Star Born Andre Alice Norton http://www.feedbooks.com/book/860 urn:isbn:1598180266 en 1957 Novels Science Fiction When the oppressive global dictatorship of Pax took over Earth they put a stop to space exploration. Still, a few rebels escaped in the sleeper ships to found free new colonies -- or perish in the attempt. Those few colonists that reached inhabitable worlds were cut off for centuries, and in that isolation and freedom they developed the mysterious mental powers that ''civilization'' had all but destroyed. 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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/1996.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1996.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1996.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1996.mobi Star Maker William Olaf Stapledon http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2029 urn:isbn:0819566934 en 1937 Novels Science Fiction Widely regarded as one of the true classics of science fiction, Star Maker is a poetic and deeply philosophical work. The story details the mental journey of an unnamed narrator who is transported not only to other worlds but also other galaxies and parallel universes, until he eventually becomes part of the "cosmic mind." First published in 1937, Olaf Stapledon's descriptions of alien life are a political commentary on human life in the turbulent inter-war years. The book challenges preconceived notions of intelligence and awareness, and ultimately argues for a broadened perspective that would free us from culturally ingrained thought and our inevitable anthropomorphism. This is the first scholarly edition of a book that influenced such writers as C.S. Lewis and Arthur C. Clarke and which Jorge Luis Borges called "a prodigious novel." This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2029.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2029.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2029.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2029.mobi Scratch Monkey Charles Stross http://www.feedbooks.com/book/229 en 1993 Novels Science Fiction There are standard methods for lifting material out of brains. Everyone, everywhere in human space, is riddled with nanotech Dreamtime encoders. They're in the air, in the soil, in their cells and reproducing like bacteria. They constantly monitor cerebral activity, transmitting updates of their host personality to the encoders, that upload minds into the Dreamtime when their bodies cease to support them. It even makes a neat debriefing tool, if you have the equipment to interrogate the brain encoders directly. (Only Distant Intervention, that I know of, is allowed to play with this kind of kit.) Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/229.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/229.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/229.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/229.mobi The Lost Continent Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne http://www.feedbooks.com/book/892 urn:isbn:1880418096 en 1900 Novels Science Fiction Fantasy Adventure A classic "lost race" story, with all of the required elements: a seductive empress, a straight-arrow hero, battles, escapes, sorcery, and earth-shattering cataclysms! Eminently readable and very entertaining, without any profundity to distract a fan of Haggard, Aubrey, or Janvier-style fantasy literature. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/892.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/892.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/892.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/892.mobi Little Fuzzy Henry Beam Piper http://www.feedbooks.com/book/313 urn:isbn:0809562820 en 1962 Novels Science Fiction The chartered Zarathustra Company had it all their way. Their charter was for a Class III uninhabited planet, which Zarathustra was, and it meant they owned the planet lock stock and barrel. They exploited it, developed it and reaped the huge profits from it without interference from the Colonial Government. Then Jack Holloway, a sunstone prospector, appeared on the scene with his family of Fuzzies and the passionate conviction that they were not cute animals but little people. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/313.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/313.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/313.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/313.mobi Metropolis Thea von Harbou http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1123 urn:isbn:1592249787 en 1927 Novels Science Fiction This is Metropolis, the novel that the film's screenwriter -- Thea von Harbou, who was director Fritz Lang's wife, and a collaborator in the creation of the film -- this is the novel that Harbou wrote from her own notes. It contains bits of the story that got lost on the cutting-room floor; in a very real way it is the only way to understand the film. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1123.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1123.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1123.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1123.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 Parasite Planet Stanley Grauman Weinbaum http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2245 urn:isbn:1846770602 en 1935 Short Fiction Science Fiction This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2245.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2245.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2245.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2245.mobi Valley of Dreams Stanley Grauman Weinbaum http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2255 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/2255.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2255.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2255.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2255.mobi Dawn of Flame Stanley Grauman Weinbaum http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2260 urn:isbn:1846770726 en 1939 Short Fiction Science Fiction This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2260.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2260.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2260.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2260.mobi Proteus Island Stanley Grauman Weinbaum http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2248 urn:isbn:1846770548 en 1936 Short Fiction Science Fiction This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2248.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2248.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2248.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2248.mobi The Mad Moon Stanley Grauman Weinbaum http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2251 en 1935 Short Fiction Science Fiction This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2251.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2251.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2251.