Best Sci Fi Literature - April 2024

The Amber Project: A Dystopian Sci-fi Novel (The Variant Saga Book 1)

200 years after the world ends, their future begins.In 2157, a mysterious gas known as Variant spreads across the globe, killing or mutating most organic life. The surviving humans take refuge in an underground city, determined to return home. But after generations of failures and botched attempts, hope is beginning to dwindle. That is, until a young scientist makes a unique discovery--and everything changes. Suddenly, there's reason to hope again, and it rests within a group of genetically engineered children that are both human and Variant.Terry is one of these children, modified and trained... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00W2AQ1KO
• ASIN: B00W2AQ1KO
• Manufacturer: Variant Publications

The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 4

From Hugo Award-winning editor Neil Clarke, the best science fiction stories of the year are collected in a single paperback volume. Keeping up-to-date with the most buzzworthy and cutting-edge science fiction requires sifting through countless magazines, e-zines, websites, blogs, original anthologies, single-author collections, and more―a task accomplishable by only the most determined and voracious readers. For everyone else, Night Shade Books is proud to introduce the latest volume of The Best Science Fiction of the Year, a yearly anthology compiled by Hugo and World Fantasy Award–winni... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07HS1CW91
• ASIN: B07HS1CW91
• Manufacturer: Night Shade Books

The Best Science Fiction of the Year Volume 3

As Earth dies, an architect is commissioned to remote build a monument on Mars from the remains of a failed colony; a man who has transferred his consciousness into a humanoid robot discovers he’s missing thirty percent of his memories, and tries to discover why; bored with life in the underground colony of an alien world, a few risk life inside one of the “whales” floating in the planet’s atmosphere; an apprentice librarian searching through centuries of SETI messages from alien civilizations makes an ominous discovery; a ship in crisis pulls a veteran multibot out from storage with a... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07H45GMSP
• ASIN: B07H45GMSP
• Manufacturer: Night Shade Books

Best Science Fiction of the Year (Best Science Fiction of the Year Book 2)

To keep up-to-date with the most buzzworthy and cutting-edge science fiction requires sifting through countless magazines, e-zines, websites, blogs, original anthologies, single-author collections, and more—a task accomplishable by only the most determined and voracious readers. For everyone else, Night Shade Books is proud to introduce the latest volume of The Best Science Fiction of the Year, a new yearly anthology compiled by Hugo and World Fantasy award–winning editor Neil Clarke, collecting the finest that the genre has to offer, from the biggest names in the field to the most excitin... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07H48LV3C
• ASIN: B07H48LV3C
• Manufacturer: Night Shade Books

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection

In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line between life and art. Now, in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection the very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world. This venerable collection brings together award winning authors and masters of the field such as Robert Reed, Alastair Reynolds, Damien Broderick, Elizabeth Bear, Paul McAuley and John Barnes. And with... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1250064422
• ASIN: 1250064422
• ISBN: 9781250064424
• Brand: St Martin s Griffin
• Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin

OMEGA Exile: (Book 1)

A thousand years of peace has crumbled.The new alliance is not what it seems...Get reading today and find out how bad it gets!When corruption, politics, and war threaten to throw the allied galaxies into chaos, Inspection Detective Knog Beutcher gets caught in the middle. Espionage, intrigue, political assassinations, rebellions and full-on revolutions, they are all coming Knog's way.Told from the unique perspective of an alien, this first of a thrilling eight book series is cast a thousand years into the future beyond the exciting AMP series. Prepare to be reading until the wee hours!What are... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00OKVESEE
• ASIN: B00OKVESEE
• Manufacturer: Stephen Arseneault

The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume One

A biological plague begins infecting artificial intelligence; a natural-born Earth woman seeking asylum on another planet finds a human society far different from her own; a food blogger’s posts chronicle a nationwide medical outbreak; trapped in a matchmaking game, a couple tries to escape from the only world they know; a janitor risks everything to rescue a “defective” tank-born baby he can raise as his own.For decades, science fiction has compelled us to imagine futures both inspiring and cautionary. Whether it’s a warning message from a survey ship, a harrowing journey to a new worl... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1597808547
• ASIN: 1597808547
• ISBN: 1597808547
• Brand: Night Shade Books
• Manufacturer: Night Shade

