Phil Chenevert
Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit
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Joel Chandler Harris
Uncle Remus' stories feature a trickster hero called Br'er Rabbit ("Brother" Rabbit), who uses his wits to slide out of trouble an…
The Skylark of Space (version 2)
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E. E. “Doc” Smith
The Skylark of Space is one of the earliest novels of interstellar travel and is considered a classic of pulp science fiction. Originally se…
Roast Beef, Medium
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Edna Ferber
This book follows the adventures of Emma McChesney, a smart and savvy divorced mother who travels the Midwest as a sales representative for …
Personality Plus
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Edna Ferber
Personality Plus is an early novel by American author Edna Ferber. Originally published in 1914, Personality Plus is the second of three vol…
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (version 2)
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L. Frank Baum
The story chronicles the adventures of a girl named Dorothy Gale in the Land of Oz. As Baum says in the introduction "It aspires to bei…
A Book of Nonsense
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Edward Lear
In 1846 Lear published A Book of Nonsense, a volume of limericks that went through three editions and helped popularize the form. This book …
Triplanetary, First in the Lensman Series
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E. E. “Doc” Smith and E. E. "Doc" Smith
Triplanetary was first serialized in Amazing Stories in 1934. After the Lensman series became popular, Smith took his Triplanetary story and…
Emma McChesney and Company
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Edna Ferber
This is the final volume in the trilogy following the smart, stylish, divorced and independent businesswoman Emma McChesney in her career fr…
Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook
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Maria Montessori
This is the authoritative book written by Montessori to describe her methods. It gives an overview of the Montessori Method as developed for…
The Tar Baby and Other Rhymes of Uncle Remus
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Joel Chandler Harris
26 of Uncle Remus's stories put into verse and song. With the exception of the Tar Baby story, they were all new to this publication of 1904…
Uncle Remus Returns
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Joel Chandler Harris
Uncle Remus tells these 11 stories but to the son of the original "little boy" who is visiting his grandmother on the plantation. …
Mother Goose in Prose (Version 2)
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L. Frank Baum
Before he wrote the Oz books, L. Frank Baum wrote this book which was the best selling book of 1897. Taking 22 beloved nursery rhymes, he ex…
Ozma of Oz (version 3)
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L. Frank Baum
Ozma of Oz: A Record of Her Adventures with Dorothy Gale of Kansas, the Yellow Hen, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, Tiktok, the Cowardly Lio…
Orthodoxy (Version 2)
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G. K. Chesterton
Orthodoxy is a book that has become a classic of Christian apologetics. In the book's preface Chesterton states the purpose is to "atte…
The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter
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Ambrose Bierce
A tragic but very captivating tale of a monk in the 17th century.
One Basket
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Edna Ferber
This sparkling collection of 7 short stories by Ferber includes some that are considered her all time best like The Woman Who Tried To be Go…
Alice's Adventures Underground
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Lewis Carroll
This is the handwritten book that Carroll wrote for private use before being urged to develop it later into Alice in Wonderland. It was gene…
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz (Version 2)
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L. Frank Baum
Dorothy is swallowed by an earthquake! And that is just the start of Dorothy's adventures in this exciting and fun book. She and her kitten,…
The Children's Life of the Bee
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Maurice Maeterlinck
Buzz, buzz, buzz. A fascinating and beautifully written explanation of the life of the honey bee. Maeterlinck, who won the Noble Prize for L…
The Machine that Saved the World
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Murray Leinster
They were broadcasts from nowhere--sinister emanations flooding in from space--smashing any receiver that picked them up. What defense could…
Voodoo Planet (Version 2)
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Andre Norton
A Free Trader space ship visits the planet Khatka where magic and Voodoo are threatening to destroy the promising civilization that has been…
Uncle Remus & Friends
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Joel Chandler Harris
Uncle Remus, that genial old storyteller, knows how to spin these wonderful tales about the 'criteers' that the little 6 year old boy (and m…
Soaked In Seaweed and 7 other nonsense novels
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Stephen Leacock
8 great spoofs of 'types' of fiction by the premier Canadian humorist Leacock, taken from his book Nonsense Novels. The title of each parody…
The Misplaced Battleship
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Harry Harrison
"It might seem a little careless to lose track of something as big as a battleship ... but interstellar space is on a different scale o…
The K-Factor
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Harry Harrison
The human race has reached the stars, colonized many planets and done amazing things in all areas of scientific progress. But humans are st…
The Vortex Blaster
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E. E. “Doc” Smith
Uncontrolled, terribly violent Atomic Vortices are slowly destroying civilization on every human planet throughout the galaxy. Nothing can …
The Road to Oz (Version 2)
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L. Frank Baum
Dorothy and Toto set out to help the Shaggy Man (who really is quite shaggy) and end up lost, following a strange road. Along the way they …
Crystal Crypt, the & Beyond the Door
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Philip K. Dick
Two early science fiction stories by the wonderful craftsman, Philip K. Dick. In the Crystal Crypt, taken from the 1954 Planet Stories, the …
No Great Magic
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Fritz Leiber
They were a traveling group of Shakespearean players; perfectly harmless, right? wrong. For one thing, why did they have spacemen costumes …
Arm of the Law
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Harry Harrison
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 Story of Peter Pan
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J. M. Barrie
THE STORY OF PETER PAN RETOLD FROM THE FAIRY PLAY BY SIR J.M. BARRIE BY DANIEL O'CONNOR. Basically, Daniel O'Connor took the story from the …
Mr. Spaceship
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Philip K. Dick
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…
The Jungle Book (Version 2)
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Rudyard Kipling
This is the classic story of Mowgli, the young boy raised by wolves in India: his escapades and adventures with his dear friends Bagheera th…
The Night of the Long Knives
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Fritz Leiber
"I was one hundred miles from Nowhere—and I mean that literally—when I spotted this girl out of the corner of my eye. I'd been keeping …
A Slave Is a Slave
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H. Beam Piper
The Galactic Empire is slowly 'welcoming' into the family of civilized worlds those systems so far off in the backwater of the galaxy that t…
Hunter Patrol
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H. Beam Piper
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 che…
Pollyanna (version 2)
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Eleanor H. Porter
In a small town far out West, 11 year old Pollyanna loses her mother then her dad to disease. This book describes how the orphan is sent to…
The Defenders
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Philip K. Dick
The terrible destruction of total nuclear war between the Western and Eastern Blocks has succeeded in sterilizing the surface of the earth. …
Half-Past Bedtime
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H. H. Bashford
Ah, the wonderful adventures of Marian after she meets the strange Mr. Jugg. "And who are you, Mr Jugg?" she inquired. "I'm t…
Temple Trouble
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H. Beam Piper
