The pioneering new colonies of deep space, calling themselves the Union, have rebelled against the repressive old order of the Earth Company. In a war of attrition, the Union's vast resource from the beyond have whittled Earth Company's once great fleet down to a...

In the vastness of space, the crimes just get bigger and Slippery Jim diGriz, the Stainless Steel Rat, is the biggest criminal of them all. He can con humans, aliens and any number of robots time after time. Jim is so slippery that all the inter-galactic cops can do...

Hostile aliens nearly eradicated humanity. Will the next encounter finish the job? Sixteen billion dead in the last alien invasion of the Alliance's colony worlds.When survey ship Captain Jeff Colgan discovers a new alien race, he's required to investigate. As the...

When Fat Charlie's dad named something, it stuck. Like calling Fat Charlie "Fat Charlie." Even now, twenty years later, Charlie Nancy can't shake that name, one of the many embarrassing "gifts" his father bestowed -- before he dropped dead on a karaoke stage and...

SFIA Book of the Month - Oct 2018 Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, over a century after its original publication, remains one of the hallmark works of science fiction. At a time when the development of submersible craft was still in its infancy, little more than...

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by Mary Shelley about a creature produced by an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was nineteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty-one. The first edition...

In The Planet Savers Marion Zimmer Bradley introduced the world to her amazing Darkover series. A disease threatens all of Darkover and the only man that can save Darkover has a multiple personality disorder. He is two distinct men. But two men who hate one another...

Published in 1666, The Blazing World is considered one of the first science fiction novels. The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing-World, is a fanciful depiction of a satirical, utopian kingdom in another world (with different stars in the sky) that can be...

The novel which inspired the classic film Metropolis by her husband Frtiz Lang. Metropolis is the story of a futuristic, mechanized city that depends on the back-breaking labor of workers who toil underground while the gentry enjoy life above ground is still being...

SFIA Book of the Month - Apr 2019 The year is 3030. For the past 300 years, since the Star League collapse and the rise of the Five Successor States, these mortal enemies have fought over space, land, and politics. But a new threat looms just outside the Inner Sphere....

For a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed. For a thousand years the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear. For a thousand years the Lord Ruler, the "Sliver of Infinity," reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror, divinely invincible. Then, when...

The first book of the Wheel of Time fantasy series. The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. In the Third Age, an Age of...