The Tide Mill Richard Herley http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2265 en 2008 Novels History Adventure The setting is feudal Sussex in the thirteenth century, a landscape and society that have changed almost beyond recognition. The power of the Church is at its zenith, and the bishop of Alincester is one of the richest men in England. He derives income from the watermills in his diocese: the forces of wind and rain are held to be divine. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2265.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2265.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2265.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2265.mobi The Penal Colony Richard Herley http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2264 en 1987 Novels Science Fiction Thriller It is 1997. The British government now runs island prison colonies to take dangerous offenders from its overcrowded mainland jails. Among all these colonies, Sert, 25 miles off the north Cornish coast, has the worst reputation. There are no warders. Satellite technology is used to keep the convicts under watch. New arrivals are dumped by helicopter and must learn to survive as best they can. But not all the islanders are savages. Under the charismatic leadership of one man a community has evolved. A community with harsh and unyielding rules, peopled by resourceful men for whom the hopeless dream of escape may not be so hopeless after all ... 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This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3348.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3348.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3348.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3348.mobi The Earth Goddess Richard Herley http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2263 en 1984 Novels Adventure It is 3000 BC. The cult of the Earth Goddess is controlled throughout the vast empire of Europe by the secretive and unscrupulous Red Order, the priesthood which manipulates all power for its own ends. The land that is now called England has been annexed and its lord, Brennis Gehan Fifth, betrayed and murdered. The Lady Altheme, his consort, has escaped to the forest. She is carrying his son, Paoul, rightful inheritor of the Valdoe domain. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2263.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2263.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2263.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2263.mobi The Black Tulip Alexandre Dumas http://www.feedbooks.com/book/118 urn:isbn:0199540462 en 1850 Novels Adventure http://www.feedbooks.com/book/118.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/118.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/118.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/118.mobi The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Emma Orczy http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3568 urn:isbn:014037454X en 1905 Novels History Adventure In this historical adventure set during the French Revolution, the elusive Scarlet Pimpernel sets out to rescue men, women and children facing the horrors of the guillotine, while evading the relentless pursuit of his arch enemy, Chauvelin. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3568.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3568.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3568.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3568.mobi Captain Blood Rafael Sabatini http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2158 urn:isbn:1595478809 en 1922 Novels Adventure A gentlemanly Irish physician is innocently condemned to a life of slavery in the English colonies across the sea. There, on a Caribbean Island plantation, the good Dr. Peter Blood, toils as a slave. A chance raid by Spaniards affords Blood his opportunity to escape into a life of piracy and crime upon the high seas. But Blood is a pirate with a sense of honor. How Blood distinguishes himself against his enemies, is the tale in this enjoyable historical adventure. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2158.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2158.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2158.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2158.mobi The Sea Wolf Jack London http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2848 urn:isbn:0553212257 en 1904 Novels Adventure Chronicles the voyages of a ship run by the ruthless Wolf Larsen, among the greatest of London's characters, and spokesman for an extreme individualism London intended to critique. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2848.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2848.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2848.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2848.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 Zero-Option Lindsay Brambles http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2240 en 2007 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/2240.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2240.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2240.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2240.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 Burn James Patrick Kelly http://www.feedbooks.com/book/651 urn:isbn:1892391279 en 2005 Novels Science Fiction Colonization is the theme of this exciting, complex page-turner that provides a provocative and entertaining look at Thoreau's classic eco-text Walden. Eccentric billionaire Jack Winter has bought the planet Beekman's Pea, renamed it Walden, and created a utopia in which members renounce the technologies of human civilization. Marginalized by these newcomers, the planet's original inhabitants are resisting the colony's dominance by setting fires to Walden's artificial ecology. A member of Walden, Prosper Gregory Leung is a veteran firefighter who believes in protecting Winter's utopian vision, but when he is wounded, he begins to learn of the terrible price that the people of Walden are paying for their paradise. Interwoven with themes of environmental responsibility, political struggle, and courage, this adventure novel nimbly combines political and social relevance with a flawless and gripping narrative from a veteran science fiction author. 