A Choice of Miracles James A. Cox http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2734 en 1957 Short Fiction Science Fiction You're down in the jungle with death staring you in the face. There is nothing left but prayer. So you ask for your life. But wait! Are you sure that's really what you want above all else? Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2734.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2734.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2734.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2734.mobi The Crystal Crypt Philip K. Dick http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3878 en 1954 Short Fiction Science Fiction Stark terror ruled the Inner-Flight ship on that last Mars-Terra run. For the black-clad Leiters were on the prowl ... and the grim red planet was not far behind. 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The result is everything the late Victorians and Edwardians believed would bring human happiness — and which brings nothing but the advent of new superstitions, despair, and the end of the world … maybe. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2462.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2462.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2462.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2462.mobi Strange Attractors Jeffrey A. Carver http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2875 urn:isbn:0812535162 en 1995 Novels Science Fiction Stranded on the artificial structure known as Shipworld, John Bandicut searches for the keys to its mysteries and stumbles into a confrontation with an entity known as the boojum, an evil corruption that threatens both Shipworld and the universe. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2875.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2875.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2875.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2875.mobi The Burning Bridge Poul William Anderson http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2385 urn:isbn:B000X3KFZE en 1960 Short Fiction Science Fiction Usually there are two "reasons" why something is done; the reason why it needs to be done, and, quite separate, the reason people want to do it. The foul-up starts when the reason-for-wanting is satisfied ... and the need remains! Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2385.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2385.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2385.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2385.mobi Flyboy Action Figure Comes with Gasmask Jim Munroe http://www.feedbooks.com/book/669 urn:isbn:0380810433 en 1999 Novels Science Fiction Ryan is a university student dealing with the normal problems of a 22-year-old guy -- shyness, virginity, weird roommates, and a massive crush on Cassandra, a waitress at his local greasy spoon. (Oh, and a freakish ability to change into a fly.) When he finally gets up the nerve to ask Cassandra for a date, he learns that the two have more in common than they first thought. (Turns out that Cassandra can make things disappear.) Sharing their secrets for the first time, Ryan and Cassandra realize they were made for each other...and to battle forces of evil! Inspired by Sailor Moon, they team up to fight the villians in their own backyard, taking on cigarette barons, right wing newspapers, and the overzealous local police. But can the Superheroes for Social Justice transform the world in time? Find out in... Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/669.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/669.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/669.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/669.mobi The Secret of the Ninth Planet Donald Allen Wollheim http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2383 urn:isbn:B0014NLE7K en 1959 Novels Science Fiction While the circumnavigation of the solar system seems farfetched, it may not be once the problem of effective anti-gravitational control is solved. In this book I have assumed that the many researchers now actually at work on this problem will achieve such a result in the next decade. It is not at all impossible that they may for we all know that the more minds that work at a problem, the sooner it will be solved. The discovery of a means of negating, reversing or otherwise utilizing the immense force of gravitation for space flight purposes is now thought to be within the bounds of probability. It should occur some time within the next hundred years, possibly in even the short period I assume here. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2383.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2383.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2383.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2383.mobi Neptune Crossing Jeffrey A. Carver http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2874 urn:isbn:0812535154 en 1994 Novels Science Fiction Falling into a cavern on the planet Triton, survey pilot John Bandicut disrupts a strange disembodied alien known as a quarx, which predicts a comet collision that will threaten all human life, unless Bandicut can prevent the disaster. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2874.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2874.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2874.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2874.mobi Last and First Men William Olaf Stapledon http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2028 urn:isbn:0486219623 en 1930 Novels Science Fiction Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future is a science fiction novel written in 1930 by the British author Olaf Stapledon. A work of unprecedented scale in the genre, it describes the history of humanity from the present onwards across two billion years and eighteen distinct human species, of which our own is the first and most primitive. Stapledon's conception of history is based on the Hegelian Dialectic, following a repetitive cycle with many varied civilizations rising from and descending back into savagery over millions of years, but it is also one of progress, as the later civilizations rise to far greater heights than the first. The book anticipates genetic engineering, and the idea of superminds composed of many telepathically-linked individuals. A controversial part of the book depicts humans, in the far-off future, escaping the dying Earth and settling on Venus—in the process totally exterminating its native inhabitants, a marine intelligent species. Stapledon's book has been interpreted by some as condoning such interplanetary genocide as a justified act if necessary for racial survival, though a number of Stapledon's partisans denied that such was his intention, arguing instead that Stapledon was merely showing that although mankind had advanced in a number of ways in the future, at bottom it still possessed the same capacity for savagery as it has always had. