Science Fiction
epub, mobi | | 2007-05-28 | Author:Alastair Reynolds [Reynolds, Alastair]

'Forced birth control, and mass evacuation,' he said, grimacing. 'That's going to take some tough policing. What if people don't go along with your programme?' 'They'll go along,' Minla said. ...
( Category: Anthologies October 14,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-01 | Author:Timothy Zahn [Zahn, Timothy]

TWELVE : Under normal circumstances I would have approached Veldrick’s house cautiously, parking a couple of blocks away and moving in on foot. But the circumstances here weren’t normal. Veldrick’s ...
( Category: Adventure October 14,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1999-01-28 | Author:Stephen Baxter [Baxter, Stephen]

3—The Patent So for the next few evenings, after Bill got back from his employment up at the colliery-owners’ folly, Hean Castle, Jimmy worked on the flying machine. Slowly the ...
( Category: Anthologies October 14,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-05-21 | Author:Orson Scott Card [Card, Orson Scott]

"I'm as surprised as you are to find myself here today," said Peter with a smile. "But I must say I'm grateful to the source that provided me with information ...
( Category: Adventure October 14,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-03-02 | Author:Philip K. Dick [Dick, Philip K.]

The Crawlers He built , and the more he built the more he enjoyed building. Hot sunlight filtered down; summer breezes stirred around him as he toiled joyfully. When he ...
( Category: Anthologies October 14,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-01 | Author:Timothy Zahn [Zahn, Timothy]

FOURTEEN : The morning work crews dribbled into the ready room as I sat on the far side of a nearby lounge pretending to read the latest Quadrail-delivered Intragala News. ...
( Category: Adventure October 14,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-08 | Author:James White [White, James]

This is probably a crew safety measure and part of the ship design philosophy. To increase the effect I’ll spray on some of my plastic sealant. It won’t stop the ...
( Category: Adventure October 14,2014 )
epub |eng | 1991-04-15 | Author:Dan Simmons [Simmons, Dan]

Brawne Lamia had taken this as almost a personal message from her dead lover, the father of her unborn child. I stared at the parchment, lowering my face so that ...
( Category: Science Fiction October 14,2014 )
epub, pdf | | 2009-11-12 | Author:Alastair Reynolds [Reynolds, Alastair]

TWENTY Auger hailed a taxi on boulevard Saint-Germain. By then she had exchanged her ripped and soot-smeared coat for a hip-length black jacket, with a matching hat tilted low to ...
( Category: Science Fiction October 14,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-08-15 | Author:Neal Asher [Asher, Neal]

11 Flute Grass The flute grasses of Masada are thoroughly tedious plants closely resembling numerous rhizome-based plants on Earth, like reeds, irises, papyrus, ginger, turmeric – the list is a ...
( Category: Military October 14,2014 )
epub |eng | 2004-08-25 | Author:Neal Asher [Asher, Neal]

Cormac stepped out of the drop-shaft into the shuttle bay, took a deep breath to bring some calm to himself. It was not what they might find on the planet ...
( Category: Adventure October 14,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-05 | Author:Richard Morgan [Morgan, Richard]

Chapter Twenty-One “You know anything about synamorphesterone?” “Heard of it.” Ortega dug absently at the sand with the toe of one boot. It was still damp from the tide’s retreat, ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction October 14,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2008-12-05 | Author:Alastair Reynolds [Reynolds, Alastair]

* * * It was many years since events had moved so quickly on Janus. There was inertia at first, as if a once-great machine was now so encrusted with ...
( Category: Anthologies October 14,2014 )
epub | | 2008-09-01 | Author:David Louis Edelman [Edelman, David Louis]

25 The politicos filed in from the foyer, nine in all, each more smug and self-satisfied than the last. Natch disliked them immediately. It was a motley group. A labor ...
( Category: Science Fiction October 14,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-08 | Author:James White [White, James]

But the digestive system is baffling us. The food passage is extremely narrow and seems to have collapsed in several places, and with few teeth for chewing food it is ...
( Category: Science Fiction October 14,2014 )