Science Fiction
The Blazing World
The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish is, all at once, a satire, a treatise on natural philosophy, a work of proto-science fiction, and a …
Plague of Pythons
In a post-apocalyptic world where every government in the world has been overrun by its own military machinery, only to see that military ma…
In the Days of the Comet
William ("Willie") is a student living in the British town of Clayton. As a Socialist, he tries to move power from the upper class…
The Island of Doctor Moreau
The Island of Doctor Moreau is a thought-provoking science fiction novel by H. G. Wells that delves into the complexities of human nature an…
Gulliver of Mars
This escapist novel first published in 1905 as Lieutenant Gullivar Jones: His Vacation follows the exploits of American Navy Lieutenant Gull…
The Ego Machine
Celebrated playwright Nicholas Martin didn’t read the small print in his Hollywood options contract. Now he’s facing five years of servitude…
Watchbird
3 Robert Sheckley short stories that demonstrate the breadth of his fantastic imagination. In Watchbird, the question "can machines so…
Unfriendly Persuasion
"Everything Is Going To Be All Right..." That's what Lieutenant Terry Metcalfe keeps telling his friends and co-workers. A hero to…
Flatland
Math. Geometry. Physics. Violence? Is this the same book I read in school? Yep.
One of the joys of rediscovering old books is that they…
From the Earth to the Moon
From the Earth to the Moon (French: De la Terre à la Lune) is a humorous science fantasy story written in 1865 by Jules Verne and is …
At the Mountains of Madness
"Through ageless eons, the Dreamer sleepsIn lost R'lyeh, where Shoggoths creepWhere every moment they serve in dreadOf what dreams conv…
Out of Time's Abyss
Out of Time's Abyss is the thrilling conclusion to Edgar Rice Burroughs' Caspak trilogy, where adventure and the unknown collide in a prehis…
The Secret of the Ninth Planet
An alien race has put a station on Earth and other planets in order to steal the rays of the sun, possible causing the sun to nova within tw…
Heaven
Kate and Daniel remain exiled in the new world they created, with the need to build an army to save Heaven. But the allies they need may not…
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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. was a prolific and genre-bending American novelist known for works blending satire, black comedy, and science fiction, su…
Time Crime
From Astounding Tales Published February and March 1955
The Paratime Police had a real headache this time! Tracing one man in a population o…
Brain Twister
"Mark Phillips" is, or are, two writers: Randall Garrett and Laurence M. Janifer. Their joint pen-name, derived from their middle …
The MVP
THE MVP is the fourth book in the Galactic Football League series, following on THE ROOKIE, THE STARTER and THE ALL-PRO.
Set in a lethal Am…
Frankenstein
Victor Frankenstein discovers the secret of animating lifeless matter and, by assembling body parts, creates the monster who has no name in …
The War of the Worlds
H. G. Wells wrote The War of the Worlds in 1898, when there was much speculation about life on the planet Mars. The book is considered to be…