The Defenders Philip K. Dick http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3892 en 1953 Short Fiction Science Fiction No weapon has ever been frightful enough to put a stop to war--perhaps because we never before had any that thought for themselves! Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3892.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3892.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3892.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3892.mobi The Crystal Crypt Philip K. Dick http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3878 en 1954 Short Fiction Science Fiction Stark terror ruled the Inner-Flight ship on that last Mars-Terra run. For the black-clad Leiters were on the prowl ... and the grim red planet was not far behind. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3878.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3878.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3878.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3878.mobi Beyond the Door Philip K. Dick http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3863 en 1954 Short Fiction Science Fiction Did you ever wonder at the lonely life the bird in a cuckoo clock has to lead—that it might possibly love and hate just as easily as a real animal of flesh and blood? Philip Dick used that idea for this brief fantasy tale. We're sure that after reading it you'll give cuckoo clocks more respect. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3863.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3863.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3863.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3863.mobi Beyond Lies the Wub Philip K. Dick http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3812 en 1952 Short Fiction Science Fiction The slovenly wub might well have said: Many men talk like philosophers and live like fools. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3812.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3812.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3812.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3812.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 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 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 Arm of the Law Harry Harrison http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4017 en 1958 Short Fiction Science Fiction At one time—this was before the Robot Restriction Laws—they'd even allowed them to make their own decisions.... Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4017.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4017.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4017.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4017.mobi Acid Bath Vaseleos Garson http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3999 en 1952 Short Fiction Science Fiction The starways' Lone Watcher had expected some odd developments in his singular, nerve-fraught job on the asteroid. But nothing like the weird twenty-one-day liquid test devised by the invading Steel-Blues. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3999.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3999.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3999.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3999.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... Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/976.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/976.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/976.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/976.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 Burn James Patrick Kelly http://www.feedbooks.com/book/651 urn:isbn:1892391279 en 2005 Novels Science Fiction Colonization is the theme of this exciting, complex page-turner that provides a provocative and entertaining look at Thoreau's classic eco-text Walden. Eccentric billionaire Jack Winter has bought the planet Beekman's Pea, renamed it Walden, and created a utopia in which members renounce the technologies of human civilization. Marginalized by these newcomers, the planet's original inhabitants are resisting the colony's dominance by setting fires to Walden's artificial ecology. A member of Walden, Prosper Gregory Leung is a veteran firefighter who believes in protecting Winter's utopian vision, but when he is wounded, he begins to learn of the terrible price that the people of Walden are paying for their paradise. Interwoven with themes of environmental responsibility, political struggle, and courage, this adventure novel nimbly combines political and social relevance with a flawless and gripping narrative from a veteran science fiction author. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/651.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/651.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/651.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/651.mobi No Pets Allowed Monette A. Cummings http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4001 en 1957 Short Fiction Science Fiction He didn't know how he could have stood the four months there alone. She was company and one could talk to her ... Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4001.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4001.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4001.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4001.mobi The Mathematicians Arthur Feldman http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4002 en 1953 Short Fiction Science Fiction We gave this story to a very competent, and very pretty gal artist. We said, "Read this carefully, dream on it, and come up with an illustration." A week later, she returned with the finished drawing. "The hero," she said. We did a double take. "Hey! That's not the hero." She looked us straight in the eye. "Can you prove it?" She had us. We couldn't, and she left hurriedly to go home and cook dinner for her family. And what were they having? Frog legs—what else? Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4002.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4002.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4002.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4002.mobi Keep Out Frederic Brown http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4000 en 1954 Short Fiction Science Fiction With no more room left on Earth, and with Mars hanging up there empty of life, somebody hit on the plan of starting a colony on the Red Planet. It meant changing the habits and physical structure of the immigrants, but that worked out fine. In fact, every possible factor was covered--except one of the flaws of human nature.... Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4000.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4000.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4000.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4000.mobi The Art of War Sun Tzu http://www.feedbooks.com/book/168 urn:isbn:0762415983 en -514 Non-Fiction Philosophy War The Art of War is a Chinese military treatise that was written during the 6th century BC by Sun Tzu. Composed of 13 chapters, each of which is devoted to one aspect of warfare, it has long been praised as the definitive work on military strategies and tactics of its time. The Art of War is one of the oldest books on military strategy in the world. It is the first and one of the most successful works on strategy and has had a huge influence on Eastern and Western military thinking, business tactics, and beyond. Sun Tzu was the first to recognize the importance of positioning in strategy and that position is affected both by objective conditions in the physical environment and the subjective opinions of competitive actors in that environment. He taught that strategy was not planning in the sense of working through a to-do list, but rather that it requires quick and appropriate responses to changing conditions. Planning works in a controlled environment, but in a competitive environment, http://www.feedbooks.com/book/168.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/168.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/168.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/168.mobi The Trial Franz Kafka http://www.feedbooks.com/book/9 urn:isbn:0805210407 en 1925 Novels Horror Fantasy The Trial (German: Der Process) is a novel by Franz Kafka about a character named Josef K., who awakens one morning and, for reasons never revealed, is arrested and prosecuted for an unspecified crime. According to Kafka's friend Max Brod, the author never finished the novel and wrote in his will that it was to be destroyed. After his death, Brod went against Kafka's wishes and edited The Trial into what he felt was a coherent novel and had it published in 1925. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/9.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/9.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/9.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/9.mobi Deathworld Harry Harrison http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3749 urn:isbn:1932100415 en 1960 Novels Science Fiction Adventure Some planet in the galaxy must—by definition—be the toughest, meanest, nastiest of all. If Pyrrus wasn't it ... it was an awfully good approximation! Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3749.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3749.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3749.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3749.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 Cogito, Ergo Sum John Foster West http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4003 en 1954 Short Fiction Science Fiction Are the Spirit and the Flesh one and the same thing? Or are they separate entities, dependent and at the same time independent of each other? Perhaps some great Cosmic Law holds this secret. But the one Universal Element that we can depend upon, apparently, is The Lucky Accident. A warped instant in Space--and two egos are separated from their bodies and lost in a lonely abyss. 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