The Common Man Mack Reynolds http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1984 en 1963 Short Fiction Science Fiction It would, of course, take a trio of Ivory Tower scientists to conceive of tracking down that statistical entity, the Common Man, and testing out an idea on him. And only the Ivory Tower type would predict that egregiously wrongly! Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1984.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1984.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1984.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1984.mobi Adaptation Mack Reynolds http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1983 en 1960 Novels Science Fiction When a man has a great deal of knowledge, it becomes extremely easy for him to confuse "knowledge" with "wisdom" ... and forget that the antonym of "wisdom" is not "ignorance" but "folly." Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1983.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1983.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1983.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1983.mobi Subversive Mack Reynolds http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1985 en 1962 Short Fiction Science Fiction 'Subversive'' is, in essence, a negative term--it means simply ''against the existent system.'' It doesn't mean subversives all agree... 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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/2313.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2313.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2313.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2313.mobi Summit Mack Reynolds http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2312 urn:isbn:B0011W88Z0 en 1960 Short Fiction Science Fiction Almost anything, if it goes on long enough, can be reduced to, first a Routine, and then, to a Tradition. And at the point it is, obviously, Necessary. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2312.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2312.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2312.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2312.mobi No Moving Parts Murray F. Yaco http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2439 en 1960 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/2439.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2439.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2439.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2439.mobi The Players Everett B. Cole http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2405 urn:isbn:B000X3XQFU en 1955 Short Fiction Science Fiction A Playboy is someone with power, too much time on his hands, and too little sense of a goal worth achieving. And if the Playboy happens to belong to a highly advanced culture.... Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2405.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2405.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2405.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2405.mobi Alarm Clock Everett B. Cole http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2400 urn:isbn:B0012BIMPQ en 1960 Short Fiction Science Fiction Most useful high explosives, like ammonium nitrate, are enormously violent ... once they're triggered. But they will remain seemingly inert when beaten, burned, variously punished--until the particular shock required comes along.... Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2400.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2400.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2400.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2400.mobi Final Weapon Everett B. Cole http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2402 urn:isbn:B0016OL30U en 1955 Short Fiction Science Fiction The societal picture painted by Cole is mainly gray: for second and third class citizens, life is literally lived underground, at subsistence or lower, and closely monitored in all aspects. The few ruling elite, the first class citizens, enjoy personal freedoms and luxuries and exercise control over the rest, forming the basis for Cole criticism of socialist societies. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2402.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2402.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2402.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2402.mobi The Best Made Plans Everett B. Cole http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2401 urn:isbn:B0011WCQ3K en 1959 Short Fiction Science Fiction There are some people that it is extremely unwise to cross... and the fireworks start when two such people cross each other! Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2401.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2401.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2401.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2401.mobi Indirection Everett B. Cole http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2403 urn:isbn:B0016QXBCQ en 1956 Short Fiction Science Fiction The best way to keep a secret is to publish it in a quite unbelievable form--and insist that it is the truth. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2403.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2403.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2403.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2403.mobi I Was a Teen-Age Secret Weapon Richard Sabia http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2409 urn:isbn:B0011M7V9E en 1959 Short Fiction Science Fiction He could truthfully say that he never hurt anybody. You know--like the eye of a hurricane? It never hurts anybody.... Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2409.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2409.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2409.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2409.mobi Eugenics and Other Evils Gilbert Keith Chesterton http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3719 urn:isbn:1587420023 en 1922 Philosophy Essay Science Collections Politics From the introduction: "I publish these essays at the present time for a particular reason connected with the present situation; a reason which I should like briefly to emphasise and make clear. Though most of the conclusions, especially towards the end, are conceived with reference to recent events, the actual bulk of preliminary notes about the science of Eugenics were written before the war.[...]" This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3719.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3719.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3719.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3719.mobi It Can't Happen Here Sinclair Lewis http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3659 urn:isbn:045121658X en 1935 Novels Humor/Satire Politics It Can't Happen Here is a semi-satirical political novel by Sinclair Lewis published in 1935. It features newspaperman Doremus Jessup struggling against the fascist regime of President Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, who resembles Gerald B. Winrod, the Kansas evangelist whose far-right views earned him the nickname "The Jayhawk Nazi". It serves as a warning that political movements akin to Nazism can come to power in countries such as the United States when people blindly support their leaders. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3659.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3659.