Did you know that our little earth is not limited to the single time line on which we happen to live? There are actually thousands, no mill…
The Dancing Girls
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Edna Ferber
The Dancing Girls is just one of the 4 excellent short stories in this recording. All written by the master, Edna Ferber for magazines betwe…
Project Mastodon
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Clifford D. Simak
Clifford Simak deals with the implications of time travel in his own unique way in this story. What if a group of guys did it on their own,…
The Judas Valley
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Robert Silverberg
Why did everybody step off the ship in this strange valley and promptly drop dead? How could a well-equipped corps of tough spacemen become …
The Homely Heroine
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Edna Ferber
Who ever heard of a plain and downright homely heroine? Isn't a heroine by definition beautiful? Well, Edna Ferber, in her well known style …
The Repairman
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Harry Harrison
This is a collection of 3 of Harry Harrison marvelous early stories that were published in Galaxy, Analog and Fantastic Universe. The Repair…
The Autobiography of St. Ignatius
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St. Ignatius Loyola
This account of the life of St. Ignatius, dictated by himself to Father Gonzalez, is a most valuable record of the great Founder of the Soc…
The Emerald City of Oz (Version 2)
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L. Frank Baum
Oh My Goodness! What a lot of incredible adventures are packed into this epic. The evil gnome king plots to destroy Oz and enslave it's peop…
Hellhounds of the Cosmos
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Clifford D. Simak
From Astounding Stories of 1932. Earth is being attacked by horrible black monsters that appear from nowhere and destroy and kill everythin…
Pariah Planet
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Murray Leinster
When the blue plague appeared on the planet of Dara, fear struck nearby worlds. The fear led to a hate that threatened the lives of million…
A Spaceship Named McGuire
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Randall Garrett
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 inde…
Beyond Lies the Wub & The Skull
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Philip K. Dick
Two stories in the inimitable Philip Dick style. What is a Wub? A 400 pound slovenly, fat, ungainly, drooling animal that looks like a cross…
Nor Iron Bars A Cage ...
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Randall Garrett
Iron bars do not confine a Man—only his body. There are more subtle, and more confining bindings, however....Police methods of the future wi…
The Eyes Have It & Tony and the Beetles
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Philip K. Dick
Aliens have invaded the earth! Horrible one celled creatures disguised as normal human beings ! Well, at least that is what it seems to the …
The Chapter Ends
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Poul William Anderson
Far, far in the future the Earth is still spinning around the Sun, on the edge of the galaxy, dozing in obscurity, forgotten by it's trillio…
The Ambulance Made Two Trips
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Murray Leinster
Big Jake Connors is taking over his town through violence, inimidation and bribery but Detective Sergeant Fitzgerald can only grind his teet…
Gambler's World & The Yillian Way
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Keith Laumer
Here are two stores starring the always unconventional Terrestrial Diplomat, Retief. As a diplomat, Retief does not always follow procedure…
Watchbird
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Robert Sheckley
3 Robert Sheckley short stories that demonstrate the breadth of his fantastic imagination. In Watchbird, the question "can machines so…
The Story of Doctor Dolittle (version 2)
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Hugh Lofting
This is the original book about the amazing Dr. Dolittle who "Besides the gold-fish in the pond at the bottom of his garden, he had rab…
Naudsonce
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H. Beam Piper
Naudsonce? What does THAT mean? Well, to find out you will need to listen to this story where Piper's unique mind explores what we mean by '…
Nonsense Verses
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Edward Lear
This is a collection of some of the delightful nonsense verses and stories by Edward Lear. A lot of them are also my favorites. The Jumblies…
2 B R 0 2 B (version 2) & The Big Trip Up Yonder (version 5)
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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
These two stories by Kurt Vonnegut were written over a decade apart but they are definitely connected. The Big Trip Up Yonder, published in …
Five Beloved Stories by O. Henry
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O. Henry
O. Henry wrote over 600 short stories. Naturally I have my personal top 20 stories that just seem to stand out because of their form, writin…
Tanks
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Murray Leinster
Tanks and the future of war is what Murray Leinster speculates about in this story. Written in the 1920's he observed the terrible new inven…
Trees and Other Poems
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Joyce Kilmer
"I think that I shall never see, a poem as lovely as a tree;A tree whose hungry mouth is presd against the sweet earth's flowing breast…
The Art of War (version 3)
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Sun Tzu 孙武
First compiled in the 6th century BC, The Art of War presents a philosophy of war for managing conflicts and winning battles. It is accepted…
Just So Stories (version 5)
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Rudyard Kipling
The stories, first published in 1902, are fantastic accounts of how various natural phenomena came about. The original editions of Just So S…
The Red Dust
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Murray Leinster
You who have read "The Mad Planet" by Murray Leinster, will welcome the sequel to that story. The world, in a far distant future, …
The Thirteenth: Greatest of Centuries
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James Joseph Walsh
It cannot but seem a paradox to say that the Thirteenth was the greatest of centuries. To most people the idea will appear at once so prepos…
The Tunnel Under The World
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Frederik Pohl
This famous Pohl story explores cybernetic robots and implanted personalities in a way that certainly expanded my way of looking at reality.…
The Raven and Other Poems
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Edgar Allan Poe
"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—While I nodded,…
Second Variety (Version 2)
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Philip K. Dick
First published in Space Science Fiction May 1953. "The claws were bad enough in the first place—nasty, crawling little death-robots. B…
Six Creepy Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
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Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe has the ability to manipulate language so well that he could engage my imagination and get me terrified even though little w…
That Sweet Little Old Lady
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Randall Garrett
Randall Garrett had this story first published in Astounding Science Fiction September and October of 1959. His twisted sense of humor and g…
The Happy Unfortunate
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Robert Silverberg
Here are two early stories by the well known SF Author Robert Silverberg. The Happy Unfortunate was published first in Amazing Stories in 19…
Bill Nye's Funniest Thoughts
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Bill Nye
Bill Nye was a famous American humor columnist in the middle 1800's. He said "We can never be a nation of snobs so long as we are willi…
The Devil in Iron
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Robert E. Howard
Conan's lustful desires again get him into a whole pile of trouble. This time the beautiful, golden haired, noble born Octavia, lures him in…
Jewels of Gwahlur
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Robert E. Howard
Conan The Barbarian is after fabulous treasure in this exciting story. But he finds himself in more difficulties than he had counted on. Cr…
The Patchwork Girl of Oz (version 2)
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L. Frank Baum
Yes, this is another wonderful OZ book with all the old familiar characters and some new delightful ones. The Patchwork Girl, a free spirit …
Queen of the Black Coast
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Robert E. Howard
