The Burning Bridge Poul William Anderson http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2385 urn:isbn:B000X3KFZE en 1960 Short Fiction Science Fiction Usually there are two "reasons" why something is done; the reason why it needs to be done, and, quite separate, the reason people want to do it. The foul-up starts when the reason-for-wanting is satisfied ... and the need remains! Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2385.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2385.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2385.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2385.mobi The Man Who Came Early Poul William Anderson http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3339 en 1957 Short Fiction Science Fiction How rarely science-fiction writers succeed in creating a wholly alien culture may be judged from any adequate study of an earthly culture of a time or place which does not form part of our direct heritage. S.F's aliens may have pseudopods or supersdentific gadgets, but rarely so wholly different a frame of reference as man himself has achieved in other eras. Here F&SFs favorite Scandinavian skald takes us to Iceland near the end of the tenth century and convincingly depicts a truly "alien" way of life and teaches us the tragic truth that the role of a twentieth-century timetraveler to a "primitive" culture need not necessarily be that of Prometheus the Fire-Bringer. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3339.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3339.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3339.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3339.mobi Sense from Thought Divide Mark Irvin Clifton http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2387 urn:isbn:B000VSM2Y8 en 1955 Short Fiction Science Fiction What is a "phony"? Someone who believes he can do X, when he can't, however sincerely he believes it? Or someone who can do X, believes he can't, and believes he is pretending he can? Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2387.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2387.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2387.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2387.mobi The Door Through Space Marion Zimmer Bradley http://www.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://www.feedbooks.com/book/835.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/835.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/835.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/835.mobi The K-Factor Harry Harrison http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2393 en 1960 Short Fiction Science Fiction Speed never hurt anybody--it's the sudden stop at the end. It's not how much change that signals danger, but how fast it's changing.... Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2393.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2393.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2393.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2393.mobi The Misplaced Battleship Harry Harrison http://www.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://www.feedbooks.com/book/2394.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2394.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2394.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2394.mobi Missing Link Frank Herbert http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2443 urn:isbn:B0015SY0JI en 1959 Short Fiction Science Fiction "Missing Link" is vintage Frank Herbert. It tells the story of Lewis Orne, junior I-A field man, on the planet Gienah III. He is there to investigate a missing ship, and the natives are nothing but trouble... Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2443.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2443.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2443.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2443.mobi The Street That Wasn't There Clifford Donald Simak Carl Richard Jacobi http://www.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://www.feedbooks.com/book/2513.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2513.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2513.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2513.mobi Invaders from the Infinite John Wood Campbell http://www.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://www.feedbooks.com/book/844.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/844.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/844.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/844.mobi The Secret of the Ninth Planet Donald Allen Wollheim http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2383 urn:isbn:B0014NLE7K en 1959 Novels Science Fiction While the circumnavigation of the solar system seems farfetched, it may not be once the problem of effective anti-gravitational control is solved. In this book I have assumed that the many researchers now actually at work on this problem will achieve such a result in the next decade. It is not at all impossible that they may for we all know that the more minds that work at a problem, the sooner it will be solved. The discovery of a means of negating, reversing or otherwise utilizing the immense force of gravitation for space flight purposes is now thought to be within the bounds of probability. It should occur some time within the next hundred years, possibly in even the short period I assume here. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2383.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2383.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2383.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2383.mobi Hellhound of the Cosmos Clifford Donald Simak http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3274 en 1932 Short Fiction Science Fiction Horror Dimensional degeneration. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3274.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3274.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3274.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3274.mobi Planet of the Damned Harry Harrison http://www.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://www.feedbooks.com/book/2395.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2395.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2395.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2395.mobi The Colors of Space Marion Zimmer Bradley http://www.feedbooks.com/book/834 en 1963 Novels Science Fiction It was a week before the Lhari ship went into warp-drive, and all that time young Bart Steele had stayed in his cabin. He was so bored with his own company that the Mentorian medic was a welcome sight when he came to prepare him for cold-sleep! Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/834.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/834.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/834.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/834.mobi Badge of Infamy Lester Del Rey http://www.feedbooks.com/book/851 urn:isbn:160312053X en 1957 Novels Science Fiction As a doctor, Daniel Feldman once made the mistake of saving a friend's life in violation of Medical Lobby rules. Now he's a pariah, shunned by all, and forbidden to touch another patient. But rules are looser on Mars -- there, Doc Feldman is welcomed by the colonists, even as he's hunted by the authorities. But when he discovers a Martian plague may soon wipe out two planets, Feldman finds himself a pivotal figure. War erupts, Earth is poised to completely destroy the Mars colony, and a cure to the plague is the price of peace. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/851.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/851.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/851.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/851.mobi The Repairman Harry Harrison http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1409 urn:isbn:B000XCUV5Y en 1958 Short Fiction Science Fiction Being an interstellar trouble shooter wouldn’t be so bad … if I could shoot the trouble! Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1409.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1409.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1409.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1409.mobi Islands of Space John Wood Campbell http://www.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://www.feedbooks.com/book/836.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/836.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/836.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/836.mobi Slingshot Irving W. Lande http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2369 urn:isbn:B000W7KNCQ en 1955 Short Fiction Science Fiction War The slingshot was, I believe, one of the few weapons of history that wasn't used in the last war. That doesn't mean it won't be used in the next! Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2369.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2369.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2369.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2369.mobi Operation Haystack Frank Herbert http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2444 en 1959 Short Fiction Science Fiction It's hard to ferret out a gang of fanatics; it would, obviously, be even harder to spot a genetic line of dedicated men. But the problem Orne had was one step tougher than that! Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2444.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2444.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2444.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2444.mobi The Day of the Boomer Dukes Frederik Pohl http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2557 urn:isbn:B0015S9Q9M en 1956 Short Fiction Science Fiction Just as medicine is not a science, but rather an art--a device, practised in a scientific manner, in its best manifestations--time-travel stories are not science fiction. Time-travel, however, has become acceptable to science fiction readers as a traditional device in stories than are otherwise admissible in the genre. Here, Frederik Pohl employs it to portray the amusingly catastrophic meeting of three societies. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2557.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2557.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2557.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2557.mobi The Valor of Cappen Varra Poul William Anderson http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4082 en 1957 Short Fiction Fantasy We have said that there are many and strange shadows, memories surviving from dim pasts, in this FANTASTIC UNIVERSE of ours. Poul Anderson turns to a legend from the Northern countries, countries where even today the pagan past seems only like yesterday, and tells the story of Cappen Varra, who came to Norren a long, long time ago. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4082.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4082.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4082.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4082.mobi