science fiction

Presents a literary analysis of the author's essays, profiles, and reviews. Includes the author's own essays and writings.

Presents a selection of critical essays on Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451, " and includes a chronology of Bradbury's life, a bibliography, and an introductory essay by Harold Bloom.

After centuries out of work, Athos the musketeer gets the heroic job of a lifetime when Martians attack Earth, threatening all of humanity.

In the years following the War on Terrorism, people around the world cope with terrorist attacks and governments intentionally misinforming its citizens, making the only place to receive true information a rogue media outlet; and after witnessing a nuclear bomb attack which their country denies, Scottish software engineer James Travis and his peace activist daughter, Roisin, begin to understand just how desperate the world has become.

Contains a collection of short stories written by Isaac Asimov between 1940 through the 1980s, that explore the themes of science fiction, such as robotics, space travel, and aliens.

George Galen, a scientist and pioneer in genetic therapy, uses his Healers to cure the disease's that impact the poor by altering their DNA, but his cure comes at a deadly cost and Frank Hartman is determined to stop Galen's brand of medical healing, even if it means sacrificing himself.

Journalist Gregory MacAllister heads a campaign to cut funding for interstellar travel, which is slowly destroying the universe, but his efforts stir public unrest and threaten Gregory's career and life.

Presents sixteen short stories involving mathematics, including tales in which a nineteenth-century woman mathematician is murdered, a nursing home resident explains how he disproved Goldbach's conjecture in college, and Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell discovers electromagnetic waves.

After the assassinations of the president, vice president, and the secretary of defense, political unrest in the United States causes a second civil war, with one side having high-technology weapons and the other with an army of foot soldiers.

Presents a comprehensive analysis of Ray Bradbury's classic novel "Fahrenheit 451;" and includes introduction by Harold Bloom, profile of Bradbury's life and works, and critical essays by leading scholars.