South Sea Tales Jack London http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3181 en 1911 Short Fiction Adventure Collections Darker Pacific tales, including "Mauki" and "The Terrible Solomans." This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3181.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3181.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3181.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3181.mobi The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allan Poe http://www.feedbooks.com/book/772 urn:isbn:1420927035 en 1839 Short Fiction Horror The tale opens with the unnamed narrator arriving at the house of his friend, Roderick Usher, having received a letter from him in a distant part of the country complaining of an illness and asking for his comfort. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/772.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/772.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/772.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/772.mobi The Delegate from Venus Henry Slesar http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2559 urn:isbn:B0018DXCQM en 1958 Short Fiction Science Fiction Everybody was waiting to see what the delegate from Venus looked like. And all they got for their patience was the biggest surprise since David clobbered Goliath. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2559.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2559.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2559.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2559.mobi Long Ago, Far Away Murray Leinster http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2223 en 1959 Novels Science Fiction The strange visitors had landed. Why had they come, and what unknown terror would they bring upon our world? Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2223.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2223.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2223.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2223.mobi The Aliens Murray Leinster http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2221 en 1959 Short Fiction Science Fiction The human race was expanding through the galaxy... and so, they knew, were the Aliens. When two expanding empires meet... war is inevitable. Or is 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/2221.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2221.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2221.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2221.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 The Mantooth Christopher Leadem http://www.feedbooks.com/book/893 en 2000 Novels Science Fiction Fantasy Ten thousand years after nuclear holocaust, Earth has reverted to the savage garden, and Man to his Neanderthal roots. Yet a man-child is born, fully human, and a young woman wakes to find the world she knew is gone. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/893.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/893.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/893.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/893.mobi Plug Your Book! Online Book Marketing for Authors, Book Publicity through Social Networking Steve Weber http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/2810 en 2007 Word of mouth is the only thing that can make a book really successful. Until recently, this required “pull”—connections with powerful allies in the publishing food chain. Today, creative writers can connect with readers directly. The only requirements are a link to the Internet and the will to plug in. -- Get massive exposure for your book, no special computer skills needed -- trade published or self published, fiction or nonfiction -- Discover why authors fail with paid advertising, pay-per-click, fee-based reviews, and "bestseller" campaigns -- Blog to connect with readers, driving them to Amazon and bookstores -- Boost your visibility with Google, use MySpace for viral marketing -- Ignite word of mouth with Web social networks -- Capitalize on peer content and "amateur" book reviews Here's what the experts say about this book: "A wealth of ideas for making your book stand out, including many techniques for Internet buzz you won't find elsewhere." -- Jane Corn, Amazon.com Top Reviewer "I spent two years building up skills to market my books Earthcore and Ancestor online, and I can tell you right now that Plug Your Book would have saved me MONTHS of time. I bought this book just to make sure I wasn't missing anything, but it blew me away." -- Scott Sigler, # 1 bestselling author "An amazingly rich collection of cutting-edge promotional tactics and strategies. Makes most other books about online publicity look sickly." -- Aaron Shepard, author: Aiming at Amazon "...The one book every author needs to read. I don't care if you're writing a computer book, a science fiction novel or the next great self-help guide, you need to get copy of Steve Weber's Plug Your Book!" - Joe Wikert, executive publisher, John Wiley & Sons book marketing book publishing marketing publishing book promotion self publishing print on demand book publicity blogging http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/2810.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/2810.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/2810.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/2810.mobi Warning from the Stars Ron Cocking http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2609 urn:isbn:B000W7LVOU en 1959 Short Fiction Science Fiction Don't believe in flying saucers? Neither do we, but that doesn't necessarily mean that there can be no other way for Earth to get its last.... Warning from the Stars! Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2609.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2609.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2609.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2609.mobi Thus Spake Zarathustra Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche http://www.feedbooks.com/book/172 urn:isbn:1845882423 en 1885 Non-Fiction Philosophy Thus Spoke Zarathustra (German: Also sprach Zarathustra, sometimes translated Thus Spake Zarathustra), subtitled A Book for All and None (Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen), is a written work by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, composed in four parts between 1883 and 1885. Much of the work deals with ideas such as the "eternal recurrence of the same", the parable on the "death of God", and the "prophecy" of the Overman, which were first introduced in The Gay Science. Described by Nietzsche himself as "the deepest ever written", the book is a dense and esoteric treatise on philosophy and morality, featuring as protagonist a fictionalized Zarathustra. A central irony of the text is that the style of the Bible is used by Nietzsche to present ideas of his which fundamentally oppose Judaeo-Christian morality and tradition. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/172.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/172.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/172.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/172.mobi In the Orbit of Saturn Roman Frederick Starzl http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3972 en 1931 Short Fiction Science Fiction Disguised as a voluntary prisoner on a pirate space ship, an I. F. P. man penetrates the mystery of the dreaded "Solar Scourge." Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3972.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3972.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3972.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3972.mobi ePublish: Self-Publish Fast and Profitably for Kindle, iPhone, CreateSpace and Print on Demand Steve Weber http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/5524 en 2009 Learn how to publish your book in eBook and paperback. ▲ Upload your book to Amazon’s Kindle, Apple’s iPhone, Smashwords, and other mobile platforms. ▲ Turn your text into a profitable paperback edition with no upfront costs for printing, storage, or shipping. ▲ Get free, global exposure. Steve Weber self-publish http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/5524.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/5524.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/5524.