http://www.feedbooks.com/list/183 Classic Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror and Speculative Literature. Thuvia Maid of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs http://www.feedbooks.com/book/437 urn:isbn:0441061680 en 1920 Novels Science Fiction Adventure This installment shifts focus from John Carter and Dejah Thoris, protagonists of the first three books in the series, to their son Carthoris, prince of Helium, and to Thuvia, princess of Ptarth, and follows Carthoris' efforts to win the heart of Thuvia, who will have nothing to do with him. When Thuvia is kidnapped Carthoris is presented with an opportunity -- throw in an airship battle, lost cities, savage creatures, and the fabulous phantom bowmen of Lothar, and you have thrills, chills, and high adventure of the best kind. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/437.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/437.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/437.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/437.mobi The Boats of the 'Glen-Carrig' William Hope Hodgson http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2425 en 1907 Novels Horror This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2425.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2425.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2425.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2425.mobi The Ghost Pirates William Hope Hodgson http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2427 urn:isbn:1604245352 en 1909 Novels Horror Ghost Stories This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2427.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2427.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2427.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2427.mobi Carnacki, The Ghost Finder William Hope Hodgson http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2426 urn:isbn:1605970921 en 1912 Novels Crime/Mystery Horror Ghost Stories Detective stories in which the great Thomas Carnacki investigates the supernatural using scientific tools, such as photography, and tools that are augmented by theories of the supernatural, such as the electric pentacle, which uses vacuum tubes to repel supernatural forces. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2426.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2426.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2426.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2426.mobi The House on the Borderland William Hope Hodgson http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2418 urn:isbn:1605971669 en 1907 Novels Science Fiction Horror Hodgson wrote a trilogy consisting of Date 1965 Modern Warfare, The House on the Borderland, and The Ghost Pirates. The setting for The House on the Borderland is an ancient house in a lonely part of Ireland, where an old man lives alone with his sister and his pets. His diary is found and it tells the story of a huge cavern below the house filled with white pig like monsters. The old man has had to flight these creatures. He then sees his house in an alternate space-time plain that is isolated from the rest of his world. This haunting tale conveys intense isolations and loneliness. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2418.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2418.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2418.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2418.mobi The Night Land William Hope Hodgson http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2417 urn:isbn:1605971685 en 1912 Novels Science Fiction Horror Fantasy The Sun has gone out: the Earth is lit only by the glow of residual vulcanism. The last few millions of the human race are gathered together in a gigantic metal pyramid, the Last Redoubt, under siege from unknown forces and Powers outside in the dark. These are held back by a Circle of energy, known as the "air clog," powered from the Earth's internal energy. For millennia, vast living shapes - the Watchers - have waited in the darkness near the pyramid: it is thought they are waiting for the inevitable time when the Circle's power finally weakens and dies. Other living things have been seen in the darkness beyond, some of unknown origins, and others that may once have been human. To leave the protection of the Circle means almost certain death, or worse, but as the story commences, the narrator establishes mind contact with an inhabitant of another, forgotten, Redoubt, and sets off into the darkness to find her. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2417.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2417.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2417.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2417.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 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 Star Maker William Olaf Stapledon http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2029 urn:isbn:0819566934 en 1937 Novels Science Fiction Widely regarded as one of the true classics of science fiction, Star Maker is a poetic and deeply philosophical work. The story details the mental journey of an unnamed narrator who is transported not only to other worlds but also other galaxies and parallel universes, until he eventually becomes part of the "cosmic mind." First published in 1937, Olaf Stapledon's descriptions of alien life are a political commentary on human life in the turbulent inter-war years. The book challenges preconceived notions of intelligence and awareness, and ultimately argues for a broadened perspective that would free us from culturally ingrained thought and our inevitable anthropomorphism. This is the first scholarly edition of a book that influenced such writers as C.S. Lewis and Arthur C. Clarke and which Jorge Luis Borges called "a prodigious novel." This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2029.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2029.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2029.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2029.mobi The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath Howard Phillips Lovecraft http://www.feedbooks.com/book/247 urn:isbn:0345337794 en 1943 Short Fiction Horror Randolph Carter dreams three times of a majestic sunset city, but each time he is abruptly snatched away before he can see it up close. When he prays to the gods of dream to reveal the whereabouts of the phantasmal city, they do not answer, and his dreams of the city stop altogether. Undaunted, Carter resolves to go to Kadath, where the gods live, to beseech them in person. However, no one has ever been to Kadath and none even knows how to get there. In dream, Randolph Carter descends "the seventy steps to the cavern of flame" and speaks of his plan to the priests Nasht and Kaman-Thah, whose temple borders the Dreamlands. The priests warn Carter of the great danger of his quest and suggest that the gods withdrew his vision of the city on purpose. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/247.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/247.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/247.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/247.mobi The King in Yellow Robert William Chambers http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1376 urn:isbn:0486437507 en 1895 Short Fiction Horror Collections This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1376.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1376.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1376.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1376.mobi