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Pendleton's quiet voice was grave. "Mars is old and tired and torn with famine. Venus is young, but her courage is undisciplined. Her barbarians aren't suited to mechanized warfare. And Earth..." He sighed....

The first ripples of blue fire touched Dio's men. Bolts of it fastened on gun-butts, and knuckles. Men screamed and fell. Jill cried out as he tore silver ornaments from her dress... Excerpt Mel Gray...

Man And His Machines Are Doing A Great Job Of Conquering Nature, Of Course. Does Anyone Doubt It? Excerpt The point about all these queer people you can run into from time to time is just that they...

It was driving men to madness... they had managed to capture it, but for how long? Excerpt Lundy was flying the aero-space convertible by himself. He'd been doing it for a long time. So long that the...

Few men have gone beyond that barrier, into the vast mystery of Inner Venus. Fewer still have come back. Excerpt The ship moved slowly across the Red Sea, through the shrouding veils of mist, her sail...

A war older than Man, fought among ageless stars. . . Long after Man's day was done his last strange son answered its dread challenge on an invisible world of flaming terror! Excerpt Raising one of...

In the freezing night the great ship held mysterious secrets, secrets that the Piruts and the Hans wanted. Excerpt Wes Kirk shut his teeth together, hard. He turned his back on Ma Kirk and the five...

Follow Bill Oliver as He Tracks down a Cowardly Killer and Solves a "Clueless" murder! Excerpt Kib Nasten had worked this out pretty cleverly, he thought. Doctor Robert Wasey paid blackmail. A smooth...

Twitterings and squawks that presage looting and death hand a cuckoo of a murder case to astounded Police Detective Mickie O’Day! excerpt When Captain Jim Doran phoned me to come to his office in the...

Grimly Eric John Stark slogged toward that ancient Martian city-with every step he cursed the talisman of Ban Cruach that flamed in his blood-stained belt Behind him screamed the hordes of Ciaran, hungering...

Attempting to make Venus safe for colonists turns out to be a very dangerous job for Tex and his partner Breska. Excerpt Tex stirred uneasily where he lay on the parapet, staring into the heavy, Venusian...

Raiders come from Mars to steal Earths radium. In desperate defense, an entire army division is wiped out. Then "Swoop" Martin, air pilot, volunteers a suicidal attack... Excerpt In a corner office...

The wise men of Caer Dhu were not so wise. They found the secret of Shanga, and they escaped their wars and their troubles by fleeing backward along the path of evolution. Excerpt Burk Winters remained...

A huge amount of money for a simple job. The deal seemed too good to be true... Excerpt Bucky Shannon leaned forward across the little hexagonal table. He knocked over the pitcher of thil, but it...

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;...

MacIan was a man with a secret, and it had followed him to Venus and the Legion, escape was impossible... Excerpt Silence was on the barracks like a lid clamped over tight-coiled springs. Men in rumpled...

When high-ranking official Henry Caldwell is found brutally murdered in his opulent estate, Detective Paul Johnson is called to the scene of what appears to be a straightforward case of political retribution....

This captivating narrative blends stunning descriptions, powerful dialogues, and profound storytelling to bring a fresh totally unexplored perspective to the ancient legend. Encounter unknown characters...

The perfect neighborhood hides the most dangerous secrets.Sarah thought her new neighbors, Emily and Ryan, had it all: charm, kindness, and a flawless marriage. But beneath their polished smiles lurks...

In the torrent of life, we are often faced with various choices and challenges. Sometimes, due to a temporary predicament, we may lose our way and even make the wrong decision. Jayden Torres's story is...

Desperation drives Mary Bell into the heart of Hollow Grove, an ancient forest cloaked in mystery and dread. With her mother's life hanging in the balance, Mary is determined to find a mythical plant...

Tales From the Tomes: Vol. 1 is a collection of four mystical stories of magic and science. Lance Kehisato weaves the future and the past together, creating a string of four stories in different worlds,...

In a world still scarred by the remnants of a devastating war, four unlikely friends stumble upon a long-buried relic: a towering, battle-worn machine named Rust. Designed for destruction but reprogrammed...

