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Mr. Spaceship - Philip K. DICK
Mr. Spaceship - Philip K. DICK
- Author: Philip K. DICK
- Genre: Science Fiction
The war with the Yucks from Proxima Centauri was claimed to be a stalemate but they were really winning. The mine belts they laid seemed to propagate themselves and were slowly strangling Terran planets. How did they do that? What was their secret?...
Doomsday Eve - Robert Moore WILLIAMS
Doomsday Eve - Robert Moore WILLIAMS
- Author: Robert Moore WILLIAMS
- Genre: Science Fiction
In the midst of the war—that terrible conflict that threatened humanity's total destruction—the "new people" suddenly appeared. Quietly performing incredible deeds, vanishing at will, they were an enigma to both sides. Kurt Zen was an American...
Space Prison - Tom GODWIN
Space Prison - Tom GODWIN
- Author: Tom GODWIN
- Genre: Science Fiction
AFTER TWO CENTURIES....The sound came swiftly nearer, rising in pitch and swelling in volume. Then it broke through the clouds, tall and black and beautifully deadly — the Gern battle cruiser, come to seek them out and destroy them. Humbolt dropped...
The Repairman - Harry Harrison
The Repairman - Harry Harrison
- Author: Harry Harrison
- Genre: Science Fiction / Short Stories
This is a collection of 3 of Harry Harrison marvelous early stories that were published in Galaxy, Analog and Fantastic Universe. The Repairman (1958) is a straight fun SF story of a man getting a job done. It is most typical of his later style in...
Short Science Fiction Collection 065 - Various
Short Science Fiction Collection 065 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Science Fiction / Fantasy Fiction
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 nature of the genre inspires...
Equation of Doom - Gerald VANCE
Equation of Doom - Gerald VANCE
- Author: Gerald VANCE
- Genre: Science Fiction
A world weary space pilot on the lam from earth for crimes unspecified; the most beautiful (earthly) tri-D woman in the universe who is determined to be the most powerful too; a planet of crafty and unscrupulous giant frogs intent on kicking out all...
Short Science Fiction Collection 041 - Various
Short Science Fiction Collection 041 - 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...
Breaking Point - James Edwin GUNN
Breaking Point - James Edwin GUNN
- Author: James Edwin GUNN
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction / Published 1900 onward
Machines are infallible. Humans are not. The crew of The Ambassador knew their ship could not possibly fail, but what of themselves? And how could they defend against an unknown enemy with unknown motives and superhuman abilities, intent on driving...
The Happy Unfortunate - Robert Silverberg
The Happy Unfortunate - Robert Silverberg
- Author: Robert Silverberg
- Genre: Science Fiction
Here are two early stories by the well known SF Author Robert Silverberg. The Happy Unfortunate was published first in Amazing Stories in 1957 and explores the angst caused when the human race reaches into space but at the cost of needing to breed a...
The People that Time Forgot - Edgar Rice Burroughs
The People that Time Forgot - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Science Fiction
The People that Time Forgot is a science fiction novel, the second of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Caspak trilogy. The first novel ended with the hero writing a manuscript of his adventures and casting it out to sea in his thermos bottle. The second novel...
Hunter Patrol - H. Beam Piper
Hunter Patrol - H. Beam Piper
- Author: H. Beam Piper
- Genre: Science Fiction
World War IV has dragged on for 12 years and the whole world is drained and tired of the killing and destruction. One man, a high school chemistry teacher from St. Louis in the USA, is serving his latest forced stint in the UN forces when something...
Victory - Lester del Rey
Victory - Lester del Rey
- Author: Lester del Rey
- Genre: Science Fiction
Lester del Rey (1915 – 1993) was a Golden Age science fiction author and editor closely connected to John W. Campbell Jr. and Astounding Science Fiction magazine. He also founded Del Rey Books, a popular publishing label he edited with his wife...
Short Science Fiction Collection 033 - Various
Short Science Fiction Collection 033 - 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...
A Bad Day For Vermin by Keith Laumer - Keith Laumer
A Bad Day For Vermin by Keith Laumer - Keith Laumer
- Author: Keith Laumer
- Genre: Science Fiction
For your listening pleasure, here are three stories by the ingenious Keith Laumer from the glorious days of Science Fiction in the early 1960s: A Bad Day for Vermin, The King of the City and Doorstep. They were all published in various Science...
