http://feedbooks.com/list/118 Books that I am considering downloading. Alone Again Or Michael Bassette http://feedbooks.com/book/1994 en 2006 Novels Science Fiction Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/1994.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1994.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1994.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1994.mobi Four Eyes Tobias Buckell http://feedbooks.com/book/915 en 2004 Short Fiction Science Fiction Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/915.png http://feedbooks.com/book/915.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/915.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/915.mobi The Way of All Flesh Samuel Butler http://feedbooks.com/book/2065 urn:isbn:0486434664 en 1903 Novels http://feedbooks.com/book/2065.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2065.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2065.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2065.mobi Maelstrom Peter Watts http://feedbooks.com/book/975 urn:isbn:0312878060 en 2001 Novels Science Fiction An enormous tidal wave on the west coast of North America has just killed thousands. Lenie Clarke, in a black wetsuit, walks out of the ocean onto a Pacific Northwest beach filled with the oppressed and drugged homeless of the Asian world who have gotten only this far in their attempt to reach America. Is she a monster, or a goddess? One thing is for sure: all hell is breaking loose. This dark, fast-paced, hard SF novel returns to the story begun in Starfish: all human life is threatened by a disease (actually a primeval form of life) from the distant prehuman past. It survived only in the deep ocean rift where Clarke and her companions were stationed before the corporation that employed them tried to sterilize the threat with a secret underwater nuclear strike. But Clarke was far enough away that she was able to survive and tough enough to walk home, 300 miles across the ocean floor. She arrives carrying with her the potential death of the human race, and possessed by a desire for revenge. Maelstrom is a terrifying explosion of cyberpunk noir by a writer whose narrative, says Robert Sheckley, "drives like a futuristic locomotive." Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/975.png http://feedbooks.com/book/975.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/975.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/975.mobi The Stone Arrow Richard Herley http://feedbooks.com/book/2261 en 1978 Novels Adventure When the men of Burh, settlers from continental Europe, fall upon the sleeping nomad tribe in the depths of the forest amid the Downs of southern England, Tagart is the only survivor, escaping by sheer chance after his wife and young son have been massacred. Twenty-five and heir to the chiefdom of the roving hunters, he sees his only inheritance now to be an overwhelming urge for merciless revenge - of his family, his tribe and indeed of a way of life which in the England of 5,000 years ago is steadily being eroded by these tillers of the soil. (1978 Winner of the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize.) Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/2261.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2261.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2261.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2261.mobi This Crowded Earth Robert Bloch http://feedbooks.com/book/2564 urn:isbn:B0019OO8SQ en 1958 Novels Science Fiction A frighteningly possible future world as seen through the strange and demonic imagination of Robert Bloch. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/2564.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2564.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2564.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2564.mobi Sylvie and Bruno Lewis Carroll http://feedbooks.com/book/2203 urn:isbn:0486255883 en 1889 Novels Humor/Satire http://feedbooks.com/book/2203.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2203.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2203.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2203.mobi The Secret Adversary Agatha Christie http://feedbooks.com/book/2059 urn:isbn:0451201205 en 1922 Novels Crime/Mystery Hiring themselves out as “young adventurers willing to do anything” is a smart move for Tommy and Tuppence. All Tuppence has to do is take an all-expenses-paid trip to Paris and pose as someone named Jane Finn. But with the job comes a threat to her life, and the disappearance of her mysterious employer. Now Tuppence’s newest job is playing detective—because if there’s a Jane Finn that really exists, she’s got a secret that’s putting both their lives in danger. This work was published before 1923 and is in the public domain in the USA only. http://feedbooks.com/book/2059.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2059.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2059.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2059.mobi David Copperfield Charles Dickens http://feedbooks.com/book/673 urn:isbn:0679783415 en 1850 Novels David Copperfield is the novel that draws most closely from Charles Dickens's own life. Its eponymous hero, orphaned as a boy, grows up to discover love and happiness, heartbreak and sorrow amid a cast of eccentrics, innocents, and villains. Praising Dickens's power of invention, Somerset Maugham wrote: "There were never such people as the Micawbers, Peggotty and Barkis, Traddles, Betsey Trotwood and Mr. Dick, Uriah Heep and his mother. They are fantastic inventions of Dickens's exultant imagination...you can never quite forget them." http://feedbooks.com/book/673.png http://feedbooks.com/book/673.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/673.