My Exquisite Corpse Richard Kadrey http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2525 en 2002 Short 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/2525.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2525.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2525.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2525.mobi Exit Without Saving Ruth Nestvold http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2814 en 2006 Short Fiction Science Fiction A story about the dangers of escaping your own skin. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2814.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2814.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2814.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2814.mobi A Life In Pictures Mark Ward http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2821 en 2007 Short Fiction Science Fiction “A Life In Pictures” manages to be absurd and touching at the same time, a buddy movie of an entirely different story. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2821.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2821.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2821.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2821.mobi Crime and Punishment Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky http://www.feedbooks.com/book/38 urn:isbn:0679420290 en 1866 Novels Psychology The poverty-stricken Raskolnikov, believing he is exempt from moral law, murders a man only to face the consequences not only from society but from his conscience, in this seminal story of justice, morality, and redemption from one of Russia's greatest novelists. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/38.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/38.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/38.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/38.mobi Eastern Standard Tribe Cory Doctorow http://www.feedbooks.com/book/217 urn:isbn:0765310457 en 2004 Novels Science Fiction A comedy of loyalty, betrayal, sex, madness, and music-swapping Art is an up-and-coming interface designer, working on the management of data flow along the Massachusetts Turnpike. 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.... Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/217.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/217.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/217.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/217.mobi Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town Cory Doctorow http://www.feedbooks.com/book/260 urn:isbn:0765312808 en 2005 Novels Science Fiction Alan is a middle-aged entrepeneur in contemporary Toronto, who has devoted himself to fixing up a house in a bohemian neighborhood. This naturally brings him in contact with the house full of students and layabouts next door, including a young woman who, in a moment of stress, reveals to him that she has wings--wings, moreover, which grow back after each attempt to cut them off. Alan understands. He himself has a secret or two. His father is a mountain; his mother is a washing machine; and among his brothers are a set of Russian nesting dolls. Now two of the three nesting dolls, Edward and Frederick, are on his doorstep--well on their way to starvation, because their innermost member, George, has vanished. It appears that yet another brother, Davey, who Alan and his other siblings killed years ago, may have returned...bent on revenge. Under such circumstances it seems only reasonable for Alan to involve himself with a visionary scheme to blanket Toronto with free wireless Internet connectivity, a conspiracy spearheaded by a brilliant technopunk who builds miracles of hardware from parts scavenged from the city’s dumpsters. But Alan’s past won’t leave him alone--and Davey is only one of the powers gunning for him and all his friends. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/260.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/260.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/260.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/260.mobi Accelerando Charles Stross http://www.feedbooks.com/book/228 urn:isbn:0441014151 en 2005 Novels Science Fiction The book is a collection of nine short stories telling the tale of three generations of a highly dysfunctional family before, during, and after a technological singularity. It was originally written as a series of novelettes and novellas, all published in Asimov's Science Fiction magazine in the period 2001 to 2004. The first three stories follow the character of "venture altruist" Manfred Macx starting in the early 21st Century, the second three stories follow his daughter Amber, and the final three focus largely on her son Sirhan in the completely transformed world at the end of the century. According to Stross, the initial inspiration for the stories was his experience working as a programmer for a high-growth company during the dot-com boom of the 1990s. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/228.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/228.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/228.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/228.mobi Geek Mafia: Mile Zero Rick Dakan http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1942 urn:isbn:1604860022 en 2007 Novels Thriller Key West-southernmost point in the United States, Mile Zero on Highway 1; and as far as you can run away from your past troubles without swimming to Cuba. Key West-originally Cayo Huesos or Isle of Bones, for centuries a refuge for pirates, wreckers, writers, scoundrels, drunks, and tourists. Now home to a Crew of techno geek con artists who've turned it into their own private hunting ground. Paul and Chloe have the run of the sun-drenched island, free to play and scam far from the enemies they left behind in Silicon Valley. But that doesn't mean they can't bring a little high tech know how to the paradise. They and their new Crew have covered the island with their own private Big Brother style network-hidden cameras, RFID sensors, and a web of informers that tip them off about every crime committed and tourist trapped on the island. But will all the gadgets and games be enough when not one but three rival crews of con artists come to hold a top-secret gang summit? And when one of them is murdered, who will solve the crime? Inspired by author Rick Dakan's own eventful experiences in the video game and comic book industries, the Geek Mafia series satisfies the hunger in all of us to buck the system, take revenge on corporate America, and live a life of excitement and adventure. