Blindsight Peter Watts http://feedbooks.com/book/976 urn:isbn:0765312182 en 2006 Novels Science Fiction Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched around the Earth like a luminous fist, screaming to the heavens as the atmosphere burned them to ash. Two months since that moment of brief, bright surveillance by agents unknown. Two months of silence, while a world holds its breath. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route. So who do you send to force introductions on an intelligence with motives unknown, maybe unknowable? Who do you send to meet the alien when the alien doesn't want to meet? You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound, so compromised by grafts and splices he no longer feels his own flesh. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed, and the fainter one she'll do any good if she is. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist—an informational topologist with half his mind gone—as an interface between here and there, a conduit through which the Dead Center might hope to understand the Bleeding Edge. You send them all to the edge of interstellar space, praying you can trust such freaks and retrofits with the fate of a world. You fear they may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find. But you'd give anything for that to be true, if you only knew what was waiting for them... Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/976.png http://feedbooks.com/book/976.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/976.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/976.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 Starfish Peter Watts http://feedbooks.com/book/974 urn:isbn:0312868553 en 2000 Novels Science Fiction A huge international corporation has developed a facility along the Juan de Fuca Ridge at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean to exploit geothermal power. They send a bio-engineered crew--people who have been altered to withstand the pressure and breathe the seawater--down to live and work in this weird, fertile undersea darkness. Unfortunately the only people suitable for long-term employment in these experimental power stations are crazy, some of them in unpleasant ways. How many of them can survive, or will be allowed to survive, while worldwide disaster approaches from below? Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/974.png http://feedbooks.com/book/974.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/974.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/974.mobi Behemoth Peter Watts http://feedbooks.com/book/973 urn:isbn:0765307219 en 2007 Novels Science Fiction Lenie Clarke-rifter, avenger, amphibious deep-sea cyborg-has destroyed the world. Once exploited for her psychological addiction to dangerous environments, she emerged in the wake of a nuclear blast to serve up vendetta from the ocean floor. The horror she unleashed-an ancient, apocalyptic microbe called ßehemoth- has been free in the world for half a decade now, devouring the biosphere from the bottom up. North America lies in ruins beneath the thumb of an omnipotent psychopath. Digital monsters have taken Clarke's name, wreaking havoc throughout the decimated remnants of something that was once called Internet. Governments have fallen across the globe; warlords and suicide cults rise from the ashes, pledging fealty to the Meltdown Madonna. All because five years ago, Lenie Clarke had a score to settle. But she has learned something in the meantime: she destroyed the world for a fallacy. Now, cowering at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, rifters and the technoindustrial "corpses" who created them hide from a world in its death throes. But they cannot hide forever: something is tracking them, down amongst the lightless cliffs and trenches of the Midatlantic Ridge. The consequences of past acts reach inexorably towards the very bottom of the world, and Lenie Clarke must finally confront the mess she made. Redemption doesn't come easy with the blood of a world on your hands. But even after five years in purgatory, Lenie Clarke is still Lenie Clarke. There will be consequences for anyone who gets in her way-and worse ones, perhaps, if she succeeds. . . . Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/973.png http://feedbooks.com/book/973.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/973.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/973.mobi Roo'd Joshua Klein http://feedbooks.com/book/1947 en 2004 Novels Science Fiction "Roo'd is geek-addled cyberpunk fiction at its finest, about a teenage boy with two prosthetic legs and a band of misfit body-modders, shamanistic computer hackers, and pharmaceutically psychotic bioscientists. But it's also an exploration of someone coming to grips with what they truly love to do - and what it means to do it in a confusing world of shades of gray." Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/1947.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1947.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1947.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1947.mobi The Lad and the Lion Edgar Rice Burroughs http://feedbooks.com/book/1475 en 1938 Novels This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://feedbooks.com/book/1475.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1475.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1475.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1475.mobi The Iliad of Homer Homer http://feedbooks.com/book/2962 urn:isbn:B0012AHIYI en -900 Poetry War Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper. The Iliad is, together with the Odyssey, one of two ancient Greek epic poems traditionally attributed to Homer. The poem is commonly dated to the late 9th or to the 8th century BC, and many scholars believe it is the oldest extant work of literature in the ancient Greek language, making it one of the first works of ancient Greek literature. The existence of a single author for the poems is disputed as the poems themselves show evidence of a long oral tradition and hence, possible multiple authors . http://feedbooks.com/book/2962.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2962.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2962.