WOWIO New Science Fiction & Fantasy

Alice’s Adventures Under Ground (Original Manuscript Edition)

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 05:38:43 CST

Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll (a pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) presented “Alice’s Adventures Under Ground” to his young friend, Alice Liddell, in November 1864. Dodgson handwrote and illustrated the story and this WOWIO version is a high-resolution reproduction of that original manuscript. Later, the story was expanded by Dodgson, re-illustrated by Sir John Tenniel and published in 1865 as “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.”

Alice’s Adventures Under Ground

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 05:21:57 CST

Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll (a pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) presented “Alice’s Adventures Under Ground” to his young friend, Alice Liddell, in November 1864. Dodgson handwrote and illustrated the original manuscript. This WOWIO version has been typeset but includes all of Dogson’s original illustrations. Later, the story was expanded by Dodgson, re-illustrated by Sir John Tenniel and published in 1865 as “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.”

The Day the World Stopped

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:50:48 CST

Stanton A. Coblentz

In the year 2020 A.D., not only the peace, but the continued existence of Earth as a habitable planet lay in the hands of two men: Carl C. Armitage, President of the United States, and Yu Lu-wai, Chairman of Red China. Neither were fools; both knew that the employment of the dreadful weapons that had been perfected in recent decades would result not in victory, but universal ruin. Yet both were being pushed toward the moment when they would strike — preventive war — which they would persuade...

Giants from Eternity

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:01:30 CST

Manly Wade Wellman

Imagine the world facing a menace unlike any we have ever known or dreamed of before — a blight from outer space against which all our scientific skill seems useless. Imagine, also, that a means has been found to bring back to life the greatest scientists who ever lived — giants from eternity! But there are limits to this boon: only five of the great minds of the past can be restored to us. Which five would you choose?

It all started when a meteor landed in Kansas and people awoke to find a...

Conquest of Earth

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:57:54 CST

Manly Banister

No human being had ever seen the Trisz, not even so much as a picture of them. They looked as the name sounds — Trisz, their appearance as illusive as wind rippling water. Yet the Trisz had conquered Earth and its peoples in generations past, and no one could escape their ever-watchful presence.

No one except the Scarlet Order of Men, the one planet-wide organization that Earth's elusive masters tolerated. Only the most favored of the People could enter the Institute, as children, to undergo...

Lords of Atlantis

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:37:54 CST

Wallace West

In the dim past men had fled to Mars for refuge, but now the red planet was a dying world and the Martians returned to colonize and rule over the Titans — descendants of those who had stayed behind at the time of the now-legendary catastrophe.

Teraf, prince of Hellas, was particularly struck by the changes Earth had wrought in Martians during the period of their rule. The rays of the earthly sun had burned their sensitive skin almost as black as those of Nubians, and to meet the stress of...

Across Time

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:04:20 CST

David Grinnell

High in their mountain watchtower, testing a new device for tracking aircraft, Carl Halleck and his wife, Sylvia, saw blips on their radar screen that signaled the approach of Unidentified Flying Objects. They signaled Captain Zachary Halleck, back at the farmhouse, to turn off all power...immediately!

Zack recognized those blips, quickly turning into green dots, drawing closer to the isolated secret Air Force research station. They were exactly the same objects Zack had encountered earlier...

Mission to A Star

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:00:48 CST

Frank Belknap Long

It began with the sighting of the Scorpion ships in the new 400-inch reflecting telescope on Mount Palomar. The ships landed on Earth to disgorge aliens quite indistinguishable from human beings, except that they were all apparently equal to the genius level of human beings. And, all were in perfect physical condition.

They came in peace, they said. Their leader spoke to a plenary session of the United Nations — nations truly united now in the face of what might be a threat to all the...

Druids' World

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:31:22 CST

George Henry Smith

Admiral Adam Max MacBride served a degenerating empire and wanted to retire to his own realm. Empress Juliana was something less than an empress, and her consort, Prince Wylan ap Dylan, was worse. According to legend, the prince was a direct descendant of the original Arthur Pendragon who came from a mythical place called Earth through an improbable place called Caer Pedryvan, the revolving castle. MacBride didn't believe the stories of Earth and the revolving castle, but he knew that Arthur...