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/673.mobi The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan http://feedbooks.com/book/41 urn:isbn:0879238712 en 1915 Novels Thriller The Thirty-Nine Steps shows...an attractive man, not too young...and not too old, since he must have the knowledge of maturity and substantial experience on which he will draw while being able to respond to the physical rigors of chase and pursuit. Let the hero, who appears at first to be relatively ordinary, and who thinks of himself as commonplace, be drawn against his best judgment into a mystery he only vaguely comprehends, so that he and the reader may share the growing tension together. Set him a task to perform...Place obstacles in his path the enemy, best left as ill-defined as possible, so that our hero cannot be certain who he might trust. See to it that he cannot turn to established authority to help, indeed that the police, the military, the establishment will be actively working against him. Then set a clock ticking... This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/41.png http://feedbooks.com/book/41.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/41.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/41.mobi My Own Kind Of Freedom Steven Brust http://feedbooks.com/book/2217 en 2007 Novels Science Fiction Set in the universe of Firefly. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/2217.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2217.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2217.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2217.mobi Atlantida Pierre Benoit http://feedbooks.com/book/833 urn:isbn:1406911291 en 1919 Novels Science Fiction The classic novel of finding the Lost Atlantis. This work was published before 1923 and is in the public domain in the USA only. http://feedbooks.com/book/833.png http://feedbooks.com/book/833.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/833.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/833.mobi Lord of the World Robert Hugh Benson http://feedbooks.com/book/2462 urn:isbn:8184565224 en 1907 Novels Science Fiction Religion In or about the year 2000, humanity has reached "that incredibly lofty goal to which its intrinsic efforts can carry it" — but rejected everything but crass materialism. Technology has advanced to the point where no one need work for a living, while the social sciences have achieved a smoothly-running if almost unbearably sterile social order. Formal religious beliefs except for Catholicism have been uprooted and eliminated as coherent systems, and the Catholic Church has been completely discredited in the eyes of the world, finally being outlawed. The result is everything the late Victorians and Edwardians believed would bring human happiness — and which brings nothing but the advent of new superstitions, despair, and the end of the world … maybe. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/2462.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2462.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2462.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2462.mobi The Insanity of Jones Algernon Blackwood http://feedbooks.com/book/1068 en 1907 Short Fiction This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/1068.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1068.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1068.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1068.mobi The Lani People Jesse Franklin Bone http://feedbooks.com/book/879 en 1962 Novels Science Fiction The startling science ficton novel of a new breeding system which produced a strange race of beautiful females--all expertly trained to make men feel like gods. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/879.png http://feedbooks.com/book/879.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/879.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/879.mobi A World is Born Leigh Brackett http://feedbooks.com/book/2273 en 1941 Short Fiction Science Fiction The romantic, fictionalized solar system of Leigh Brackett's works provides a lush, steamy world in Mercury, where Mel Gray is working to build a home for veterans of the Second Interplanetary War. But Gray has no idea of the romance and adventure that awaits on this savage young world... A thrilling planetary adventure from the legendary COMET pulp magazine! Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/2273.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2273.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2273.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2273.mobi The Door Through Space Marion Zimmer Bradley http://feedbooks.com/book/835 urn:isbn:1603120475 en 1961 Novels Science Fiction ... across half a Galaxy, the Terran Empire maintains its sovereignty with the consent of the governed. It is a peaceful reign, held by compact and not by conquest. Again and again, when rebellion threatens the Terran Peace, the natives of the rebellious world have turned against their own people and sided with the men of Terra; not from fear, but from a sense of dedication. There has never been open war. The battle for these worlds is fought in the minds of a few men who stand between worlds; bound to one world by interest, loyalties and allegiance; bound to the other by love. Such a world is Wolf. Such a man was Race Cargill of the Terran Secret Service. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/835.png http://feedbooks.com/book/835.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/835.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/835.mobi Mizora: A Prophecy Mary E. Bradley http://feedbooks.com/book/2447 urn:isbn:0815628390 en 1889 Novels Science Fiction Being a true and faithful account of her Journey to the Interior of the Earth, with a careful description of the Country and its Inhabitants, their Customs, Manners and Government. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/2447.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2447.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2447.