Conan finally meets his match in Belit, the fierce, bloodthirsty and scantily clad pirate Queen. She also is unable to resist the huge, blue…
Shadows in the Moonlight
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Robert E. Howard
For a genuine Conan tale, full of barbarian craftiness, magic, fierce fighting and his berserker strength, this meets every criteria and is …
Beyond the Black River
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Robert E. Howard
Conan the Barbarian is employed by one of the civilized countries to help in it's push to claim lands from the primitive Picts. The Picts ar…
Seven H.P. Lovecraft Stories
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H. P. Lovecraft
Howard Phillips Lovecraft, better known as H.P. Lovecraft, was an American author of horror, fantasy, poetry and science fiction, especially…
I Was a Teen-Age Secret Weapon
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Richard Sabia
Poor Dolliver Wims is a terribly misunderstood teen age boy from the backwoods. Is he mean or evil? Quite the opposite: He does nothing wron…
Four Science Fiction Stories by G.L.Vandenburg
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G. L. Vandenburg
G.L.Vandenburg wrote quirky and funny Science Fiction stories for Amazing Science Fiction Stories, and similar magazines in the 1950's. The…
Herbert West: Reanimator
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H. P. Lovecraft
"Herbert West—Reanimator" is a story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft that was first serialized in February throu…
A Witch Shall Be Born
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Robert E. Howard
The kingdom of Khauran is admittedly a small one, nestled between the vast desert and the plains, but it is blessed with an abundance of ric…
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (version 3)
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Washington Irving
Everyone knows the story of the Headless Horseman but perhaps you, like me, did not remember what a marvelous story teller Washington Irving…
Aesop's Fables: A New Revised Edition
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Aesop
Remember the story of the Ant and the Grasshopper? the Fox and the Sour Grapes? The Boy who Cried Wolf? These wonderful tales and hundreds m…
Planet of Dread
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Murray Leinster
Humans have expanded to myriads of worlds throughout the galaxies but they have found that the only way for colonies to be self sustaining, …
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (abridged, version 3)
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Lewis Carroll
A delightful version of Alice's Adventures following that scurrying Rabbit with the watch that is shortened for the enjoyment of younger chi…
The Frog Prince and Other Stories (version 2)
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Walter Crane
These three stories,The Frog Prince, Princess Belle-Etoile and Alladin, beloved by generations of children, are here retold in a format and …
Sex: Avoided Subjects Discussed in Plain English (version 2)
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Henry Stanton
Henry Stanton was appalled at the shocking lack of information given to young people about sex and reproduction in his time. He felt this wa…
Anthem (version 3)
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Ayn Rand
This Novella by Ayn Rand was first published in England in 1938. It takes place at some unspecified future date when mankind has entered an…
The Golden Goose Book (version 2)
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L. Leslie Brooke
Here are four delightful fairy tales that have fascinated children and adults for centuries. Several, such as The Three Bears and The Three …
Pinocchio
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Carlo Collodi
This is the wonderful story of Pinocchio, the puppet who must learn many lessons before he can become a real boy. Carved by a woodcarver na…
Black Amazon of Mars (Version 2)
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Leigh Douglass Brackett
This gore drenched story finds Eric Stark, the barely civilized warrior raised on Mercury struggling to bring a dying Martian friend back to…
The World That Couldn't Be (Version 2)
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Clifford D. Simak
The planet where his new plantation was established was very strange, with a complete lack of sex; all of his workers and all the animals an…
Tik-Tok of Oz (version 2)
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L. Frank Baum
In this really exciting and well written story of Oz, the Shaggy Man is on a quest to find his long lost brother. But all does not go smooth…
The Red Headed League
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"The Adventure of the Red-Headed League" is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It firs…
The Importance of Being Earnest (Version 4)
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Oscar Wilde
This is a solo recording of the play, meaning that all parts including stage directions are performed by one person. LibriVox has three exc…
The Little Mermaid
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Hans Christian Andersen
The Little Mermaid" (Danish: Den lille havfrue, literally: "the little sea lady") is a very well known fairy tale by the Dani…
The Willows (version 2)
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Algernon Blackwood
"The Willows" is one of Algernon Blackwood's best known creepy stories. American horror author H.P. Lovecraft considered it to be …
The Adventure of the Speckled Band
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes and Watson are awoken early by a distraught woman desperately seeking their aid. Something is terribly wrong and she fears f…
The Little Match Girl
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Hans Christian Andersen
This is a recording of seven immortal and delightful fairy tales written by Hans Christian Andersen. The Little Match Girl is of course the…
The Emperor's New Clothes
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Hans Christian Andersen
This is a collection of a few of my personal favorite stories by Hans Christian Andersen that I most loved as a child and still enjoy as an …
Fables for the Frivolous (Version 2)
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Guy Wetmore Carryl
Fables for the Frivolous is one of the earliest works by the American parodist Guy Wetmore Carryl. These fables are adapted from Jean de La …
Lady Windermere's Fan (Version 2)
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Oscar Wilde
Lady Windermere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman is a four-act comedy by Oscar Wilde, first produced 22 February 1892 at the St James's Thea…
Bible (KJV) NT 27: Revelation (Version 2)
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King James Version
The Book of Revelation, often known simply as Revelation or the Apocalypse, is the final book of the New Testament and occupies a central pl…
The Practice of the Presence of God (version 2)
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Brother Lawrence
Brother Lawrence was born Nicholas Herman around 1610 in Herimenil, Lorraine, a Duchy of France. His birth records were destroyed in a fire …
The Murders in the Rue Morgue (version 2)
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Edgar Allan Poe
"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a story by Edgar Allan Poe published in Graham's Magazine in 1841. It has been recognized as th…
The Scarecrow of Oz (version 2)
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L. Frank Baum
The Scarecrow of Oz is the ninth book set in the Land of Oz written by L. Frank Baum. Published on July 16, 1915, it was Baum's personal fav…
The Biography of a Grizzly (version 2)
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Ernest Thompson Seton
Wahb (meaning White Bear) is an orphaned Grizzly Bear who learns to respect his fears, fight for peace, and trust the healing powers of a st…
Rinkitink in Oz (version 3)
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L. Frank Baum
Prince Inga of Pingaree and King Rinkitink and their companions have adventures that lead to the land of the Nomes and, eventually, Oz. In …
The Man Who Found Out (A Nightmare)
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Algernon Blackwood
A researcher goes on an expedition to find "The Tablets of the Gods" which have plagued his dreams since his boyhood. He finds the…
Three Science Fiction Stories by Fritz Leiber
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Fritz Leiber
The Moon is Green, Bread Overhead and What's He Doing In There?! Three of the best known and loved Science Fiction short stories by the won…
The Lost Princess of Oz (version 2)
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L. Frank Baum
Oh My Goodness !!! Princess Ozma is missing and no one can find her. The whole kingdom of OZ is upset and our heroes must set out to brave …
Sentiment, Inc.