The Rim of Space

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:53:50 CST

A. Bertram Chandler

They told Derek Calver that he'd find an odd bunch among the Rim Runners out on the edge of space: Refugees from the Interstellar Transport Commission from the Survey Service, the Waverly Royal Mail and the Trans-Galactic Clippers, and so on. But Calver didn't mind; he said he was a refugee from the Commission himself.

He might have added that he was a refugee from Derek Calver, the mistakes he had made, the opportunities he had thrown away, the dreams that had been lost. And there, aboard...

Aliens from Space

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:38:09 CST

David Osborne

It started off like an ordinary day for Dr. Jeffrey Brewster, assistant professor of psycho-sociology at Columbia University. He'd been six weeks old when the first crude satellites were flung into space back in 1957. During his childhood there had been Moon rockets and the space stations — then the joint American-Russian-manned expedition to the Moon in 1965, right after the collapse of the Soviet dictatorship. Mars and Venus had been reached as he grew up and a permanent base was established...

The Man with Three Eyes

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:03:40 CST

E.L. Arch

They were a strange lot, the residents at Mrs. Mumble's boardinghouse — her name wasn't "mumble," but that was what people did when they tried to pronounce it — and you might call the place a miniature United Nations. There was Yusef Afifi, Afghan, an importer; Fritz Holtzer, advertising model; Johnny Jones, Welshman; Oonalak, an Alaskan Eskimo; Chien Wang, a refugee from Hong Kong; a beautiful Ethiopian woman, whom they all called Sheba; an equally lovely girl, Eufemia Rosario, who claimed to...

City on the Moon

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 10:42:48 CST

Murray Leinster

Life on the moon under anything less than optimal conditions had always been a nightmare, and as Joe Kenmore and his colleague, Moreau, drove back to the
City On The Moon on that day the Earth shuttle was due to land, the nearby mountain supporting critical elements of the shuttle’s landing mechanisms crumbled causing an avalanche and resulting in chaos. Optimal conditions were no where in sight that day and as Kenmore and Moreau’s investigations lead to their conclusion that explosions had...

Star Ways

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 10:24:07 CST

Poul Anderson

There was Joachim, captain of the Nomad star ship Peregrine, and ruler of the Peregrine clan. There were also all the ship’s officers and crew and their entire families. Bound to no world, the better part of their lives spent on the great ships, the Nomads were something like the gypsies who once roamed the lands of Earth, and something like the Vikings who once fared Earth’s seas — but different from any human society known before.

Once a year, the captains of the Nomad ships met at their...

Lightning War and Other Tales of Wonder

Fri, 30 May 2008 10:22:08 CST

Duncan Long

Duncan Long (Antigrav Unlimited, the Night Stalkers series, Spider Worlds trilogy, etc.) brings the reader nine beautifully crafted short stories, each unique and entertaining, and often spanning styles from science fiction to fantasy to horror, often with stops in uncharted territory.

Spider B Gone delivers a tale of scientific pest control gone awry (with surprising results), while The Resurrectionist shows what happens when a husband attempts to raise his wife from the dead. Lightning War...

Witches and Fish: A Parable of Dreams

Mon, 19 May 2008 10:32:17 CST

Duncan Long

Master story teller Duncan Long weaves a surreal tale with Witches and Fish: A Parable of Dreams. A dazzling feast for both the eye and the mind, this saga treads strange worlds where fish sing siren songs, a magic key unlocks doorways in the sky, and those too proud or too slow are transformed into piles of rust — or worse.

Over 100, breath-taking illustrations provide the perfect counterpoint to the sparse yet witty text, creating a dreamlike narrative Lewis Carroll (or Carl Jung) would...

Wrong Side In

Mon, 19 May 2008 10:20:23 CST

Duncan Long

Written by Duncan Long (Antigrav Unlimited, Spider World Trilogy, the Night Stalkers action-adventure series, etc.), Wrong Side In takes you to a future unlike any you've ever imagined, where neighborhood snipers regularly pick off salesmen, automation runs amuck (sometimes with fatal results), and the resurrected dead walk the streets.

Wisecracking hacker/hero Ralph Crocker finds himself in the middle of a conflict involving by a blood-thirsty cyborg named Death, an organ-stealing gang of...

The Fall of Fyorlund: Book 2 of The Chronicles of Hawklan

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:03:33 CST

Roger Taylor

Book Two of the Chronicles of Hawklan.

