The Hunted Heroes Robert Silverberg http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2540 en 1956 Short Fiction Science Fiction The planet itself was tough enough--barren, desolate, forbidding; enough to stop the most adventurous and dedicated. But they had to run head-on against a mad genius who had a motto: Death to all Terrans! Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2540.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2540.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2540.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2540.mobi Postmark Ganymede Robert Silverberg http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2539 en 1957 Short Fiction Science Fiction Consider the poor mailman of the future. To "sleet and snow and dead of night"--things that must not keep him from his appointed rounds--will be added, sub-zero void, meteors, and planets that won't stay put. Maybe he'll decide that for six cents an ounce it just ain't worth it. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2539.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2539.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2539.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2539.mobi The Happy Unfortunate Robert Silverberg http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2493 urn:isbn:B0017R5NHK en 1957 Short Fiction Science Fiction Dekker, back from space, found great physical changes in the people of Earth; changes that would have horrified him five years before. But now, he wanted to be like the rest--even if he had to lose an eye and both ears to do it. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2493.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2493.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2493.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2493.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. 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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/860.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/860.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/860.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/860.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 Last Evolution John Wood Campbell http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3496 en 1932 Short Fiction Science Fiction I am the last of my type existing today in all the Solar System. I, too, am the last existing who, in memory, sees the struggle for this System, and in memory I am still close to the Center of Rulers, for mine was the ruling type then. But I will pass soon, and with me will pass the last of my kind, a poor inefficient type, but yet the creators of those who are now, and will be, long after I pass forever. So I am setting down my record on the mentatype. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3496.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3496.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3496.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3496.mobi Empire Clifford Donald Simak http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2510 urn:isbn:B000WCWVG2 en 1951 Novels 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/2510.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2510.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2510.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2510.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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Last and First Men William Olaf Stapledon http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2028 urn:isbn:0486219623 en 1930 Novels Science Fiction Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future is a science fiction novel written in 1930 by the British author Olaf Stapledon. A work of unprecedented scale in the genre, it describes the history of humanity from the present onwards across two billion years and eighteen distinct human species, of which our own is the first and most primitive. Stapledon's conception of history is based on the Hegelian Dialectic, following a repetitive cycle with many varied civilizations rising from and descending back into savagery over millions of years, but it is also one of progress, as the later civilizations rise to far greater heights than the first. The book anticipates genetic engineering, and the idea of superminds composed of many telepathically-linked individuals. A controversial part of the book depicts humans, in the far-off future, escaping the dying Earth and settling on Venus—in the process totally exterminating its native inhabitants, a marine intelligent species. Stapledon's book has been interpreted by some as condoning such interplanetary genocide as a justified act if necessary for racial survival, though a number of Stapledon's partisans denied that such was his intention, arguing instead that Stapledon was merely showing that although mankind had advanced in a number of ways in the future, at bottom it still possessed the same capacity for savagery as it has always had. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2028.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2028.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2028.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2028.mobi Lease to Doomsday Lee Archer http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3481 en 1956 Short Fiction Science Fiction The twins were a rare team indeed. They wanted to build a printing plant on a garbage dump. When Muldoon asked them why, their answer was entirely logical: ''Because we live 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/3481.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3481.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3481.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3481.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 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 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