Thuvia, Maid of Mars (version 3) - Edgar Rice Burroughs
Thuvia, Maid of Mars (version 3) - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Science Fiction / Fantasy Fiction
The fourth book of the Barsoom series, Thuvia, Maid of Mars takes up the story of Thuvia, now Princess of Ptarth, and Carthoris, son of John Carter and Dejah Thoris. Thuvia is betrothed to Kulan Tith, Jeddak of Kaol in an arranged marriage. She...
Omnilingual - H. Beam Piper
Omnilingual - H. Beam Piper
- Author: H. Beam Piper
- Genre: Science Fiction
An expedition to Mars discovers the remains of an advanced civilization, which died out many thousands of years ago. They recovered books and documents left behind, and are puzzled by their contents. Would the team find their “Rosetta Stone” that...
The Runaway Skyscraper - Murray Leinster
The Runaway Skyscraper - Murray Leinster
- Author: Murray Leinster
- Genre: Science Fiction
Arthur Chamberlain has problems. His one-man engineering firm is faltering and his pretty secretary Estelle barely notices him. But these problems are put aside when his Manhattan office building falls into the fourth dimension. Madison Square is...
Astounding Stories 18, June 1931 - Undefined
Astounding Stories 18, June 1931 - Undefined
- Author: Undefined
- Genre: Science Fiction
This issue contains The Man from 2072 by Sewell Peaslee Wright ~ Out of the Flow of Time there appears to Commander John Hanson a Man of Mystery from a Forgotten Past Manape the Mighty by Arthur J. Burks~ High in theJungle Swings young Bentley - his...
The Island of Doctor Moreau - H. G. Wells
The Island of Doctor Moreau - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: Science Fiction
The Island of Doctor Moreau is an 1896 science fiction novel written by H. G. Wells, addressing ideas of society and community, human nature and identity, religion, Darwinism, and eugenics. When the novel was written in the late 19th century,...
Pellucidar (version 2) - Edgar Rice Burroughs
Pellucidar (version 2) - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Science Fiction / Fantasy Fiction
David Innes and his captive, a member of the reptilian Mahar master race of the interior world of Pellucidar, return from the surface world in the Iron Mole invented by his friend and companion in adventure Abner Perry. Emerging in Pellucidar at an...
Planet of Dread - Murray Leinster
Planet of Dread - Murray Leinster
- Author: Murray Leinster
- Genre: Science Fiction
Humans have expanded to myriads of worlds throughout the galaxies but they have found that the only way for colonies to be self sustaining, was to reproduce the total ecology of their home world; the original Earth. This meant bringing the entire...
City of Endless Night - Milo HASTINGS
City of Endless Night - Milo HASTINGS
- Author: Milo HASTINGS
- Genre: Science Fiction / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers / Published 1900 onward
An example of early dystopian science fiction written shortly after World War I, "City of Endless Night" imagines a future with a very different ending to the Great War. Set in 2151 and in an underground Berlin, our protagonist is Lyman De Forrest,...
No Great Magic - Fritz Leiber
No Great Magic - Fritz Leiber
- Author: Fritz Leiber
- Genre: Science Fiction
They were a traveling group of Shakespearean players; perfectly harmless, right? wrong. For one thing, why did they have spacemen costumes in their wardrobes,next to caveman ones? Why was the girl in charge of backstage suffering from amnesia and...
Before Adam - Jack London
Before Adam - Jack London
- Author: Jack London
- Genre: Science Fiction / Published 1900 onward
"Before Adam is a mixture of sound science and sci-fi speculation. It is based around Darwin's theory of evolution and the idea of racial memory. The main character lives in the current world but has dreams and nightmares that he relives the...
Armageddon- 2419 A.D. (Version 2) - Philip Francis NOWLAN
Armageddon- 2419 A.D. (Version 2) - Philip Francis NOWLAN
- Author: Philip Francis NOWLAN
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction / Action & Adventure
Armageddon—2419 A.D. is the first appearance of the character that would become Buck Rogers. First published in the August 1928 issue of Amazing Stories, followed by a sequel in March 1929. These two novellas would spawn a comic strip that would run...
Rastignac The Devil - Philip Jose FARMER
Rastignac The Devil - Philip Jose FARMER
- Author: Philip Jose FARMER
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction / Science Fiction
French colonists on a planet ruled by reptiles and amphibians are forced to wear living “skins” that subdue aggression and enforce vegetarianism. As children, Rastignac and his reptile friend Mapfarity force themselves to become carnivores and begin...
