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 After the Siege Cory Doctorow http://www.feedbooks.com/book/339 urn:isbn:1560259817 en 2007 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/339.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/339.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/339.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/339.mobi The Prince of Mars Returns Philip Francis Nowlan http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2685 en 1940 Short Fiction Science Fiction Because his name is similar to that of a legendary Martian prince, whose return from the dead has long been prophesized, Hanley finds himself elected to wed a beautiful warrior maid and then lead a revolution against the Red Planet's tyrannical ruler. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2685.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2685.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2685.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2685.mobi The Airlords of Han Philip Francis Nowlan http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2512 urn:isbn:B000FCK26U en 1928 Novels Science Fiction Recovering from a gas that caused him to sleep for five hundred years, Anthony "Buck" Rogers helped an enslaved America strike its first blow for freedom against the alien Han. Now, he and beloved, warrior-woman Wilma Deering, must lead a desperate a battle to the finish against a superior foe -- using futuristic weapons such as disintegrators, jumping belts, inertron, paralysis rays, and atomic torpedoes. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2512.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2512.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2512.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2512.mobi Siddhartha Hermann Hesse http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3374 urn:isbn:0553208845 en 1922 Novels Philosophy Religion Siddhartha is an allegorical novel by Hermann Hesse which deals with the spiritual journey of an Indian boy called Siddhartha during the time of the Buddha. The book, Hesse's ninth novel, was written in German, in a simple, yet powerful and lyrical, style. It was first published in 1922, after Hesse had spent some time in India in the 1910s. It was published in the U.S. in 1951 and became influential during the 1960s. The word Siddhartha is made up of two words in the Sanskrit language, siddha (gotten) + artha (meaning or wealth). The two words together mean "one who has found meaning (of existence)" or "he who has attained his goals". The Buddha's name, before his renunciation, was Prince Siddhartha Gautama, later the Buddha. In this book, the Buddha is referred to as "Gotama". Source: Wikipedia This work was published before 1923 and is in the public domain in the USA only. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3374.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3374.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3374.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3374.mobi The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde http://www.feedbooks.com/book/6 urn:isbn:0375751513 en 1891 Novels Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is one of his most popular works. Written in Wilde's characteristically dazzling manner, full of stinging epigrams and shrewd observations, the tale of Dorian Gray's moral disintegration caused something of a scandal when it first appeared in 1890. Wilde was attacked for his decadence and corrupting influence, and a few years later the book and the aesthetic/moral dilemma it presented became issues in the trials occasioned by Wilde's homosexual liaisons, trials that resulted in his imprisonment. Of the book's value as autobiography, Wilde noted in a letter, "Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be--in other ages, perhaps." http://www.feedbooks.com/book/6.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/6.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/6.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/6.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 Armageddon 2419 AD Philip Francis Nowlan http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2684 urn:isbn:0441029396 en 1928 Novels Science Fiction In Armageddon - 2419 A.D., Buck, a victim of accidental suspended animation, awakens five hundred years later to discover America groaning under the tyranny of the villainous Han, ruling from the safety of their armored machine-cities. Falling in love with one of America's new warrior-women, Wilma Deering, Rogers soon become a central figure in using newly-developed scientific weapons - disintegrators, jumping belts, inertron, and paralysis rays - to revolt against the Han. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2684.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2684.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2684.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2684.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 The Cosmic Express Jack Williamson http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2678 urn:isbn:B001CTBGGA en 1930 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/2678.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2678.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2678.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2678.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 Hellhound of the Cosmos Clifford Donald Simak http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3274 en 1932 Short Fiction Science Fiction Horror Dimensional degeneration. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3274.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3274.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3274.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3274.mobi Project Mastodon Clifford Donald Simak http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2511 en 1955 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/2511.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2511.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2511.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2511.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 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 The Black Star Passes John Wood Campbell http://www.feedbooks.com/book/845 urn:isbn:1557429316 en 1953 Novels Science Fiction A sky pirate armed with superior weapons of his own invention.... First contact with an alien race dangerous enough to threaten the safety of two planets.... The arrival of an unseen dark sun whose attendant marauders aimed at the very end of civilization in this Solar System.... Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/845.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/845.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/845.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/845.mobi The Ultimate Weapon John Wood Campbell http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2308 en 1936 Novels Science Fiction The star Mira was unpredictably variable. Sometimes it was blazing, brilliant and hot. Other times it was oddly dim, cool, shedding little warmth on its many planets. Gresth Gkae, leader of the Mirans, was seeking a better star, one to which his "people" could migrate. That star had to be steady, reliable, with a good planetary system. And in his astronomical searching, he found Sol. With hundreds of ships, each larger than whole Terrestrial spaceports, and traveling faster than the speed of light, the Mirans set out to move in to Solar regions and take over. And on Earth there was nothing which would be capable of beating off this incredible armada—until Buck Kendall stumbled upon THE ULTIMATE WEAPON. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2308.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2308.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2308.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2308.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 The Men in the back room at the country club Rudy Rucker http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2621 en 2005 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/2621.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2621.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2621.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2621.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 The Night Life of the Gods Thorne Smith http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1498 urn:isbn:0375753060 en 1931 Novels Humor/Satire This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1498.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1498.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1498.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1498.mobi Animal Farm George Orwell http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1167 urn:isbn:1854597892 en 1945 Short Fiction Politics Animal Farm is a novella by George Orwell, and is the most famous satirical allegory of Soviet totalitarianism. Published in 1945, the book reflects events leading up to and during the Stalin era before World War II. Orwell, a democratic socialist, and a member of the Independent Labour Party for many years, was a critic of Joseph Stalin, and was suspicious of Moscow-directed Stalinism after his experiences with the NKVD during the Spanish Civil War. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1167.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1167.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1167.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1167.mobi 1984 George Orwell http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1166 urn:isbn:0452262933 en 1949 Novels Science Fiction Politics Nineteen Eighty-Four (also titled 1984), by George Orwell (the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair), is a 1949 English novel about life under a futuristic totalitarian regime in the year 1984. It tells the story of Winston Smith, a functionary at the Ministry of Truth, whose work consists of editing historical accounts to fit the government's policies. The book has major significance for its vision of an all-knowing government which uses pervasive and constant surveillance of the populace, insidious and blatant propaganda, and brutal control over its citizens. The book had a substantial impact both in literature and on the perception of public surveillance, inspiring such terms as 'Big Brother' and 'Orwellian'. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1166.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1166.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1166.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1166.mobi Candide Voltaire http://www.feedbooks.com/book/709 urn:isbn:0553211668 en 1759 Novels Philosophy Candide, ou l'Optimisme (1759) is a French satire by the Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire, English translations of which have been titled Candide: Or, All for the Best (1759); Candide: Or, The Optimist (1762); and Candide: Or, Optimism (1947). The novella begins with a young man, Candide, who is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism (or simply optimism) by his tutor, Pangloss. The work describes the abrupt cessation of this existence, followed by Candide's slow, painful disillusionment as he witnesses and experiences great hardships in the world. Voltaire concludes with Candide, if not outright rejecting optimism, advocating an enigmatic precept, "we must cultivate our garden", in lieu of the Leibnizian mantra of Pangloss, "all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds". http://www.feedbooks.com/book/709.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/709.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/709.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/709.mobi The Master Mind of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1213 urn:isbn:0345334248 en 1927 Novels Science Fiction This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1213.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1213.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1213.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1213.mobi Synthetic Men of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1216 urn:isbn:0345339304 en 1939 Novels Science Fiction This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1216.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1216.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1216.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1216.mobi John Carter and the Giant of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1217 urn:isbn:1846772133 en 1940 Novels Science Fiction This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1217.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1217.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1217.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1217.mobi Swords of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1215 urn:isbn:0345235851 en 1934 Novels Science Fiction This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1215.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1215.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1215.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1215.mobi