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 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 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 Cat and Mouse Ralph Williams http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2584 urn:isbn:B001330SPK en 1959 Short Fiction Science Fiction The Warden needed to have a certain very obnoxious pest eliminated ... and he knew just the pest-eradicator he needed.... Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2584.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2584.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2584.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2584.mobi The Circuit Riders R.C. FitzPatrick http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2579 urn:isbn:B0013RLQDO en 1962 Short Fiction Science Fiction On the Board, they were just little lights that glowed. But out there in the night of the city-jungle, they represented human passions-- virulent emotions-- and deadly crimes-to-be ... 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Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2587.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2587.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2587.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2587.mobi The Chamber of Life Green Peyton Wertenbaker http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2585 en 1929 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/2585.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2585.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2585.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2585.mobi The Case of Summerfield William Henry Rhodes http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2583 en 1871 Short Fiction Science Fiction http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2583.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2583.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2583.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2583.mobi The Cosmic Expense Account Cyril Michael Kornbluth http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2574 en 1955 Short Fiction Science Fiction Professor Konrad Leuten, author of the bestselling book Functional Epistemology is on a dangerous mission to undo the work of one reader who has taken his theories a little too far. His defense? Stand on one leg and thumb his nose. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2574.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2574.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2574.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2574.mobi Born Again Alfred William Lawson http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2589 en 1904 Novels Science Fiction A strangely bad Utopian fantasy written while Lawson was a professional baseball player. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2589.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2589.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2589.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2589.mobi 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 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 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 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 This Crowded Earth Robert Bloch http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2564 urn:isbn:B0019OO8SQ en 1958 Novels Science Fiction A frighteningly possible future world as seen through the strange and demonic imagination of Robert Bloch. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2564.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2564.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2564.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2564.mobi Creatures of Vibration Harl Vincent http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2575 urn:isbn:B000XD7UXO en 1932 Short Fiction Science Fiction The Vagabonds of Space are cast into the hands of the vibration-maddened natives of Titan, satellite of Saturn. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2575.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2575.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2575.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2575.mobi Equality Edward Bellamy http://www.feedbooks.com/book/824 urn:isbn:1410100383 en 1897 Novels Science Fiction Politics The sequel to Bellamy's Looking Backward, his utopian novel of several years earlier, where a young man falls asleep in 1887 and wakes in a utopian year 2000, where all social ills are solved. This novel continues the thread of his utopian vision. Equality begins when Julian West returns to the year 2000 to continue his education. The book describes an ideal society in that year. Equality was published just before his death and was not received nearly as well as Looking Backward. Bellamy was born in 1850 in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts. As a young man he studied law and entered the bar, but never practiced. He was a journalist and social theorist as well as a novelist. Bellamy's theory of public capitalism would greatly affect American political thought in the 20th century. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/824.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/824.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/824.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/824.mobi Golf in the Year 2000, or, What we are coming to J. McCullough http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1412 en 1892 Novels Science Fiction Written by a mysterious 19th-century Scottish golfer named J. (or Jay) McCullough, using the pseudonym "J.A.C.K.," it also predicted the advent of golf carts, golf professionals and international golf competitions. The book chronicles the tale of one Alexander J. Gibson, who falls into a deep sleep in 1892. He awakens 108 years later into a world, where, among other wonders, women dress like men and hold top positions in society. They also do all the work while the men play golf full time! Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1412.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1412.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1412.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1412.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 Criminal Negligence Jesse Francis McComas http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2576 urn:isbn:B00132ZEWS en 1955 Short Fiction Science Fiction Somebody was going to have to be left behind ... and who it would be was perfectly obvious.... Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2576.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2576.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2576.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2576.mobi