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection

The multiple Locus Award-winning annual collection of the year's best science fiction stories.In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self-evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line between life and art. Now, in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection, the very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world. This venerable collection brings together award-winning authors and masters of the field. Featuring short... [Read More]

• ASIN: 125016463X
• ASIN: 125016463X
• ISBN: 125016463X
• Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection

This latest volume of The Year's Best Science Fiction carries on the proud tradition, with stories by Lucius Shepard, Orson Scott Card, Damon Knight, Pat Cadigan, Robert Silverberg, Somtown Sucharitkul, Tanith Lee, Scott Baker, Michael Swanwick, John Kessel, Richard Kearns, Greg Bear, Bruce Sterling, Jack Dann, Tim Powers, James Patrick Kelly, Connie Willis, Harry Turtledove, Howard Waldrop, Walter Jon Williams, Neal Barret, Jr., Lewis Shiner, Judith Moffett, Kim Stanley Robinson, Tom Maddox, Karen Joy Fowler, William Gibson. More than any other anthology, this volume truly is the best scienc... [Read More]

• ASIN: B009LRWVBE
• ASIN: B009LRWVBE
• Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection

• ASIN: B0071NMJ1M
• ASIN: B0071NMJ1M
• Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press

Harry Potter Paperback Box Set (Books 1-7)

Now for the first time ever, J.K. Rowling’s seven bestselling Harry Potter books are available in a stunning paperback boxed set! The Harry Potter series has been hailed as “one for the ages” by Stephen King and “a spellbinding saga’ by USA Today. And most recently, The New York Times called Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows the “fastest selling book in history.” This is the ultimate Harry Potter collection for Harry Potter fans of all ages!

• ASIN: 0545162076
• UPC: 717356278525
• ASIN: 0545162076
• ISBN: 0545162076
• Brand: Brand
• Manufacturer: Arthur A. Levine Books

The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year's Best Science Fiction

For the first time in a decade, a compilation of the very best in science fiction, from a world authority on the genre.For decades, the Year's Best Science Fiction has been the most widely read short science fiction anthology of its kind. Now, after thirty-five annual collections comes the ultimate in science fiction anthologies. In The Very Best of the Best, legendary editor Gardner Dozois selects the finest short stories for this landmark collection, including short fiction from authors such as Charles Stross, Michael Swanwick, Nancy Kress, Greg Egan, Stephen Baxter, Pat Cadigan, and many m... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07D2BGWRF
• ASIN: B07D2BGWRF
• Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone: The Illustrated Edition (Harry Potter, Book 1)

The beloved first book of the Harry Potter series, now fully illustrated by award-winning artist Jim Kay. For the first time, J.K. Rowling's beloved Harry Potter books will be presented in lavishly illustrated full-color editions. Kate Greenaway-award-winning artist Jim Kay has created over 100 stunning illustrations, making this deluxe format a perfect gift as much for a child being introduced to the series, as for the dedicated fan.   Harry Potter has never been the star of a Quidditch team, scoring points while riding a broom far above the ground. He knows no spells, has never helped to ha... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0545790352
• ASIN: 0545790352
• ISBN: 0545790352
• Brand: Arthur a Levine
• Manufacturer: Arthur A. Levine Books

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection

To read is to journey, and to read science fiction is to venture into a myriad of imaginative and delightful worlds, such as:- Robert Reed's fabulous galaxy-circling starship and its fascinating inhabitants, "The Remoras"- The planet Mercury, where there is more than meets the eye in Stephen Baxter's "Cilia-of-Gold"- Two very different Hainish worlds--with very different customs--in two knockout novellas by Ursula K. Le Guin- A junkyard in Brooklyn that won't stay put in "The Hole in the Hole" by Terry BissonIn all, this volume presents twenty-three of the finest works of speculative fiction p... [Read More]

