Star-crossed lovers from different worlds. Will their love survive? When Talia agreed to take a break from her research to spend a week at the beach, ending up a captive in the depths of the ocean was the last thing she ever expected. Her best friend and travel companion Janelle has a fondness for fairy tales and is sure that their abductors, with their gold-medal swimmer physiques, are sea people—mermen. Talia knows that’s ridiculous, but when one of the men, Ballard, slips her his knife and lets her in on his own purpose for being there, she starts to suspect that the truth is beyond anything even Janelle could have imagined. She can’t deny her attraction to Ballard, but also can’t fully trust this man and his extraordinary claims. To get back home, she may have no choice. Ballard spent the past year infiltrating a rogue military group suspected of breaking the sacred and critical First Tenet of Below: Do not contact those Above. His mission is to discover the location of a secret deep sea base and destroy the rogues' ability to travel to the sea's surface. But he can't help his feelings for Talia, the beautiful, intelligent woman from Above. The deeper he falls, the more he risks his own mission—and the future of every human on Earth. As they are drawn deeper into danger, Talia and Ballard begin to realize that their only hope for survival is each other. Futuristic Romance - Sci Fi Romance - Science Fiction Romance

If you enjoyed Firefly, Farscape, or the Leia - Han Solo romance storyline in Star Wars, this action-packed space opera romance adventure is for you! Alice and her team venture around the system to hunt for exotic plants and microorganisms for her father’s biotech firm. Unbeknownst to her father and the rest of the galaxy, she uses the trips as a cover so she can sabotage environmentally destructive corporate operations. Her victims dubbed her Agent Z, and fed up with her antics, several of them pooled their money to put a huge price on her head. But she’s not going to let a little threat from the galaxy's richest moguls stop her. Jake is an interstellar P.I., a skilled space tracker and a lone wolf. When he gets news that his ailing mother’s home has been destroyed, he needs a big payout to buy her a new house. Reluctantly, he teams up with an old friend who makes a living on the shadier side of the law, and together they go after Agent Z and the impressive bounty. When Jake discovers the infamous saboteur is five-foot-nothing Alice, he thinks this will be the fastest cash he’s ever made. But when he learns who's behind the bounty, he begins to have second thoughts about turning Alice over. And of course, Alice has no intention of making it easy for him. As sparks fly between Jake and Alice, Jake’s walls start to crumble and Alice begins to see her acts of sabotage in a new light. But Jake has a choice to make. Which will win out in the end—money or love? For fans of Jayne Ann Krentz, Ruby Lionsdrake, Anna Hackett, Eve Langlais, Faith Hunter, Christine Feehan, Linnea Sinclair. The Laws of Attraction is a full-length novel equivalent to about a 250 page paperback. Futuristic Romance - Sci Fi Romance - Science Fiction Romance

SFR Galaxy Award 2015 Winner Rumors emerge that Catherine Shahrazad has returned from the fringes and been seen in Federation space. Wherever she goes, her name and her history cause civil unrest, riots and worse. The Federation Board doesn’t want her there. Neither do the leaders of Cadfael College, the educators and moralists of the galaxy. No one pays any attention to the reticent navigator called Bedivere X, who pilots her ship better than she does. The truth about Bedivere threatens the entire Federation. His feelings for Cat might just save everyone. This book is part of the Interspace Origins science fiction romance series: 1.0: Faring Soul 2.0: Varkan Rise 3.0: Cat and Company 3.5: Interspace Origins (Series boxed set) ___ Winner of the SFR Galaxy Award 2015 My favorite character is the mysterious, sexy, loveable Bedivere. I love that the story seem to go one way then everything goes sideways, it keeps the synapse firing on all cylinders. You won't see the twist coming till it smacks you in the face. This is definitely a love story from the future. I know Tracy is a great writer but I was not much into science fiction. Well, now I am!!