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Poul William Anderson
The way we feel about another person, or about objects, is often bound up in associations that have no direct connection with the person or …
Fundamentals of Prosperity
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Roger Babson
What these principles are and whence they come to us. "The fact is, we have become crazy over material things. We are looking only a…
Gods of the North
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Robert E. Howard
"The Frost-Giant's Daughter" is, arguably the earliest chronological story by Robert E. Howard in terms of Conan's life. The brief…
3 Science Fiction Stories by Gerald Vance
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Gerald Vance
Three Science Fiction stories by the great Gerald Vance: Monsoons of Death is a very nice blend of horror story and a study of true bravery …
The Marvelous Land of Oz (version 3)
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L. Frank Baum
The Marvelous Land of Oz: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman is the second of L. Frank Baum's b…
Omnilingual (version 2)
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H. Beam Piper
This short story was first written and published in the year 1957, as part of a collection of short science fiction stories in the collectio…
5 Science Fiction Stories by Mack Reynolds
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Dallas Mccord Reynolds and Mack Reynolds
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 ab…
The Happy Prince and Other Tales (version 3)
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Oscar Wilde
A collection of five stories by Oscar Wilde, all incorporating his inimitable style and wit. Sometimes sweet and uplifting, sometimes caust…
The Machine Stops (version 4)
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E. M. Forster
"The Machine Stops" is a science fiction story by E. M. Forster. After initial publication in 1909 the story was republished in F…
Red Nails (version 2)
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Robert E. Howard
Conan the Barbarian finds himself lusting after and fighting alongside the toughest woman alive, Valeria The Red, a beautiful pirate who out…
Peace on Earth, Good-Will to Dogs (version 2)
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Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
If you don't like Christmas stories, don't read this one!And if you don't like dogs I don't know just what to advise you to do!For I warn yo…
Common Sense (version 3)
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Thomas Paine
Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 that inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for indepen…
Apology of Socrates (version 2)
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Plato
The Apology is Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates as he defended himself in 399 BC[2] against the charges of "corrupting t…
Raggedy Ann Stories (version 3)
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Johnny Gruelle
As I write this, I have before me on my desk, propped up against the telephone, an old rag doll. Dear old Raggedy Ann!The same Raggedy Ann w…
The Canterville Ghost (version 2)
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Oscar Wilde
A modern American family move into a traditionally drafty and very haunted English mansion. So far so good but anyone knowing Wilde can expe…
The People of the Black Circle (version 2)
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Robert E. Howard
The People of the Black Circle" is one of the original novellas about Conan the Cimmerian, written by American author Robert E. Howard …
As a Man Thinketh (version 4)
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James Allen
This book is about our thoughts and how they determine our actions and very being. A few quotes will give a good taste of the riches in thi…
The Sign of the Broken Sword
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G. K. Chesterton
In the freezing English countryside, Father Brown leads Flambeau to the many monuments and shrines of the great General St. Claire. "S…
The Knights of Arthur (Version 2)
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Frederik Pohl
Pohl takes us into the future in this quirky and funny story, where the population of the United States is less than 10,000 people ... tota…
The Beast With Five Fingers
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W. F. Harvey
A well off English bachelor receives a legacy from his uncle. This includes the uncle's very large library and a box containing something t…
Equation of Doom
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Gerald Vance
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 dete…
The Kitchen Cat and Other Stories
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Amy Walton
These are three stories that will delight your heart and soul. The little girl Ruth in the first story is very privileged young lady with …
Cobb's Anatomy (version 2)
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Irvin S. Cobb
Irving S. Cobb discusses the human body and its various strange parts in his own inimitable hilarious style. He discusses the tummy and th…
The Tin Woodman of Oz (version 2)
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L. Frank Baum
A Faithful Story of the Astonishing Adventure Undertaken by the Tin Woodman, assisted by Woot the Wanderer, the Scarecrow of Oz, and Polychr…
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Version 6)
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Mark Twain
Follow the young boy Huckleberry Finn and the slave Jim on their epic journey down the Mississippi River in the years before the Civil War. …
How to Live on 24 Hours a Day (version 2)
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Arnold Bennett
Are you really 'living', or just existing? Do you want to improve yourself or just continue to muddle through? Do you use the time given y…
The Call of the Wild (version 4)
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Jack London
The Call of the Wild is a novel by Jack London published in 1903. The story is set in the Yukon during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush—a period…
Salvage in Space
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Jack Williamson
This is an SF tale of excitement, danger, derring-do and strangely enough, love. A lonely and very poor asteroid miner, slowly collecting …
Acres of Diamonds (Version 2)
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Russell Conwell
One of the most requested motivational lectures of all time. "I say that you ought to get rich, and it is your duty to get rich ... Th…
The Thing in the Attic (version 2)
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James B. Blish
"Honath and his fellow arch-doubters did not believe in the Giants, and for this they were cast into Hell. And when survival depended u…
The Magic of Oz (version 2)
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L. Frank Baum
This is the second to last book in the OZ series that Baum actually wrote himself before he passed away. "A Faithful Record of the R…
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (Version 3)
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Henry David Thoreau
"That government is best which governs least" is the famous opening line of this essay. The slavery crisis inflamed New England i…
Tedric
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E. E. “Doc” Smith
This is a wonderful combination of far future science fiction with Conan like sword and sorcery; lots of blood, gore, honor and evil. The…
Raiders of the Universes
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Donald Wandrei
It was the 34th century and all five of the Federation of Planets around Sol were buzzing with their usual activity when the Raiders appeare…
Lord Tedric (version 2)
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E. E. “Doc” Smith
The best of science fantasy meets the best of science fiction as Tedric battles his way through two universes of adventure: In one universe.…