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2251.mobi The Brink of Infinity Stanley Grauman Weinbaum http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2250 en 1935 Short Fiction Science Fiction This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2250.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2250.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2250.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2250.mobi The Adaptive Ultimate Stanley Grauman Weinbaum http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2249 en 1935 Short Fiction Science Fiction This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2249.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2249.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2249.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2249.mobi Siddhartha Hermann Hesse http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3374 urn:isbn:0553208845 en 1922 Novels Philosophy Religion Siddhartha is an allegorical novel by Hermann Hesse which deals with the spiritual journey of an Indian boy called Siddhartha during the time of the Buddha. The book, Hesse's ninth novel, was written in German, in a simple, yet powerful and lyrical, style. It was first published in 1922, after Hesse had spent some time in India in the 1910s. It was published in the U.S. in 1951 and became influential during the 1960s. The word Siddhartha is made up of two words in the Sanskrit language, siddha (gotten) + artha (meaning or wealth). The two words together mean "one who has found meaning (of existence)" or "he who has attained his goals". The Buddha's name, before his renunciation, was Prince Siddhartha Gautama, later the Buddha. In this book, the Buddha is referred to as "Gotama". 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Many of the characters in Dubliners later appear in minor roles in Joyce's novel Ulysses. The initial stories in the collection are narrated by children as protagonists, and as the stories continue, they deal with the lives and concerns of progressively older people. This is in line with Joyce's tripartite division of the collection into childhood, adolescence and maturity. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/5.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/5.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/5.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/5.mobi 2 B R O 2 B Kurt Vonnegut http://www.feedbooks.com/book/912 en 1962 Short Fiction Science Fiction Humor/Satire 2 B R 0 2 B is a satiric short story that imagines life (and death) in a future world where aging has been “cured” and population control is mandated and administered by the government. 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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/858.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/858.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/858.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/858.mobi A Journey in Other Worlds John Jacob Astor http://www.feedbooks.com/book/905 urn:isbn:0803259492 en 1894 Novels Science Fiction What did our ancestors dream of when they gazed up at the stars and looked beyond the present? Wildly imaginative but grounded in reasoned scientific speculation, A Journey in Other Worlds races far ahead of the nineteenth century to imagine what life would be like in the year 2000. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, Earth is effectively a corporate technocracy, with big businesses using incredible advances in science to improve life on the planet as a whole. Seeking other planets habitable for the growing human population, the spaceship Callisto, powered by an antigravitational force known as apergy, embarks on a momentous tour of the solar system. Jupiter proves to be a wilderness paradise, full of threatening beasts and landscapes of inspired beauty, where the explorers must fight for their lives. Dangers less tangible but equally deadly await the Callisto crew on Saturn, which yields profound secrets about their fate and the ultimate destiny of mankind. Thoughtful, adventurous, and replete with a dazzling array of futuristic devices, A Journey in Other Worlds is a classic, unforgettable story of utopias and humankind’s restless exploration of the stars. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/905.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/905.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/905.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/905.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. 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In the wrong place at the wrong time, Marcus and his crew are apprehended by the Department of Homeland Security and whisked away to a secret prison where they’re mercilessly interrogated for days. When the DHS finally releases them, Marcus discovers that his city has become a police state where every citizen is treated like a potential terrorist. He knows that no one will believe his story, which leaves him only one option: to take down the DHS himself. 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Cette allégorie n'est pas sans rappeler la sortie de la caverne, voire le cheminement de Don Quichotte, l'hidalgo de Cervantes. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1796.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1796.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1796.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1796.mobi Emile, ou de l'Education Jean-Jacques Rousseau http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3028 urn:isbn:2080701177 fr 1762 Non-Fiction Philosophy Publié en 1762, comme son titre l’indique, l'Émile, ou De l’éducation de Jean-Jacques Rousseau est un traité d’éducation ou, aussi bien, un traité sur « l'art de former les hommes ». Il demeure, aujourd’hui encore, l’un des ouvrages les plus lus et les plus populaires sur le sujet, à tel point qu’au Japon, l’autorité du développement de l’enfant impose à tous les instituteurs d’écoles maternelles la lecture de l’Émile. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3028.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3028.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3028.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3028.mobi Deathworld Harry Harrison http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3749 urn:isbn:1932100415 en 1960 Novels Science Fiction Adventure Some planet in the galaxy must—by definition—be the toughest, meanest, nastiest of all. If Pyrrus wasn't it ... it was an awfully good approximation! Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3749.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3749.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3749.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3749.mobi Beyond Lies the Wub Philip K. Dick http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3812 en 1952 Short Fiction Science Fiction The slovenly wub might well have said: Many men talk like philosophers and live like fools. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3812.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3812.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3812.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3812.mobi