In the most controversial challenge ever, each Obligate will spend a night with Lord Toric. Maya must find a way to prevail in spite of her inexperience and without compromising her innocence. Meanwhile, Akantha is spreading rumors that are stirring up religious fury throughout Calisto. Someone will have to pay with blood, and it will take a miracle for Maya to survive. Does she have enough allies on Calisto, or will Akantha finally win? Sapient Salvation Series -- Complete Series Now Available! Book 1: The Selection Book 2: The Awakening Book 3: The Divining Book 4: The Claiming

This is a classic science fiction short story by Stanley G. Weinbaum and Ralph Milne Farley. According to Weinbaum's widow, he wrote the first half of the story and Farley the second half. It focuses on a war, set in the year 2000, between the Asiatic Union and the United States. The States control the seas but the Union has greater man power on land, thus resulting in a stalemate. However, an enormous increase in algae makes the oceans un-passable in places and military scientist Lt. Richard Lester is sent in to investigate. Lester is madly in love with Sally Amber, a suspected spy, who is at risk of being uncovered by an American agent. When he gets captured by the Asiatics to be questioned, Sally has a choice to make. This work is part of our Vintage Sci-Fi Classics Series, a series in which we are republishing some of the best stories in the genre by some of its most acclaimed authors, such as Isaac Asimov, Marion Zimmer Bradley, and Robert Sheckley. Each publication is complete with a short introduction to the history of science fiction.

Novel Approaches to Lesbian History tells a tale about history and community in our allegedly post-identity era, examining contemporary novels that depict lesbian characters in recognizable historical situations. These imaginative stories provide a politically vital, speculative past in the face of a sketchy, problematic archive. Among the memorable characters in some 200 novels are pirates, cowgirls, and famous artists, ghosts and time travellers, immigrants and lovers. The best lesbian historical novels are conscientious and buoyant as they engage critical historiographical questions, but Novel Approaches also discusses the class and race biases that weigh on the genre. Some lesbian historical novels are based on archival evidence, others on conjecture or fantasy, but all convey the true fact that identity is elusive without a past, without which its future is nearly impossible.

From 1928 through 1982, when Columbia Pictures Corporation was a traded stock company, the studio released some of the most famous and popular films dealing with horror, science fiction and fantasy. This volume covers more than 200 Columbia feature films within these genres, among them Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, Earth vs. the Flying Saucers and The Revenge of Frankenstein. Also discussed in depth are the vehicles of such horror icons as Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, and John Carradine. Additionally highlighted are several of Columbia's lesser known genre efforts, including the Boston Blackie and Crime Doctor series, such individual features as By Whose Hand?, Cry of the Werewolf, Devil Goddess, Terror of the Tongs and The Creeping Flesh, and dozens of the studio's short subjects, serials and made-for-television movies.

This book is the definitive critical history of science fiction. The 2006 first edition of this work traced the development of the genre from Ancient Greece and the European Reformation through to the end of the 20th century. This new 2nd edition has been revised thoroughly and very significantly expanded. An all-new final chapter discusses 21st-century science fiction, and there is new material in every chapter: a wealth of new readings and original research. The author’s groundbreaking thesis that science fiction is born out of the 17th-century Reformation is here bolstered with a wide range of new supporting material and many hundreds of 17th- and 18th-century science fiction texts, some of which have never been discussed before. The account of 19th-century science fiction has been expanded, and the various chapters tracing the twentieth-century bring in more writing by women, and science fiction in other media including cinema, TV, comics, fan-culture and other modes.

This comprehensive analysis of literary responses to Antarctica examines the rich body of literature that the continent has provoked over the last three centuries, focussing particularly on narrative fiction. Novelists as diverse as Edgar Allan Poe, James Fenimore Cooper, Jules Verne, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula Le Guin, Beryl Bainbridge and Kim Stanley Robinson have all been drawn artistically to the far south. The continent has also inspired genre fiction, including a Mills and Boon novel, a Phantom comic and a Biggles book, as well as countless lost-race romances, espionage thrillers and horror-fantasies. Antarctica in Fiction draws on these sources, as well as film, travel narratives and explorers' own creative writing. It maps the far south as a space of the imagination and argues that only by engaging with this space, in addition to the physical continent, can we understand current attitudes towards Antarctica.