Lone Star Planet Henry Beam Piper http://www.feedbooks.com/book/344 urn:isbn:B00171ISHI en 1958 Novels Science Fiction In 1999, this novel won the Prometheus Award, Hall of Fame Award for Best Classic Libertarian SF Novel. This tale features a planet of Texans whose dinosaur-sized cattle have to be herded with tanks, and whose system of government derives its character from H.L. Mencken's classic essay "The Malevolent Jobholder". The protagonist is an insubordinate junior diplomat who is appointed as ambassador to this cantankerously independent planet in the hope that he will be assassinated (as the previous ambassador had been), thereby justifying the forcible invasion and conquest of the Texans. The crux of the story is the trial of the previous ambassador's assassins--actually paid killers hired by an alien empire also planning invasion--under a legal system that considers the killing of a practicing politician to be justifiable homicide. 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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 Empire Clifford Donald Simak http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2510 urn:isbn:B000WCWVG2 en 1951 Novels 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/2510.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2510.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2510.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2510.mobi The Creature from Beyond Infinity Henry Kuttner http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2316 urn:isbn:B000J0T9EY en 1940 Novels Science Fiction Cosmic terror strikes as a messenger of death sweeps through the universe. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2316.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2316.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2316.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2316.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! 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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/874.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/874.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/874.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/874.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 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? 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This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2382.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2382.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2382.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2382.mobi The Moon Metal Garrett Putman Serviss http://www.feedbooks.com/book/872 urn:isbn:1434696413 en 1900 Novels Science Fiction This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/872.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/872.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/872.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/872.mobi Highways in Hiding George Oliver Smith http://www.feedbooks.com/book/876 en 1956 Novels Science Fiction Strange signposts led to an underworld of ESP, espionage... and untold danger. Follow Steve Cornell's weird and terrifying race with time and unseen enemies to locate and stop a dread menace from outer space! 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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 Island of Dr. Moreau H. G. Wells http://www.feedbooks.com/book/33 urn:isbn:0553214322 en 1896 Novels Science Fiction Edward Prendick is shipwrecked in the Pacific. Rescued by Doctor Moreau's assistant he is taken to the doctor's island home where he discovers the doctor has been experimenting on the animal inhabitants of the island, creating bizarre proto-humans... 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Wells http://www.feedbooks.com/book/32 urn:isbn:0812505042 en 1895 Novels Science Fiction The book's protagonist is an amateur inventor or scientist living in London who is never named; he is identified simply as The Time Traveller. Having demonstrated to friends using a miniature model that time is a fourth dimension, and that a suitable apparatus can move back and forth in this fourth dimension, he builds a full-scale model capable of carrying himself. He sets off on a journey into the future. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/32.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/32.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/32.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/32.mobi The Invisible Man H. G. Wells http://www.feedbooks.com/book/34 urn:isbn:0451528522 en 1897 Novels Science Fiction The Invisible Man is an 1897 science fiction novella by H.G. Wells. Wells' novel was originally serialised in Pearson's Magazine in 1897, and published as a novel the same year. The Invisible Man of the title is Griffin, a scientist who theorises that if a person's refractive index is changed to exactly that of air and his body does not absorb or reflect light, then he will be invisible. He successfully carries out this procedure on himself, but cannot become visible again, becoming mentally unstable as a result. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/34.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/34.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/34.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/34.mobi In the Days of the Comet H. G. Wells http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2477 urn:isbn:1406584207 en 1906 Novels Science Fiction A fantastic tale of the world's beauty and unity after the Great Change occurs. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2477.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2477.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2477.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2477.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 City of Endless Night Milo Milton Hastings http://www.feedbooks.com/book/891 en 1920 Novels Science Fiction When but a child of seven my uncle placed me in a private school in which one of the so-called redeemed sub-sailors was a teacher of the German language. As I look back now, in the light of my present knowledge, I better comprehend the docile humility and carefully nurtured ignorance of this man. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/891.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/891.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/891.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/891.mobi Geek Mafia Rick Dakan http://www.feedbooks.com/book/917 urn:isbn:0977264904 en 2006 Novels Thriller Fired from a job he hated at a company he loved, videogame designer Paul Reynolds is drowning his sorrows in late-morning margaritas when he meets an alluring, pink-haired conwoman named Chloe. With her gang of techno-pirate friends, Chloe helps Paul not only take revenge on his former employers, but also extort a small fortune from them in the process. What more could a recently unemployed, over-worked videogame designer in Silicon Valley ask for? In return for Chloe’s help, Paul agrees to create counterfeit comic books for one of her crew’s criminal schemes. In the process finds himself drawn right into the center of their wild, seductive, underground world. He falls in for their fun loving, drug fueled “off the grid” lifestyle almost as fast as he falls head over heels for Chloe. Wary of the Crew’s darker side, but eager to impress both the girl and the gang, Paul uses his game design expertise to invent a masterful con of his own. If all goes according to plan, it will be one for the ages. But can he trust any of them, or is he the one who’s really being conned? Inspired by author Rick Dakan’s own eventful experiences in the videogame and comic book industries, "Geek Mafia", 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/917.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/917.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/917.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/917.mobi The Lost World Arthur Conan Doyle http://www.feedbooks.com/book/67 urn:isbn:0812564839 en 1912 Novels Adventure The Lost World is a novel released in 1912 by Arthur Conan Doyle concerning an expedition to a plateau in South America where prehistoric animals (dinosaurs and other extinct creatures) still survive. The character of Professor Challenger was introduced in this book. Interestingly, for a seminal work of dinosaur-related fiction, the animals only occupy a small portion of the narrative. Much more time is devoted to a war between early human hominids and a vicious tribe of ape-like creatures. 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