Garrett)
A World is Born (Leigh Brackett)
Accidental Death (Peter Baily)
Earthmen Bearing Gifts (Fredric Brown)
Atom Boy (Ray Cummings)
Beyond Lies the Wub (Phillip K. Dick)
Blind Spot (Bascom Jones)
Cully (Jack Egan)
Dead Giveaway (Randall Garrett)
Dead Ringer (Lester Del Rey)
Dead World (Jack Douglas)
Divinity (Joseph Samachson)
Four Miles Within (Anthony Gilmore)
Heist Job on Thizar (Randall Garrett)
Hex (Laurence Janifer)
In the Year 2889 (Jules Verne)
Indulgence of Negu Mah (Robert Arthur)
Lease to Doomsday (Lee Archer)
Lost in Translation (Laurence Janifer)
McIlvane’s Star (August Derleth)
Missing Link (Frank Herbert)
Next Logical Step (Ben Bova)
Pandemic (J.F. Bone)
Remember the Alamo (T.R. Fehrenbach)
Salvage in Space (Jack Williamson)
Security (Poul Anderson)
Subspace Survivors (E.E. “Doc” Smith)
The Aliens (Murray Leinster)
The Big Trip Up Yonder (Kurt Vonnegut)
The Chronic Argonauts (H.G. Wells)
The Cosmic Express (Jack Williamson)
The Day Time Stopped Moving (Bradner Buckner)
The Eternal Wall (Raymond Z. Gallun)
The Gifts of Asti (Andre Norton)
The Hated (Frederick Pohl)
The Last Evolution (John W. Campbell)
The Man Who Saw the Future (Edmond Hamilton)
The Memory of Mars (Raymond F. Jones)
The Moon is Green (Fritz Leiber)
The Nothing Equation (Tom Godwin)
The Power and the Glory (Charles W. Diffin)
The Radiant Shell (Paul Ernst)
The Stoker and the Stars (Algis Budrys)
The Street That Wasn’t There (Carl Jacobi and Clifford D. Simak)
The World Behind the Moon (Paul Ernst)
There is a Reaper (Charles De Vet)
They Twinkled Like Jewels (Phillip José Farmer)
Waste Not, Want (Dave Dryfoos)
Year of the Big Thaw (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
This unexpurgated edition contains the complete text with errors and omissions corrected.
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Free Science Fiction Books On Kindle: Linked List of over 350 Free SciFi Classic Stories And Early Fantasy Novels
by: Morris Rosenthal
publisher: Foner Books, published: 2011-08-27
ASIN: B004OR1G4O
sales rank: 7667
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Updated 1/22/2012 to fix Verne's table of contents entry and the invisible Wells books.
This linked list of over 350 free science fiction stories and novels in Amazon's permanent collection was recently updated with hundreds of works from famous science fiction writers who wrote in the 1950's and 1960's and apparently forgot to extend their copyright protection. For the more recent authors SciFi fans will be familiar with, I just list the links (arranged by author) that will take you to their titles in the Kindle store for free download. For the earlier writers, I usually include a one or two line summary of their books.
I thought I read all the classic SciFi twenty years ago, but I found a couple dozen authors I'd never heard of while researching Amazon's free collection. Most of the titles in this linked list of the free classic science fiction on Amazon were written before the "Golden Age" of science fiction, but influenced the authors who came later. I've included several early utopia/dystopia books, a popular subject in the late Victorian period. A few supernatural titles are included when the author also wrote other types of books. I didn't include fairy tales, and I made judgment calls on skipping science fiction/fantasy that was written for children and young adults, or just included a few samples from those authors.
This list of free science fiction eBooks on Amazon works best on Kindle 3 and iPad. If you click the linked title, it will bring you directly to the product page for the free eBook in the Kindle store. If you are using a Kindle 3, an iPad, or other eBook reader with a decent web browser, you can sign into your Amazon account and download the eBook immediately.
If you are reading on an older Kindle 2 or Kindle 1, you can add the book to your Wish List and the next time you use a computer to access Amazon, you can have the Wish List items sent to your Kindle for free. Or, if you want to begin reading a eBook immediately on an older Kindle, you can simply note the title and cover design of the linked eBook in the Kindle store, and then search for the title with your Kindle. If there are multiple copies, pick the one with the cover that matches, confirm that it is free, and then download it to your Kindle.
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#1 Shades of Gray- Noir, City Shrouded By Darkness ( science fiction action adventure mystery series)
by: Kristie Lynn Higgins
publisher: Pandora Project Publisher, published: 2011-05-05
ASIN: B004CRSPO0
sales rank: 130723
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**3rd edition original cover
Noir was a mega-city plagued by a sun blocking mass called Dry Clouds that had mysteriously appeared three decades earlier. The Dry Clouds covered half the planet and forced those living under them to exist in endless night. On this world, corporations were in charge and breaking your contract with them could mean the termination of your life.
Kimberly Griffin, a Life Closer (legal assassin) existed in a world of death. She Closed people for a living. It was a lonely demeaning existence, though she wouldn't admit it. There was nothing to drive her in the bleak reality until one day she ran into Kat.
