Looking Backward Edward Bellamy http://www.feedbooks.com/book/829 urn:isbn:155709506X en 1888 Novels Science Fiction Set in Boston on December 26, 2000, but written before the turn of the nineteenth century, this classic Utopian novel is more significant and relevant than ever with its reappearance this millennium. Addressing moral and material concerns of late nineteenth century industrial America through romantic narrative, Bellamy suggests a fictionalized society in which war, poverty, and malice do not exist. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/829.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/829.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/829.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/829.mobi Metropolis Thea von Harbou http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1123 urn:isbn:1592249787 en 1927 Novels Science Fiction This is Metropolis, the novel that the film's screenwriter -- Thea von Harbou, who was director Fritz Lang's wife, and a collaborator in the creation of the film -- this is the novel that Harbou wrote from her own notes. It contains bits of the story that got lost on the cutting-room floor; in a very real way it is the only way to understand the film. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1123.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1123.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1123.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1123.mobi News from Nowhere William Morris http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2415 en 1890 Novels Science Fiction Fantasy News from Nowhere (1890) is a classic work combining utopian socialism and soft science fiction written by the artist, designer and socialist pioneer William Morris. In the book, the narrator, William Guest, falls asleep after returning from a meeting of the Socialist League and awakes to find himself in a future society based on common ownership and democratic control of the means of production. In this society there is no private property, no big cities, no authority, no monetary system, no divorce, no courts, no prisons, and no class systems. This agrarian society functions simply because the people find pleasure in nature, and therefore they find pleasure in their work. The book explores a number of aspects of this society, including its organisation and the relationships which it engenders between people. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2415.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2415.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2415.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2415.mobi Scroogled Cory Doctorow http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1670 en 2007 Short Fiction Science Fiction Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1670.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1670.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1670.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1670.mobi Utopia Thomas More http://www.feedbooks.com/book/198 urn:isbn:0393961451 en 1515 Non-Fiction Philosophy De Optimo Republicae Statu deque Nova Insula Utopia (translated On the Best State of a Republic and on the New Island of Utopia) or more simply Utopia is a 1516 book by Sir (Saint) Thomas More. The book, written in Latin, is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. The name of the place is derived from the Greek words οὐ u ("not") and τόπος tópos ("place"), with the topographical suffix -εία eía, hence Οὐτοπεία outopeía (Latinized as Utopia), “no-place land.” It also contains a pun, however, because “Utopia” could also be the Latinization of Εὐτοπεία eutopeía, “good-place land,” which uses the Greek prefix ευ eu, “good,” instead of οὐ. One interpretation holds that this suggests that while Utopia might be some sort of perfected society, it is ultimately unreachable. Despite modern connotations of the word "utopia," it is widely accepted that the society More describes in this work was not actually his own "perfect society." Rather he wished to use the contrast between the imaginary land's unusual political ideas and the chaotic politics of his own day as a platform from which to discuss social issues in Europe. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/198.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/198.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/198.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/198.mobi Flyboy Action Figure Comes with Gasmask Jim Munroe http://www.feedbooks.com/book/669 urn:isbn:0380810433 en 1999 Novels Science Fiction Ryan is a university student dealing with the normal problems of a 22-year-old guy -- shyness, virginity, weird roommates, and a massive crush on Cassandra, a waitress at his local greasy spoon. (Oh, and a freakish ability to change into a fly.) When he finally gets up the nerve to ask Cassandra for a date, he learns that the two have more in common than they first thought. (Turns out that Cassandra can make things disappear.) Sharing their secrets for the first time, Ryan and Cassandra realize they were made for each other...and to battle forces of evil! Inspired by Sailor Moon, they team up to fight the villians in their own backyard, taking on cigarette barons, right wing newspapers, and the overzealous local police. But can the Superheroes for Social Justice transform the world in time? Find out in... Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/669.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/669.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/669.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/669.mobi The Time Axis Henry Kuttner http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2318 urn:isbn:B000GCFFZM en 1948 Novels Science Fiction Called to the end of time by a being known as The Face of Ea, four adventurers face a power that not even the science of that era could meet -- the nekron, negative matter, negative force, ultimate desctruction for everything it touched! This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2318.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2318.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2318.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2318.mobi The Panchronicon Harold Steele MacKaye http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3573 urn:isbn:0548548641 en 1904 Novels Science Fiction A novel about time travel. Excerpt: "Don't have to keep count," he replied. "See that indicator?" he continued, pointing to a dial in the ceiling which had not been noticed before. "That reads May 3, 1898, now, don't it? Well, it's fixed to keep always tellin' the right date. It counts the whirls we make an' keeps tabs on every day we go backward. Any time all ye hev to do is to read that thing an' it'll tell ye jest what day 'tis." This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3573.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3573.