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1942.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1942.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1942.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1942.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 Kama Sutra Vatsyayana http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3622 urn:isbn:0375759247 en 400 Non-Fiction Philosophy Sexuality The Kama Sutra, is an ancient Indian text widely considered to be the standard work on human sexual behavior in Sanskrit literature written by the Indian scholar Vatsyayana. A portion of the work consists of practical advice on sex. Kāma means sensual or sexual pleasure, and sūtra are the guidlines of yoga, the word itself means thread in Sanskrit. The Kama Sutra is the oldest and most notable of a group of texts known generically as Kama Shastra). Traditionally, the first transmission of Kama Shastra or "Discipline of Kama" is attributed to Nandi the sacred bull, Shiva's doorkeeper, who was moved to sacred utterance by overhearing the lovemaking of the god and his wife Parvati and later recorded his utterances for the benefit of mankind. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3622.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3622.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3622.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3622.mobi Butcher Bird Richard Kadrey http://www.feedbooks.com/book/227 urn:isbn:1597800864 en 2005 Novels Horror Fantasy Spyder Lee is a happy man who lives in San Francisco and owns a tattoo shop. One night an angry demon tries to bite his head off before he's saved by a stranger. The demon infected Spyder with something awful - the truth. He can suddenly see the world as it really is: full of angels and demons and monsters and monster-hunters. A world full of black magic and mysteries. These are the Dominions, parallel worlds full of wonder, beauty and horror. The Black Clerks, infinitely old and infinitely powerful beings whose job it is to keep the Dominions in balance, seem to have new interests and a whole new agenda. Dropped into the middle of a conflict between the Black Clerks and other forces he doesn't fully understand, Spyder finds himself looking for a magic book with the blind swordswoman who saved him. Their journey will take them from deserts to lush palaces, to underground caverns, to the heart of Hell itself. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/227.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/227.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/227.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/227.mobi I, Robot Cory Doctorow http://www.feedbooks.com/book/337 urn:isbn:1560259817 en 2005 Short Fiction Science Fiction "I, Robot" is a science-fiction short story by Cory Doctorow published in 2005. The story is set in the type of police state needed to ensure that only one company is allowed to make robots, and only one type of robot is allowed. The story follows single Father detective Arturo Icaza de Arana-Goldberg while he tries to track down his missing teenage daughter. The detective is a bit of an outcast because his wife defected to Eurasia, a rival Superpower. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/337.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/337.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/337.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/337.mobi Stranger Things Happen Kelly Link http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2873 urn:isbn:1931520003 en 2001 Short Fiction Fantasy Collections This first collection by award-winning author Kelly Link, takes fairy tales and cautionary tales, dictators and extraterrestrials, amnesiacs and honeymooners, revenants and readers alike, on a voyage into new, strange, and wonderful territory. The girl detective must go to the underworld to solve the case of the tap-dancing bank robbers. A librarian falls in love with a girl whose father collects artificial noses. A dead man posts letters home to his estranged wife. Two women named Louise begin a series of consecutive love affairs with a string of cellists. A newly married couple become participants in an apocalyptic beauty pageant. Sexy blond aliens invade New York City. A young girl learns how to make herself disappear. These eleven extraordinary stories are quirky, spooky, and smart. They all have happy endings. Every story contains a secret prize. Each story was written especially for you. Stories from Stranger Things Happen have won the Nebula, Tiptree, and World Fantasy Award. Stranger Things Happen was a Salon Book of the Year, one of the Village Voice's 25 Favorite Books of 2001, and was nominated for the Firecracker Alternative Book Award. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2873.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2873.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2873.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2873.mobi Password Incorrect Nick Name http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3127 en 2008 Short Fiction Collections 25 short, sometimes funny and sometimes mean stories ideal to rediscover the joy of reading a book as shiny and beautiful as a brand new cell phone. A look from a distance at the absurdity of our present day lives: fights with the less and less comprehensible equipment, pursuit of the latest technological news, pitfalls of our modern lifestyle, useless inventions and issues racing in all directions at a breakneck speed. A lot of entertainment and a little food for thought. Just perfect for the moment when you're finally bored with exploring the alarm settings on your new iPhone. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3127.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3127.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3127.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3127.mobi Dream Psychology Sigmund Freud http://www.feedbooks.com/book/176 urn:isbn:0380010003 en 1920 Non-Fiction Psychology The Interpretation of Dreams is a book by Sigmund Freud. The first edition was first published in German in November 1899 as Die Traumdeutung (though post-dated as 1900 by the publisher). The publication inaugurated the theory of Freudian dream analysis, which activity Freud famously described as "the royal road to the understanding of unconscious mental processes". This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/176.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/176.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/176.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/176.mobi