The darkness of ancient times is spreading over the land of Fyorlund and tainting even the Great Harmony of Orthlund. The ailing King Rgoric has imprisoned the much-loved and respected Lords Eldric, Arinndier, Darek and Hreldar; he has suspended the ancient ruling council of the Geadrol; he has formed his own High Guard, filling its ranks with violent unruly men; and Mandrocs have been seen even in Orthlund. At the centre of this corruption is the...

Child of the Dark Star

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:50:09 CST

Moyra Caldecott

"There was a planet once called Earth. Its people, scattered like seeds before the wind, came to rest on Agaron..."

The Star Law of the planet Agaron had never been questioned — until Bardek arrived in the city of Bar-Geda. His premature birth under the dreaded Dark Star had doomed him to be banished to the marshlands, but he found himself drawn like a magnet to the glittering Temple of the White Star. There he found a girl trapped in crystal. Who was she? Could he release her? And could...

The Tower and the Emerald

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:08:54 CST

Moyra Caldecott

Viviane, a beautiful Celtic princess, unwittingly unravels the spell that binds the spirit of the evil Idoc within a circle of tall stones. Once released, the sorcerer-priest uses his powers to deliver vengeance upon those responsible for his original enslavement — including the Princess Viviane. With Idoc in possession of the body of Prince Caradawc, her betrothed, Viviane can no longer judge safely between friend and foe, between this life and previous incarnations. Yet to rescue Caradawc...

The Call of the Sword: Book One of The Chronicles of Hawklan

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:12:21 CST

Roger Taylor

The castle of Anderras Darion has stood abandoned and majestic for as long as anyone can remember. Then, from out of the mountains, comes the healer, Hawklan — a man with no memory of the past — to take possession of the keep with his sole companion, Gavor.

Across the country, the great fortress of Narsindalvak is a constant reminder of the victory won by the hero Ethriss in alliance with the three realms of Orthlund, Riddin and Fyorlund against the Dark Lord, Sumeral, hundreds of years...

Year of the Hare

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:08:59 CST

Mark Finn

"Gods New and Used is a fine debut, and I'm looking forward to Finn's next book." — Charles DeLint

Sam Bowen is half-shaman, half-witch, and all rogue. He has wandered all over the country on a desperate quest: to find the source of the curse that has destroyed his family and reverse it, if he can. Now, in the magic-steeped city of San Cibola, he may finally uncover the answers he seeks.

As Bowen comes to grips with his new home in San Cibola’s Chinatown, strange obligations to his...

The Oswald Chronicles Volume 2

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:42:54 CST

J.D. Calderon, Matthew Lunsford, Eric Blumrich and Mike Dubisch

Created and written by JD Calderon (Tall Tails, Dream Weavers) THE OSWALD CHRONICLES features the adventures of a not-so-ordinary mouse and the fantastic characters he comes across (and who come across him!) while living in the heart of New York’s Manhattan isle.

This second volume collects five illustrated short stories of urban fantasy: “A Hero in the Eye”, “Daddy, They Come”, “My Friend Rylex”, “A Warder’s Fee”, and “The Darkness that is My Love”.

Oh Pure and Radiant Heart

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:28:03 CST

Lydia Millet

Finalist, 2007 Arthur C. Clarke Prize!

“[An] extremely smart… resonant fantasy.” — New York Times Book Review

“Brilliant, madcap, poetic, fact-spiked, and penetrating (think Twain, Vonnegut, Murakami, and DeLillo)… illuminates the personal dimension of our most daunting dilemma.” — Booklist (*Starred Review*)

“Lydia Millet is da bomb. Literally… Though Oh Pure and Radiant Heart possesses the nervy irreverence of Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller, Millet makes the subject matter her own...

The Pisstown Chaos

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:09:29 CST

David Ohle

The Pisstown Chaos tells the story of one family's journey in the midst of environmental and political crisis, disease and forced relocation. Power is concentrated in the hands of the Reverend Herman Hooker, an "American Divine," who revels in the sufferings of others as he spouts platitudes to the masses.

When the Reverend attempts to overcome a rampant parasite infestation by decreeing population "shifts," the members of Balls family find themselves subject to relocation at a moment's...