Mark Nelson

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Satire

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William Dean Howells - Traveller from Altruria

Set in the early 1890s, at a fashionable summer resort somewhere on the East Coast of the United States, this book tells the story of Mr. Twelvemough, an author who has been selected to function as host to a visitor...

Foon and 4 more 7 hours 36 minutes

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Fantasy Fiction

488

Poul William Anderson - Golden Slave

100 B.C. The Cimbrian hordes galloped across the dawn of history and clashed in screaming battle against the mighty Roman legions. Led by their chief, Boierik, and his son, Eodan, the hungry and homeless pagan...

Mark Nelson 7 hours 35 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

572

Arthur J. Burks - Astounding Stories 04, April 1930

The fourth issue of Astounding Stories continues Ray Cummings serial «Brigands of the Moon», along with pulp sci-fi stories by Capt. S. P. Meek, Anthony Pelcher and other authors. — Summary by Alan Winterrowd

Tommy Howell and 3 more 7 hours 33 minutes Astounding Stories Magazines Issues 1-20

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Science Fiction

505

Short Science Fiction Collection 037

Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and scientific method, but are not facts of the author’s contemporary world. The...

NickNumber and 5 more 7 hours 33 minutes Short Science Fiction Collections

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Science Fiction

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John Wood Campbell. Jr. - Invaders from the Infinite

The famous scientific trio of Arcot, Wade and Morey, challenged by the most ruthless aliens in all the universes, blasted off on an intergalactic search for defenses against the invaders of Earth and all her allies....

Mark Nelson 7 hours 32 minutes

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Science Fiction

510

H. Beam Piper - Cosmic Computer

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...

Mark Nelson 7 hours 27 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

555

Edgar Rice Burroughs - Princess of Mars (version 2)

John Carter, an American Civil War veteran, goes prospecting in Arizona and, when set upon by Indians, is mysteriously transported to Mars, called «Barsoom» by its inhabitants. Carter finds that he has great strength...

Mark Nelson 7 hours 26 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Garrett P. Serviss - Columbus of Space

A classic science fiction adventure in the style of and dedicated to the readers of Jules Verne. An independent scientist discovers the secret of “inter-atomic energy”, and with it builds a craft which carries himself...

Mark Nelson 7 hours 24 minutes

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Fantastic Fiction

510

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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Up From Slavery: An Autobiography (version 2)

Memoirs

434

Booker T. Washington - Up From Slavery: An Autobiography (version 2)

Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington sharing his personal experience of having to work to rise up from the position of a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties and obstacles...

Mark Nelson 7 hours 22 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Short Mystery Story Collection 001

Librivox’s Short Mystery Story Collection 001: a collection of 10 short works of mysterious fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.

Mark Nelson and 8 more 7 hours 18 minutes Short Mystery Collections

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Science Fiction

442

Keith Laumer - Trace of Memory

Legion was homeless and hungry and looking for a way to get to Miami when he crossed paths with Foster. Foster enlists Legion's aid in dealing with the mysterious light-beings called Hunters who he says have been...

Nick Bulka and 1 more 7 hours 14 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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