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2028.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2028.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2028.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2028.mobi The Repairman Harry Harrison http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1409 urn:isbn:B000XCUV5Y en 1958 Short Fiction Science Fiction Being an interstellar trouble shooter wouldn’t be so bad … if I could shoot the trouble! Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1409.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1409.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1409.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1409.mobi A Voyage to Arcturus David Lindsay http://www.feedbooks.com/book/901 urn:isbn:0803280041 en 1920 Novels Science Fiction A stunning achievement in speculative fiction, A Voyage to Arcturus has inspired, enchanted, and unsettled readers for decades. It is simultaneously an epic quest across one of the most unusual and brilliantly depicted alien worlds ever conceived, a profoundly moving journey of discovery into the metaphysical heart of the universe, and a shockingly intimate excursion into what makes us human and unique. After a strange interstellar journey, Maskull, a man from Earth, awakens alone in a desert on the planet Tormance, seared by the suns of the binary star Arcturus. As he journeys northward, guided by a drumbeat, he encounters a world and its inhabitants like no other, where gender is a victory won at dear cost; where landscape and emotion are drawn into an accursed dance; where heroes are killed, reborn, and renamed; and where the cosmological lures of Shaping, who may be God, torment Maskull in his astonishing pilgrimage. At the end of his arduous and increasingly mystical quest waits a dark secret and an unforgettable revelation. A Voyage to Arcturus was the first novel by writer David Lindsay (1878–1945), and it remains one of the most revered classics of 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/901.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/901.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/901.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/901.mobi Brain Twister Randall Garrett Laurence Mark Janifer http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1959 urn:isbn:1434401561 en 1961 Novels Science Fiction Thriller In nineteen-fourteen, it was enemy aliens. In nineteen-thirty, it was Wobblies. In nineteen-fifty-seven, it was fellow-travelers. And, in nineteen seventy-one, Kenneth J. Malone rolled wearily out of bed wondering what the hell it was going to be now. One thing, he told himself, was absolutely certain: it was going to be terrible. It always was. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1959.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1959.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1959.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1959.mobi Metrophage Richard Kadrey http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1810 urn:isbn:0441528139 en 1988 Novels Science Fiction Welcome to Los Angeles... where anger, hunger, and disease run rampant, and life and hope are strictly rationed. This is Jonny's world. He's a street-wise hustler, a black-market dealer in drugs that heal the body and cool the mind. All he cares about is his own survival, until a strange new plague turns L.A. into a city of death--and Jonny is forced to put everything on the line to find the cure. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1810.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1810.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1810.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1810.mobi Uller Uprising Henry Beam Piper http://www.feedbooks.com/book/307 urn:isbn:1604249188 en 1952 Novels Science Fiction The story of a confrontation between a human overlord and alien servants, with an ironic twist at the end. Like most of Piper's best work, Uller Uprising is modeled after an actual event in human history; in this case the Sepoy Mutiny -- though not a mere retelling of the Indian Mutiny, but rather an analysis of an historical event applied to a similar situation in the far 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/307.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/307.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/307.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/307.mobi Four-Day Planet Henry Beam Piper http://www.feedbooks.com/book/310 urn:isbn:B001713C4W en 1961 Novels Science Fiction Fenris isn't a hell planet, but it's nobody's bargain. With 2,000-hour days and an 8,000-hour year, it alternates blazing heat with killing cold. A planet like that tends to breed a special kind of person: tough enough to stay alive and smart enough to make the best of it. When that kind of person discovers he's being cheated of wealth he's risked his life for, that kind of planet is ripe for revolution. 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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/391.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/391.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/391.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/391.mobi Omnilingual Henry Beam Piper http://www.feedbooks.com/book/308 urn:isbn:1428073124 en 1957 Short Fiction Science Fiction To translate writings, you need a key to the code--and if the last writer of Martian died forty thousand years before the first writer of Earth was born ... how could the Martian be translated...? Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/308.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/308.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/308.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/308.mobi The Cosmic Computer Henry Beam Piper http://www.feedbooks.com/book/311 urn:isbn:B00171G1IQ en 1963 Novels Science Fiction Conn Maxwell returns from Terra to his poverty-stricken home planet of Poictesme, “The Junkyard Planet”, with news of the possible location of Merlin, a military super-computer rumored to have been abandoned there after the last war. The inhabitants hope to find Merlin, which they think will be their ticket to wealth and prosperity. But is Merlin real, or just an old rumor? And if they find it will it save them, or tear them apart? Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/311.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/311.