It began as a very ordinary evening for John Breton and his slim, beautiful wife Kate: two friends had come to dinner, and now they were quietly talking over after-dinner drinks. Then the phone rang, and shattered forever the peace of Breton's well-planned life.For the voice at the other end told him, "You've been living with my wife for nine years—and I'm coming to take her back."And a short time later that other man arrived on Breton's doorstep—and John Breton found himself staring incredulously into his own face!THE TWO-TIMERS is an unpredictable and fascinating novel of a man literally fighting himself . . . while the univ Views: 472
Epub (mine)INCLUDES: A selection from The Ideal (excerpt, 1935) by Stanley G. Weinbaum; Moxon's Master by Ambrose Bierce; Reason by Isaac Asimov; But Who Can Replace a Man? by Brian W. Aldiss; A selection from The Time Machine by H. G. Wells; Of Time and Third Avenue by Alfred Bester; Sail On! Sail On! by Philip Jose Farmer; A selection from Worlds of the Imperium by Keith Laumer; The Business, As Usual by Mack Reynolds; What's It Like Out There? by Edmond Hamilton; Sky Lift by Robert A. Heinlein; The Star by Arthur C. Clarke; The Crystal Egg by H. G. Wells; The Wind People by Marion Zimmer Bradley; Unhuman Sacrifice by Katherine Maclean; What Was It? by Fitz-James O'Brien; The First Days of May by Claude Veillot; Day of Succession by Theodore L. Thomas; Angel's Egg by Edgar Pangborn; Another World by J. H. Rosny Aine; A selection from Odd John by Olaf Stapledon; Call Me Joe by Poul Anderson; From the London Times of 1904 by Mark Twain; A selection from Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne; You Are With It! by Will Stanton; Cease Fire by Frank Herbert. Views: 471
EDITORIAL REVIEW:LIFE–raw, primordial–teemed on this young world: on its land, beneath its seas and in its air. Prehistoric life forms, similar to those which once flourished in distant Earth–vicious, voracious… Venusian. Into this raw young world plunges Perry Rhodan and his men of war in a race against time––Thora Queen of Arkon, is in hideous danger…THE VENUS TRAP! Views: 471
This classic romance novel tells the true story of the love affair that changed history—that of Katherine Swynford and John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, the ancestors of most of the British royal family. Set in the vibrant 14th century of Chaucer and the Black Death, the story features knights fighting in battle, serfs struggling in poverty, and the magnificent Plantagenets—Edward III, the Black Prince, and Richard II—who ruled despotically over a court rotten with intrigue. Within this era of danger and romance, John of Gaunt, the king’s son, falls passionately in love with the already married Katherine. Their well-documented affair and love persist through decades of war, adultery, murder, loneliness, and redemption. This epic novel of conflict, cruelty, and untamable love has become a classic since its first publication in 1954. Views: 471
A brilliantly funny collection of stories for the next age, from the celebrated author of Solaris. Ranging from the prophetic to the surreal, these stories demonstrate Stanislaw Lem's vast talent and remarkable ability to blend meaning and magic into a wholly entertaining and captivating work. Views: 470
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If you like Heinlein, you'll enjoy POINT ULTIMATE.
Welcome to the future where the Enemy rules the world. Resistance is futile: The Enemy maintains control by having released a lethal virus, then forcing everyone to get a monthly antidote injection, lest they die a horrible, painful death without it.
Resistance is never entirely futile, and freedom-loving men, women, and children attempt to sneak their way to the secret "Point Ultimate" where they can be free. But the Enemy wants to know: Where is Point Ultimate?
Very Heinlein-esque in feel, it's like finding Heinlein's Have Spacesuit, Will Travel or Farnham's Freehold in an attic if they hadn't been published before, the way people find a "new" Mozart or Beethoven piece in a trunk somewhere.
"Jerry Sohl undoubtedly possesses one of the most imaginative minds of our day." —Houston Post
Jerry Sohl is an acclaimed writer for Star Trek, The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and scores more novels and TV/movie scripts.
Read POINT ULTIMATE and save humanity today!
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The five, irreverant, satirical and imaginative stories contained in Diaboliad caused an uproar upon the book's first publication in 1925. Full of invention, they display Bulgakov's breathtaking stylistic range, moving at dizzying speed from grotesque satire to science fiction, from the plainest realism to the most madcap fantasy. Diaboliad is a wonderful introduction to literature's most uncategorisable and subversive genius. Views: 470
Two reporters looking for a story in the outer reaches of the Solar System come upon a derelict spaceship. Inside, they find the only inhabitant, a beautiful young woman who has been imprisoned for a thousand years in suspended animation, suspended but aware for the whole time. Together they set off on a grand adventure across the vastness of space and time in a search for a race known as the Cosmic Engineers on a mission to save the universe. Originally published as a short novel in Astounding Stories in 1939 and later expanded in this 1950 version, Cosmic Engineers shows the scope and imagination of one of science fictions true masters, Clifford Simak. Views: 470
In this sequel to Rabbit, Run, John Updike resumes the spiritual quest of his anxious Everyman, Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom. Ten years have passed; the impulsive former athlete has become a paunchy thirty-six-year-old conservative, and Eisenhower’s becalmed America has become 1969’s lurid turmoil of technology, fantasy, drugs, and violence. Rabbit is abandoned by his family, his home invaded by a runaway and a radical, his past reduced to a ruined inner landscape; still he clings to semblances of decency and responsibility, and yearns to belong and to believe. Views: 469
The Light of Asia, subtitled The Great Renunciation, weaves through its poetic verses the life and philosophy of Prince Siddhartha Gautama who attained enlightenment under the bodhi tree and became the Buddha. Receiving high acclaim since its publication in 1879, Edwin Arnold's work was adapted from the Lalitavistara Sutra (The Unfolding of the Play.) In the time before this work came out, little was known about Buddhism or the Buddha outside of Asia. Views: 469
World of Wonders, the concluding novel in Robertson Davies’ celebrated Deptford Trilogy, is available as an e-book for the first time.
Called “a spectacular, soaring work, an astounding tour de force unequaled in recent literature,” World of Wonders follows the story of Magnus Eisengrim—the most illustrious magician of his age—who is spirited away from his home by a member of a traveling sideshow, the Wanless World of Wonders.
“One of the great modern novelists.” Sunday Times Views: 469
This novel takes place in the early years of the American Revolution and is based on the adventures of one Sergeant Lamb, a Dublin man in the services of His Majesty's army. It begins with Lamb's early days in Dublin and ends with his arrival in Boston as a member of the regiment taken prisoner after Burgoyne's surrender at Saratoga. It includes a foreword by the author in which Graves, as is his custom, describes what experience or event led to his writing the novel. Views: 468
The greater the windbag the greater the calamity.
Henry James examines one of his favorite topics—the artist’s place in society—by profiling a “genius” who just can’t seem to support himself. A dazzling intellectual and brilliant speaker, Mr. Saltram has become the most sought-after houseguest in England. But, as his intellectual labors slacken, it beomes harder and harder to get him to leave.
A wry, edgy comedy about the fine line between making art...and freeloading. The Coxon Fund shows off a gift that is rarely appreciated about Henry James: he can be wickedly funny.
**The Art of The Novella Series
**Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers. In the Art Of The Novella series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first time. Views: 468
