931 results for "Science Fiction"

Captain Canuck. Season 4. Invasion

Baruchel, Jay,Jensen, Van,McCreery, Conor
On leave from service in Afghanistan, Lt. Tom Evans went AWOL to pursue his brother Michael to the Arctic. Tom eventually found Michael at an alien crash site, and both brothers emerged transformed by the artifact buried there. Michael gained psychic abilities, and Tom gained heightened strength and the ability to manifest impenetrable red armor, becoming Captain Canuck! The brothers also received a warning: their powers came from the Borealis, who would come to judge the Earth. Now the Borealis have arrived, and Earth has been found wanting. Captain Canuck--and the rest of the Chapterverse--is all that stands between us and complete annihilation.
Chapterhouse 2020 192 pages

The spider. Volume two. The businessman from hell

Liss, David
The Spider, a grim and relentless vigilante stalking the criminals of New York City, faces a terrifying new threat! Who has the drive, the intelligence, and the means to destroy the Spider? The Fly, a wealthy playboy with all the resources and power of Richard Wentworth's masked alter-ego! Dedicated to criminal perfection, the Fly targets the outlaw hero and the city itself in the midst of a serial killer's rampage and corporate terrorist attacks! Will the Spider be pushed to the brink of human endurance? Or will he overcome the Fly's machinations and prevent the wholesale slaughter of every police officer in the Big Apple?
Dynamite Entertainment 2013-11-05 144 pages

Secret Warriors omnibus

Bendis, Brian Michael
Nick Fury has gathered a special team of Secret Warriors. But these young heroes have a lot to learn in a very short time when they uncover a conspiracy that reaches from the Oval Offi ce to the temples of Japan - and even beyond death. The Leviathan organization is awakening, their tendrils wrapped deep inside the US government. And when a shadow war breaks out between Leviathan and the ruthless Hydra, it's up to Fury and his Secret Warriors to put the pieces together and take them both out. Brian Michael Bendis and Jonathan Hickman's shadow-ops masterpiece is collected in one oversized volume! COLLECTING: MIGHTY AVENGERS 13, 18; SECRET WARRIORS 1-28; DARK REIGN: THE LIST - SECRET WARRIORS; SIEGE: SECRET WARRIORS; DARK REIGN: NEW NATION
Marvel 2012-07-18 904 pages

Moon Knight by Brian Michael Bendis & Alex Maleev

Bendis, Brian Michael
Captain America. Wolverine. Spider-Man. There's nobody you'd want to have your back more than this trio of mighty Avengers. So who better for Moon Knight to call upon to lend a hand? The trouble is, they're all in Moon Knight's head - the three heroes have manifested as the latest splinters of Marc Spector's shattered psyche! And as Spector battles his own mind to fi nd balance in his new home of Los Angeles, a powerful criminal mastermind makes his deadly move - traffick- ing the temporarily inert robot body of Ultron! Can Moon Knight get his act together in time to take on this deadly threat - or is he way out of his league? Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev, who wowed readers with DAREDEVIL, reunite to deliver a truly unique take on another fan-favorite Marvel vigilante! COLLECTING: MOON KNIGHT (2011) 1-12
Marvel Worldwide, Inc 2018-03-20 288 pages

Guardians team-up. Volume 1

Bendis, Brian Michael
Launching directly out of Guardians of the Galaxy comes a new story bringing the Guardians to the Marvel Universe's grandest stage for an out-of-this-world adventures with some of the biggest hitters Marvel has to off er. See the Guardians assemble side-by-side with the mighty Avengers. Next, Ronan the Accuser joins the battle after the Black Vortex strikes the Kree Empire. Then see what happens when the intergalactic bounty hunters travel to New York and run into She-Hulk! COLLECTING: GUARDIANS TEAM-UP 1-5, TAILS OF THE PET AVENGERS 1
Marvel Worldwide, Inc 2015-11-10 144 pages