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2447.mobi Star Dragon Mike Brotherton http://feedbooks.com/book/2293 urn:isbn:0765307588 en 2003 Novels Science Fiction The SS Cygni probe sent back hours of video, captured by the Biolathe AI, but only a few minutes mattered--the four minutes that showed a creature made of fire, living , moving, dancing in the plasma fire of the double star's accretion disk. A dragon made of star stuff, so alien that only a human expedition to observe and perhaps capture it, could truly understand them. It's a perilous journey into the future, however, for SS Cygni is 245 light- years from Earth, and even though only two years' subjective time will pass on board the Karamojo, the crew will return to an Earth where five hundred years have passed. Captain Lena Fang doesn't care--she has made her life on her ship, where her best friend is the ship's AI. Samuel Fisher, the contract exobiologist,doesn't care, either. He is making the voyage of a lifetime and in the small world of the Karamojo he will have to live with the consequences of his obsessive quest for knowledge. The rest of the small crew--Axel Henderson, the biosystems engineer; Sylvia Devereaux, the beautiful physical sciences expert; and Phil Stearn, the ship's jack-of-all-trades--have their own reasons for saying good-bye to everyone they have ever known. As the Biolathe AI said, uncertain five hundred- year round trips don't attract the most stable personalities, but somehow they'll have to learn to get along with each other, if they're to catch their dragon and come home again. For at the end of the journey is the star dragon--a creature of fire with a nuclear furnace for heart. The crew of the Karamojo--human and AI alike--will risk everything to capture it, and it will take all their technology, all their skill, and more courage than they knew they had, to come home alive. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/2293.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2293.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2293.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2293.mobi Zero-Option Lindsay Brambles http://feedbooks.com/book/2240 en 2007 Novels Science Fiction Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/2240.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2240.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2240.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2240.mobi The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne http://feedbooks.com/book/1513 urn:isbn:0553212702 en 1851 Novels Romance Gothic In a sleepy little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house. This brooding mansion is haunted by a centuries-old curse that casts the shadow of ancestral sin upon the last four members of the distinctive Pyncheon family. Mysterious deaths threaten the living. Musty documents nestle behind hidden panels carrying the secret of the family’s salvation—or its downfall. Hawthorne called The House of the Seven Gables “a Romance,” and freely bestowed upon it many fascinating gothic touches. A brilliant intertwining of the popular, the symbolic, and the historical, the novel is a powerful exploration of personal and national guilt, a work that Henry James declared “the closest approach we are likely to have to the Great American Novel.” http://feedbooks.com/book/1513.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1513.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1513.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1513.mobi Evidence Murray Leinster http://feedbooks.com/book/2014 en 1919 Short Fiction This work was published before 1923 and is in the public domain in the USA only. http://feedbooks.com/book/2014.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2014.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2014.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2014.mobi The Magician W. Somerset Maugham http://feedbooks.com/book/2051 urn:isbn:0735101752 en 1908 Novels Horror The Magician is an early W. Somerset Maugham novel, originally published in 1908. In this tale, the magician Oliver Haddo, a caricature of Aleister Crowley, attempts to create life. Crowley wrote a critique of this book under the pen name Oliver Haddo, where he accused Maugham of plagiarism. This work was published before 1923 and is in the public domain in the USA only. http://feedbooks.com/book/2051.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2051.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2051.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2051.mobi Bad Medicine Robert Sheckley http://feedbooks.com/book/873 en 1956 Short Fiction Science Fiction Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/873.png http://feedbooks.com/book/873.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/873.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/873.mobi Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf http://feedbooks.com/book/1231 urn:isbn:0156628708 en 1925 Novels Mrs Dalloway (published on 14 May 1925) is a novel by Virginia Woolf that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway in post-World War I England. Mrs Dalloway continues to be one of Woolf's best-known novels. Created from two short stories, "Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street" and the unfinished "The Prime Minister", the novel's story is of Clarissa's preparations for a party of which she is to be hostess. With the interior perspective of the novel, the story travels forwards and back in time, and in and out of the characters' minds, to construct a complete image of Clarissa's life and of the inter-war social structure. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://feedbooks.com/book/1231.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1231.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1231.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1231.mobi The Pirates of Ersatz Murray Leinster http://feedbooks.com/book/2224 en 1959 Novels Science Fiction Sometimes it seems nobody loves a benefactor ... particularly nobody on a well-heeled, self-satisfied planet. Grandpa always said Pirates were really benefactors, though.... Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/2224.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2224.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2224.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2224.mobi The Black Star Passes John Wood Campbell http://feedbooks.com/book/845 urn:isbn:1557429316 en 1953 Novels Science Fiction A sky pirate armed with superior weapons of his own invention.... First contact with an alien race dangerous enough to threaten the safety of two planets.... The arrival of an unseen dark sun whose attendant marauders aimed at the very end of civilization in this Solar System.... Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/845.png http://feedbooks.com/book/845.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/845.