Doctor Who and the Empire of Glass Andy Lane http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2664 urn:isbn:0426204573 en 1995 Novels Science Fiction Humor/Satire Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2664.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2664.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2664.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2664.mobi Doctor Who and the Scales of Injustice Gary Russell http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2668 urn:isbn:0426204778 en 1996 Novels Science Fiction Humor/Satire The Silurians come up against a sinister government department. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2668.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2668.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2668.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2668.mobi Doctor Who: Human Nature Paul Cornell http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2934 urn:isbn:0426204433 en 1995 Novels Science Fiction Humor/Satire "On the eve of the First World War, John Smith teaches at an English public school. But is he all that he seems?" Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2934.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2934.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2934.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2934.mobi Doctor Who: Nightshade Mark Gatiss http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2937 urn:isbn:0426203763 en 1992 Novels Science Fiction Humor/Satire Monsters of the mind kill all in their path. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2937.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2937.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2937.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2937.mobi Behemoth Peter Watts http://www.feedbooks.com/book/973 urn:isbn:0765307219 en 2007 Novels Science Fiction Lenie Clarke-rifter, avenger, amphibious deep-sea cyborg-has destroyed the world. Once exploited for her psychological addiction to dangerous environments, she emerged in the wake of a nuclear blast to serve up vendetta from the ocean floor. The horror she unleashed-an ancient, apocalyptic microbe called ßehemoth- has been free in the world for half a decade now, devouring the biosphere from the bottom up. North America lies in ruins beneath the thumb of an omnipotent psychopath. Digital monsters have taken Clarke's name, wreaking havoc throughout the decimated remnants of something that was once called Internet. Governments have fallen across the globe; warlords and suicide cults rise from the ashes, pledging fealty to the Meltdown Madonna. All because five years ago, Lenie Clarke had a score to settle. But she has learned something in the meantime: she destroyed the world for a fallacy. Now, cowering at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, rifters and the technoindustrial "corpses" who created them hide from a world in its death throes. But they cannot hide forever: something is tracking them, down amongst the lightless cliffs and trenches of the Midatlantic Ridge. The consequences of past acts reach inexorably towards the very bottom of the world, and Lenie Clarke must finally confront the mess she made. Redemption doesn't come easy with the blood of a world on your hands. But even after five years in purgatory, Lenie Clarke is still Lenie Clarke. There will be consequences for anyone who gets in her way-and worse ones, perhaps, if she succeeds. . . . Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/973.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/973.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/973.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/973.mobi Starfish Peter Watts http://www.feedbooks.com/book/974 urn:isbn:0312868553 en 2000 Novels Science Fiction A huge international corporation has developed a facility along the Juan de Fuca Ridge at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean to exploit geothermal power. They send a bio-engineered crew--people who have been altered to withstand the pressure and breathe the seawater--down to live and work in this weird, fertile undersea darkness. Unfortunately the only people suitable for long-term employment in these experimental power stations are crazy, some of them in unpleasant ways. How many of them can survive, or will be allowed to survive, while worldwide disaster approaches from below? Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/974.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/974.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/974.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/974.mobi I, Robot Cory Doctorow http://www.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://www.feedbooks.com/book/337.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/337.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/337.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/337.mobi Little Brother Cory Doctorow http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2466 urn:isbn:0765319853 en 2008 Novels Young Readers Science Fiction Marcus, a.k.a “w1n5t0n,” is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works–and how to work the system. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitting his high school’s intrusive but clumsy surveillance systems. But his whole world changes when he and his friends find themselves caught in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco. In the wrong place at the wrong time, Marcus and his crew are apprehended by the Department of Homeland Security and whisked away to a secret prison where they’re mercilessly interrogated for days. When the DHS finally releases them, Marcus discovers that his city has become a police state where every citizen is treated like a potential terrorist. He knows that no one will believe his story, which leaves him only one option: to take down the DHS himself. