When the Sleepers Woke Arthur Leo Zagat http://feedbooks.com/book/4056 en 1932 Short Fiction Science Fiction Only two small groups of people—enemies—survive the vast desolation of the Final War. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://feedbooks.com/book/4056.png http://feedbooks.com/book/4056.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/4056.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/4056.mobi The Death-Traps of FX-31 Sewell Peaslee Wright http://feedbooks.com/book/4057 en 1933 Short Fiction Science Fiction Commander John Hanson recalls his harrowing expedition among the giant spiders of FX-31. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/4057.png http://feedbooks.com/book/4057.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/4057.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/4057.mobi Beside Still Waters Robert Sheckley http://feedbooks.com/book/4054 en 1953 Short Fiction Science Fiction When people talk about getting away from it all, they are usually thinking about our great open spaces out west. But to science fiction writers, that would be practically in the heart of Times Square. When a man of the future wants solitude he picks a slab of rock floating in space four light years east of Andromeda. Here is a gentle little story about a man who sought the solitude of such a location. And who did he take along for company? None other than Charles the Robot. 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Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/4055.png http://feedbooks.com/book/4055.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/4055.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/4055.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 Password Incorrect Nick Name http://feedbooks.com/book/3127 en 2008 Short Fiction Collections 25 short, sometimes funny and sometimes mean stories ideal to rediscover the joy of reading a book as shiny and beautiful as a brand new cell phone. A look from a distance at the absurdity of our present day lives: fights with the less and less comprehensible equipment, pursuit of the latest technological news, pitfalls of our modern lifestyle, useless inventions and issues racing in all directions at a breakneck speed. A lot of entertainment and a little food for thought. Just perfect for the moment when you're finally bored with exploring the alarm settings on your new iPhone. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/3127.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3127.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3127.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3127.mobi When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth Cory Doctorow http://feedbooks.com/book/335 urn:isbn:1560259817 en 2006 Short Fiction Science Fiction The heroic exploits of "sysadmins" — systems administrators — as they defend the cyber-world, and hence the world at large, from worms and bioweapons. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/335.png http://feedbooks.com/book/335.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/335.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/335.mobi In the Year 2889 Jules Verne http://feedbooks.com/book/477 urn:isbn:0809501287 en 1889 Short Fiction Science Fiction In the Year 2889 was first published in the Forum, February, 1889. It was published in France the next year. Although published under the name of Jules Verne, it is now believed to be chiefly if not entirely the work of Jules Verne's son, Michel Verne. In any event, many of the topics in the article echo Jules Verne's ideas. http://feedbooks.com/book/477.png http://feedbooks.com/book/477.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/477.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/477.mobi Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow Jerome Klapka Jerome http://feedbooks.com/book/2182 urn:isbn:1843911604 en 1886 Essay Collections Humor/Satire This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/2182.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2182.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2182.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2182.mobi Tarzan Triumphant Edgar Rice Burroughs http://feedbooks.com/book/1438 urn:isbn:0345416414 en 1932 Novels Adventure This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://feedbooks.com/book/1438.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1438.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1438.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1438.mobi Tarzan the Magnificent Edgar Rice Burroughs http://feedbooks.com/book/1444 en 1939 Novels Adventure This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://feedbooks.com/book/1444.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1444.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1444.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1444.mobi Tarzan's Quest Edgar Rice Burroughs http://feedbooks.com/book/1442 en 1935 Novels Adventure This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://feedbooks.com/book/1442.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1442.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1442.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1442.mobi Tarzan and the Castaways Edgar Rice Burroughs http://feedbooks.com/book/1446 en 1940 Novels Adventure This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://feedbooks.com/book/1446.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1446.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1446.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1446.mobi Tarzan and the Lion-Man Edgar Rice Burroughs http://feedbooks.com/book/1440 urn:isbn:0345219112 en 1932 Novels Adventure This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://feedbooks.com/book/1440.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1440.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1440.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1440.mobi The Tarzan Twins Edgar Rice Burroughs http://feedbooks.com/book/1431 urn:isbn:1598189557 en 1927 Novels Adventure This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://feedbooks.com/book/1431.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1431.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1431.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1431.mobi Apache Devil Edgar Rice Burroughs http://feedbooks.com/book/1515 urn:isbn:0899660436 en 1933 Novels Western This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://feedbooks.com/book/1515.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1515.