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A Mayfair Magician; a Romance of Criminal Science - George GRIFFITH
A Mayfair Magician; a Romance of Criminal Science - George GRIFFITH
- Author: George GRIFFITH
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Science Fiction / Fantasy Fiction
Our narrator, a researcher, finds himself snowed in at a Scottish prison. The resident doctor, an observer of criminal psychology, offers him hospitality and entertainment in the form of this story, an account of the bizarre case of a strange...
The Rat Race - Jay FRANKLIN
The Rat Race - Jay FRANKLIN
- Author: Jay FRANKLIN
- Genre: Science Fiction / Fantasy Fiction
When an atomic explosion destroys the battleship Alaska, Lt. Commander Frank Jacklin returns to consciousness in New York and is shocked to find himself in the body of Winnie Tompkins, a dissolute stock-broker. Unable to explain his real identity,...
The Legion of Lazarus - Edmond HAMILTON
The Legion of Lazarus - Edmond HAMILTON
- Author: Edmond HAMILTON
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction
Those convicted of the most heinous crimes are sentenced to the Humane Penalty: they are ejected from the airlock of a ship, to freeze in the icy chill of outer space. Death is instantaneous. But in some cases, not permanent. - Summary by Peter...
The Angel of the Revolution - George GRIFFITH
The Angel of the Revolution - George GRIFFITH
- Author: George GRIFFITH
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction / War & Military Fiction
The Angel of the Revolution: A Tale of the Coming Terror (1893) is a science fiction novel by English writer George Griffith. It was his first published novel and remains his most famous work. It was first published in Pearson's Weekly and was...
Mercenary - Dallas McCord REYNOLDS
Mercenary - Dallas McCord REYNOLDS
- Author: Dallas McCord REYNOLDS
- Genre: General Fiction / Science Fiction
Every status-quo-caste society in history has left open two roads to rise above your caste: The Priest and The Warrior. But in a society of TV and tranquilizers--the Warrior acquires a strange new meaning... (Introduction from the Gutenberg text)...
Countdown - Kurt BECKER. S. J.
Countdown - Kurt BECKER. S. J.
- Author: Kurt BECKER. S. J.
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction / General
The first flight to outer space became an actual fact – Mars would be the first stop. But before the spaceship took off, two insane enemies almost succeeded in preventing the departure. This science fiction story for teens was written by a Catholic...
The Pirates of Ersatz - Murray Leinster
The Pirates of Ersatz - Murray Leinster
- Author: Murray Leinster
- Genre: Science Fiction
Bron is the offspring of infamous space pirates but instead of following in the family footsteps he decides to become an electronic engineer. Unfortunately, every time he tries to get out, something pulls him back in. This is a tongue-in-cheek space...
Dark Moon - Charles Willard Diffin
Dark Moon - Charles Willard Diffin
- Author: Charles Willard Diffin
- Genre: Science Fiction
Mysterious, dark, out of the unknown deep comes a new satellite to lure three courageous Earthlings on to strange adventures. (Summary by Charles Diffin)...
Short Science Fiction Collection 008 - Alan Edward NOURSE
Short Science Fiction Collection 008 - Alan Edward NOURSE
- Author: Alan Edward NOURSE
- Genre: Science Fiction / Anthologies
This volume of the LibriVox Science-Fiction Collection is devoted to Alan E. Nourse (1928-1992). Nourse became a science fiction writer to help pay for his medical education, but eventually retired from practicing medicine to pursue his writing...
Astounding Stories 15, March 1931 - Undefined
Astounding Stories 15, March 1931 - Undefined
- Author: Undefined
- Genre: Science Fiction
This issue includes "When the Mountain Came to Miramar" by Charles W. Diffin, "Beyond the Vanishing Point" by Ray Cummings, "Terrors Unseen" by Harl Vincent, the conclusion of "Phalanxes of Atlans" by F. V. W. Mason, and "The Meteor Girl" by Jack...
The Steam House - Jules Verne
The Steam House - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction
Jules Verne is back with another action-packed adventure--this time in India with a steam-powered elephant! Maucler, Captain Hood, Banks, and Colonel Munro set out for a pleasure trip across India in their train pulled by Behemoth, their mechanical...
The Coming Race - Edward BULWER-LYTTON
The Coming Race - Edward BULWER-LYTTON
- Author: Edward BULWER-LYTTON
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / Science Fiction
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803-1873) was an English novelist, poet, playright, and politician. Lord Lytton was a florid, popular writer of his day, who coined such phrases as "the great unwashed", "pursuit of the...
Astounding Stories 12, December 1930 - Undefined
Astounding Stories 12, December 1930 - Undefined
- Author: Undefined
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction
This issue includes "Slaves of the Dust" by Sophie Wenzel Ellis, Part B of "The Pirate Planet" by Charles W. Diffin, "The Sea Terror" by Captain S. P. Meek, "Gray Denim" by Harl Vincent, and "The Ape-Men of Xlotli" by David R. Sparks. - Summary by...
