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 Columbus of Space Garrett Putman Serviss http://www.feedbooks.com/book/871 en 1909 Novels Science Fiction Adventure The first story ever written about an atomic powered space craft. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/871.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/871.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/871.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/871.mobi A Honeymoon in Space George Griffith http://www.feedbooks.com/book/888 urn:isbn:0966892631 en 1901 Novels Science Fiction http://www.feedbooks.com/book/888.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/888.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/888.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/888.mobi A Journey in Other Worlds John Jacob Astor http://www.feedbooks.com/book/905 urn:isbn:0803259492 en 1894 Novels Science Fiction What did our ancestors dream of when they gazed up at the stars and looked beyond the present? Wildly imaginative but grounded in reasoned scientific speculation, A Journey in Other Worlds races far ahead of the nineteenth century to imagine what life would be like in the year 2000. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, Earth is effectively a corporate technocracy, with big businesses using incredible advances in science to improve life on the planet as a whole. Seeking other planets habitable for the growing human population, the spaceship Callisto, powered by an antigravitational force known as apergy, embarks on a momentous tour of the solar system. Jupiter proves to be a wilderness paradise, full of threatening beasts and landscapes of inspired beauty, where the explorers must fight for their lives. Dangers less tangible but equally deadly await the Callisto crew on Saturn, which yields profound secrets about their fate and the ultimate destiny of mankind. Thoughtful, adventurous, and replete with a dazzling array of futuristic devices, A Journey in Other Worlds is a classic, unforgettable story of utopias and humankind’s restless exploration of the stars. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/905.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/905.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/905.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/905.mobi Starman's Quest Robert Silverberg http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3493 en 1958 Novels Science Fiction The Lexman Spacedrive gave man the stars—but at a fantastic price. Interstellar exploration, colonization, and trade became things of reality. The benefits to Earth were enormous. But because of the Fitzgerald Contraction, a man who shipped out to space could never live a normal life on Earth again. Travelling at speeds close to that of light, spacemen lived at an accelerated pace. A nine-year trip to Alpha Centauri and back seemed to take only six weeks to men on a spaceship. When they returned, their friends and relatives had aged enormously in comparison, old customs had changed, even the language was different. So they did the only thing they could do. They formed a guild of Spacers, and lived their entire lives on the starships, raised their families there, and never set foot outside their own Enclave during their landings on Earth. They grew to despise Earthers, and the Earthers grew to despise them in turn. There was no logical reason for it, except that they were—different. That was enough. But not all Starmen liked being different. Alan Donnell loved space, and the ship, and life aboard it. His father, Captain of the Valhalla, lived for nothing but the traditions of the Spacers. But his twin brother, Steve, couldn't stand it, and so he jumped ship. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3493.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3493.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3493.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3493.mobi The Last Man Mary Shelley http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1347 urn:isbn:0192838652 en 1826 Novels Science Fiction A futuristic story of tragic love and of the gradual extermination of the human race by plague, The Last Man is Mary Shelley's most important novel after Frankenstein. With intriguing portraits of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron, the novel offers a vision of the future that expresses a reaction against Romanticism, and demonstrates the failure of the imagination and of art to redeem the doomed characters. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1347.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1347.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1347.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1347.mobi City at World's End Edmond Moore Hamilton http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2357 urn:isbn:1449127584 en 1951 Novels Science Fiction The pleasant little American city of Middletown is the first target in an atomic war - but instead of blowing Middletown to smithereens, the super-hydrogen bomb blows it right off the map - to somewhere else! First there is the new thin coldness of the air, the blazing corona and dullness of the sun, the visibility of the stars in high daylight. Then comes the inhabitant's terrifying discovery that Middletown is a twentieth-century oasis of paved streets and houses in a desolate brown world without trees, without water, apparently without life, in the unimaginably far-distant future. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2357.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2357.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2357.