The House of the Vampire George Sylvester Viereck http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3837 urn:isbn:0982046707 en 1907 Novels Horror Sexuality Gothic The first known gay vampire novel and one of the first psychic vampire stories. This work was published before 1923 and is in the public domain in the USA only. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3837.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3837.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3837.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3837.mobi Beyond the Door Philip K. Dick http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3863 en 1954 Short Fiction Science Fiction Did you ever wonder at the lonely life the bird in a cuckoo clock has to lead—that it might possibly love and hate just as easily as a real animal of flesh and blood? Philip Dick used that idea for this brief fantasy tale. We're sure that after reading it you'll give cuckoo clocks more respect. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3863.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3863.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3863.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3863.mobi The Mathematicians Arthur Feldman http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4002 en 1953 Short Fiction Science Fiction We gave this story to a very competent, and very pretty gal artist. We said, "Read this carefully, dream on it, and come up with an illustration." A week later, she returned with the finished drawing. "The hero," she said. We did a double take. "Hey! That's not the hero." She looked us straight in the eye. "Can you prove it?" She had us. We couldn't, and she left hurriedly to go home and cook dinner for her family. And what were they having? Frog legs—what 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/4002.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4002.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4002.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4002.mobi Children of Tomorrow Arthur Leo Zagat http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3058 en 1939 Short Fiction Science Fiction They roamed the vanished world that yesterday was America. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3058.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3058.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3058.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3058.mobi Twenty Rules For Writing Detective Stories S. S. Van Dine http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1769 en 1939 Crime/Mystery Essay This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1769.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1769.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1769.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1769.mobi Topper Takes a Trip Thorne Smith http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1512 urn:isbn:0375753079 en 1932 Novels Humor/Satire This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1512.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1512.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1512.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1512.mobi Sylvie and Bruno Lewis Carroll http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2203 urn:isbn:0486255883 en 1889 Novels Humor/Satire http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2203.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2203.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2203.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2203.mobi Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift http://www.feedbooks.com/book/159 urn:isbn:0451527321 en 1726 Novels Humor/Satire Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735), officially Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships, is a novel by Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the "travellers' tales" literary sub-genre. It is Swift's best known full-length work, and a classic of English literature. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/159.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/159.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/159.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/159.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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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 Pandemic Jesse Franklin Bone http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2748 en 1962 Short Fiction Science Fiction Generally, human beings don't do totally useless things consistently and widely. So--maybe there is something to 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/2748.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2748.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2748.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2748.mobi The Men in the back room at the country club Rudy Rucker http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2621 en 2005 Short Fiction Science 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/2621.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2621.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2621.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2621.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 Purple Cloud Matthew Phipps Shiel http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2637 urn:isbn:1406569933 en 1901 Novels Science Fiction Sheil's free-flowing and persuasive style of writing produces a convincing portrait of Adam Jefferson -- a man who, upon returning alone from an expedition to the North Pole, learns that a world-wide catastrophe has left him the last man on Earth. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2637.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2637.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2637.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2637.mobi Two Plus Two Makes Crazy Walter J. Sheldon http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3933 en 1954 Short Fiction Science Fiction Walt Sheldon is bitter-bright in this imaginative short satire of Man's sell-out by a group of staunch believers in the infallibility of numbers. The Computer could do no wrong. Then it was asked a simple little question by a simple little man. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3933.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3933.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3933.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3933.mobi The 4-D Doodler Graph Waldeyer http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1980 en 1941 Short Fiction Science Fiction Do you believe, Professor Gault, that this four dimensional plane contains life--intelligent life? Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1980.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1980.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1980.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1980.mobi The Glory of Ippling Helen M. Urban http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2500 urn:isbn:B0015T6CLQ en 1962 Short Fiction Science Fiction He brought them life and hope. Why wouldn't the fools take it from him? Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2500.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2500.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2500.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2500.mobi The Good Neighbors Edgar Pangborn http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2857 urn:isbn:B0006CKM6O en 1960 Short Fiction Science Fiction You can’t blame an alien for a little inconvenience--as long as he makes up for 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/2857.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2857.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2857.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2857.mobi Regeneration Charles Dye http://www.feedbooks.com/book/880 en 1951 Short Fiction Science Fiction It was bound to happen sooner or later. Not because man failed to understand his fellow man, but because he failed to understand himself. There wasn't much left afterwards--after the golden showers of deadly dust and the blinding flashes that blotted out the light from the sun. And all because man continued to confuse emotion with reason. But somehow, as before, man survived.... 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This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2486.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2486.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2486.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2486.mobi The Radiant Shell Paul Frederick Ernst http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2392 urn:isbn:B0016R5ALK en 1932 Short Fiction Science 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/2392.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2392.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2392.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2392.mobi Farewell to the Master Harry Bates http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3797 en 1940 Short Fiction Science Fiction "Farewell to the Master" is a science fiction short story written by Harry Bates. It was first published in the October 1940 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. It provided the basis of the noted 1951 film The Day the Earth Stood Still and its 2008 remake. In 1973, the story was adapted by Marvel Comics for its Worlds Unknown series with Bates' blessing. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3797.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3797.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3797.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3797.mobi Measure for a Loner Jim Harmon http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2458 urn:isbn:B0015SVNRU en 1959 Short Fiction Science Fiction You can measure everything these days--heat, light, gravity, reflexes, force-fields, star-drives. And now I know there even is a... Measure for a Loner. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2458.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2458.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2458.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2458.mobi The Last Place on Earth Jim Harmon http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2457 urn:isbn:B001708YO6 en 1962 Short Fiction Science Fiction Naturally an undertaker will get the last word. But shouldn't he wait until his clients are dead? Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2457.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2457.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2457.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2457.mobi Essays (First Series) Ralph Waldo Emerson http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3882 en 1841 Essay Collections A collections of essays: History, Self-reliance, Compensation, Spiritual laws, Love, Friendship, Prudence, Heroism, The over-soul, Circles, Intellect & Art. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3882.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3882.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3882.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3882.mobi