The Air Trust George Allan England http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1993 en 1915 Novels Science Fiction The story of a billionaire, Isaac Flint, who attempts to control the very air people breathe, and the violent consequences of his ambition and greed. In the concluding chapter, Flint is described as one of "the most sinister and cruel minds ever evolved upon this planet." This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1993.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1993.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1993.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1993.mobi Resurfacing Billy Douglas Lain http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/4300 en 2008 A moody and multilayered metaphor that compares our approach to waste management with our approach to our own minds… and the minds of our children. Charged with subtle emotion, “Resurfacing Billy” will provide you with plenty of food for thought, and greatly rewards a close re-reading. Enjoy! science fiction waste management futurismic http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/4300.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/4300.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/4300.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/4300.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 Halo Tom Maddox http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1996 en 1991 Novels Science Fiction In the latter half of the twenty-first century, freelance data-auditor Mikhail Gonzales has been contracted to monitor an AI-controlled orbiting colony. Complications arise when an experimental treatment for a critically injured man is opposed by Gonzales' employer, the SenTrax corporation. 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 Makers Cory Doctorow http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4343 en 2009 Novels Science Fiction Perry and Lester invent things—seashell robots that make toast, Boogie Woogie Elmo dolls that drive cars. They also invent entirely new economic systems, like the “New Work,” a New Deal for the technological era. Barefoot bankers cross the nation, microinvesting in high-tech communal mini-startups like Perry and Lester’s. Together, they transform the country, and Andrea Fleeks, a journo-turned-blogger, is there to document it. Then it slides into collapse. The New Work bust puts the dot.combomb to shame. Perry and Lester build a network of interactive rides in abandoned Wal-Marts across the land. As their rides, which commemorate the New Work’s glory days, gain in popularity, a rogue Disney executive grows jealous, and convinces the police that Perry and Lester’s 3D printers are being used to run off AK-47s. Hordes of goths descend on the shantytown built by the New Workers, joining the cult. Lawsuits multiply as venture capitalists take on a new investment strategy: backing litigation against companies like Disney. Lester and Perry’s friendship falls to pieces when Lester gets the ‘fatkins’ treatment, turning him into a sybaritic gigolo. Then things get really interesting. 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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/2368.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2368.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2368.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2368.mobi The Last Man Mary Shelley http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1347 urn:isbn:0192838652 en 1826 Novels Science Fiction A futuristic story of tragic love and of the gradual extermination of the human race by plague, The Last Man is Mary Shelley's most important novel after Frankenstein. With intriguing portraits of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron, the novel offers a vision of the future that expresses a reaction against Romanticism, and demonstrates the failure of the imagination and of art to redeem the doomed characters. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1347.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1347.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1347.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1347.mobi Refuge Richard Herley http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3025 en 2008 Novels Science Fiction Thriller Like The Penal Colony, this is a thriller set in the near future. It is twelve years on from a global plague. John Suter believes himself the sole survivor. He has gradually come to terms with his fate and has settled into a steady and self-reliant daily routine. One morning he finds a mutilated body in the river near his house. In his terror, Suter knows he has no choice but to investigate. What he discovers upstream stretches his endurance to its limits and forces him to reassess not only his own humanity, but also his place within the human family he had once believed extinct. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3025.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3025.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3025.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3025.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 The Mantooth Christopher Leadem http://www.feedbooks.com/book/893 en 2000 Novels Science Fiction Fantasy Ten thousand years after nuclear holocaust, Earth has reverted to the savage garden, and Man to his Neanderthal roots. Yet a man-child is born, fully human, and a young woman wakes to find the world she knew is gone. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/893.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/893.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/893.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/893.mobi Worms Of the Earth Robert Ervin Howard http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4069 en 1932 Short Fiction Fantasy Adventure Bran Mak Morn, King of the Picts, vows revenge on the Roman governor Titus Sulla after witnessing the crucifixion of a fellow Pict. He seeks forbidden aid from the Worms of the Earth, a race of creatures who were once men but after generations of living underground have become monstrous and semi-reptilian. He secures their help after stealing a religious item of theirs from a barrow, trading it back in return for them delivering Sulla to him for a battle to the death. However, Sulla's mind is broken from his contact with the horrific Worms of the Earth and Bran Mak Morn slays him in mercy rather than vengeance, realising that some weapons are too foul to use, even against Rome. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4069.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4069.