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2357.mobi A Voyage to Arcturus David Lindsay http://www.feedbooks.com/book/901 urn:isbn:0803280041 en 1920 Novels Science Fiction A stunning achievement in speculative fiction, A Voyage to Arcturus has inspired, enchanted, and unsettled readers for decades. It is simultaneously an epic quest across one of the most unusual and brilliantly depicted alien worlds ever conceived, a profoundly moving journey of discovery into the metaphysical heart of the universe, and a shockingly intimate excursion into what makes us human and unique. After a strange interstellar journey, Maskull, a man from Earth, awakens alone in a desert on the planet Tormance, seared by the suns of the binary star Arcturus. As he journeys northward, guided by a drumbeat, he encounters a world and its inhabitants like no other, where gender is a victory won at dear cost; where landscape and emotion are drawn into an accursed dance; where heroes are killed, reborn, and renamed; and where the cosmological lures of Shaping, who may be God, torment Maskull in his astonishing pilgrimage. At the end of his arduous and increasingly mystical quest waits a dark secret and an unforgettable revelation. A Voyage to Arcturus was the first novel by writer David Lindsay (1878–1945), and it remains one of the most revered classics of science fiction. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/901.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/901.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/901.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/901.mobi A Martian Odyssey Stanley Grauman Weinbaum http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2244 urn:isbn:1846770602 en 1934 Short Fiction Science Fiction This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2244.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2244.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2244.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2244.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 Iron Heel Jack London http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2381 en 1908 Novels Science Fiction Politics The Iron Heel is a dystopian novel by American writer Jack London, first published in 1908. Generally considered to be "the earliest of the modern Dystopian," it chronicles the rise of an oligarchic tyranny in the United States. It is arguably the novel in which Jack London's socialist views are most explicitly on display. A forerunner of soft science fiction novels and stories of the 1960s and 1970s, the book stresses future changes in society and politics while paying much less attention to technological changes. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2381.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2381.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2381.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2381.mobi Almuric Robert Ervin Howard http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2597 urn:isbn:1601250436 en 1939 Novels Science Fiction Fantasy The novel is a planetary romance in which Esau Cairn is transported from Earth to the planet Almuric where he fights apelike humans, winged demons, and other monsters. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2597.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2597.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2597.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2597.mobi The Heads of Cerberus Francis Stevens http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2580 urn:isbn:B000FC1QUQ en 1919 Novels Science Fiction This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2580.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2580.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2580.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2580.mobi Star Hunter Andre Alice Norton http://www.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://www.feedbooks.com/book/861.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/861.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/861.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/861.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 A Trip to Venus John Munro http://www.feedbooks.com/book/890 urn:isbn:1428013318 en 1897 Novels Science Fiction When evening came I turned to the books, and gathered a great deal about the fiery planet, including the fact that a stout man, a Daniel Lambert, could jump his own height there with the greatest ease. Very likely; but I was seeking information on the strange light, and as I could not find any I resolved to walk over and consult my old friend, Professor Gazen, the well-known astronomer, who had made his mark by a series of splendid researches with the spectroscope into the constitution of the sun and other celestial bodies. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/890.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/890.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/890.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/890.mobi Plague Ship Andre Alice Norton http://www.feedbooks.com/book/858 urn:isbn:1406835560 en 1956 Novels Science Fiction A fast-moving suspense tale, full of unusual detail and unexpected turns. Several highlights make the book really shine: the sunset gorp hunt on the reefs of an oily sea; a raid on an asteroid's emergency station; and a landing in the Big Burn, resulting in an encounter with the mutant life-forms that reside there... Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/858.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/858.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/858.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/858.mobi Breaking Point James Edwin Gunn http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2586 urn:isbn:B000N01NNA en 1953 Short Fiction Science Fiction The ship was proof against any test, but the men inside her could be strained and warped, individually and horribly. Unfortunately, while the men knew that, they couldn't really believe it. The Aliens could--and did. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2586.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2586.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2586.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2586.mobi A Place so Foreign Cory Doctorow http://www.feedbooks.com/book/660 urn:isbn:1568582862 en 2000 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/660.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/660.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/660.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/660.mobi 2 B R O 2 B Kurt Vonnegut http://www.feedbooks.com/book/912 en 1962 Short Fiction Science Fiction Humor/Satire 2 B R 0 2 B is a satiric short story that imagines life (and death) in a future world where aging has been “cured” and population control is mandated and administered by the government. 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