Unfettered III

Shawn Speakman,Kevin J. Anderson,Katherine Arden,Callie Bates,Terry Brooks,Delilah S. Dawson,Jason Denzel,David Anthony Durham,Lev Grossman,John Gwynne,Brian Herbert,Robert Jordan,Mark Lawrence,Megan Lindholm,Todd Lockwood,Seanan McGuire,Naomi Novik,Peter Orullian,Cat Rambo,Robert V. S. Redick,Brandon Sanderson,Ken Scholes,Scott Sigler,Anna Smith Spark,Anna Stephens,Patrick Swenson,Ramón Terrell,Marc Turner,Carrie Vaughn,Tad Williams,Deborah A. Wolf
From the editor of the award-winning anthology Unfettered comes the newest installment in the science fiction and fantasy series, Unfettered III. Lacking health insurance when he was diagnosed with cancer, Shawn Speakman asked friends in the science fiction and fantasy writing community to donate short stories he could use to counter mounting medical debt. The result was Unfettered, an anthology offering tales from some of the best authors working today. Now, in Unfettered III, Speakman continues to pay forward the aid he received, raising money to combat medical debt for SF&F artists and authors. He has gathered together a great mix of new and favorite writers--free to write what they like--the result a powerful new anthology perfect for all readers. Be haunted by the chilling ghost story of Megan Lindholm. Revisit the Magicians world with Lev Grossman. Return to Osten Ard in an epic first look at Tad Williams's Empire of Grass. Callie Bates shares a heartfelt story of loss and gain. Cross the sands of the desert planet Dune with Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson. Travel the Ways in a new Wheel of Time novella with Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson. And many more stories, all wondrous alongside beautiful art by Todd Lockwood! Katherine Arden Callie Bates Terry Brooks Delilah S. Dawson Jason Denzel David Anthony Durham Lev Grossman John Gwynne Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson Mark Lawrence Megan Lindholm (Robin Hobb) Seanan McGuire Naomi Novik Peter Orullian Cat Rambo Robert V.S. Redick Ken Scholes Scott Sigler Anna Smith Spark Shawn Speakman Anna Stephens Patrick Swenson Ramon Terrell Marc Turner Carrie Vaughn Tad Williams Deborah A. Wolf Unfettered III is sure to astound with the magic bound within its pages. All the while raising money for a charitable cause. Because protecting our artists and authors is as important as the stories they tell.
Grim Oak Press 2019-03-14

Daughters of Frankenstein: lesbian mad scientists

Steve Berman
In the field of mad science, women have for too long been ignored, their triumphs misattributed to mere men. Society has seen the laboratory as the province of men. Jacob's Ladder electric arcs, death rays, even test tubes have phallic connotations, subliminally reinforcing the patriarchy. The mother of Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, advocated that women appear more masculine to earn respect. If Marie Curie had been allowed to develop her Atomic Gendarmerie for the Institut du radium, surely she would have been awarded her third Nobel Prize, for Peace. Thankfully, the women working to dangerous and/or questionable ends in the pages of Daughters of Frankenstein are unafraid of the patriarchy--indeed, as lesbian mad scientists, they prefer the company and comforts of their own gender. Androids? Pfeh, the gynoid is superior. Etheric dynamos have a more pleasing design, one that is vulvar, than Tesla coils. Eighteen imaginative, if not insane, women; eighteen stories told by some of the finest writers working in queer speculative fiction: Traci Castleberry, Sean Eads, Gemma Files, Amy Griswold, and Melissa Scott.
Lethe Press 2015 286 pages

Elijah's Violin and Other Jewish Fairy Tales

Howard Schwartz
Tales of magic and wonder can be found in every phase of Jewish literature, from the sacred to the secular. The fairy tale in particular--set in enchanted lands and populated with a variety of human and supernatural beings, both good and evil--holds a very special place in the Jewish tradition. For in the fairy tale, where good and evil engage in a timeless struggle, we have a clear reflection of the Jewish world view, where faith in God can defeat the evil impulse. In Elijah's Violin, Howard Schwartz offers a sumptuous collection of thirty-six Jewish fairy tales from virtually every corner of the world. At once otherworldy and earthy, pious and playful, these celebrated tales from Morocco and India, Spain and Eastern Europe, Babylon and Egypt, illustrate not only their Jewish character but also their universality of themes. Invoking the biblical tale of David and Goliath, we read as King David defeats the giant by hovering above its spear in King David and the Giant. In the romantic tale of The Princess in the Tower, a variant of Rapunzel, we watch as the cautious King Solomon recognizes the vanity in trying to prevent Providence from taking place. And we see the religious nature of the quest for Elijah's violin in the title story. The successful completion of the king's quest enables the violin's imprisoned melodies, emblematic of the Jewish spirit, to be set free. Throughout this richly illustrated collection, one can find the quests and riddles of the traditional fairy tale along with the divine intervention that characterizes the Jewish fairy tale. Skillfully translated, these stories will captivate children and adults alike in which romance and magic become enchantingly entwined with faith, duty, and wisdom.
Harper & Row 1985 302 pages

