Science Fiction
Astounding Stories 07, July 1930
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Sewell Peaslee Wright
Issue seven of this seminal science-fiction magazine - Summary by Annise
Short Science Fiction Collection 062
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Various
Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…
Omega: The Last Days of the World
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Camille Flammarion
Omega: The Last Days of the World is a science fiction novel published in 1894 by Camille Flammarion. On 25th century Earth, a comet made mo…
The Failed Cities Monologues
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Matt Wallace
In a hardboiled dystopian future, one major American city has been divided in two. Separated by much more than a river, one side is an unfi…
Vatican Assassin
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Mike Luoma
Bernard Campion, aka "BC", is an assassin for the Pope, struggling with his work's inherent contradictions while trying to take ca…
GalaxyBillies
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Michell Plested
When a semi-sentient starship's crew dies, it must find a new one in a hurry. Earth is the closest planet with sentient life and the ship, w…
Untrue Tales... Book Six
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Teel McClanahan III
Waking To The Truth or Explanation and Supplication or How To Resolve An Apocalypse.
Contains mature content not suitable for all readers.
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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…
Pursuit
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Lester Del Rey
Wilbur Hawkes wakes with no memory of the last seven months. He knows he's in danger, but he doesn’t know why. No sooner does he leave his a…
Erewhon
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Samuel Butler
Erewhon, or Over the Range is a novel by Samuel Butler, published anonymously in 1872. The title is also the name of a country, supposedly d…
The Machine Stops (version 2)
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E. M. Forster
Published in 1909, this science fiction short story takes place in a future where mankind, seemingly no longer able to survive on earth's su…
Vulture Capital
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Mark Coggins
When Basis Ventures venture capitalist Ted Valmont is belatedly informed that the Chief Scientist of NeuroStimix—a biotech firm in which he …
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…
Virtual Danger
Read by Teel McClanahan III
Teel McClanahan III
In order to implement a radical copyright enforcement scheme, Villain requires one of Robot's core components, and he'll stop at nothing to …
Legacy
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James H. Schmitz
Ancient living machines that after millennia of stillness suddenly begin to move under their own power, for reasons that remain a mystery to…
As Darkness Ends: Book One
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Aaron Crocco
When a devastating earthquake strikes Manhattan, Travis Hunter finds himself among the other survivors trying to make sense of a city in rui…
Astounding Stories 09, September 1930
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Miles J. Breuer
This is a collection of short science fiction stories by various writers, circa 1930. Writers include Paul Ernst, Miles Breuer, Ray Cumming…
Dreams and Wings (A Searcher and Stallion story)
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Scott Howard
One Man, One Machine, One Destiny.
Searcher awoke, alone on a laboratory table, with an ageless body and no knowledge of his past in a post …
Max Quick 1: The Pocket and the Pendant
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Mark Jeffrey
WHEN TIME mysteriously stops, young Max Quick must travel across America to find the source of this 'temporal disaster'... Along the way, he…
Jetta of the Lowlands
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
Ray Cummings
Fantastic and Sinister Are the Lowlands into Which Philip Grant Descends on His Dangerous Assignment. (Summary by Ray Cummings)