This frighteningly prophetic tale from the progenitor of modern science fiction remains as powerful today as when it was written-more than a century ago. Firebrand activist Graham falls into a drug-induced sleep in 1897 London-and is stunned to wake in the year 2100 to a world he does not know. But the world knows him. When word spreads that the "Sleeper" has awakened, it rocks the foundations of what the planet has become: a dystopian existence...

In the sequel to the multi-award winning sci-fi novel Rama, a second Raman spaceship enters our solar system and “offers one surprise after another” (The New York Times).
 
Years ago, the enormous, enigmatic alien spacecraft Rama sailed through our solar system as mind-boggling proof that life existed—or had existed—elsewhere in the universe. Now, at the dawn of...

Hella is a planet where everything is oversized-especially the ambitions of the colonists. The trees are mile-high, the dinosaur herds are huge, and the weather is extreme-so extreme, the colonists have to migrate twice a year to escape the blistering heat of summer and the atmosphere-freezing cold of winter. Kyle is a neuro-atypical young man, emotionally challenged, but with an implant that gives him real-time access to the colony's computer network,...

The radar-complex had picked up the strange object in space just as it neared the earth's surface. It was described as "an object of considerable size." The impact of its landing at Boulder Lake Park, Colorado was felt on every seismograph in the world. Then the first reports began to trickle in: there were "creatures" on board? creatures who soon left their ship and began exploring the area ..., Where was the ship from, and what was the quest of...

Three rookie space cadets crash on an unknown planet! Stone, son of war hero Jake Nanden, crash-lands on an unknown planet in an unknown star system with jackal-headed aliens hard on his tail after falling through a worm-hole. Meanwhile, two rebel Ischian scientists battle against an Imperial Empire, which is stretching out its grasp toward Earth. Will Jake and his companions escape in time to save Earth from inevitable doom? If you like Stephen Baxter,...

Dr. Michael Sterling suffers from extreme social anxiety which he combats by using a Dot. A symbiotic robot that he controls from his Condo in Sacramento, California. Due to the unrest of the non-gifted side of humanity he is forced to step out from behind his beloved Dot and into the real world. This change begins the destruction of his career, with him not being able to function in public without his anxiety showing. His last chance to save himself...

Derak, Shesain, and the time crew are unexpectedly thrust 600 years into Thumar's past. A planet wide plague is raging that our intrepid time travelers were predestined to cure.They return to the future to discover their actions dramatically changed their original timeline. With help from the mysterious Time Sentinels of the universe, they set out across time, space, and dimension to fix their time paradox.Can they stop the space-time-continuum from...

While studying the electron shells within the hydrogen atom, scientists realized that these are actually a tiny subset of the entire universe's operating system band structure. Since the brain operates on electron timing, it was concluded that everyone must in this way be connected into the common mind. Thus, science had finally discovered the real source of consciousness.

Chariot to the Stars features some of Steve Miller's favorite early work from Amazing Science Fiction and elsewhere. As well as a previously unpublished short story. The stories in Chariot to the Stars ask:*Who builds a chariot to the stars?*What if the fate of the world were in the paws of a pet?*Where do you find zero-gravity buckets and Christmas twice a year?*When is the best time to count the lines on the highway?*How can a spaceman survive...

Since he was a boy, Julius Stetson dreamt of what life would be like on another planet. After a tragic work accident, he gets an unprecedented chance to make his dream a reality. However, fate plays a cruel trick. As his Martian dream descends into nightmare, the man from Pontiac must make an impossible choice. No matter what he does, his decision will change both worlds.