Antiquities

Ozick, Cynthia
'A strange and compelling new book from one of America's greatest living authors' Times Literary Supplement 'As cunning and rich as anything Ozick's written' Wall Street Journal 'One of our era's central writers. About a man ensnared by history, Antiquities is at once a warning against the hazards of nostalgia and an invitation to take a longer view of how we got to where we are' The New Yorker 'Ozick's prose urges the breathless reader along, her love of language rolling excitedly through her sentences like an ocean wave' New York Review of Books I remember nothing. I remember everything. I believe everything. I believe nothing. In 1949, Lloyd Wilkinson Petrie returns as a Trustee to the long-defunct boarding school that he attended as a child. There he is preparing a memoir about the subtle anti-Semitism that pervaded the school, about his fascination with the Egyptian archaeological adventures of his distant cousin, about the passions of a boyhood friendship with named Ben-Zion Elefantin, a mystifying older pupil. In this novella, and the three stories published alongside it, one of our most preeminent writers weaves together myth and mania, history and illusion to capture the shifting meanings of the past.
Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2022-04-14 253 pages

Fountain of Age

Betty Friedan
Struggling to hold on to the illusion of youth, Friedan wrote, we have denied the reality and evaded the new triumphs of growing older. We have seen age only as decline. In this powerful and very personal book, Betty Friedan charted her own voyage of discovery, and that of others, into a different kind of aging. Friedan found ordinary men and women, moving into their fifties, sixties, seventies, discovering extraordinary new possibilities of intimacy and purpose. In their surprising experiences, Friedan first glimpsed, then embraced, the idea that one can grow and evolve throughout life in a style that dramatically mitigates the expectation of decline and opens the way to a further dimension of "personhood." The Fountain of Age suggests new possibilities for every one of us, all founded on a solid body of startling but little-known scientific evidence. It demolishes those myths that have constrained us for too long and offers compelling alternatives for living one's age as a unique, exuberant time of life, on its own authentic terms.
Simon and Schuster 2006-08 672 pages

Small Changes

Marge Piercy
"Marge Piercy is a raw, tough, willfull, magnificent novelist." THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR Set against the early days of the modern feminist movement, SMALL CHANGES tells the story of sensual Miriam Berg, who trades her doctorate for marriage and security, but still hungers for a life of her ow,n and shy, frightened Beth who is running from the life Miriam seeks and into a new world of different ideas and a different kind of love.....
Fawcett Crest 1973 542 pages

The Sword and the Chain

Joel Rosenberg
WARRIOR, WIZARD, DWARF, THEIF, AND MASTER BUILDERall of them had chosen this world as their destiny, a realm where dragons were only too real and magic, not science, was the law of the land. Karl, Andrea, Ahira, Walter, and Lou knew there was no going back to twentieth-century America now. Instead they were stranded in a time and place where only healing spells and their own wits stood between them and the sharp, deadly edge of a slaver's blade.But even if they could have returned home by some sorcerous trick, all of them would have refused the chance, bound by their pledge to bring this incredible realm the one treasure it lacked -freedom! But leagued against them in their fight were the entire forces of both Wizards and the Slavers guilds. And, in this world where a wrong step or a twisted spell could transform friend into foe, how could Karl and his band fulfill their pledge?
Penguin Publishing Group 1987-05-05 256 pages

Mendelssohn is on the roof

Weil, Jiří
On the roof of Prague's concert hall, Julius Schlesinger, aspiring SS officer, is charged with the removal of the statue of the Jew Mendelssohn--but which one is he? Remembering his course on "racial science," Schlesinger instructs his men to pull down the statue with the biggest nose. Only as the statue topples does he recognize the face of Richard Wagner. This is just the beginning in Weil's novel, which traces the transformation of ordinary liveds in Nazi-occupied Prague.
Farrar, Straus, Giroux 1991-04-12 227 pages

The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels

Robert Silverberg,Martin Harry Greenberg
"An eclectic collection...contemporary classics and some fine-lesser known works as well. As good an introduction to contemporary Science Fiction and its possibilities as one could wish" 753 Pages, 15 shorter important Science Fiction Novels - Contents: Introduction by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg * Beyond Bedlam - Wyman Guin * Equinoctial - John Varley * By His Bootstraps - Robert A. Heinlein * The Golden Helix - Theodore Sturgeon * Born With the Dead - Robert Silverberg * Second Game - Charles V. De Vet and Katherine MacLean * The Dead Past - Isaac Asimov * The Road to the Sea - Arthur C. Clarke * The Star Pit - Samuel R. Delany * Giant Killer - A. Bertram Chandler * A Case of Conscience - James Blish * Dio - Damon Knight * Houston, Houston, Do You Read? - James Tiptree, Jr. * On the Storm Planet - Cordwainer Smith * The Miracle Worker's - Jack Vance
Arbor House 1980 753 pages