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2962.mobi Postsingular Rudy Rucker http://feedbooks.com/book/1918 urn:isbn:0765317419 en 2007 Novels Science Fiction It all begins next year in California. A maladjusted computer industry billionaire and a somewhat crazy US President initiate a radical transformation of the world through sentient nanotechnology; sort of the equivalent of biological artificial intelligence. At first they succeed, but their plans are reversed by Chu, an autistic boy. The next time it isn't so easy to stop them. Most of the story takes place in a world after a heretofore unimaginable transformation, where all the things look the same but all the people are different (they're able to read each others' minds, for starters). Travel to and from other nearby worlds in the quantum universe is possible, so now our world is visited by giant humanoids from another quantum universe, and some of them mean to tidy up the mess we've made. Or maybe just run things. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/1918.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1918.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1918.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1918.mobi Geek Mafia: Mile Zero Rick Dakan http://feedbooks.com/book/1942 urn:isbn:1604860022 en 2007 Novels Thriller Key West-southernmost point in the United States, Mile Zero on Highway 1; and as far as you can run away from your past troubles without swimming to Cuba. Key West-originally Cayo Huesos or Isle of Bones, for centuries a refuge for pirates, wreckers, writers, scoundrels, drunks, and tourists. Now home to a Crew of techno geek con artists who've turned it into their own private hunting ground. Paul and Chloe have the run of the sun-drenched island, free to play and scam far from the enemies they left behind in Silicon Valley. But that doesn't mean they can't bring a little high tech know how to the paradise. They and their new Crew have covered the island with their own private Big Brother style network-hidden cameras, RFID sensors, and a web of informers that tip them off about every crime committed and tourist trapped on the island. But will all the gadgets and games be enough when not one but three rival crews of con artists come to hold a top-secret gang summit? And when one of them is murdered, who will solve the crime? Inspired by author Rick Dakan's own eventful experiences in the video game and comic book industries, the Geek Mafia series satisfies the hunger in all of us to buck the system, take revenge on corporate America, and live a life of excitement and adventure. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/1942.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1942.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1942.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1942.mobi Unspecialist Murray F. Yaco http://feedbooks.com/book/2314 en 1960 Short Fiction Science Fiction A machine can be built to do any accurately described job better than any man. The superiority of a man is that he can do an unexpected, undescribed, and emergency job... provided he hasn't been especially trained to be a machine. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/2314.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2314.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2314.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2314.mobi Solitude Ripples From The Past David Reagan http://feedbooks.com/book/2825 en 2008 Short Fiction Science Fiction A story about where the ultimate results of China’s one-child policy might lead her people. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/2825.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2825.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2825.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2825.mobi Mallory Leonard Richardson http://feedbooks.com/book/2824 en 2008 Short Fiction Science Fiction Geek hackers and classic arcade games, electronic Darwinism and domestic espionage, venture capital and Valley-esque start-ups … and a healthy dose of intellectual property panic. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/2824.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2824.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2824.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2824.mobi Uxo, Bomb Dog Eliot Fintushel http://feedbooks.com/book/2823 en 2008 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/2823.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2823.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2823.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2823.mobi Return to Pleasure Island Cory Doctorow http://feedbooks.com/book/661 urn:isbn:1568582862 en 1999 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/661.png http://feedbooks.com/book/661.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/661.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/661.mobi The Alchemist Howard Phillips Lovecraft http://feedbooks.com/book/235 en 1916 Short Fiction Horror "The Alchemist" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft, written in 1908, when Lovecraft was 17 or 18, and first published in the November 1916 issue of the United Amateur. The story is recounted by the protagonist, Antoine C-, in the first person. Hundreds of years ago, Antoine's noble ancestor was responsible for the death of a dark wizard, Michel Mauvais. The wizard's son, Charles le Sorcier, swore revenge on not only him but all his descendants, cursing them to die on reaching the age of 32. The protagonist recounts how his ancestors all died in some mysterious way around the age of 32. The line has dwindled and the castle has been left to fall into disrepair, tower by tower. Finally, Antoine is the only one left, with one poor servant, Pierre, who raised him, and a tiny section of the castle with a single tower is still usable. Antoine has reached adulthood, and his 32nd year is approaching. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/235.png http://feedbooks.com/book/235.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/235.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/235.mobi Homage to Catalonia George Orwell http://feedbooks.com/book/1260 urn:isbn:0156421178 en 1938 Non-Fiction Biography Politics This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://feedbooks.com/book/1260.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1260.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1260.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1260.mobi Appeals Court Cory Doctorow Charles Stross http://feedbooks.com/book/1310 en 2005 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/1310.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1310.