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2466.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2466.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2466.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2466.mobi Postsingular Rudy Rucker http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1918 urn:isbn:0765317419 en 2007 Novels Science Fiction It all begins next year in California. A maladjusted computer industry billionaire and a somewhat crazy US President initiate a radical transformation of the world through sentient nanotechnology; sort of the equivalent of biological artificial intelligence. At first they succeed, but their plans are reversed by Chu, an autistic boy. The next time it isn't so easy to stop them. Most of the story takes place in a world after a heretofore unimaginable transformation, where all the things look the same but all the people are different (they're able to read each others' minds, for starters). Travel to and from other nearby worlds in the quantum universe is possible, so now our world is visited by giant humanoids from another quantum universe, and some of them mean to tidy up the mess we've made. Or maybe just run things. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1918.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1918.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1918.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1918.mobi Maelstrom Peter Watts http://www.feedbooks.com/book/975 urn:isbn:0312878060 en 2001 Novels Science Fiction An enormous tidal wave on the west coast of North America has just killed thousands. Lenie Clarke, in a black wetsuit, walks out of the ocean onto a Pacific Northwest beach filled with the oppressed and drugged homeless of the Asian world who have gotten only this far in their attempt to reach America. Is she a monster, or a goddess? One thing is for sure: all hell is breaking loose. This dark, fast-paced, hard SF novel returns to the story begun in Starfish: all human life is threatened by a disease (actually a primeval form of life) from the distant prehuman past. It survived only in the deep ocean rift where Clarke and her companions were stationed before the corporation that employed them tried to sterilize the threat with a secret underwater nuclear strike. But Clarke was far enough away that she was able to survive and tough enough to walk home, 300 miles across the ocean floor. She arrives carrying with her the potential death of the human race, and possessed by a desire for revenge. Maelstrom is a terrifying explosion of cyberpunk noir by a writer whose narrative, says Robert Sheckley, "drives like a futuristic locomotive." Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/975.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/975.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/975.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/975.mobi The Sleeper Awakes H. G. Wells http://www.feedbooks.com/book/593 urn:isbn:0803298188 en 1910 Novels Science Fiction The Sleeper Awakes is H. G. Wells's wildly imaginative story of London in the twenty-second century and the man who by accident becomes owner and master of the world. In 1897 a Victorian gentleman falls into a sleep from which he cannot be waked. During his two centuries of slumber he becomes the Sleeper, the most well known and powerful person in the world. All property is bequeathed to the Sleeper to be administered by a Council on his behalf. The common people, increasingly oppressed, view the Sleeper as a mythical liberator whose awakening will free them from misery. The Sleeper awakes in 2100 to a futuristic London adorned with wondrous technological trappings yet staggering under social injustice and escalating unrest. His awakening sends shock waves throughout London, from the highest meetings of the Council to the workers laboring in factories in the bowels of the city. Daring rescues and villainous treachery abound as workers and capitalists fight desperately for control of the Sleeper. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/593.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/593.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/593.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/593.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 Pagan Passions Randall Garrett Laurence Mark Janifer http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1963 urn:isbn:1434492435 en 1959 Novels Science Fiction Sexuality The Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Greece and Rome had returned to Earth -- with all their awesome powers intact. Overnight, Earth was transformed. War on any scale was outlawed, along with boom-and-bust economic cycles, and prudery. No change was more startling than the face of New York, where the Empire State Building became the Tower of Zeus. In this totally altered world, William Forrester is an acolyte of Athena, Goddess of Wisdom, and a teacher of history. Only Maya Wilson, one of his students and a worshipper of Venus, Goddess of Love, had a different sort of grading in mind. Maya is the first of the many Trials of Forrester, every bit as mighty and perilous as the Labors of Hercules. In love with Gerda Symes (like him, a devotee of Athena and a frequenter of the great Temple of Pallas Athena -- formerly known as the 42nd Street Library) and dedicated to the pleasures of the mind -- Forrester falls under the soft, compelling pressure of soft, compelling devotees of Venus and Bacchus. He's going to be in need of all the strength that he and his Goddess, the beautiful and intellectual Athena, can muster! Into this sensuous strife stride the Temple Myrmidons -- religious cops sworn to obey orders without question or hesitation -- with a pickup order for William Forrester. Where he is taken, what happens to him, and the truly fantastic discoveries he makes about himself and the Gods and Goddesses ... here are the ingredients that make up this science fiction novel of suspense, intrigue, mystery and danger! Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1963.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1963.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1963.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1963.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. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/912.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/912.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/912.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/912.mobi Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town Cory Doctorow http://www.feedbooks.com/book/260 urn:isbn:0765312808 en 2005 Novels Science Fiction Alan is a middle-aged entrepeneur in contemporary Toronto, who has devoted himself to fixing up a house in a bohemian neighborhood. This naturally brings him in contact with the house full of students and layabouts next door, including a young woman who, in a moment of stress, reveals to him that she has wings--wings, moreover, which grow back after each attempt to cut them off. Alan understands. He himself has a secret or two. His father is a mountain; his mother is a washing machine; and among his brothers are a set of Russian nesting dolls. Now two of the three nesting dolls, Edward and Frederick, are on his doorstep--well on their way to starvation, because their innermost member, George, has vanished. It appears that yet another brother, Davey, who Alan and his other siblings killed years ago, may have returned...bent on revenge. Under such circumstances it seems only reasonable for Alan to involve himself with a visionary scheme to blanket Toronto with free wireless Internet connectivity, a conspiracy spearheaded by a brilliant technopunk who builds miracles of hardware from parts scavenged from the city’s dumpsters. But Alan’s past won’t leave him alone--and Davey is only one of the powers gunning for him and all his friends. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/260.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/260.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/260.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/260.mobi When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth Cory Doctorow http://www.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://www.feedbooks.com/book/335.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/335.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/335.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/335.mobi Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom Cory Doctorow http://www.feedbooks.com/book/194 urn:isbn:076530953X en 2003 Novels Science Fiction Jules is a young man barely a century old. He's lived long enough to see the cure for death and the end of scarcity, to learn ten languages and compose three symphonies...and to realize his boyhood dream of taking up residence in Disney World.Disney World! The greatest artistic achievement of the long-ago twentieth century. Now in the keeping of a network of "ad-hocs" who keep the classic attractions running as they always have, enhanced with only the smallest high-tech touches.Now, though, the "ad hocs" are under attack. A new group has taken over the Hall of the Presidents, and is replacing its venerable audioanimatronics with new, immersive direct-to-brain interfaces that give guests the illusion of being Washington, Lincoln, and all the others. For Jules, this is an attack on the artistic purity of Disney World itself. Worse: it appears this new group has had Jules killed. This upsets him. (It's only his fourth death and revival, after all.) Now it's war.... Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/194.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/194.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/194.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/194.mobi Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions Edwin Abbott Abbott http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1596 urn:isbn:048627263X en 1884 Novels Philosophy Science Humor/Satire Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is an 1884 science fiction novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott. As a satire, Flatland offered pointed observations on the social hierarchy of Victorian culture. However, the novella's more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions; in a foreword to one of the many publications of the novella, noted science writer Isaac Asimov described Flatland as "The best introduction one can find into the manner of perceiving dimensions." As such, the novella is still popular amongst mathematics, physics and computer science students. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1596.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1596.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1596.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1596.mobi Don Quixote Miguel Cervantes http://www.feedbooks.com/book/183 urn:isbn:B001AAWVRY en 1615 Novels Humor/Satire Don Quixote, errant knight and sane madman, with the company of his faithful squire and wise fool, Sancho Panza, together roam the world and haunt readers' imaginations as they have for nearly four hundred years. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/183.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/183.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/183.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/183.mobi Blindsight Peter Watts http://www.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... 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