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3573.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3573.mobi Halo Tom Maddox http://www.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://www.feedbooks.com/book/1996.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1996.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1996.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1996.mobi Temple Trouble Henry Beam Piper http://www.feedbooks.com/book/389 urn:isbn:1428049061 en 1951 Short Fiction Science Fiction Miracles to order was a fine way for the paratimers to get mining concessions--but Nature can sometimes pull counter-miracles. And so can men, for that matter.... Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/389.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/389.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/389.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/389.mobi Police Operation Henry Beam Piper http://www.feedbooks.com/book/383 urn:isbn:1428049134 en 1948 Short Fiction Science Fiction Hunting down the beast, under the best of circumstances, was dangerous. But in this little police operation, the conditions required the use of inadequate means! Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/383.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/383.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/383.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/383.mobi Last Enemy Henry Beam Piper http://www.feedbooks.com/book/377 urn:isbn:1603129898 en 1950 Short Fiction Science Fiction The last enemy was the toughest of all--and conquering him was in itself almost as dangerous as not conquering. For a strange pattern of beliefs can make assassination an honorable profession! Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/377.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/377.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/377.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/377.mobi Gravity's Angel Tom Maddox http://www.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://www.feedbooks.com/book/1999.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1999.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1999.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1999.mobi Genesis Henry Beam Piper http://www.feedbooks.com/book/372 en 1951 Short Fiction Science Fiction Was this ill-fated expedition the end of a proud, old race--or the beginning of a new one? There are strange gaps in our records of the past. We find traces of man-like things--but, suddenly, man appears, far too much developed to be the "next step" in a well-linked chain of evolutionary evidence. Perhaps something like the events of this story furnishes the answer to the riddle. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/372.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/372.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/372.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/372.mobi From the Earth to the Moon Jules Verne http://www.feedbooks.com/book/476 urn:isbn:0553214209 en 1865 Novels Science Fiction One of the earliest science fantasy stories ever written, From the Earth to the Moon follows three wealthy members of a post-Civil War gun club who design and build an enormous columbiad -- and ride a spaceship fired from it all the way to the moon! http://www.feedbooks.com/book/476.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/476.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/476.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/476.mobi Lord of the World Robert Hugh Benson http://www.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://www.feedbooks.com/book/2462.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2462.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2462.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2462.mobi The Coming Race Edward Bulwer-Lytton http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2582 urn:isbn:1438215754 en 1871 Novels Science Fiction The Power of The Coming Race is a powerful novel that fired the imagination of readers starting in the 1870's. Among the earliest examples of what would become the genre of science fiction, among many authors it influenced H. G. Wells, Samuel Butler, and Edgar Rice Burroughs. The book tells the story of a young American adventurer who discovers a portal to an underground world at the bottom of a mine shaft. In this world lives a highly advanced race, with a dark secret. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2582.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2582.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2582.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2582.mobi A Crystal Age William Henry Hudson http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2577 urn:isbn:1843500809 en 1887 Novels Science Fiction I do not quite know how it happened my recollection of the whole matter ebbing in a somewhat clouded condition. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2577.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2577.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2577.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2577.mobi The Machine Stops E. M. Forster http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2073 urn:isbn:0233991670 en 1909 Short Fiction Science Fiction The Machine Stops is a short science fiction story. It describes a world in which almost all humans have lost the ability to live on the surface of the Earth. Each individual lives in isolation in a 'cell', with all bodily and spiritual needs met by the omnipotent, global Machine. Most humans welcome this development, as they are skeptical and fearful of first-hand experience. People forget that humans created the Machine, and treat it as a mystical entity whose needs supersede their own. Those who do not accept the deity of the Machine are viewed as 'unmechanical' and are threatened with "Homelessness". Eventually, the Machine apocalyptically collapses, and the civilization of the Machine comes to an end. This work was published before 1923 and is in the public domain in the USA only. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2073.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2073.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2073.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2073.mobi Time and Time Again Henry Beam Piper http://www.feedbooks.com/book/390 en 1947 Short Fiction Science Fiction To upset the stable, mighty stream of time would probably take an enormous concentration of energy. And it's not to be expected that a man would get a second chance at life. But an atomic might accomplish both-- Time and Time again. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/390.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/390.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/390.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/390.mobi