Tensions grow as the Empire continues to try and expand, Emperor Cree pressing on his Lord Commander to take over Frier.  His son, Prince Loren Cree IV, begins to show the Crown Prince Mutid who's really...

In the shadowed ruins of Hollowstead Keep lies a mystery as old as time itself. Ethan Caine, a private investigator haunted by his own demons, is hired by the enigmatic Evelyn Locke to retrieve an artifact...

Tate Everson is desperate to escape. Trapped in the clutches of a ruthless criminal syndicate, he fakes his own kidnapping to start anew. But his plan quickly spirals out of control, drawing the attention...

"The Relic's Curse" is a gripping science fiction novel that follows Alyx, a young woman unknowingly chosen by an ancient relic with the power to shape the future of the world. When Alyx and her companion...

Cat has spent her life as a compliant servant, unaware of any world beyond her narrow existence. But when she stumbles into a forbidden forest, she meets an unexpected ally—a fugitive with stories that...

Veteran explorer Sandra badly needs a break, and joins a longer mission of minimum ten years on the Explorer 5, the first starship to leave to Sol System to visit the potentially habitable exoplanets...

Twelve short stories that run the gamut from how the universe began to a famous writer's sister problems.

In the art world, the truth is often obscured by multiple factors, which makes it difficult to find out the facts. Rabia Aksoy from New York and Serkan Kaplan from London have established a strong relationship...

Transcending into a world of swords and sorcery, Eirik discovers that the system has assigned him the role of a side character in a game called the "Queen's Ascendance Program."As long as he assists various...

It is a vibrant story of success, trials and tribulations, with the tragic loss of a brother, Alan. Eventually, Cam, our main character, gets the opportunity to make his family proud and take the reigns...

In giving to the world the record of what, looked at as an adventure only, is I suppose one of the most wonderful and mysterious experiences ever undergone by mortal men, I feel it incumbent on me to...

Then came a glimmer of daylight that grew and grew, and presently ended in another arch that looked out over a scene so like a picture out of a book about Italy that everyone's breath was taken away,...

The contents of the work which gave such pleasure to this learned antiquary are as follows:I. IntroductionSimilarity of Arts and CustomsSimilarity of NamesOrigin of the WorkImitationCasual CoincidenceMiltonDante.II....

MYTH: ITS BIRTH AND GROWTH. "Unchecked by external truth, the mind of man has a fatal facility for ensnaring, entrapping, and entangling itself. But, happily, happily for the human race, some fragment...

he Brothers Karamazov, is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Dostoyevsky spent nearly two years writing The Brothers Karamazov, which was published as a serial in The Russian Messenger...

In offering this study to a public accustomed only to the unquestioning acceptance of the home as something perfect, holy, quite above discussion, a word of explanation is needed. First, let it be clearly...

Star Maker, regarded as one of the true classics of science fiction, Star Maker is a poetic and deeply philosophical work. The story details the mental journey of an unnamed narrator who is transported...

The day that Henry Smix met and embraced Gasoline Power and went up Main Street hand in hand with it is not yet forgotten. It was a hasty marriage, so to speak, and the results of it were truly deplorable....

The first question to be proposed by a rational being is, not what is profitable, but what is Right. Duty must be primary, prominent, most conspicuous, among the objects of human thought and pursuit....

The "Times.""For its rapid action, in fact, we have seldom read a better story, or one which is more full of incidents, sanguinary, trenchant, and robust."The "Daily Telegraph.""A true and a wonderfully...

This book, re-edited and illustrated by e-kitap projesi and published again in ebook format. In this book, telling that Cooterells adventures, and so was a treasure adventure, Naturally then Ben felt...

In Sister Carrie, Dreiser portrayed a changing society, writing about a young woman who flees rural life for the city (Chicago) and struggles with poverty, complex relationships with men, and prostitution....

Tales of Space and Time, A collection of short stories: "The Crystal Egg", "The Star", "A Story of the Stone Age", "A Story of the Days to Come" & "The Man who could Work Miracles" Some Books of...