The Hunting of the Snark (Version 3)
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Lewis Carroll
The Hunting of the Snark - "An Agony in 8 Fits" is typically categorized as a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll, the pen name…
Wet Magic
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E. Nesbit
A book about children who find magic in every day life .. and discover that mermen and mermaids actually have a whole underwater kingdom wit…
On Loving God (Version 2)
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Saint Bernard Of Clairvaux
"You want me to tell you why God is to be loved and how much.I answer, the reason for loving God is God Himself; and the measure of lov…
The Spiritual Exercises
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St. Ignatius Loyola
These are the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola, a plan of contemplation to be carried out over about a month. St. Ignatius of L…
Planet of the Gods
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Robert Moore Williams
Far, far in the future Earth has achieved real peace and is sending out interstellar expeditions, not to conquer, but to explore. The third …
Glinda of Oz (version 2)
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L. Frank Baum
Glinda the Good, the great sorceress of Oz takes the spotlight in this, the very last OZ book written by L. Frank Baum himself. Ozma hears …
Inside Earth
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Poul William Anderson
This story takes place in the not so distant future. Earth has been conquered and is a subjugated planet, the much too humanoid new rulers …
3 Science Fiction Stories by Lester del Ray
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Lester Del Rey
The quirky mind of famous SF writer Lester del Ray gives us three wonderful tales ranging from zombies (Dead Ringer), time travel (how do yo…
The Sensitive Man
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Poul William Anderson
Poul Anderson delves into the realm of human potential in this exciting story and asks some penetrating questions for us to think about. Wh…
Kreativity for Kats & Other Stories
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Fritz Leiber
Here are three stories by the inimitable Fritz Leiber, all from Galaxy Magazine: Kreativity for Kats 1961 - aliens do live among us; The La…
Damned If You Don't
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Randall Garrett
We've all heard of the wonderful invention that the Big Corporation or the Utilities suppressed? The one that would revolutionize society …
But, I Don't Think
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Randall Garrett
The title is obscure and a bit unsettling I admit; what could it possible mean? Randall Garrett wrote a story here that had me blissfully …
The Penal Cluster
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Randall Garrett
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 s…
His Master's Voice
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Randall Garrett
This is a follow up story to Randal Garrett's original story, A Spaceship Named McGyer. The intrepid protagonist, now that he has become t…
Search the Sky
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Frederik Pohl
Ross was a junior trader on Halsey's Planet, and had great prospects but was not happy at all. Everything smelled of decay. The whole plan…
The Men in the Walls
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William Tenn
There are giant, technologically superior aliens who have conquered Earth. People live like vermin in holes in the insulation material of th…
Randall Garrett: 3 Science Fiction stories
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Randall Garrett
The irrepressible Science Fiction author Randall Garrett wrote a wide array of short stories for the SF magazines of his day poking fun at m…
Anchorite
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Randall Garrett
Randall Garrett sticks a sharp needle into our government and society in this wonderful story. He projects the current trends towards patern…
The Royal Book of Oz (version 3)
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Ruth Plumly Thompson
"Of course, we all knew the Scarecrow was a very fine fellow, but surely we never guessed he ascended from an emperor. Most of us desce…
Anything You Can Do ... (version 2)
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Randall Garrett
The Alien did not intend to crash land on earth, but he did. The alien tried to communicate with humans, but he could not. The alien did n…
3 Science Fiction Stories by Frank Herbert
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Frank Herbert
As the title indicates, here are three SF stories by Frank Herbert, Missing LInk, originaly purlished in Astounding SF, 1959; Operation Hays…
The Metamorphosis (version 4)
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Franz Kafka
This story, about a man who wakes up transformed into a bug and the repercussions it has on his life and the people around him, has intrigue…
It Could Be Anything
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Keith Laumer
A science fiction story by the great Keith Laumer - what more needs to be said? - But I will say more nevertheless. A young man sets out …
A Bad Day For Vermin by Keith Laumer
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Keith Laumer
For your listening pleasure, here are three stories by the ingenious Keith Laumer from the glorious days of Science Fiction in the early 19…
The Citizen's Almanac
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United States Of America
This is a recording of a booklet given to new naturalized American citizens, it contains an explanation of fundamental documents, symbols an…
The Untroubled Mind (Version 2)
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Herbert J. Hall
Our own minds cause us great pain through worry, fear and anxiety. We all know this, but how to stop the whirling, spinning wheel inside our…
Little Wizard Stories of Oz (version 2)
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L. Frank Baum
Six stores of OZ and it's wonderful inhabitants, told by the official Historian of Oz, L. Frank Baum. Lots of adventure here!! Dorothy and …
Arms and The Man (Version 2)
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George Bernard Shaw
Arms and the Man is a comedy written by George Bernard Shaw, and was first produced in 1894 and published in 1898, and has become one of the…
Pagan Passions
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Laurence M. Janifer and Randall Garrett
'Adult' Science Fiction? Well, why not? Science Fiction deals imaginatively with odd and unsettling subjects, why not sex? In this novel,…
The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians (Spartans)
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Xenophon
The Polity of the Lacedaemonians talks about the laws and institutions created by Lycurgus, which train and develop Spartan citizens from bi…
The Tales of Mother Goose
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Charles Perrault
These stories were the original ones collected by Charles Perrault and published in French in 1696. You may have heard of some of them and …
Shadows in Zamboula (version 2)
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Robert E. Howard
In the dark streets of Zamboula, huge ghouls stalk the night seeking victims for their ghastly rites and feasts. Conan is passing through t…
The Hour of the Dragon (version 2)
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Robert E. Howard
This is absolutely the best Conan novel ever written in my opinion. It follows Conan when at the peak of his power as king of Aquilonia, he…
Handy Mandy in Oz
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Ruth Plumly Thompson
On many a day had Handy, the Goat Girl of Mern, pursued her goats up and down the rocky eminences of her native mountain. And never—NEVER—in…
The Creature from Cleveland Depths (Version 2)
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Fritz Leiber
