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Tom Corbett is the main character in a series of Tom Corbett — Space Cadet stories that were depicted in television, radio, books, comic books, comic strips, coloring books, punch-out books and View-Master...
Many fantasy writers are releasing part of their works under a Creative Commons license. If you'd like to discover new writers, and you're interested in modern fantasy, you'll find the right content...
The Psammead series by E. Nesbith. In Five Children and It, the Psammead is described as having “eyes [that] were on long horn like a snail’s eyes, and it could move it in and out like telescopes;...
Sailors, pirates, nautical adventures and strange sea creatures: a list of stories from the sea.
Sailor Steve Costigan is a fictional character created by Robert E. Howard. He is a merchant sailor on the Sea Girl and is also its champion boxer. His only true companion is a bulldog named Mike....
Philo Vance was a fictional American detective who appeared in twelve novels written by S. S. Van Dine in the 1920s and 1930s. For a few decades he was immensely popular in books, movies, and on the...
The "Palliser novels" are six novels by Anthony Trollope. The common thread is the wealthy aristocrat and politician Plantagenet Palliser and (in all but the last book) his wife Lady Glencora. The...
The "Chronicles of Barsetshire" is a series of six novels by the English author Anthony Trollope, set in the fictitious cathedral town of Barchester. They concern the dealings of the clergy, and the...
Burroughs has created in Tarzan an extreme example of a hero figure unalloyed with character flaws or faults. Tarzan is described by Burroughs as being Caucasian, extremely athletic, tall, handsome,...
The Venus Series by Edgar Rice Burroughs is a science fiction series consisting of four novels and one novelette. Most of the stories were first serialized in Argosy, an American pulp magazine. It...
A four-book fantasy series created by Mayer Alan Brenner and released under a Creative Commons License. Magic in these books is approached as something more crafted for engineers than mystics.
The Pulitzer Prize, pronounced PULL-it-ser, is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical composition. It is administered by Columbia...
The Cthulhu Mythos encompasses the shared elements, characters, settings, and themes found in the works of H. P. Lovecraft and associated horror fiction writers. Together, they form the mythos that...
Creative Commons Science-Fiction
Many science-fiction writers are releasing part of their works under a Creative Commons license. If you'd like to discover new writers, and you're interested in modern sci-fi, you'll find the right...
Major-General Sir Richard Hannay, KCB, OBE, Legion of Honour is the fictional secret agent created by Scottish novelist, John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir. In his autobiography, Memory-Hold-the-Door,...
Most popular character created by Edgar Wallace, Mr J. G. Reeder works for the obscure Public Prosecutor's Office. Most of these books could be described as "adventure-thrillers".
Conan the Barbarian (also known as Conan the Cimmerian, from the name of his homeland, Cimmeria) is a fictional character often associated with the fantasy, in particular low fantasy, sword-and-sorcery...
George Edward Challenger, better known as Professor Challenger, is a fictional character in a series of science fiction stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Unlike Conan Doyle's cool, analytic Sherlock...
Time travel is the concept of moving backwards and forwards to different points in time, in a manner analogous to moving through space. Additionally, some interpretations of time travel suggest the...
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