Topper Thorne Smith http://feedbooks.com/book/1497 urn:isbn:0375753052 en 1926 Novels Humor/Satire Ghost Stories This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70. http://feedbooks.com/book/1497.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1497.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1497.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1497.mobi The Rocketbelt Caper: 50-PAGE SAMPLER Paul Brown http://feedbooks.com/userbook/5832 en 2009 When three men set out on a quest to build a real-life Buck Rogers-style flying machine, their obsession with the Rocketbelt 2000 shattered their friendship and set in motion an astonishing chain of events involving theft, deception, assault, a bizarre kidnapping, a ten million dollar lawsuit and a horrifically brutal murder. From sci-fi to reality, this is the incredible true story of the amazing rocketbelt. 50-PAGE SAMPLER of the full book. 'We finished the rocketbelt, and from then on there was murder, kidnapping, and all kinds of other stuff' http://www.rocketbeltcaper.com true crime popular science http://feedbooks.com/userbook/5832.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/5832.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/5832.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/5832.mobi Peace In Our Time Carrie Vaughn http://feedbooks.com/book/2758 en 2004 Short Fiction Science Fiction War A story about the last man standing, when war is fought by machines. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/2758.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2758.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2758.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2758.mobi Consensus Building Tom Doyle http://feedbooks.com/book/2759 en 2005 Short Fiction Science Fiction On the commercialization of your head space. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/2759.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2759.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2759.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2759.mobi Hooking Up Tom Doyle http://feedbooks.com/book/2817 en 2006 Short Fiction Science Fiction High school and evolution, VR space, artificial intelligence and the unrestrained id. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/2817.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2817.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2817.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2817.mobi Art’s Appreciation Tom Doyle http://feedbooks.com/book/2756 en 2004 Short Fiction Science Fiction A delightfully paranoid, anti-consumerist dystopia - so step inside, but please ignore the ads. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/2756.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2756.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2756.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2756.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 Barry Westphall Crashes The Singularity James Patrick Kelly http://feedbooks.com/book/652 en 2002 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/652.png http://feedbooks.com/book/652.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/652.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/652.mobi Luck James Patrick Kelly http://feedbooks.com/book/653 en 2002 Short Fiction Fantasy Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/653.png http://feedbooks.com/book/653.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/653.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/653.mobi Men Are Trouble James Patrick Kelly http://feedbooks.com/book/656 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/656.png http://feedbooks.com/book/656.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/656.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/656.mobi Faith James Patrick Kelly http://feedbooks.com/book/654 en 1989 Short Fiction Science Fiction Fantasy Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/654.png http://feedbooks.com/book/654.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/654.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/654.mobi The Pyramid of Amirah James Patrick Kelly http://feedbooks.com/book/2605 en 2002 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/2605.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2605.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2605.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2605.mobi Monsters James Patrick Kelly http://feedbooks.com/book/2606 en 1992 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/2606.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2606.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2606.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2606.mobi Itsy Bitsy Spider James Patrick Kelly http://feedbooks.com/book/655 en 1997 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/655.png http://feedbooks.com/book/655.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/655.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/655.mobi 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 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 Burn James Patrick Kelly http://feedbooks.com/book/651 urn:isbn:1892391279 en 2005 Novels Science Fiction Colonization is the theme of this exciting, complex page-turner that provides a provocative and entertaining look at Thoreau's classic eco-text Walden. Eccentric billionaire Jack Winter has bought the planet Beekman's Pea, renamed it Walden, and created a utopia in which members renounce the technologies of human civilization. Marginalized by these newcomers, the planet's original inhabitants are resisting the colony's dominance by setting fires to Walden's artificial ecology. A member of Walden, Prosper Gregory Leung is a veteran firefighter who believes in protecting Winter's utopian vision, but when he is wounded, he begins to learn of the terrible price that the people of Walden are paying for their paradise. Interwoven with themes of environmental responsibility, political struggle, and courage, this adventure novel nimbly combines political and social relevance with a flawless and gripping narrative from a veteran science fiction author. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/651.png http://feedbooks.com/book/651.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/651.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/651.mobi Everyone In Silico Jim Munroe http://feedbooks.com/book/670 urn:isbn:1568582404 en 2002 Novels Science Fiction In Vancouver in 2036, people are tired of the rain. They're willing to give up a lot for guaranteed sunshine, a life with no wasted hours. A life free of crime and disease. A life that ends when you want it to, not when some faceless entity decides it's your time. Those who don't buy in — the poor, the old, the paranoid — have to watch as their loved ones, their friends, and their jobs leave the city. They have to watch as the latest prestige technology, Self, changes everything — not just the world but humanity itself. On the bright side, the rents have dropped. And in several unexpected ways, resistance is growing. This fascinating work of fiction tells what can happen when the cyberworld becomes more important than the real world. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/670.png http://feedbooks.com/book/670.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/670.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/670.mobi Gravity's Angel Tom Maddox http://feedbooks.com/book/1999 en 1992 Short Fiction Science Fiction A story published in OMNI concerning the Superconducting Supercollider that might have been. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/1999.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1999.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1999.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1999.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 Halo Tom Maddox http://feedbooks.com/book/1996 en 1991 Novels Science Fiction In the latter half of the twenty-first century, freelance data-auditor Mikhail Gonzales has been contracted to monitor an AI-controlled orbiting colony. Complications arise when an experimental treatment for a critically injured man is opposed by Gonzales' employer, the SenTrax corporation. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/1996.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1996.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1996.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1996.mobi Metrophage Richard Kadrey http://feedbooks.com/book/1810 urn:isbn:0441528139 en 1988 Novels Science Fiction Welcome to Los Angeles... where anger, hunger, and disease run rampant, and life and hope are strictly rationed. This is Jonny's world. He's a street-wise hustler, a black-market dealer in drugs that heal the body and cool the mind. All he cares about is his own survival, until a strange new plague turns L.A. into a city of death--and Jonny is forced to put everything on the line to find the cure. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/1810.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1810.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1810.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1810.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 Omega, the Man Lowell Howard Morrow http://feedbooks.com/book/3131 en 1933 Short Fiction Science Fiction Excerpt: "The silver airship cut swiftly through the hot thin air. The noonday sun blazed down upon it and the desert world below. All about was the solemn silence of death. No living thing appeared either in the air or on the drab, gray earth. Only the aircraft itself displayed any signs of life. The sky, blue as indigo, held not the shadow of a cloud, and on the horizon the mountains notched into it like the teeth of a giant saw." Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/3131.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3131.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3131.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3131.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 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 Planet of the Damned Harry Harrison http://feedbooks.com/book/2395 urn:isbn:0812535073 en 1962 Novels Science Fiction Hugo nominated in 1962, originally published in Analog Science Fact-Science Fiction as "Sense of Obligation." Brion has just won the Twenties, a global competition to test achievements in 20 categories of human activities -- but before he can enjoy his victory he's forced to leave his homeworld to help salvage Dis, the most hellish planet in the galaxy. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/2395.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2395.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2395.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2395.mobi The Misplaced Battleship Harry Harrison http://feedbooks.com/book/2394 urn:isbn:B000W7KNAI en 1960 Short Fiction Science Fiction It might seem a little careless to lose track of something as big as a battleship... but interstellar space is on a different scale of magnitude. But a misplaced battleship--in the wrong hands!--can be most dangerous. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/2394.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2394.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2394.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2394.mobi