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/311.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/311.mobi True Names Cory Doctorow Benjamin Rosenbaum http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3511 en 2008 Short Fiction Science Fiction The tale of duelling galactic colony-organisms that are competing to recruit all the matter in the universe for raw computation. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3511.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3511.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3511.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3511.mobi Behemoth Peter Watts http://www.feedbooks.com/book/973 urn:isbn:0765307219 en 2007 Novels Science Fiction Lenie Clarke-rifter, avenger, amphibious deep-sea cyborg-has destroyed the world. Once exploited for her psychological addiction to dangerous environments, she emerged in the wake of a nuclear blast to serve up vendetta from the ocean floor. The horror she unleashed-an ancient, apocalyptic microbe called ßehemoth- has been free in the world for half a decade now, devouring the biosphere from the bottom up. North America lies in ruins beneath the thumb of an omnipotent psychopath. Digital monsters have taken Clarke's name, wreaking havoc throughout the decimated remnants of something that was once called Internet. Governments have fallen across the globe; warlords and suicide cults rise from the ashes, pledging fealty to the Meltdown Madonna. All because five years ago, Lenie Clarke had a score to settle. But she has learned something in the meantime: she destroyed the world for a fallacy. Now, cowering at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, rifters and the technoindustrial "corpses" who created them hide from a world in its death throes. But they cannot hide forever: something is tracking them, down amongst the lightless cliffs and trenches of the Midatlantic Ridge. The consequences of past acts reach inexorably towards the very bottom of the world, and Lenie Clarke must finally confront the mess she made. Redemption doesn't come easy with the blood of a world on your hands. But even after five years in purgatory, Lenie Clarke is still Lenie Clarke. There will be consequences for anyone who gets in her way-and worse ones, perhaps, if she succeeds. . . . Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/973.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/973.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/973.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/973.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 Tales of Space and Time H. G. Wells http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3469 en 1900 Short Fiction Science Fiction Collections A collection of short stories: "The Crystal Egg", "The Star", "A Story of the Stone Age", "A Story of the Days to Come" & "The Man who could Work Miracles" This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3469.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3469.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3469.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3469.mobi The Extra Day Algernon Blackwood http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1062 urn:isbn:1421830183 en 1915 Novels Horror Fantasy This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1062.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1062.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1062.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1062.mobi The Wood Beyond the World William Morris http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3626 urn:isbn:0345237307 en 1894 Novels Fantasy The Wood Beyond the World is a fantasy novel by William Morris, perhaps the first modern fantasy writer to unite an imaginary world with the element of the supernatural, and thus the precursor of much of present-day fantasy literature. When the wife of Golden Walter betrays him for another man, he leaves home on a trading voyage to avoid the necessity of a feud with her family. His efforts are fruitless, as word comes to him enroute that his wife's clan has killed his father. As a storm then carries him to a faraway country, the effect of this news is merely to sunder his last ties to his homeland. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3626.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3626.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3626.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3626.mobi The Dark World Henry Kuttner http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2317 urn:isbn:B000GCFFZW en 1946 Novels Science Fiction Fantasy World War II veteran Edward Bond's recuperation from a disastrous fighter plane crash takes a distinct turn for the weird when he encounters a giant wolf, a red witch, and the undeniable power of the need-fire, a portal to a world of magic and swordplay at once terribly new and hauntingly familiar. In the Dark World, Bond opposes the machinations of the dread lord Ganelon and his terrible retinue of werewolves, wizards, and witches, but all is not as it seems in this shadowy mirror of the real world, and Bond discovers that a part of him feels more at home here than he ever has on Earth. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2317.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2317.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2317.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2317.mobi Wet Magic Edith Nesbit http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1312 en 1913 Novels Fantasy This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1312.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1312.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1312.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1312.mobi The Rebirth of Pan Jo Walton http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2230 en 1997 Novels Fantasy Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2230.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2230.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2230.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2230.mobi The Gifts of Asti Andre Alice Norton http://www.feedbooks.com/book/856 en 1948 Short Fiction Fantasy Varta, the last priestess of Asti, lives alone with Lur, a telepath of the lizardfolk, in Asti's isolated mountain retreat. Decadent Memphir has long since drifted away from the austere paths of Asti, and now the barbarians of Klem are sacking the city, and the smoke of its burning drifts up to the temple. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/856.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/856.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/856.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/856.mobi