Ficción

He was the last man and only he make the music to bring life again... excerpt Brother Hammond pointed to the far horizon. "The City's in that direction, but I can't say how far, my boy. I've forgotten....

Eric Falken couldn't run any more. At least he'd led the Hiltonists away from the pitiful starving holes where his people hid, on the outer planets and barren asteroids and dark derelict hulks floating...

A novella of about 80 pages, or 24,000 words. Princess Valeria of Amaranta is fat, but she doesn’t care. All she wants is to eat a lot and lead an idle life. When it is apparent that she cannot get a...

In this alternate history story the royal families of Europe's unyielding power continued into the 21st century. Now Tsar Nicholas Romanov's Russian Empire faces annihilation at the hands of a rebel army....

In space, a vengeful fleet waited.... Then the furred strangers arrived with a plan to save Earth's children. But the General wasn't sure if he could trust an alien... Excerpt "You are General James...

Excerpt McKeldon reached Gatlinburg before dark. The team of horses, tired and lathered despite the brisk autumn weather, drew up before the inn, their harness creaking. McKeldon got down from the wagon...

The undead return with more strange, terrifying, and bizarre tales of the unlife beyond life. Zombies, ghouls, vampires, and other things that should not be shamble through the pages of this anthology....

Sealed and vigilantly guarded was "Drayle's Invention, 1932"--for it was a scientific achievement beyond which man dared not go. Excerpt Rays of the August mid-day sun pouring through the museum's glass...

What weird science lay in the mummy case of Ret-Seh? What uncanny power created this lovely, terrifying vision? excerpt The mummy case was the finest thing of its sort that Hargraves ever had seen;...

What defense could she raise against mutant science -- telepathy, invisibility, teleportation -- especially since Earth was not aware of its danger! Excerpt Out beyond the orbit of the moon there was...

When the Puritans stepped ashore at the present day Plymouth, Massachusetts on 15 November 1620, they were but the final link of a four hundred year old chain of events starting with King John of England...

Romance of Three Kingdoms, dating to the 14th Century, is the legendary epic of the fall of Han and the founding of Jin. Dealing with plots, complex men, wars, intrigues, marriages and assassinations,...

Tony lives with the nightmare of what he did as a soldier in Vietnam. It consumes him day and night. He finally returns to Asia and rents a small house in a Bangkok slum where he hopes to live the rest...

The legendary account of 108 "Stars from Heaven" who, faced with a corrupt bureaucracy, flee to Liangshan Marsh, from a fortress there thwarting minions of the evil regime while continuing to serve the...

Don'T Try To Figure A Final Answer To This One. Philosophers Have Tried For Ages ... And Have Failed! Excerpt The closet in Benjamin Farlan's two-room bachelor apartment wasn't particularly large....

Excerpt "The face of the giant was indeed that of a god...." On that summer day the sky over New York was unflecked by clouds, and the air hung motionless, the waves of heat undisturbed. The city...

An Old Carny Man Doesn'T Like To Give Away Trade Secrets, And Skeets Had Good Reasons When He Tried To . . . But The Prof Used A Very Odd Trick To Stop Him! Excerpt So you want to know why Skeets looks...

What if Romeo and Juliet took place in Texas in 1875? That's what Sheriff Will Spear soon discovers when a range war erupts between two former civil war colonels in Lunden Texas. A tale of love interrupted...

Down to tremendous ocean depths goes Commander Keith Wells in his blind duel with marauding "machine-fish"

A fascinating work, dating from the late 1200s. This book (Yusa), is not just a story but a collection of histories, anecdotes and memorabilia, covering the origins of Korea's three monarchies--Silla,...

8 Short Stories From the author of the Olivia Plymouth and Corporate Intent Series, something very different! A collection of eight unique short stories. This short story collection includes stories...

Volume IV, and last of the versions that Harris had final say on. Begins with a piece on how Harris first came to write, goes at length into discussions with lesbians, and some orgies Frank had in San...

Volume II of the series begins with Harris in Russia, and serves as prima facie evidence for anyone who believes Harris was the model for Harry Flashman. However this book, longest by far of the series,...

Blessed with an almost non-existent conscience, Katla Sieltjes, expert in disguising homicide, views assassination as an intricate and rewarding occupation. Hidden behind her male alter ego Loki, Katla...

The Independence movement in Scotland has been gaining strength for many years. Finally, and with great reluctance, the UK parliament agrees to a referendum. The people of Scotland will at last be able...

David Kellgren is a process server, a job where everyone wants to kill the messenger and things can get a little bit dangerous and out of hand. David is attacked when trying to serve legal papers to a...

English Modal Auxiliary Verbs - May, Might, Can, Could, Will, Would, Shall, Should, Must, Need, Dare, Used(to), Ought(to) ‘May And Might’ Are Used To Denote Possibility, Compulsion, Obligation, Probability...

They are not offspring of Hell; they just lived nearby… Arel Chig is a fallen prince, the only one who dares to break the rules in a society separated by race, language and origin. When he meets Nikto,...

Hugo Marshall earned the nickname "the Wolf of Clermont" for his ruthless ambition--a characteristic that has served him well, elevating the coal miner's son to the right hand man of a duke. When he's...

A Brief History of Chinese Fiction grew out of the lecture notes Lu Hsun used when teaching a course on Chinese fiction at Peking University between 1920 and 1924. In December 1923 a first volume was...