Sci-fi Fantasy
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The Ant King and Other StoriesSci-fi Fantasy by: Benjamin Rosenbaum
A dazzling, postmodern debut collection of pulp and surreal fictions: a writer of alternate histories defends his patron's zeppelin against assassins and pirates; a woman transforms into hundreds of gumballs; an emancipated children's collective goes...
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OmnibusSci-fi Fantasy by: Randolph Lalonde
The First Light Chronicles Omnibus. In the darkest region of explored space sits one bright beacon; Freeground Station. Serving as a supply and trading post it is home to a select number of human beings that will take an unlikely chance to make a dif...
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CaffeineSci-fi Fantasy by: Ryan Grabow
Brandon Dauphin feels like a dying ember. He’s jobless and feels worthless, and falling in love has only made his problem worse. In an authoritarian and overstimulated 22nd-century America, all he can do to relieve his pain is indulge in the computer...
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MakersSci-fi Fantasy by: Cory Doctorow
Perry and Lester invent things—seashell robots that make toast, Boogie Woogie Elmo dolls that drive cars. They also invent entirely new economic systems, like the “New Work,” a New Deal for the technological era. Barefoot bankers cross the nation, mi...
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Beautiful RedSci-fi Fantasy by: M. Darusha Wehm
Jack is a Security Officer Class 5, which sounds important, but isn’t. However, her banal life as a cubicle worker by day and tinkerer by night is interrupted when she discovers that her employer’s computer system has been invaded.
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When Sysadmins Ruled the EarthSci-fi Fantasy by: Cory Doctorow
He stopped at the machine to get himself a guarana/medafonil power-bar and a cup of lethal robot-coffee in a spill-proof clean-room sippy-cup. He wolfed down the bar and sipped the coffee, then let the inner door read his hand-geometry and size him u...
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HuntressSci-fi Fantasy by: Jaye Patrick
World Council researcher Cambria Petersen is in a whole lot of trouble. Exiled to a jungle prison planet populated with rapists, terrorists and a psychopath or two by a corrupt Judicar, she has two choices: find a way home, or die trying. But to find...
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AgnosisSci-fi Fantasy by: Darren Hawkins
Agnosis is a cyberpunk-ish techno thriller set in the distant future. John Dorian and Amara Cain are tech employees of the Masonic Archive Infocache, a personality/personal data digital archive. While tracking and eliminating a data spider that has i...
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A Vessel for OfferingSci-fi Fantasy by: Darren Hawkins
Aboard the military-commercial starship Paraclete, plying the remote stars between Stratiskaya Daransk and the human rim worlds, a murder has been committed. It is not a crime of passion, nor a carefully plotted revenge killing, but the ritualistic a...
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NexusSci-fi Fantasy by: Robert Boyczuk
The ship drove towards its hellish perihelion. On its cramped flight deck spun a simulacra of a binary system: two white dwarfs locked in an vicious gravitational embrace, a combined orbital period of two minutes, twenty-five seconds. An endless, fut...
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Zero-OptionSci-fi Fantasy by: Lindsay H. F. Brambles
The Confederation had dropped shift several hours ago, and was now moving at sub light speeds parallel to the Pomerium Line. The McLuhan rode off its starboard quarter, matching speed, and visible from where Imbrahim sat if he turned his head and loo...
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PostsingularSci-fi Fantasy by: Rudy Rucker
Postsingular and its sequel, Hylozoic, represent Rucker's return to the cyberpunk style of his classic Ware tetralogy. Postsingular takes on the question of what will happen after the Singularity—what will happen after computers become as smart as hu...
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Star DragonSci-fi Fantasy by: Mike Brotherton
The SS Cygni probe sent back hours of video, captured by the Biolathe AI, but only a few minutes mattered–the four minutes that showed a creature made of fire, living, moving, dancing in the plasma fire of the double star’s accretion disk. A dragon m...
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RefugeSci-fi Fantasy by: Richard Herley
It is twelve years on from a global plague. John Suter believes himself the sole survivor. He has gradually come to terms with his fate and has settled into a steady and self-reliant daily routine. One morning he finds a mutilated body in the river n...
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KeptSci-fi Fantasy by: Zoe Winters
As a cat therian (shifter), Greta's blood is already sought-after to enhance spells and potions, but due to a quirk of her birth, her blood is potent enough to kill for. For centuries cat therians have sought shelter with magic users, giving rise to...
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The Internal ClockSci-fi Fantasy by: Michael Fridman
A subterranean dystopia about a world where one of our most basic human functions is forbidden. For generations the folk of the Tower have been oppressed by the Baron and his ilk. Now after a massacre of the Resistance, S comes out of the shadows bel...
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Move Under GroundSci-fi Fantasy by: Nick Mamatas
The year is nineteen-sixty-something, and after endless millennia of watery sleep, the stars are finally right. Old R'lyeh rises out of the Pacific, ready to cast its damned shadow over the primitive human world. The first to see its peaks: an alcoho...
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A Comet AppearsSci-fi Fantasy by: Jess Moleman
Life is easy. Love is cheap. And everything is so incredibly beautiful. Let’s do drugs. Let’s dance with sexy people. Let’s make love. And everything is so incredibly beautiful. The city lights at night. The fluorescent drinks. The smell of endless s...
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DominionSci-fi Fantasy by: J. L. Bryan
In the year 2036, the United States of America is ruled by a totalitarian regime controlling all information: education, religion, the mass media, and the internet. Daniel Ruppert set out to be a journalist, but ended up a talking head for a global p...
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Infinity plus oneSci-fi Fantasy by: Sander R.B.E. Beals
It won't quite be science fiction, even though substantial parts of it are too fantastic to ever be believed by the less open-minded person in the street. That is no problem (and not even their loss) for they will flourish splendidly without my ideas...