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4069.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4069.mobi Action Comics #39 Brian Burchette http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7922 en 2009 Action Comics: Kon-El, Part Three There's a new, and younger, Superman up for bid, but which insane genius will get his hands on him? Lex Luthor? Dr. Ivo? Dr. Sivana? Or will Superman, Supergirl, Captain Marvel, and Mary Marvel be able to stop this potential weapon from falling into the wrong hands? Comics DC2 Superman Lois Lane Lex Luthor Captain Marvel Doctor Sivana Mary Marvel Supergirl Doctor Xadu Slam Bradley Professor Ivo Superboy Amazo http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7922.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7922.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7922.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7922.mobi Anthem Ayn Rand http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2837 urn:isbn:0452281253 en 1938 Novels Science Fiction Psychology Anthem is a dystopian fiction novella by Ayn Rand, first published in 1938. It takes place at some unspecified future date when mankind has entered another dark age as a result of the evils of irrationality and collectivism and the weaknesses of socialistic thinking and economics. Technological advancement is now carefully planned (when it is allowed to occur at all) and the concept of individuality has been eliminated (for example, the word "I" has disappeared from the language). As is common in her work, Rand draws a clear distinction between the "socialist/communal" values of equality and brotherhood and the "productive/capitalist" values of achievement and individuality. Many of the novella's core themes, such as the struggle between individualism and collectivism, are echoed in Rand's later books, such as The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. However, the style of "Anthem" is unique among Rand's work, more narrative-centered and economical, lacking the intense didactic expressions of philosophical abstraction that occur in later works. It is probably her most accessible work. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2837.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2837.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2837.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2837.mobi The Great White Queen William Le Queux http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3831 en 1897 Novels Science Fiction Fantasy A classic example of early "lost race" science-fiction. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3831.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3831.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3831.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3831.mobi Probability Angels Joseph Devon http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/4688 en 2009 Matthew Huntington’s problems seem to keep growing. Not only is he seeing things in garbage cans but his mentor doesn’t think he’s working up to his full potential, his best friend can’t offer any solace but drunken confusion, and his wife is dying in Central Park. Of course, the fact that Matthew himself died over two decades ago isn’t helping things. And then things start to really go wrong. Come explore the world of Matthew and Epp and see what a samurai from Feudal Japan has to do with the course of modern physics, what a two-thousand year old Roman slave has to do with the summit of Mount Everest, and what a dead man from Brooklyn has to do with the fate of the world. science fiction fantasy Blog fiction Creative Commons 21st Century devon “New York” brooklyn “physics” “murder” “angels” “dark fantasy” ”immortal” http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/4688.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/4688.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/4688.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/4688.mobi Tokyo Zero Marc Horne http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/3501 en 2004 Michael Blake is in Tokyo to help out with the end of the world. Living in the Tokyo of the gangs, the losers and the outsiders, Blake and a cell of Japanese psychopaths plot to unleash a new kind of bio-chemical horror on an unsupecting populace of daydreaming salary-people. science fiction fiction Creative Commons Post-1930 http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/3501.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/3501.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/3501.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/3501.mobi Light-Years Ahead of His Time Joseph Devon http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/3163 en 2007 This story was published out of sequence because I got somewhat derailed during the Holidays by family and then I got sick and blah blah blah. At some point leading up to this story I decided that I wanted to write something about “worm-holes and morons.” This is the result of that wish. science fiction fiction Creative Commons short story worm holes morons time travel http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/3163.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/3163.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/3163.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/3163.mobi Starfish Peter Watts http://www.feedbooks.com/book/974 urn:isbn:0312868553 en 2000 Novels Science Fiction A huge international corporation has developed a facility along the Juan de Fuca Ridge at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean to exploit geothermal power. They send a bio-engineered crew--people who have been altered to withstand the pressure and breathe the seawater--down to live and work in this weird, fertile undersea darkness. Unfortunately the only people suitable for long-term employment in these experimental power stations are crazy, some of them in unpleasant ways. How many of them can survive, or will be allowed to survive, while worldwide disaster approaches from below? Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/974.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/974.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/974.