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/845.mobi Islands of Space John Wood Campbell http://feedbooks.com/book/836 en 1956 Novels Science Fiction "Their space-drive engine shattered the intergalactic barriers" Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/836.png http://feedbooks.com/book/836.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/836.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/836.mobi The Street That Wasn't There Clifford Donald Simak Carl Richard Jacobi http://feedbooks.com/book/2513 en 1941 Short Fiction Science Fiction Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/2513.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2513.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2513.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2513.mobi Invaders from the Infinite John Wood Campbell http://feedbooks.com/book/844 urn:isbn:1603120491 en 1961 Novels Science Fiction The alien spaceship was unthinkably huge, enormously powerful, apparently irresistible. It came from the void and settled on Earth, striking awe into the hearts of all who saw it. Its burden, however, was not conquest -- but a call for help! First contact was a job for the brilliant team of scientists, Arcot, Wade, and Morey,explorers of the Islands of Space. And what they learned was an offer of an alliance against an invading foe so powerful that no known force could turn them back! Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/844.png http://feedbooks.com/book/844.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/844.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/844.mobi Droozle Frank Banta http://feedbooks.com/book/2554 en 1962 Short Fiction Science Fiction Droozle was probably the greatest writer in the world--any world! Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/2554.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2554.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2554.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2554.mobi Pagan Passions Randall Garrett Laurence Mark Janifer http://feedbooks.com/book/1963 urn:isbn:1434492435 en 1959 Novels Science Fiction Sexuality The Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Greece and Rome had returned to Earth -- with all their awesome powers intact. Overnight, Earth was transformed. War on any scale was outlawed, along with boom-and-bust economic cycles, and prudery. No change was more startling than the face of New York, where the Empire State Building became the Tower of Zeus. In this totally altered world, William Forrester is an acolyte of Athena, Goddess of Wisdom, and a teacher of history. Only Maya Wilson, one of his students and a worshipper of Venus, Goddess of Love, had a different sort of grading in mind. Maya is the first of the many Trials of Forrester, every bit as mighty and perilous as the Labors of Hercules. In love with Gerda Symes (like him, a devotee of Athena and a frequenter of the great Temple of Pallas Athena -- formerly known as the 42nd Street Library) and dedicated to the pleasures of the mind -- Forrester falls under the soft, compelling pressure of soft, compelling devotees of Venus and Bacchus. He's going to be in need of all the strength that he and his Goddess, the beautiful and intellectual Athena, can muster! Into this sensuous strife stride the Temple Myrmidons -- religious cops sworn to obey orders without question or hesitation -- with a pickup order for William Forrester. Where he is taken, what happens to him, and the truly fantastic discoveries he makes about himself and the Gods and Goddesses ... here are the ingredients that make up this science fiction novel of suspense, intrigue, mystery and danger! Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/1963.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1963.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1963.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1963.mobi Bread Overhead Fritz Reuter Leiber Jr. http://feedbooks.com/book/2436 urn:isbn:B0015SWAW2 en 1958 Short Fiction Science Fiction The Staff of Life suddenly and disconcertingly sprouted wings--and mankind had to eat crow! Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/2436.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2436.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2436.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2436.mobi The Defiant Agents Andre Alice Norton http://feedbooks.com/book/2301 en 1962 Novels Science Fiction Alien technology scavenged by U.S. and Russian scientists has started a race to colonize planets outside our solar system -- and the U.S. scientists are losing! In a desperate move the U.S. government decides to use a group of Apache volunteers in an experimental attempt to colonize a primitive planet, but before they can even begin their spaceship crashes on the planet Topaz... Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/2301.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2301.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2301.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2301.mobi Key out of Time Andre Alice Norton http://feedbooks.com/book/857 urn:isbn:0671318527 en 1963 Novels Science Fiction Ashe Gordon and Ross Murdock, angry about the loss of their fellow agent Travis Fox on the planet Topaz, have travelled to the planet Hawaikan, a warm ocean planet, where they intend to set up a time gate. The world is so different from what they expected that they decide on a risky experiment: travel into the past of the planet, accompanied by two mutant dolphins and a female agent of Polynesian ancenstry. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/857.png http://feedbooks.com/book/857.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/857.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/857.mobi Security Poul William Anderson http://feedbooks.com/book/2384 urn:isbn:B000X3KFZO en 1953 Short Fiction Science Fiction In a world where Security is all-important, nothing can ever be secure. A mountain-climbing vacation may wind up in deep Space. Or loyalty may prove to be high treason. But it has its rewards. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/2384.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2384.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2384.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2384.mobi