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Captain Lena Fang doesn't care--she has made her life on her ship, where her best friend is the ship's AI. Samuel Fisher, the contract exobiologist,doesn't care, either. He is making the voyage of a lifetime and in the small world of the Karamojo he will have to live with the consequences of his obsessive quest for knowledge. The rest of the small crew--Axel Henderson, the biosystems engineer; Sylvia Devereaux, the beautiful physical sciences expert; and Phil Stearn, the ship's jack-of-all-trades--have their own reasons for saying good-bye to everyone they have ever known. As the Biolathe AI said, uncertain five hundred- year round trips don't attract the most stable personalities, but somehow they'll have to learn to get along with each other, if they're to catch their dragon and come home again. For at the end of the journey is the star dragon--a creature of fire with a nuclear furnace for heart. The crew of the Karamojo--human and AI alike--will risk everything to capture it, and it will take all their technology, all their skill, and more courage than they knew they had, to come home alive. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2293.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2293.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2293.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2293.mobi Ventus Karl Schroeder http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1690 urn:isbn:0812576357 en 2000 Novels Science Fiction After terrifying and titanic struggles, a godlike artificial intelligence gone rogue has finally been destroyed. But not before it scattered seeds of itself throughout the galaxy. On the terraformed planet Ventus, benign AIs -- the godlike Winds – which shaped and guarded its transformation, have fallen silent. Calandria May is sent down to the surface where she quickly finds that an extension of the rogue AI, a cyborg called Armiger, has planted a strange and powerful device in a young man named Jordan Mason. Jordan has visions. He is desperate to find their meaning and source -- desperate enough to risk awakening the Winds, perhaps invoking the power that can destroy technology to protect the environment they created. Ventus is an epic journey across a fascinating planet with two big mysteries -- why have the Winds fallen silent? And is Armiger, or Jordan, carrying a Resurrection Seed? 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So who do you send to force introductions on an intelligence with motives unknown, maybe unknowable? Who do you send to meet the alien when the alien doesn't want to meet? You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound, so compromised by grafts and splices he no longer feels his own flesh. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed, and the fainter one she'll do any good if she is. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist—an informational topologist with half his mind gone—as an interface between here and there, a conduit through which the Dead Center might hope to understand the Bleeding Edge. You send them all to the edge of interstellar space, praying you can trust such freaks and retrofits with the fate of a world. You fear they may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find. But you'd give anything for that to be true, if you only knew what was waiting for them... Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/976.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/976.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/976.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/976.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! 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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/860.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/860.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/860.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/860.mobi The Door Through Space Marion Zimmer Bradley http://www.feedbooks.com/book/835 urn:isbn:1603120475 en 1961 Novels Science Fiction ... across half a Galaxy, the Terran Empire maintains its sovereignty with the consent of the governed. It is a peaceful reign, held by compact and not by conquest. Again and again, when rebellion threatens the Terran Peace, the natives of the rebellious world have turned against their own people and sided with the men of Terra; not from fear, but from a sense of dedication. There has never been open war. The battle for these worlds is fought in the minds of a few men who stand between worlds; bound to one world by interest, loyalties and allegiance; bound to the other by love. Such a world is Wolf. Such a man was Race Cargill of the Terran Secret Service. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/835.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/835.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/835.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/835.mobi Invaders from the Infinite John Wood Campbell http://www.feedbooks.com/book/844 urn:isbn:1603120491 en 1961 Novels Science Fiction The alien spaceship was unthinkably huge, enormously powerful, apparently irresistible. It came from the void and settled on Earth, striking awe into the hearts of all who saw it. Its burden, however, was not conquest -- but a call for help! First contact was a job for the brilliant team of scientists, Arcot, Wade, and Morey,explorers of the Islands of Space. And what they learned was an offer of an alliance against an invading foe so powerful that no known force could turn them back! 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First contact with an alien race dangerous enough to threaten the safety of two planets.... The arrival of an unseen dark sun whose attendant marauders aimed at the very end of civilization in this Solar System.... Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/845.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/845.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/845.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/845.mobi