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/974.mobi Maelstrom Peter Watts http://www.feedbooks.com/book/975 urn:isbn:0312878060 en 2001 Novels Science Fiction An enormous tidal wave on the west coast of North America has just killed thousands. Lenie Clarke, in a black wetsuit, walks out of the ocean onto a Pacific Northwest beach filled with the oppressed and drugged homeless of the Asian world who have gotten only this far in their attempt to reach America. Is she a monster, or a goddess? One thing is for sure: all hell is breaking loose. This dark, fast-paced, hard SF novel returns to the story begun in Starfish: all human life is threatened by a disease (actually a primeval form of life) from the distant prehuman past. It survived only in the deep ocean rift where Clarke and her companions were stationed before the corporation that employed them tried to sterilize the threat with a secret underwater nuclear strike. But Clarke was far enough away that she was able to survive and tough enough to walk home, 300 miles across the ocean floor. She arrives carrying with her the potential death of the human race, and possessed by a desire for revenge. Maelstrom is a terrifying explosion of cyberpunk noir by a writer whose narrative, says Robert Sheckley, "drives like a futuristic locomotive." Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/975.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/975.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/975.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/975.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 Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom Cory Doctorow http://www.feedbooks.com/book/194 urn:isbn:076530953X en 2003 Novels Science Fiction Jules is a young man barely a century old. He's lived long enough to see the cure for death and the end of scarcity, to learn ten languages and compose three symphonies...and to realize his boyhood dream of taking up residence in Disney World.Disney World! The greatest artistic achievement of the long-ago twentieth century. Now in the keeping of a network of "ad-hocs" who keep the classic attractions running as they always have, enhanced with only the smallest high-tech touches.Now, though, the "ad hocs" are under attack. A new group has taken over the Hall of the Presidents, and is replacing its venerable audioanimatronics with new, immersive direct-to-brain interfaces that give guests the illusion of being Washington, Lincoln, and all the others. For Jules, this is an attack on the artistic purity of Disney World itself. Worse: it appears this new group has had Jules killed. This upsets him. (It's only his fourth death and revival, after all.) Now it's war.... Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/194.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/194.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/194.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/194.mobi Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom Cory Doctorow http://www.feedbooks.com/book/194 urn:isbn:076530953X en 2003 Novels Science Fiction Jules is a young man barely a century old. He's lived long enough to see the cure for death and the end of scarcity, to learn ten languages and compose three symphonies...and to realize his boyhood dream of taking up residence in Disney World.Disney World! The greatest artistic achievement of the long-ago twentieth century. Now in the keeping of a network of "ad-hocs" who keep the classic attractions running as they always have, enhanced with only the smallest high-tech touches.Now, though, the "ad hocs" are under attack. A new group has taken over the Hall of the Presidents, and is replacing its venerable audioanimatronics with new, immersive direct-to-brain interfaces that give guests the illusion of being Washington, Lincoln, and all the others. For Jules, this is an attack on the artistic purity of Disney World itself. Worse: it appears this new group has had Jules killed. This upsets him. (It's only his fourth death and revival, after all.) Now it's war.... Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/194.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/194.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/194.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/194.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 Moonfleet John Meade Falkner http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1606 urn:isbn:0140367047 en 1898 Novels Adventure Moonfleet is a tale of smuggling by the English novelist J. Meade Falkner, first published in 1898. The book was extremely popular among children worldwide up until the 1970s, mostly for its themes of adventure and gripping storyline. It remains a popular story widely read and is still sometimes studied in schools. The novel is set in a fishing village in Dorset during the mid 18th century. The story concerns a 15 year old orphan boy, John Trenchard, who becomes friends with an older man who turns out to be the leader of a gang of smugglers. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1606.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1606.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1606.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1606.mobi The Time Axis Henry Kuttner http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2318 urn:isbn:B000GCFFZM en 1948 Novels Science Fiction Called to the end of time by a being known as The Face of Ea, four adventurers face a power that not even the science of that era could meet -- the nekron, negative matter, negative force, ultimate desctruction for everything it touched! This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2318.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2318.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2318.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2318.mobi A Texas Matchmaker Andy Adams http://www.feedbooks.com/book/911 urn:isbn:1406504106 en 1904 Novels Western From the writer and genuine Western Trail cattle driver, responsible for some of the best and most realistic accounts of cowboy life in literature. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/911.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/911.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/911.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/911.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 Tarrano the Conqueror Raymond King Cummings http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1163 en 1930 Novels Science Fiction In Tarrano the Conqueror is presented a tale of the year 2430 A.D.--a time somewhat farther beyond our present-day era than we are beyond Columbus' discovery of America. My desire has been to create for you the impression that you have suddenly been plunged forward into that time--to give you the feeling Columbus might have had could he have read a novel of our present-day life. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1163.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1163.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1163.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1163.mobi