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/5524.mobi The Coral Island Robert Michael Ballantyne http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3951 en 1857 Novels Young Readers Adventure Three boys, fifteen-year-old Ralph Rover (the narrator), eighteen-year-old Jack Martin and fourteen-year-old Peterkin Gay, are the sole survivors of a shipwreck on the coral reef of a large but uninhabited Polynesian island. At first their life on the island is idyllic; food, in the shape of fruits, fish and wild pigs, is plentiful, and using their only possessions; a broken telescope, an iron-bound oar and a small axe, they fashion a shelter and even construct a small boat. Their first contact with other people comes after several months when they observe two large outrigger canoes land on the beach. The two groups are engaged in battle and the three boys intervene to successfully defeat the attacking party, earning the gratitude of the chief Tararo. The Polynesians leave and the three boys are alone once more. Then more unwelcome visitors arrive in the shape of pirates, who make a living trading, or stealing, sandalwood. The three boys conceal themselves in a hidden cave, but Ralph is captured when he sets out to see if the pirates have left, and is taken aboard the pirate schooner. Ralph strikes up an unexpected friendship with one of the pirates, "Bloody Bill", and when they call at an island to trade for more wood he meets Tararo again. On the island he sees all facets of island life, including the popular sport of surfing, as well as the practice of infanticide and cannibalism. Rising tension leads to an attack by the inhabitants on the pirates, leaving only Ralph alive and Bloody Bill mortally wounded. However they manage to make their escape in the schooner. After Bill dies, making a death-bed repentance for his evil life, Ralph manages to sail back to the Coral Island to be re-united with his friends. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3951.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3951.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3951.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3951.mobi Star-begotten H. G. Wells http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2600 urn:isbn:B0013XW2TA en 1937 Short Fiction Science Fiction Star Begotten is a 1937 novel by H. G. Wells. It tells the story of a series of men who conjecture upon the possibility of the human race being altered by Martians to replace their own dying planet. The protagonist of the story Joseph Davis, who is an author of popular histories, becomes overtaken with suspicion that he and his family have already been exposed and are starting to change. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2600.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2600.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2600.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2600.mobi A Slip Under the Microscope H. G. Wells http://www.feedbooks.com/book/630 urn:isbn:1842124021 en 1896 Short Fiction This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/630.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/630.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/630.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/630.mobi The Star H. G. Wells http://www.feedbooks.com/book/607 urn:isbn:1842124021 en 1897 Short Fiction 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/607.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/607.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/607.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/607.mobi The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth H. G. Wells http://www.feedbooks.com/book/594 urn:isbn:0486448460 en 1904 Novels Science Fiction Two scientists devise a compound that produces enormous plants, animals — and humans! The chilling results are disastrous. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/594.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/594.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/594.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/594.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 The Man Who Saw the Future Edmond Moore Hamilton http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3664 en 1930 Short Fiction Science Fiction Excerpt: Jean de Marselait read calmly on from the parchment. "It is stated by many witnesses that for long that part of Paris, called Nanley by some, has been troubled by works of the devil. Ever and anon great claps of thunder have been heard issuing from an open field there without visible cause. They were evidently caused by a sorcerer of power since even exorcists could not halt 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/3664.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3664.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3664.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3664.mobi The Stars, My Brothers Edmond Moore Hamilton http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2359 en 1962 Short Fiction Science Fiction He was afraid--not of the present or the future, but of the past. He was afraid of the thing tagged Reed Kieran, that stiff blind voiceless thing wheeling its slow orbit around the Moon, companion to dead worlds and silent space. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2359.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2359.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2359.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2359.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 Silas Marner George Eliot http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3738 urn:isbn:0199536775 en 1861 Novels Wrongly accused of theft and exiled by community of Lantern Yard, Silas Marner settles in the village of Raveloe, living as a recluse and caring only for work and money. Bitter and unhappy, Silas' circumstances change when an orphaned child, actually the unaknowledged child of Godfrey Cass, eldest son of the local squire, is left in his care. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3738.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3738.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3738.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3738.mobi Lost in the Future John Victor Peterson http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3866 en 1954 Short Fiction Science Fiction Did you ever wonder what might happen if mankind ever exceeded the speed of light? Here is a profound story based on that thought—a story which may well forecast one of the problems to be encountered in space travel. They had discovered a new planet—but its people did not see them until after they had traveled on. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3866.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3866.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3866.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3866.mobi The People of the Ruins Edward Shanks http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3087 en 1920 Novels 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/3087.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3087.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3087.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3087.mobi Tomorrow Arthur Leo Zagat http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3105 en 1939 Short Fiction Science Fiction This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3105.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3105.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3105.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3105.mobi A Martian Odyssey Stanley Grauman Weinbaum http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2244 urn:isbn:1846770602 en 1934 Short Fiction Science Fiction This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2244.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2244.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2244.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2244.mobi The $30,000 Bequest and other short stories Mark Twain http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1176 urn:isbn:0195101464 en 2004 Short Fiction Collections Humor/Satire This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1176.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1176.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1176.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1176.mobi The War Prayer Mark Twain http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2792 urn:isbn:0060911131 en 1916 Short Fiction War Written by Mark Twain during the Philippine-American War in the first decade of the twentieth century, The War Prayer tells of a patriotic church service held to send the town's young men off to war. During the service, a stranger enters and addresses the gathering. He tells the patriotic crowd that their prayers for victory are double-edged-by praying for victory they are also praying for the destruction of the enemy... for the destruction of human life. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2792.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2792.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2792.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2792.mobi