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1310.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1310.mobi Printcrime Cory Doctorow http://feedbooks.com/book/334 en 2006 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/334.png http://feedbooks.com/book/334.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/334.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/334.mobi Nimby and the Dimension Hoppers Cory Doctorow http://feedbooks.com/book/2669 en 2003 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/2669.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2669.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2669.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2669.mobi All Complex Ecosystems Have Parasites Cory Doctorow http://feedbooks.com/book/659 en 2005 Non-Fiction Essay Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/659.png http://feedbooks.com/book/659.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/659.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/659.mobi Down and Out in Paris and London George Orwell http://feedbooks.com/book/1251 urn:isbn:015626224X en 1933 Novels Biography This unusual fictional account, in good part autobiographical, narrates without self-pity and often with humor the adventures of a penniless British writer among the down-and-out of two great cities. In the tales of both cities we learn some sobering Orwellian truths about poverty and society. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://feedbooks.com/book/1251.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1251.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1251.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1251.mobi A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce http://feedbooks.com/book/222 en 1916 Novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a semi-autobiographical novel by James Joyce, first serialized in The Egoist from 1914 to 1915 and published in book form in 1916. It depicts the formative years in the life of Stephen Dedalus, a fictional alter ego of Joyce and a pointed allusion to the consummate craftsman of Greek mythology, Daedalus. A Portrait is a key example of the Künstlerroman (an artist's bildungsroman) in English literature. Joyce's novel traces the intellectual and religio-philosophical awakening of young Stephen Dedalus as he begins to question and rebel against the Catholic and Irish conventions he has been brought up in. He finally leaves for Paris to pursue his calling as an artist. The work pioneers some of Joyce's modernist techniques that would later come to fruition in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. The Modern Library ranked Portrait as the third greatest English-language novel of the twentieth century. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/222.png http://feedbooks.com/book/222.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/222.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/222.mobi The Hacker Crackdown Bruce Sterling http://feedbooks.com/book/1309 urn:isbn:055356370X en 1992 Non-Fiction A journalist investigates the past, present, and future of computer crimes, as he attends a hacker convention, documents the extent of the computer crimes, and presents intriguing facts about hackers and their misdoings. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/1309.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1309.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1309.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1309.mobi The Road to Oz Lyman Frank Baum http://feedbooks.com/book/218 urn:isbn:0688099971 en 1909 Novels Young Readers Fantasy This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/218.png http://feedbooks.com/book/218.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/218.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/218.mobi The Emerald City of Oz Lyman Frank Baum http://feedbooks.com/book/231 urn:isbn:0688115586 en 1910 Novels Young Readers Fantasy This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/231.png http://feedbooks.com/book/231.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/231.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/231.mobi Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz Lyman Frank Baum http://feedbooks.com/book/207 urn:isbn:0688098266 en 1908 Novels Young Readers Fantasy A California earthquake sends Dorothy Gale and her new friends--Zeb the farm boy, Jim the cab-horse, and Eureka the mischievous kitten--tumbling through a crack in the ground. Deep beneath the earth, Dorothy is reunited with her old friend the Wizard of Oz and his troupe of nine tiny piglets. Together, Dorothy, the Wizard, and their friends travel through many fantastic lands, where they encounter the Mangaboos, people growing like vegetables in the ground; cross the Valley of Voe, where dama-fruit has turned everyone invisible; and are captured by mysterious flying Gargoyles. At last, the intrepid travelers reach Oz, where they have many unforgettable encounters with such favorites as the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman, the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger, Princess Ozma and the wooden Sawhorse. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/207.png http://feedbooks.com/book/207.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/207.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/207.mobi Ozma of Oz Lyman Frank Baum http://feedbooks.com/book/205 urn:isbn:0688066321 en 1907 Novels Young Readers Fantasy This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/205.png http://feedbooks.com/book/205.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/205.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/205.mobi The Marvelous Land of Oz Lyman Frank Baum http://feedbooks.com/book/202 urn:isbn:0064409635 en 1904 Novels Young Readers Fantasy First issued in 1904, L. Frank Baum's The Marvelous Land of Oz is the story of the wonderful adventures of the young boy named Tip as he travels throughout the many lands of Oz. Here he meets with our old friends the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman, as well as some new friends like Jack Pumpkinhead, the Wooden Sawhorse, the Highly Magnified Woggle-Bug, and the amazing Gump. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/202.png http://feedbooks.com/book/202.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/202.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/202.mobi