Wilde Stories 2018 The Year's Best Gay Speculative Fiction

Steve Berman
"The final volume in the series that offers readers the best gay-themed stories of the strange, uncanny, and fantastical is out! In these pages are work by such acclaimed spec fic authors as Richard Bowes, Sam J. Miller, Sean Eads, and John Chu. Turn a page and walk the halls of a library shelved with every book never completed by authors before they passed away, a fish grants a young man wishes without ever explaining their true cost, ghosts relive their erotic past, Captain Hook and the Greek god Pan finally meet, and even Oscar Wilde himself makes an appearance in this anthology by Lambda Literary Award-winning editor Steve Berman."--Page 4 of cover.
Lethe Press 2018 293 pages

The Arbor House Treasury of Science Fiction Masterpieces

Robert A. Silverberg,Martin Greenberg
Contents: Introduction · Robert Silverberg & Martin H. Greenberg · in 11 · Mellonta Tauta · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Godey’s Lady’s Book Feb, 1849 21 · In the Year 2889 · Jules Verne · ss The Forum Feb, 1889 32 · Sold to Satan [written Jan 1904] · Mark Twain · ss Europe and Elsewhere, Harper Bros., 1923 39 · The New Accelerator · H. G. Wells · ss The Strand Dec ’01 49 · Finis · Frank Lillie Pollock · ss Argosy Jun ’06 58 · As Easy as A.B.C. · Rudyard Kipling · nv The London Magazine Mar ’12 (+1) 78 · Dark Lot of One Saul · M. P. Shiel · nv The Grand Magazine Feb ’12 96 · R.U.R. · Karel Capek · pl, 1921 144 · The Tissue-Culture King · Julian Huxley · ss The Yale Review Apr ’26; Amazing Aug ’27 160 · The Metal Man · Jack Williamson · ss Amazing Dec ’28 169 · The Gostak and the Doshes · Miles J. Breuer · ss Amazing Mar ’30 182 · Alas, All Thinking! · Harry Bates · nv Astounding Jun ’35 210 · The Mad Moon · Stanley G. Weinbaum · nv Astounding Dec ’35 227 · As Never Was · P. Schuyler Miller · ss Astounding Jan ’44 239 · Desertion [City (Websters)] · Clifford D. Simak · ss Astounding Nov ’44 249 · The Strange Case of John Kingman · Murray Leinster · ss Astounding May ’48 261 · Dreams Are Sacred · Peter Phillips · nv Astounding Sep ’48 279 · Misbegotten Missionary · Isaac Asimov · ss Galaxy Nov ’50 291 · Dune Roller · Julian May · nv Astounding Dec ’51 321 · Warm · Robert Sheckley · ss Galaxy Jun ’53 328 · A Bad Day for Sales · Fritz Leiber · ss Galaxy Jul ’53 334 · Man of Parts · H. L. Gold · ss 9 Tales of Space and Time, ed. Raymond J. Healey, Holt, 1954 344 · The Man Who Came Early · Poul Anderson · nv F&SF Jun ’56 363 · The Burning of the Brain · Cordwainer Smith · ss If Oct ’58 371 · The Men Who Murdered Mohammed · Alfred Bester · ss F&SF Oct ’58 381 · The Man Who Lost the Sea · Theodore Sturgeon · ss F&SF Oct ’59 391 · Goodlife [Berserker] · Fred Saberhagen · nv Worlds of Tomorrow Dec ’63 408 · The Sliced-Crosswise Only-On-Tuesday World · Philip José Farmer · ss New Dimensions I, ed. Robert Silverberg, Doubleday, 1971 420 · Gehenna · Barry N. Malzberg · ss Galaxy Mar ’71 424 · A Meeting with Medusa · Arthur C. Clarke · nv Playboy Dec ’71 455 · Painwise · James Tiptree, Jr. · nv F&SF Feb ’72 470 · Nobody’s Home · Joanna Russ · ss New Dimensions II, ed. Robert Silverberg, Doubleday, 1972 482 · Think Only This of Me · Michael J. Kurland · nv Galaxy Nov ’73 499 · Capricorn Games · Robert Silverberg · ss The Far Side of Time, ed. Roger Elwood, Dodd Mead, 1974 513 · “The Author of the Acacia Seeds” and Other Extracts from the Journal of the Association of Therolinguistics · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss Fellowship of the Stars, ed. Terry Carr, Simon & Schuster, 1974 519 · Travels · Carter Scholz · ss IASFM Apr ’80 528 · Doing Lennon · Gregory Benford · ss Analog Apr ’75
HarperCollins Publishers 1987-02 538 pages