The Cold War of the 1960s has grown warmer and warmer over time until, at this time in the future, it is a very hot and nasty war where Atom…
Nice Girl With 5 Husbands
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Fritz Leiber
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. …
Bobby in Search of a Birthday (version 2)
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Lebbeus Mitchell
Bobby is a little orphan boy of about 5 who discovers he has somehow lost his 'birfhday' and decides to go looking for it. This epic quest …
Candida (version 2)
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George Bernard Shaw
This play tells the story of Candida, the wife of a famous clergyman, the Reverend James Mavor Morell. Morell is a Christian Socialist, po…
The Magical Mimics in Oz
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Jack Snow
The land of OZ is the happiest fairyland anywhere, but there are evil creatures whose only ambition is to destroy that happiness. Lurking i…
A Thousand Degrees Below Zero
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Murray Leinster
The War to End All Wars has ended and the world has taken a deep breath and is trying to recover normal life in 1919. But a super Villan in…
Planet of the Damned (Version 2)
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Harry Harrison
Dis was a harsh, inhospitable, dangerous place and the Magter made it worse. They might have been human once—but they were something else no…
Med Ship Man (version 2)
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Murray Leinster
Scattered through the galaxy are thousands of worlds colonized by humans. Many have native microbes dangerous to the human immigrants. Other…
The Confessions of a Daddy
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Ellis Parker Butler
The wry humor of Ellis Parker Butler, who gave us the classic Pigs Is Pigs, takes us into his own married life where Marthy and Hiram live q…
Kabumpo in Oz (version 2)
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Ruth Plumly Thompson
An elephant in Oz? You bet! The tiny kingdom of Pumperdink has what no neighboring kingdom has: an Elegant Elephant in court, and his name i…
Let'em Breathe Space (version 2)
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Lester Del Rey and Lester del Rey
Eighteen men and two women in the closed world of a space ship for five months can only spell tension and trouble—but in this case, the atmo…
Extract from Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven (version 4)
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Mark Twain
Mark Twain pokes a little good natured fun at the usual concept of heaven. The story follows Captain Elias Stormfield on his extremely long…
The Diaries of Adam and Eve
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Mark Twain
Mark Twain wrote these two diaries, or rather as he insists, 'translated them from the original manuscripts', late in his writing career. T…
Lysistrata (version 3)
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Aristophanes
The women of Athens are sick of the Peloponnesian war that has dragged on for year after year after year, causing great hardship to everyo…
The Dunwich Horror (Version 2)
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H. P. Lovecraft
Horror stalks the earth. There are many dimensions that coexist with our universe and, unfortunately, overlap it in very special places. T…
The Man Who Hated Mars
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Randall Garrett
To escape from Mars, all Clayton had to do was the impossible. Break out of a crack-proof exile camp—get onto a ship that couldn't be boarde…
Mowgli: All of the Mowgli Stories from the Jungle Books
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Rudyard Kipling
In the Jungle Books, Kipling tells 9 wonderful and exciting tales about Mowgli, the human baby raised by a pack of wolves in the jungles of …
The Fisherman and His Soul (Version 2)
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Oscar Wilde
To get what we want is often the greatest curse of all. The fisherman here accidentally catches a mermaid in his net. He falls in love with…
Mrs. Warren's Profession (Version 2)
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George Bernard Shaw
.Mrs. Warren's Profession is a play written by George Bernard Shaw in 1893, and first performed in London in 1902 but was banned after two p…
Armageddon- 2419 A.D. (Version 3)
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Philip Francis Nowlan
This is the original ‘Buck Rogers’ SF classic. Thrill to the adventures of Anthony "Buck" Rogers, one of the most celebrated chara…
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Version 5)
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Robert Louis Stevenson
This story deals with the obvious fact that we humans are split, dual. We have urges to do the 'right' thing, to be honorable and wise, but…
St. Francis of Assisi
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G. K. Chesterton
For Chesterton, Francis of Assisi is a great paradoxical figure, a man who loved women but vowed himself to chastity; an artist who loved th…
Deathworld (version 2)
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Harry Harrison
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 …
The Cowardly Lion of Oz
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Ruth Plumly Thompson
The Cowardly Lion, always fearful, has become even more afraid than usual and is convinced that he has lost the courage the Wizard of OZ gav…
A Martian Odyssey & A Valley of Dreams
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Stanley G. Weinbaum
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,…
3 SF Stories by Jack Williamson
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Jack Williamson
Three classic SF stories by Jack Williamson: The Cosmic Express, The Pygmy Planet and Salvage in Space. All were published in Astounding S…
Heidi (version 3)
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Johanna Spyri
Johanna Spyri’s classic story of a 5 year old little Swiss orphan who is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their h…
3 Science Fiction Stories
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William Tenn
These are three imaginative SF stories by an author I admire a lot, William Tenn. Venus is a Man's World, (Galaxy Science Fiction, July 19…
The Green Odyssey (version 2)
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Philip Jose Farmer and Philip José Farmer
A rip-roaring, pulpy and quirky space odyssey for your listening pleasure. Follow earth man Allen Green as his space ship fails and leaves h…
The Variable Man (Version 2)
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Philip K. Dick
Philip K. Dick wrote some great Science Fiction and here is an example. Published in 1953, in Space Science Fiction, t his story explores a…
Doctor Dolittle's Post Office
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Hugh Lofting
Doctor Dolittle's Post Office is the exciting third in the series of Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittle books. As usual, the Doctor has many ad…
4 SF stories by C. M. Kornbluth
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C. M. Kornbluth
Four nifty Science Fiction stories by the great C. M. Kornbluth. The Adventurer - The Altar at Midnight - With These Hands and The Marching…
Grampa In Oz
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Ruth Plumly Thompson
Another great book in the world of Oz, in which King Fumbo of Ragbad loses his head in a storm and Prince Tatters, accompanied by the wise a…
The 64-Square Madhouse
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Fritz Leiber
A machine of blinking lights and smelling of ozone is entered into a Grand Master chess tournament. One of the first of those things called…
The Green World
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Hal Clement
The planet was an enigma. Among the thousands of inhabitable planets that had been discovered and visited, Veridis alone seemed to defy the…
Venus Boy (Version 2)
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Lee Sutton