Master of Life and Death - Robert Silverberg
Master of Life and Death - Robert Silverberg
- Author: Robert Silverberg
- Genre: Science Fiction
When Roy Walton becomes the new director of the UN division of population control, after the director is assassinated, he becomes the most hated man in the world. Being Director involved him in not only population control, but a terra-forming...
Arm of the Law - Harry Harrison
Arm of the Law - Harry Harrison
- Author: Harry Harrison
- Genre: Science Fiction
A quiet backwater outpost on Mars gets a surprise in the form of a new police recruit - in a box! Yep, it's a prototype robot cop sent to the backwater station for testing. And Harrison tells the strange, funny and scary things that begin to happen...
The Creature from Beyond Infinity - Henry Kuttner
The Creature from Beyond Infinity - Henry Kuttner
- Author: Henry Kuttner
- Genre: General Fiction / Science Fiction
A lone space traveler arrives on Earth seeking a new planet to colonize, his own world dead. At the same time a mysterious plague has infected Earth that will wipe out all life. Can a lone scientist stop the plague and save the world? Or will the...
His Master's Voice - Randall Garrett
His Master's Voice - Randall Garrett
- Author: Randall Garrett
- Genre: Science Fiction
This is a follow up story to Randal Garrett's original story, A Spaceship Named McGyer. The intrepid protagonist, now that he has become the completely unintended and unwilling master of the robot spaceship McGyer, is called in by the owners, very...
The Forgotten Planet - Murray Leinster
The Forgotten Planet - Murray Leinster
- Author: Murray Leinster
- Genre: Science Fiction
The "forgotten" planet had been seeded for life, first with microbes and later with plants and insects. A third expedition, intended to complete the seeding with animals, never occurred. Over the millennia the insects and plants grew to gigantic...
Masters of Space - E. E. Smith
Masters of Space - E. E. Smith
- Author: E. E. Smith
- Genre: Science Fiction
The Masters had ruled all space with an unconquerable iron fist. But the Masters were gone. And this new, young race who came now to take their place--could they hope to defeat the ancient Enemy of All? (Summary by Gutenberg)...
Astounding Stories 01, January 1930 - Undefined
Astounding Stories 01, January 1930 - Undefined
- Author: Undefined
- Genre: Science Fiction / Short Stories
In January of 1930 a new magazine with a flashy color cover appeared on newsstands, Astounding Stories of Super-Science. Filled with stories of adventure, sometimes with only a tinge of science, this magazine was to host and nurture many science...
Short Science Fiction Collection 046 - Various
Short Science Fiction Collection 046 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Science Fiction / Anthologies
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 stories often represent...
Tom Swift and His Sky Racer - Victor Appleton
Tom Swift and His Sky Racer - Victor Appleton
- Author: Victor Appleton
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction
A $10,000 prize lures Tom into competing at a local aviation meet at Eagle Park. Tom is determined to build the fastest plane around, but his plans mysteriously disappear, which means Tom must redesign his new airplane from the beginning. (Summary...
Hellhounds of the Cosmos - Clifford D. Simak
Hellhounds of the Cosmos - Clifford D. Simak
- Author: Clifford D. Simak
- Genre: Science Fiction
From Astounding Stories of 1932. Earth is being attacked by horrible black monsters that appear from nowhere and destroy and kill everything and everyone in their paths. Nothing affects them, nothing stops them; they are impervious to all weapons....
Tourmalin’s Time Cheques - F. Anstey
Tourmalin’s Time Cheques - F. Anstey
- Author: F. Anstey
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Science Fiction
Peter Tourmalin is on a sea voyage back home to England from Australia, to return to his fiancee, and he is very bored. The fact that the time difference adds on extra hours to his boredom only makes it worse. So when he gets a unique opportunity to...
A Honeymoon in Space - George GRIFFITH
A Honeymoon in Space - George GRIFFITH
- Author: George GRIFFITH
- Genre: Science Fiction
Miss Lilla Zaidie Rennick is on a trans-Atlantic trip to England, she is supposed to marry Marquis of Byfleet, son of the Duke of Duncaster in a month's time. But her plans are about to change when Lord Redgrave comes along side in the Astronef, a...
The Sex Life of the Gods - Michael KNERR
The Sex Life of the Gods - Michael KNERR
- Author: Michael KNERR
- Genre: Erotica / Science Fiction
Beth Danson was about twenty-five and, besides her deep auburn-brown hair and lovely face, she boasted an equally attractive body. He found himself captivated by the warm thrust of her breasts beneath the silk blouse. The clear milk of her flesh, at...