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3659.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3659.mobi The Big Bounce Walter Tevis http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2027 en 1958 Short Fiction Science Fiction Seeing it in action, anybody would quaver in alarm: What hath Farnsworth overwrought? Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2027.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2027.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2027.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2027.mobi Unspecialist Murray F. Yaco http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2314 en 1960 Short Fiction Science Fiction A machine can be built to do any accurately described job better than any man. The superiority of a man is that he can do an unexpected, undescribed, and emergency job... provided he hasn't been especially trained to be a machine. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2314.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2314.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2314.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2314.mobi Measure for a Loner Jim Harmon http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2458 urn:isbn:B0015SVNRU en 1959 Short Fiction Science Fiction You can measure everything these days--heat, light, gravity, reflexes, force-fields, star-drives. And now I know there even is a... Measure for a Loner. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2458.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2458.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2458.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2458.mobi History Repeats George Oliver Smith http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2361 en 1959 Short Fiction Science Fiction There are--and very probably will always be--some Terrestrials who can't, and for that matter don't want, to call their souls their own.... Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2361.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2361.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2361.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2361.mobi Instinct George Oliver Smith http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2362 en 1959 Short Fiction Science Fiction You can keep a good man down, if you've got enough headstart, are alert and persistent... so long as he limits himself to acting like a good man.... Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2362.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2362.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2362.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2362.mobi This World Must Die! Horace Brown Fyfe http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2322 en 1951 Short Fiction Science Fiction Social living requires the elimination, or at very best, the modification of many elements necessary to survival in "nature". And when an emergency arises, very often it is the person who would be considered a "criminal", in other situations, who alone is able to cope with the necessities. If we manage to eliminate "violence" from human affairs, what will we find when a need for "violence" arises—a need outside of man's artificial control of his environment? Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2322.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2322.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2322.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2322.mobi The Servant Problem Robert Franklin Young http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2388 en 1962 Short Fiction Science Fiction Selling a whole town, and doing it inconspicuously, can be a little difficult … either giving it away freely, or in a more normal sense of "selling". People don't quite believe 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/2388.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2388.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2388.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2388.mobi The Perfectionists Adam Castle http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2414 en 1960 Short Fiction Science Fiction Is there something wrong with you? Do you fail to fit in with your group? Nervous, anxious, ill-at-ease? Happy about it? Lucky you! Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2414.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2414.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2414.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2414.mobi The Glory of Ippling Helen M. Urban http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2500 urn:isbn:B0015T6CLQ en 1962 Short Fiction Science Fiction He brought them life and hope. Why wouldn't the fools take it from him? Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2500.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2500.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2500.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2500.mobi Jubilation, U.S.A. G.L. Vandenburg http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2449 en 1959 Short Fiction Science Fiction You've heard, I'm sure, about the two Martians who went into a bar, saw a jukebox flashing and glittering, and said to it, "What's a nice girl like you doing in a joint like this?" Well, here's one about two Capellans and a slot-machine.... Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2449.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2449.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2449.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2449.mobi On Handling the Data M.I. Mayfield http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2441 en 1959 Short Fiction Science Fiction Sometimes a story is best told by omission! Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2441.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2441.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2441.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2441.mobi The First One Herbert D. Kastle http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2508 urn:isbn:B0012DYK64 en 1961 Short Fiction Science Fiction The first man to return from beyond the Great Frontier may be welcomed ... but will it be as a curiosity, rather than as a hero...? Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2508.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2508.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2508.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2508.mobi Half Portions Edna Ferber http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3817 en 1920 Short Fiction Collections A collection of 9 short stories. This work was published before 1923 and is in the public domain in the USA only. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3817.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3817.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3817.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3817.mobi The Great Potlatch Riots Allen Kim Lang http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2498 urn:isbn:B0018JVUVK en 1959 Short Fiction Science Fiction Oh, leave it to the bureaucrats and they'll figure out new ways to make you buy more and more.... But there was only one way the poor consumer could rise up in his wrath. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2498.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2498.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2498.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2498.mobi