The colony on Venus is struggling to survive. All animal life on the planet, from the deadly Arrow Birds to the huge Rhinosaurs are deadly …
The Push Of A Finger
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Alfred Bester
Science fiction from the 50s by one of the masters, Alfred Bester. Society has committed itself to complete stability. Nothing is allowed …
The Cloak (Version 2)
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Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
The Cloak or the Overcoat as in some translations, is a story by Ukrainian-born Russian author Nikolai Gogol, published in 1842. The story a…
The Time Machine (version 5)
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H. G. Wells
Our dystopian future is revealed by H.G.Wells. In this famous story, an unnamed scientist of the 1800s invents a machine to travel through …
Venus Has Green Eyes
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Carl Selwyn
Flip Miller was a man about the universe, surviving one harrowing escapade after another and seeking for the lucky break that would make his…
Venus Enslaved
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Manly Wade Wellman
A rip-snorting, 1940s science fiction adventure from the pen of Manly Wade Wellman. What chance had the castaway Earthman and his crossbo…
Attitude
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Hal Clement
They had been captured, but by whom? And why where they allowed to build anything they wanted to escape? The space cruiser was powerful and…
War-Lords of the Moon
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Linton Davies
Bruce Ross, on the Earth-Moon run, asked a simple question, "How are the stars behaving, Harry?" But Harrell Moore could only sta…
The Silver Princess in Oz (version 2)
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Ruth Plumly Thompson
Another Oz book! Yes! Lots of unlikely characters and tons of fun. In this story, young King Randy of Regalia is visited by his old frien…
The Dragon Queen of Jupiter
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Leigh Douglass Brackett
The French Foreign legion has been exported to Space as the Space foreign legion. They are fighting now on Jupiter and the natives, led by …
Ministry of Disturbance
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H. Beam Piper
Science Fiction at it humorous best written in the golden age of all the greats and published in Astounding Science Fiction December 1958. …
A Matter of Importance
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Murray Leinster
The importance of a matter is almost entirely a matter of your attitude. And whether you call something "a riot" or "a war&qu…
The Surprising Adventures of the Magical Monarch of Mo (Version 2)
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L. Frank Baum
"I dare say, there are several questions you would like to ask at the very beginning of this history. First: Who is the Monarch of Mo? …
Giants on the Earth
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Captain S. P. Meek
The Earth is ruled by cruel Jovian overlords and has been for 40 years. Earthlings are slaves who seethe with anger but are helpless in view…
The Jewel of Bas
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Leigh Douglass Brackett
There was a boy-God, sleeping through eternity. And there were his "Stone of Life" and the androids he had createdof matter and en…
Queen Zixi of Ix or The Story of the Magic Cloak
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L. Frank Baum
L.Frank Baum, or the Wizard of Oz fame, wrote this delightful book and considered it his best of all that he wrote. it tells the story of f…
Thralls of the Endless Night
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Leigh Douglass Brackett
This is a classic story from the early days of science fiction pulp magazines. Leigh Brackett, a female author who stood with the best of t…
Queen Of The Martian Catacombs
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Leigh Douglass Brackett
This is the very first story with the Conan-like barbarian hero, Eric John Stark. There were more written by Brackett and all just as exciti…
Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz (version 2)
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Ruth Plumly Thompson
The wonderful but quirky Wizard of Oz has invented a plane to go strato-sphering. Zooming among the clouds and shooting stars above OZ cert…
Enchantress Of Venus
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Leigh Douglass Brackett
Eric John Stark, the Conan of the Spaceways, continues his adventures in this exciting story. This time he is on the shores of Venus' gaseo…
Shannach-The-Last
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Leigh Douglass Brackett
A true pulp science fiction from 1952 from the pen of Leigh Douglas Brackett. In the deep caves of Mars an alien race ruled and enslaved me…
A Doll's House
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Henrik Ibsen
Published in 1879, this play was a bombshell, exposing the tragic hypocrisy of Victorian like middle class marriage. The play is significant…
Citadel of Lost Ships
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Leigh Douglass Brackett
"It was a Gypsy world, built of space flotsam, peopled with the few free races of the Solar System. Roy Campbell, outcast prey of theCo…
Peter Pan (Version 5)
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J. M. Barrie
This delightful book about the Darling children and a boy named Peter, is what started it all. The writing of J.M. Barrie is whimsical and f…
Lorelei of the Red Mist (Version 2)
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Leigh Douglass Brackett
Published in Planet Stories in 1946, this story is a great mix of Golden Age Sci Fi and Swords & Sorcery. The first half was written by…
Adaptation
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Mack Reynolds
In 1960 when this was published, the Cold War was at its height. Communism and Free Enterprise (Democracy) were locked in a ferocious strug…
4 SF Stories by Mack Reynolds
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Mack Reynolds
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5 SF stories by Mack Reynolds
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Mack Reynolds
Five Science Fiction stories from the strange mind of Mack Reynolds. Always innovative and interesting, these were published in the early s…
A Japanese Boy
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Shigemi Shiukichi
The life of a Japanese boy in the late 1800's and early 1900's, told simply and beautifully. This isn't about civilizations and governments,…
Terror Out of Space (Version 2)
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Leigh Douglass Brackett
"An eerie story of a silver land beneath the black Venusian seas. A grim tale of brooding terror whirling out of space to drive men mad…
Warrior of Two Worlds
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Manly Wade Wellman
"He was the man of two planets, drawn through the blackness of space to save a nation from ruthless invaders. He was Yandro, the Strang…
The Lost King of Oz
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Ruth Plumly Thompson
"Princess Ozma has ruled so wisely and happily in the wonderful Land of Oz for so long that most of us have forgotten the strange story…
The Adventure of the Copper Beeches
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A governess comes to Sherlock Holmes for advice on an offer of a excellent position with a new employer. But the conditions are odd and exp…
Vampires of Space
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Sewell Peaslee Wright
Commander John Hanson recounts his harrowing adventure with the Electites of space. Beings of Ether who don't want your blood, they want yo…
The Prophet (version 4)
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Kahlil Gibran
This famous work is a collection of poetic essays that are philosophical, spiritual, and inspirational. They delve deep into our condition a…
The Ultimate Weapon (Version 2)
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John Wood Campbell Jr. and John Wood Campbell, Jr.