A Spaceship Named McGuire - Randall Garrett
A Spaceship Named McGuire - Randall Garrett
- Author: Randall Garrett
- Genre: Science Fiction
Can a spaceship go crazy? Well, yes it can if it has a brain. And the new MG (magnetogravitic drive) experimental robot space ship does indeed have a 'brain'. Completely bewildered as to why the first six models of their supposedly perfect new ship...
Invaders from the Infinite - John Wood CAMPBELL. JR.
Invaders from the Infinite - John Wood CAMPBELL. JR.
- Author: John Wood CAMPBELL. JR.
- Genre: Science Fiction
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. World after world was visited,...
5 Science Fiction Stories by Mac Reynolds - Dallas McCord REYNOLDS
5 Science Fiction Stories by Mac Reynolds - Dallas McCord REYNOLDS
- Author: Dallas McCord REYNOLDS
- Genre: Science Fiction
Five early stories by one of my favorite SF writers, Mack Reynolds. Medal of Honor is an intriguing look into the mind of someone who is above the law; who cannot commit a crime. How will he act? especially if he is a self centered drunk? Potential...
The People of the Crater - Andre Norton
The People of the Crater - Andre Norton
- Author: Andre Norton
- Genre: Science Fiction
An air force pilot adrift in peacetime is recruited to join an Antarctic expedition. When a strange mist downs his plane he discovers an ancient alien civilization which has prophesized his arrival. Now he and his faithful pet Ana must descend to...
The Food of the Gods and How it Came to Earth - H. G. Wells
The Food of the Gods and How it Came to Earth - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: Science Fiction
Two stuffy English scientists, always looking to further their scientific knowledge, create a substance called Herakleophorbia, which in its fourth incarnation – known as Herakleophorbia IV – has the special ability of making things increase greatly...
Preferred Risk - Frederik Pohl
Preferred Risk - Frederik Pohl
- Author: Frederik Pohl
- Genre: Science Fiction
The Company insures you against everything. Everything except war, that is. But they've put an end to wars (or so they claim). The Company also controls everything. Including all the sources of weapons. The Company is dedicated to the happiness of...
A Martian Odyssey & A Valley of Dreams - Stanley G. WEINBAUM
A Martian Odyssey & A Valley of Dreams - Stanley G. WEINBAUM
- Author: Stanley G. WEINBAUM
- Genre: Science Fiction
The first of these stories was originally published in the July 1934 issue of Wonder Stories. It was followed four months later by a sequel, "Valley of Dreams" in the same magazine. These classic stories take us to Mars where we meet a Martian, or...
Short Science Fiction Collection 018 - Various
Short Science Fiction Collection 018 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Science Fiction / Anthologies
Science fiction (abbreviated SF or sci-fi with varying punctuation and case) is a broad genre of fiction that often involves sociological and technical speculations based on current or future science or technology. This is a reader-selected...
3 Science Fiction Stories by Frank Herbert - Frank HERBERT
3 Science Fiction Stories by Frank Herbert - Frank HERBERT
- Author: Frank HERBERT
- Genre: Science Fiction
As the title indicates, here are three SF stories by Frank Herbert, Missing LInk, originaly purlished in Astounding SF, 1959; Operation Haystack, also published in Astounding SF 1959; and Old Rambling House, published in Galaxy SF 1958. - Summary by...
Venus Boy - Lee SUTTON
Venus Boy - Lee SUTTON
- Author: Lee SUTTON
- Genre: Science Fiction
If you ever make a trip to the green planet of Venus, the first thing you'll see will be the fifty-foot high statue of Venus' greatest hero. It stands on the very top of towering New Plymouth Rock at the edge of the old colony of New Plymouth. Even...
A Trace of Memory - Keith Laumer
A Trace of Memory - Keith Laumer
- Author: Keith Laumer
- Genre: Science Fiction
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 chasing him, and also in recovering...
Four-Day Planet - H. Beam Piper
Four-Day Planet - H. Beam Piper
- Author: H. Beam Piper
- Genre: Science Fiction
Fenris isn't a hell planet, but it's nobody's bargain. With 2,000-hour days and an 8,000-hour year, it alternates blazing heat with killing cold. A planet like that tends to breed a special kind of person: tough enough to stay alive and smart enough...
Damned If You Don't - Randall Garrett
Damned If You Don't - Randall Garrett
- Author: Randall Garrett
- Genre: Science Fiction
We've all heard of the wonderful invention that the Big Corporation or the Utilities suppressed? The one that would revolutionize society with it's simplicity? Well usually, that Wonderful Invention won't work, actually. But what if there really was...
The Iron Heel - Jack London
The Iron Heel - Jack London
- Author: Jack London
- Genre: General Fiction / Science Fiction / *Non-fiction
A dystopian novel about the terrible oppressions of an American oligarchy at the beginning of the Twentieth Century, and the struggles of a socialist revolutionary movement. (Introduction by Matt Soar)...