The World Set Free (version 2) - H. G. Wells
The World Set Free (version 2) - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction / Science Fiction
Radioactive decay is a major theme in the novel The World Set Free, published in 1914. Wells explores what might happen if the rate of decay could be sped up. The book may have encouraged scientists to explore theories of nuclear chain reaction. It...
Deathworld (version 2) - Harry Harrison
Deathworld (version 2) - Harry Harrison
- Author: Harry Harrison
- Genre: Science Fiction
A world that actively seeks to kill the colonists. Not a pleasant place. The hordes of ferocious animals all come with deadly poison and a will to kill as many humans as possible. Even the plants have teeth and claws and toxins dripping from every...
Lone Star Planet - H. Beam Piper
Lone Star Planet - H. Beam Piper
- Author: H. Beam Piper
- Genre: Science Fiction
New Texas: its citizens figure that name about says it all. The Solar League ambassador to the Lone Star Planet has the unenviable task of convincing New Texans that a s'Srauff attack is imminent, and dangerous. Unfortunately it's common knowledge...
Badge of Infamy (version 2) - Lester del Rey
Badge of Infamy (version 2) - Lester del Rey
- Author: Lester del Rey
- Genre: Science Fiction
Set in the early 22nd century: Dr. Daniel Feldman, stripped of rank and status and named pariah for violating Medical Lobby rules, stows away on a spaceship and flees to Mars Colony. There, while essentially practicing medicine without a license, he...
Short Science Fiction Collection 011 - Various
Short Science Fiction Collection 011 - 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...
The Fixed Period - Anthony Trollope
The Fixed Period - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Science Fiction
This book is set in 1980 in the Republic of Britannula, which is a fictional island near New Zealand. It deals with euthanasia as a radical solution to the problem of the aged. The novel is in the form of a personal account written by the President...
Short Science Fiction Collection 049 - Various
Short Science Fiction Collection 049 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Science Fiction / Anthologies
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 nature of the genre inspires...
Nice Girl With 5 Husbands - Fritz Leiber
Nice Girl With 5 Husbands - Fritz Leiber
- Author: Fritz Leiber
- Genre: Science Fiction
Four quirky short stories by the talented Fritz Leiber: Nice Girl with 5 Husbands, A Pail of Air, The Last Letter and A Bad Day for Sales. - Summary by phil chenevert...
Beauty's Hour - Olivia SHAKESPEAR
Beauty's Hour - Olivia SHAKESPEAR
- Author: Olivia SHAKESPEAR
- Genre: Science Fiction / Fantasy Fiction
The young, intelligent Mary discovers that through an act of will she can transform her appearance to make herself incredibly beautiful. But will her newfound identity be all that she hopes?This recording is from the novella’s original publication...
Arqtiq: A Study of the Marvels at the North Pole - Anna ADOLPH
Arqtiq: A Study of the Marvels at the North Pole - Anna ADOLPH
- Author: Anna ADOLPH
- Genre: Science Fiction
Described by author Liza Daly as a "strange masterpiece of outsider art," Arqtiq is a bizarre, borderline hallucinatory work of feminist utopian fiction. Equal parts sci-fi adventure, philosophical tract, and pro-Symmesian pamphlet, Anna Adolph’s...
The War of the Worlds (version 2) - H. G. Wells
The War of the Worlds (version 2) - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: Science Fiction
War of the Worlds by Herbert George Wells (H.G. Wells) was published in 1898 at a time when he wrote a series of novels related to a number of historical events of the time. The most important of these was the unification and militarization of...
The Penal Cluster - Randall Garrett
The Penal Cluster - Randall Garrett
- Author: Randall Garrett
- Genre: Science Fiction
What do you do with telepaths? Chain them to an asteroid of course and just leave them there ..... but why? Wait a minute ... did I just say that the punishment for being a telepath in the future earth was to be chained to an asteroid 50 million...
The British Barbarians - Grant Allen
The British Barbarians - Grant Allen
- Author: Grant Allen
- Genre: Romance / Science Fiction
After Civil Servant Philip Christy crosses paths with the mysterious Bertram Ingledew in the respectable suburb of Brackenhurst, Philip and his sister Frida, married to the wealthy Scot Robert Monteith, become friends with the stranger. Bertram has...
Secret of the Ninth Planet - Donald WOLLHEIM
Secret of the Ninth Planet - Donald WOLLHEIM
- Author: Donald WOLLHEIM
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction
An alien race has put a station on Earth and other planets in order to steal the rays of the sun, possible causing the sun to nova within two years. Burl Denning, a high school student, is the only person who has the power to stop the alien project....