A rip-roaring space adventure from the 1930's by the legendary John Cambpell. A race in another solar system many light years away from Ear…
3 Weird SF Stories by Fritz Leiber
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Fritz Leiber
These are three of the strangest stories I could find by the very talented Fritz Leiber. And by strange I mean odd, weird, kinda creepy and…
Captain Salt in Oz (Version 2)
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Ruth Plumly Thompson
A voyage on the famous Nonestic Ocean! What could be more thrilling than that? We—many of us—have taken trips on the prosaic Atlantic or eve…
Witch of the Demon Seas
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Poul William Anderson
"Guide a black galleon to the lost, fear-hauntedCitadel of the Xanthi wizards—into the very jaws of Doom? Corun, condemned pirate ofCon…
Snowball (Version 2)
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Poul William Anderson
Simon's new source of power promised a new era for Mankind. But what happens to world economy when anyone can manufacture it in the kitchen …
Cosmic Castaway
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Carl Richard Jacobi
"Within a year Earth would be a vassal world, with the Sirian invaders triumphant. Only Standish, Earth's Defense Engineer, could halt…
The Aliens (Version 2)
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Murray Leinster
The human race was expanding through the galaxy ... and so, they knew, were the Aliens. Who were these beings? Traces of them could be found…
Winnie-the-Pooh
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A. A. Milne
Winnie the Pooh, the loveable little bear with a great big heart (and only a slightly less large appetite for honey), has fun and adventures…
Peace
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Aristophanes
The 'Peace' was brought out four years after 'The Acharnians' (422 B.C.), when the War had already lasted ten years. The leading motive is t…
Lone Star Planet (Version 2)
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John J. McGuire and H. Beam Piper
An entire planet colonized by Texans. Can this cause problems? You becha pardner. So strap on your shootin' irons, take a shot of Superbou…
The World with a Thousand Moons
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Edmond Hamilton
Other than boasting of having a thousand moons, this nasty planet could only brag of having the most numerous, vicious, mean, death dealing …
The Shaggy Man of Oz (version 2)
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Jack Snow
"During the past few years, several readers have written me asking: "What ever happened to the Nome King's tunnel under the Deadly…
Silver Blaze
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A famous race horse disappears a week before an important race; the trainer is found dead on the desolate moor and the police are completely…
Doctor Dolittle's Zoo
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Hugh Lofting
Doctor Dolittle, the man who can speak with the animals, is back home but running short of money to care for all the animals who need his he…
Just David (Version 2)
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Eleanor H. Porter
Just David is the story of David, a little boy of 10 who is suddenly transplanted from a quiet, isolated, shut away world of music high in t…
The Colour Out of Space
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H. P. Lovecraft
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” This creepy horror…
The Call of Cthulhu
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H. P. Lovecraft
The worshipers of this ancient tentacled horror are still with us, waiting for this terrible being to awake and take vengeance again on an e…
A Scandal in Bohemia
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
This story, found in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, is one of the best in my opinion. Is it possible for the machine like brain of this…
The Deadly Dust
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Murray Leinster
Murray Leinster does not disappoint with this gem of a story. The dust is deadly. It is slowly drifting down over the North American cont…
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes is involved in a simple case of finding the owner of a battered hat and a dead goose. Or so he thinks. All too soon this hat…
The Skylark of Valeron
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E. E. “Doc” Smith
The Skylark of Valeron is the third volume in the classic Skylark trilogy by E.E. ‘Doc’ Smith. DuQuesne has survived to become Master of t…
Skylark Three (Version 2)
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E. E. “Doc” Smith
Book 2 of the Skylark of Space series. More pulp daring do and the clash of inconceivable vast forces across the galaxies as only Doc Smith…
Buccaneer of the Star Seas
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Edward Earl Repp
A nifty pulp SF story written in 1940 and published in Planet Stories. What would happen if someone found the secret of immortality in 142…
The Flame Breathers
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Ray Cummings
Did the planet Vulcan exist? It supposedly orbited our sun on the opposite side from the Earth but it was only theoretical speculation. On…
The Last Evolution
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John Wood Campbell Jr. and John Wood Campbell, Jr.
John Campbell Jr. gives us a story about evolution. What will be man's ultimate evolution? What will he look like 100,000 years in the fut…
The Vortex Blaster Makes War
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E. E. “Doc” Smith
It's the Vortex Blaster, Doc Smith's science fiction hero that has already saved the world from atomic vortices with his prodigious computin…
Storm Cloud on Deka
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E. E. “Doc” Smith
Another pulp Science Fiction saga by E.E.'Doc' Smith. The Galactic Civilization is established, lensmen are on every world. But those horr…
Victory (Version 2)
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Lester Del Rey
The earth is undefended. A ripe, juicy, rich plum just innocently waiting for one of the many new and warlike civilizations in the nearby un…
What The Left Hand Was Doing
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Randall Garrett
The Society For Mystical and Metaphysical Research, Inc. .....It is possible that no more nearly perfect cover, no more misleading front for…
The Sentimentalists
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Murray Leinster
Lon and Cathy, deeply in love and new farmers on a far away world, found they owed their souls to the company. The greedy company had design…
A Gallery of Children (Version 2)
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A. A. Milne
These are 12 imaginative stories written by A.A. Milne about beautiful 12 illustrations originally published in the Colliers magazine. (I s…
Gray Lensman
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E. E. “Doc” Smith
Kimball Kinnison becomes a Gray Lensman. This name comes from the simple gray leathers these superior lensmen wear that has no insignia of…
The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"“Who is he?” I asked.“The worst man in London,” Holmes answered, as he sat down and stretched his legs before the fire." And so…
The Disciplinary Circuit
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Murray Leinster
The Disciplinary Circuit is watching you. Always watching that your thoughts are correct and pure. The Council want only what is best for …
If You Was a Moklin
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Murray Leinster
Moklins are the friendliest aliens humans ever encountered. They LOVE humans, and want to imitate them in every way they can. And evolution…
The Stainless Steel Rat
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Harry Harrison
This is the story that inspired and kicked off the Stainless Steel Rat series of stories and novels by Harry Harrison. A slippery con man an…
The Hungry Tiger of Oz
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Ruth Plumly Thompson
The Hungry Tiger gets a chance to eat LOTS of people. What will happen!?? Will his conscience stop him or will he finally stop his stomach…
Pirates of Venus
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Edgar Rice Burroughs
Edgar Rice Burroughs, of Tarzan fame, wrote many great adventure stories that were serialized in the magazines of t he 1930s. This is the fi…
Med Service
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Murray Leinster
Excitement would seem far from the life of a Med Service man. Going from planet to planet in their tiny ships with just one little furry co…
Red Shadows (Version 2)
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Robert E. Howard
Excitement and sorcery mixed with blades of steel. The mysterious stranger who appears out of nowhere to avenge injustice and defend the d…
Ribbon in the Sky
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Murray Leinster
Med Service man Calhoun and his little sidekick Murgatroid run into another sizeable speed bump on their assigned visits to the planets of t…
The Grandfathers' War
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Murray Leinster
Another twisty tale from Murray Leinster about that busy little Med Ship fixing problems throughout the universe. In this case, the med serv…
The Wishing Horse of Oz (Version 2)
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Ruth Plumly Thompson
The magical kingdom of Oz is happily doing all the wonderful things it does in peace and happiness, not knowing that a far off evil and gras…
The People of the Crater (Version 2)
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Andre Norton
Now that the latest world wide war has ended, Captain Garin, the hottest fighter pilot of the American force, is reduced to poverty and hung…
The Adventure of the Red Circle
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes uses his amazing brain to unravel another strange occurrence. A mysterious lodger in his own building who remains locked awa…
The Gnome King of Oz
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Ruth Plumly Thompson
The Gnome King has escaped from Runaway Island and Scraps, the Patchwork Girl has disappeared from the Emerald City. Oh dear!! What exciting…