Texas Science Fiction and Fantasy Books
Explore the best Texas science fiction and fantasy books! Discover thrilling tales set in the Lone Star State, from epic fantasy adventures to futuristic sci-fi novels. Perfect for fans of speculative fiction with a Texan twist.
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Petrogypsies
by Rory Harper
An alternate universe science-fiction adventure novel about Sprocket, a huge, intelligent, living drilling rig and the traveling family of oilfield workers, techs, and scouts who live and work with him.
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Kiss of Death
by Rachel Caine
A famous producer wants vampire musician Michael Glass to cut a demo and play some gigs, and so he enters the human world with an escort that includes both a dangerous immortal and Michael's human friends, Eve, Claire, and Shane.
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Burning Water
by Mercedes Lackey
A sexy witch who writes romances and a police detective who sees more than mortal man team up to battle an ancient Aztec god given new life in modern America!
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Don't Hex with Texas
by Shanna Swendson
Everything’s bigger in Texas—including romance, magic, and danger! Katie Chandler has fled fast-paced Manhattan and returned home to a simpler life, working at her family’s feed-and-seed store in Cobb, Texas. In a painfully selfless gesture, Katie had left the sexy wizard Owen Palmer to battle his demons in the magical realm–after all, Katie just seemed to attract evil, which only made Owen’s job a lot harder. But now it seems that trouble has followed her home: Despite the fact that Merlin, Katie’s old boss at Magic, Spells, and Illusions, Inc., has assured her that Cobb is free of enchantmen, (magically speaking), Katie begins to notice curious phenomena. Cobb is being plagued by a series of inexplicable petty crimes and other devilish mischief, and after her experiences in Manhattan, Katie knows “unauthorized magic” when she sees it. As this new darkness strikes deep in the heart of Texas, Owen appears (literally) to investigate. Now Katie’s friends and family must show the bad guys why it’s bad luck to hex with Texas, while Katie and Owen combine their strengths like never before to uncover a sinister plot before evil takes root in the Lone Star State.
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The Magic Wagon
by Joe R. Lansdale
"Wild Bill Hickok, some years after he was dead, came to Mud Creek for a shoot-out of sorts."--Back cover
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The Drastic Dragon of Draco, Texas
by Elizabeth Scarborough
Determined to become an author of western penny dreadful novels like her idol, Ned Buntline, a young San Francisco newspaper editor christens herself Valentine Lovelace (after a floozie acquaintance of her fathers) and heads east for the Wild West. She finds it in spades in the Texas Big Bend when she is kidnapped from a mule train by Comanches and ends up the guest of a ruthless comanchero, a sort of wild west warlord, after the Comanches are distracted by a... dragon?
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Fantastic Texas
by Lou Antonelli
From ancient nuclear wars, to the secret of sexual attraction, with stops along the way for Bigfoot, ancient demons, and the truth behind alchemy, the stories in this book will take you on a truly fantastic journey through versions of Texas that were, could never be, and might have been. Steam played a big part in the first rocket launch from Texas, which was about a century earlier than we thought ("A Rocket for the Republic"). An unexpected experiment still running in the abandoned Superconducting Supercollider will introduce you to "The Witch of Waxahachie." And where would you go if global warming forced you out of Dallas? Maybe "Rome, If You Want To"? After that, ask yourself if a flying saucer is worth a silver dollar ("The Silver Dollar Saucer"). The possibilities are limitless in Lou Antonelli's new collection, Fantastic Texas. Born in Massachusetts, Antonelli is a newspaper editor and up-and-coming author of speculative fiction.
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A Specter is Haunting Texas
by Fritz Leiber
The world belonged to Texas. Well, about half of it did. Crockett "Scully" La Cruz found out all about Greater Texas when he dropped in from his home that circled the moon. He'd come to claim his family's mine in Yellowknife, Northwest Territory, Canada-but the spaceship Tsialkovsky left him in Dallas instead of Yellowknife.
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Wildside
by Steven Gould
VOYA "Outstanding Books of the Year" selection An American Library Association "Best Books" selection Forget the lottery. Teenager Charlie Newell has just discovered something that will make him and his friends billionaires. What if a world existed in which no humans ever evolved? No cities. No pollution. No laws. A fantastic world filled with unimaginable riches in which everything--everything--was yours just for the taking? Charlie has found that world. And he plans to use it to make him and his friends rich. There is a problem: How do you keep something this big a secret?
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Tales from the Texas Woods
by Michael Moorcock
Experience the many worlds of the man that the London Times called "a myth-maker" through a uniquely Western Slant.
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Buddy Holly Is Alive and Well on Ganymede
by Bradley Denton
Conceived in the backseat of a car on the day that Buddy Holly died, Oliver Vale turns on the TV one day to find Buddy Holly on every channel, and soon he is on the run from a pursuing mob of religious fanatics. Reprint.
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Night of the Cooters
by Howard Waldrop
The new short story collection from Nebula Award-winner Howard Waldrop. This collection of bizarre journeys of the imagination includes stops in Texas, where invading Martians find an Alamo of their very own; and New Jersey, where Herbert Hoover loses the election, takes to the airwaves, and changes the course of history.
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Shudderchild
by Warren Norwood
Shudderday has come and gone. Its cataclysmic earthquakes have killed millions and devastating the planet physically, culturally and emotionally. Now, West Texan Jeremiah Fronterhouse Cody begins a quest on many levels: to battle invading militant factions, to solve the mystery of his missing wife, and to protect what was once the United States against a new, big threat.