• ASIN: B009HT7INW
• ASIN: B009HT7INW
• Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin

Percy Jackson and the Olympians 5 Book Paperback Boxed Set (new covers w/poster) (Percy Jackson & the Olympians)

All five books in the blockbuster Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, in paperback, have been collected in a boxed set fit for demigods. Now with glorious new cover art and packaged with a special poster, this value-priced set includes the best-selling The Lightning Thief, The Sea of Monsters, The Titan's Curse, The Battle of the Labyrinth, and The Last Olympian. Whether it is for readers who are experiencing Percy's thrilling adventures with Greek gods and monsters for the first time, or for fans who want to devour the saga again, this gift will be prized by young and old.

• ASIN: 1484707230
• ASIN: 1484707230
• ISBN: 1484707230
• Brand: Disney-Hyperion
• Manufacturer: Disney-Hyperion

StarTalk : Everything You Ever Need to Know About Space Travel, Sci-Fi, the Human Race, the Universe, and Beyond

Contributing editors are Charles Liu, astrophysics professor at the City University of New York's College of Staten Island, and Jeffrey Lee Simons, social media director of StarTalk

• UPC: 51332820
• Rating: 2.0

Humans, & Not So Human: A Pair of Classic Sci Fi Stories - eBook

Rio Temporal - Spring arrives at Amarillo Falls, a town nested somewhere in the future, and with it a restaurant owner encounters a mysterious young boy who he is loathe to tell his wife about

• UPC: 136550670

In the Future, Things Can Be Slightly Odd: A Pair of Sci Fi Short Stories - eBook

Looking For Work In The Pop-Up Mall. A large mall springs up seemingly overnight in place of an apple orchard and suddenly; the number of stores inside intrigues the townspeople. Most advertise for Help Wanted

• UPC: 205273803

Cyclone's Core: A Sci Fi Military Adventure - eBook

Cyclones Core – A Sci Fi Military Adventure, 2nd EditionIntroducing Navy Seal Ben "Cyclone" Harrow.Dr. Joshua Davidson, his generations most brilliant scientist, gets abducted.Months later his signal is picked up in a forsaken desert in

• UPC: 174458523

Twenty Sci Fi Stories - eBook

This book contains twenty Science Fiction stories totaling approximately 130,000 words. The first three stories follow Harry Dondero, the first officer of the tramp star freighter, Orion. The topics for these twenty stories cover aliens,

• UPC: 172335985

Some Jobs Can Kill You: A Boxed Set of Three Sci Fi Short Stories - eBook

High Risk For Burning Up In The Atmosphere - This is a classic Sci-Fi action adventure about a man transporting a prisoner to earth, when something dreadful goes wrong. Chasing The T-Rex Back Into Time,

• UPC: 892174606

The Sci-Fi Movie Guide : The Universe of Film from Alien to Zardoz

Once upon a time, science fiction was only in the future. It was the stuff of drive-ins and cheap double-bills. Then, with the ever-increasing rush of new, society-altering technologies, science fiction pushed its way to

• UPC: 35985450

The Colony: Sci Fi Erotica - eBook

Cora has just graduated from the Academy and received her first assignment on a science vessel when she is suddenly reassigned to report to the Eden Colony in a newly discovered sector.As soon as she

• UPC: 935925386

Mountain of the Ancients - A Classic Post Apocalyptic Sci Fi Story - eBook

In a post apocalyptic future, earth has reverted to a low-tech system of kingdoms and female leadership, held together by an empress. One couple emerges, Darnel and his fierce wife Betty, who are called upon

• UPC: 359911949

Beginner's Guide to Digital Painting in Photoshop : Sci-Fi and Fantasy

The Beginner's Guide to Digital Painting series continues with the Beginner's Guide to Digital Painting in Photoshop: Sci-fi and

• UPC: 52702326