The Status Civilization Robert Sheckley http://www.feedbooks.com/book/874 urn:isbn:1434499995 en 1960 Novels Science Fiction Will Barrent had no memory of his crime . . . but he found himself shipped across space to a brutal prison-planet. On Omega, his only chance to advance himself -- and stay alive -- is to commit an endless series of violent crimes. The average inmate's life expectancy from time of arrival is three years. Can Barrett survive, escape, and return to Earth to clear his name? 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We find traces of man-like things--but, suddenly, man appears, far too much developed to be the "next step" in a well-linked chain of evolutionary evidence. Perhaps something like the events of this story furnishes the answer to the riddle. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/372.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/372.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/372.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/372.mobi Golf in the Year 2000, or, What we are coming to J. McCullough http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1412 en 1892 Novels Science Fiction Written by a mysterious 19th-century Scottish golfer named J. (or Jay) McCullough, using the pseudonym "J.A.C.K.," it also predicted the advent of golf carts, golf professionals and international golf competitions. The book chronicles the tale of one Alexander J. Gibson, who falls into a deep sleep in 1892. He awakens 108 years later into a world, where, among other wonders, women dress like men and hold top positions in society. They also do all the work while the men play golf full time! Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1412.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1412.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1412.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1412.mobi Time and Time Again Henry Beam Piper http://www.feedbooks.com/book/390 en 1947 Short Fiction Science Fiction To upset the stable, mighty stream of time would probably take an enormous concentration of energy. And it's not to be expected that a man would get a second chance at life. But an atomic might accomplish both-- Time and Time again. 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Wells http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1518 en 1888 Short Fiction Science Fiction This brief story begins with a third-person account of the arrival of a mysterious inventor to the peaceful Welsh town of Llyddwdd. Dr. Nebogipfel takes up residence in a house sorely neglected after the deaths of its former inhabitants. The main bulk of the story concerns the apprehension of the simple rural folk who eventually storm the inventor's "devilish" workshop in an effort to repay supposed witchery. Nebogipfel escapes with one other person—the sympathetic Reverend Elijah Ulysses Cook—in what is later revealed to be a time machine. 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He's doing the best work of his career and can guarantee that the system will be, without a question, the most counterintuitive, user-hostile piece of software ever pushed forth onto the world. Why? Because Art is an industrial saboteur. He may live in London and work for an EU telecommunications megacorp, but Art's real home is the Eastern Standard Tribe. Instant wireless communication puts everyone in touch with everyone else, twenty-four hours a day. But one thing hasn't changed: the need for sleep. The world is slowly splintering into Tribes held together by a common time zone, less than family and more than nations. Art is working to humiliate the Greenwich Mean Tribe to the benefit of his own people. But in a world without boundaries, nothing can be taken for granted-not happiness, not money, and most certainly not love. Which might explain why Art finds himself stranded on the roof of an insane asylum outside Boston, debating whether to push a pencil into his brain.... 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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/335.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/335.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/335.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/335.mobi And All the Earth a Grave Carroll M. Capps http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2012 en 1963 Short Fiction Science Fiction There's nothing wrong with dying--it just hasn't ever had the proper sales pitch! Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2012.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2012.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2012.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2012.mobi Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1231 urn:isbn:0156628708 en 1925 Novels Mrs Dalloway (published on 14 May 1925) is a novel by Virginia Woolf that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway in post-World War I England. Mrs Dalloway continues to be one of Woolf's best-known novels. Created from two short stories, "Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street" and the unfinished "The Prime Minister", the novel's story is of Clarissa's preparations for a party of which she is to be hostess. With the interior perspective of the novel, the story travels forwards and back in time, and in and out of the characters' minds, to construct a complete image of Clarissa's life and of the inter-war social structure. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1231.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1231.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1231.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1231.mobi