Kat, also known as the Pandora Project, was hunted by bio-mechas called Un-Men. She was an experiment of the Sphinx Corporation, and they were testing her to see if she could be the ultimate weapon. Kat refused to be a killer and tried to discover the truth behind her existence. Could she be a new form of bio-mecha?
Kim discovered someone close to her had been murdered. Is Kat the key to finding out who did it? Or will her association with Kat only cause her more grief?
Pandora of ancient times opened a box and let all good escape. Would Pandora be the hope the planet needed? Or would she destroy the world?
**Complete list of Shades of Gray Series **
(STARTING POINT QUADRILOGY)
1. Noir, City Shrouded By Darkness
2. From Moscow, With Love
3. Cerberus Versus Pandora
4. Sisters
(ZOMBIE TWILIGHT QUADRILOGY)
5. Night Of The Twilight- The Chimera Strain
6. Dawn Of The Twilight- Outbreak
7. Day Of The Twilight- Patient Zero
8. Land Of The Twilight- Closing of Days
(MYTHS AND DESPAIR QUADRILOGY)
9. Rise Of The Gorgons **Coming Soon
10. TBA
11. TBA
12. TBA
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The Ultimate Science Fiction Collection: Volume Two (30+ Books)
by: Various
publisher: Douglas Editions, published: 2009-06-19
ASIN: B002E19M3E
sales rank: 10483
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Thousands of pages and dozens of books/stories collected in one large Kindle edition with active table of contents.
Authors include:
H. Beam Piper
Mack Reynolds
E.E. Smith
Works include:
The Answer
The Cosmic Computer
Crossroads of Destiny
Day of the Moron
Dearest
The Edge of the Knife
Flight From Tomorrow
Four-Day Planet
Genesis
Graveyard of Dreams
He Walked Around the Horses
The Keeper
Last Enemy
Little Fuzzy
The Mercenaries
Ministry of Disturbance
Murder in the Gunroom
Naudsonce
Null-ABC
Oomphel in the Sky
Omnilingual
Operation R.S.V.P.
Patrol
Police Operation
Rebel Raider
The Return
A Slave is a Slave
Time and Time Again
Time Crime
Ullr Uprising
Adaptation
The Common Man
Gun for Hire
Mercenary
Revolution
A Stranger Here Myself
Subversive
Summit
Unborn Tomorrow
The Galaxy Primes
Masters of Space
The Skylark of Space
Skylark Three
Spacehounds of IPC
Subspace Survivors
Triplanetary
The Vortex Blaster
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Science Fiction Short Stories Volume IV
by: D T Yarbrough
published: 2010-08-01
ASIN: B003Y3BP2C
sales rank: 196228
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40 Original Flash Fiction short stories.
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Science Fiction Short Stories Volume V
by: D T Yarbrough
published: 2010-07-31
ASIN: B003XYFMU8
sales rank: 356161
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9 original science fiction short stories
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Chromosome 4: a Science Fiction, Science Fiction Thriller
by: Stacey Cochran
published: 2012-01-03
ASIN: B006TJVBXG
sales rank: 30303
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A science-fiction action thriller set aboard a luxury spaceship on course from Earth to Moon.
Roger and Paula Winston seem to be two happily married space tourists on a romantic trip of a lifetime. However, when they are drawn into what appears to be a random act of violence, Roger and Paula reveal themselves as figures in an elaborate con game to sell pharmaceutical secrets to a dirty government official. In this riveting pulse-pounding story things are never what they seem, and anyone could be in on the con.
Think Philip K. Dick blended with Michael Crichton.
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Star Dreamer (Selected Science Fiction of Victor Methos)
by: Victor Methos
published: 2011-11-22
ASIN: B006CBKNQW
sales rank: 222551
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What would happen if hunting dinosaurs were legal on a planet where they still exist? What about if an android thought suicide was the only way to earn his freedom? What if the greatest predator in the earth's history staked a claim on a prehistoric stretch of beach inhabited by man's ancestors?
Few authors have written the entire depth and breadth of science fiction short stories as Victor Methos. Scanning the gamut from futuristic military fiction, to science fiction-fantasy set in unimaginable worlds, his works are at once entertaining and thought provoking.
This collection, the first volume in the series, covers his early fiction dealing with issues of freedom, oppression, and the will to survive. Rough at the edges occasionally, shocking at others, it is a work that embodies the elegance of the genre itself. A must read for fans of science fiction.
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Discovery (The Science of Psionics)
by: Dave Renol
published: 2012-01-30
ASIN: B0073XU3WW
sales rank: 29655
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A young couple finds that they are able to use psionic abilities after a strange lightning storm passes over them. Eager to explore their new psionic powers, they bring in some trusted friends to assist them, but one turns out to be not so friendly.
Jealous and suspicious, the former US Special Forces Ranger decides that he wants to get their powers for himself, and will stop at nothing to reach his goal. Bringing in help from his military friends, he turns the casual research and testing into a nightmare siege for our young couple.
Will the might of the military prevail, or the science of psionics?
The Science of Psionics, Book 1: Discovery
Approx. 50k words, 200 pages.
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