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1515.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1515.mobi Heart of the West O. Henry http://feedbooks.com/book/3594 urn:isbn:1600962173 en 1907 Short Fiction Collections Western A collection of 19 short stories from the West. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/3594.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3594.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3594.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3594.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 The Time Traders Andre Alice Norton http://feedbooks.com/book/859 urn:isbn:1406835617 en 1958 Novels Science Fiction Intelligence agents have uncovered something beyond belief, but the evidence is incontrovertible: the USA’s greatest adversary is sending its own agents back through time! And someone (or something) is presenting them with technologies and weapons far beyond our most advanced science. We have only one option: create time-transfer technology ourselves, find the opposition's ancient source...and take it down! Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/859.png http://feedbooks.com/book/859.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/859.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/859.mobi Galactic Derelict Andre Alice Norton http://feedbooks.com/book/1797 en 1959 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/1797.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1797.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1797.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1797.mobi Star Hunter Andre Alice Norton http://feedbooks.com/book/861 urn:isbn:1557429871 en 1961 Novels Science Fiction Somewheres on the jungle world of Jumala, there was a man in hiding--a man whose mind had been reconditioned with another's brain pattern and for whom there was a fabulous reward. STAR HUNTER is a thrill-packed account of that other-worldly game of hide-and-seek between a man who did not know all his own powers and an interstellar safari that sought something no man had a right to find... Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/861.png http://feedbooks.com/book/861.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/861.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/861.mobi Rebel Spurs Andre Alice Norton http://feedbooks.com/book/868 urn:isbn:143440045X en 1962 Novels Western Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/868.png http://feedbooks.com/book/868.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/868.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/868.mobi The Awakening & Other Short Stories Kate Chopin http://feedbooks.com/book/342 urn:isbn:0679783334 en 1899 Short Fiction Sexuality The Awakening shocked turn-of-the-century readers with its forthright treatment of sex and suicide. Departing from literary convention, Kate Chopin failed to condemn her heroine's desire for an affair with the son of a Louisiana resort owner, whom she meets on vacation. The power of sensuality, the delusion of ecstatic love, and the solitude that accompanies the trappings of middle- and upper-class life are the themes of this now-classic novel. As Kaye Gibbons points out in her Introduction, Chopin "was writing American realism before most Americans could bear to hear that they were living it." http://feedbooks.com/book/342.png http://feedbooks.com/book/342.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/342.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/342.mobi The Little Lady of the Big House Jack London http://feedbooks.com/book/3117 urn:isbn:0554076411 en 1916 Novels Romance Sexuality A triangle romance provides the basis for a questioning of the meaning of masculinity, as well as an examination of agribusiness in California. Jack London said of this novel: "It is all sex from start to finish -- in which no sexual adventure is actually achieved or comes within a million miles of being achieved, and in which, nevertheless, is all the guts of sex, coupled with strength." This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/3117.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3117.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3117.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3117.mobi I, Robot Cory Doctorow http://feedbooks.com/book/337 urn:isbn:1560259817 en 2005 Short Fiction Science Fiction "I, Robot" is a science-fiction short story by Cory Doctorow published in 2005. The story is set in the type of police state needed to ensure that only one company is allowed to make robots, and only one type of robot is allowed. The story follows single Father detective Arturo Icaza de Arana-Goldberg while he tries to track down his missing teenage daughter. The detective is a bit of an outcast because his wife defected to Eurasia, a rival Superpower. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/337.png http://feedbooks.com/book/337.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/337.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/337.mobi The World Beyond Raymond King Cummings http://feedbooks.com/book/3987 en 1942 Short Fiction Science Fiction Out of nowhere came these grim, cold, black-clad men, to kidnap three Earth people and carry them to a weird and terrible world where a man could be a giant at will. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://feedbooks.com/book/3987.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3987.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3987.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3987.mobi No Pets Allowed Monette A. Cummings http://feedbooks.com/book/4001 en 1957 Short Fiction Science Fiction He didn't know how he could have stood the four months there alone. She was company and one could talk to her ... Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/4001.png http://feedbooks.com/book/4001.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/4001.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/4001.mobi Keep Out Frederic Brown http://feedbooks.com/book/4000 en 1954 Short Fiction Science Fiction With no more room left on Earth, and with Mars hanging up there empty of life, somebody hit on the plan of starting a colony on the Red Planet. It meant changing the habits and physical structure of the immigrants, but that worked out fine. In fact, every possible factor was covered--except one of the flaws of human nature.... Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/4000.png http://feedbooks.com/book/4000.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/4000.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/4000.mobi