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Victor Hugo - Hans of Iceland

Hans of Iceland was written in 1821 and is the very first novel written by young Victor, years before he became the great Hugo. It has all the ingredients of a gothic novel: dreadful murders by the hand of a human...

Sonia 13 hours 12 minutes

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Joseph Conrad - Inheritors

The Inheritors: An Extravagant Story (1901) is a quasi-science fiction novel on which Ford Madox Ford and Joseph Conrad collaborated. It looks at society's mental evolution and what is gained and lost in the process....

John Burlinson and 4 more 7 hours 10 minutes

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Short Science Fiction Collection 054

Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is possible. The only rules are those set forth by the author. The speculative...

Mike Amato and 12 more 7 hours 23 minutes Short Science Fiction Collections

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Marie Corelli - Secret Power

This Marie Corelli novel falls in the realm of fantasy and science fiction with a steampunk element. The story centers around Morgana Royal, a powerful woman who invents an airship, and Roger Seaton, her love interest...

Leena Emsley and 8 more 10 hours 19 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Jules Verne - Abandoned

Explorers in a hot-air balloon land on an island, figuring that they must be the only inhabitants. However, they discover a bullet inside a wounded animal--one which must have been fired within the previous three...

Masch1 and 13 more 7 hours 1 minute

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Harry Bates - Astounding Stories 14, February 1931

This issue includes «Werewolves of War» by D. W. Hall, «The Tentacles from Below» by Anthony Gilmore, «The Black Lamp» by Captain S. P. Meek, «Phalanxes of Atlans» by F. V. W. Mason, and contues with «The Pirate...

Bill Boerst 7 hours 56 minutes Astounding Stories Magazines Issues 1-20

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Charles Willard Diffin - Astounding Stories 13, January 1931

This issue contains «The Dark Side of Antri» by Sewell Peaslea Wright, «The Sunken Empire» by H. Thompson Rich, «The Gate to Xoran» by Hal K. Wells, «The Eye of Allah» by C. D. Willard, «The Fifth-Dimension Catapult»...

Bill Boerst 7 hours 52 minutes Astounding Stories Magazines Issues 1-20

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Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley

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Lord Dunsany - Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley

A coming of age story blended with a swashbuckling road trip through an mythical «golden age» of Spain. The titular character is excluded from the inheritance of the family castle on the grounds that given his...

Ed Humpal 7 hours 35 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman - With Her in Ourland

Third in the trilogy of the feminist classics, after Moving the Mountain and Herland . It was published serially in Perkins Gilman's periodical The Forerunner . In Herland , three American young men discover a...

Amelia Chesley and 4 more 5 hours 53 minutes

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Edward Bellamy - Dr. Heidenhoff's Process

Henry Burr's fiance, Madeline, is seduced by another man. The guilt and painful memories she has as a result cause him to refer her to Dr. Heidenhoff, who has developed a method to remove such memories from people's...

Mike Golczynski and 6 more 3 hours 38 minutes

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Edgar Rice Burroughs - At the Earth's Core (version 2)

David Innes is a mining heir who finances the experimental «iron mole,» an excavating vehicle designed by his elderly inventor friend Abner Perry. In a test run, they discover the vehicle cannot be turned, and it...

Mark Nelson 4 hours 57 minutes

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Mary Heaton Vorse - Ninth Man

A fictional town in Italy is conquered by a heartless tyrant. He issues a strange but cruel edict: in thirty days, each ninth person, chosen by lot, shall designate secretly whom he wishes put to death in the public...

TriciaG 1 hour 39 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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