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A Positive Romance
by Edward Bellamy
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Edward Bellamy (1850-1898) was an American author and socialist, most famous for his utopian novel, "Looking Backward," set in the year 2000. "A Positive Romance" is one of his rare short stories, originally published in 1898, about an idea for the perfection of the human race. (Published: 1891)
Words: 4832 - Reading Time: 13-19 min.
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A Prize for Princes
by Rex Stout
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In this novel of intrigue and suspense, the masterful Rex Stout follows the fortunes of Aline Solini, whose angelic face hides a demon's soul. It is the face that captivates Richard Stetton, a wealthy young American, when he rescues Aline from a Balkan convent about to be sacked by marauding Turks. Stetton also enables Aline to escape Vasili Petrovich, the husband she tried to poison, and introduces her into society's highest circles. There Aline proves her talents for deceit and chicanery among... more info>> (Published: 2002)
Words: 92990 - Reading Time: 265-371 min.
Category: Historical Fiction/Mystery/Crime
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A Slip to Die For [STUD DRAQUAL Series, Book 1]
by William Maltese
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Someone had not only killed the writer, who'd been an "underground" movie star, model, hustler, and cross-dresser, but had also murdered the borderline drunk, who'd been a TV-network executive and anchorman for the evening news. Each corpse had been carefully draped in Draqualian silk, a very special silk created by very special silkworms who ate very special mulberry leaves. Stud Draqual knew all about the silk, and knew the dead men too. Two things were immediately clear: the killings weren't ... more info>> (Published: 1999)
Words: 38535 - Reading Time: 110-154 min.
Category: Erotica/Mystery/Crime
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A Stranger in Paradise
by Edward M. Lerner
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Enter the peripatetic and creative mind of speculative-fiction author Edward M. Lerner . . . "A Stranger in Paradise" -- The Firster generation ships spread humanity thinly across a million cubic light-years, in hundreds of tiny enclaves in as many alien environments. Many colonies eventually died out. Some managed to eke out a hard-scrabble existence, their memories of Earth warped or nonexistent. Few retained any vestige of civilization ? and for those who somehow survived, there is the Reuni... more info>> (Published: 2010)
Words: 31410 - Reading Time: 89-125 min.
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A World is Born
by Leigh Brackett
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The romantic, fictionalized solar system of Leigh Brackett's works provides a lush, steamy world in Mercury, where Mel Gray is working to build a home for veterans of the Second Interplanetary War. But Gray has no idea of the romance and adventure that awaits on this savage young world... A thrilling planetary adventure from the legendary COMET pulp magazine! (Published: 1941)
Words: 8076 - Reading Time: 23-32 min.
Category: Science Fiction/Fantasy
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Adventure Tales #1
by John Gregory Betancourt, Hugh B. Cave, Mike Resnick
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The first issue of ADVENTURE TALES presents 9 stories and 10 poems culled from the pulp magazines, including fiction by H. Bedford Jones, Charles C. Young, H. de Vere Stacpoole, Vincent Starrett, Harold Lamb, Hugh B. Cave (the Featured Author, with 2 stories and an interview), and Johnston McCulley (creator of "Zorro")! Nonfiction by Mike Resnick (on Edgar Rice Burroughs), Mike Chomko (on Hugh B. Cave), editorial. More than 70,000 words of pulp material! (Published: 2005)
Words: 76024 - Reading Time: 217-304 min.
Category: Historical Fiction/Fantasy
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Adventure Tales #4 [Special classic 'Weird Tales' Authors Issue]
by John Gregory Betancourt, Robert E. Howard, E. Hoffmann Price
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Adventure Tales features the best short stories and novelets from classic pulp magazines. #4 is a special issue devoted to authors who made "Weird Tales" magazine famous! Included in this issue are: Features: THE BLOTTER, by the Editor; ADVENTURE THRILLS; THE MORGUE (letters); Fiction: THE MONKEY GOD, by Seabury Quinn; DOUBLE-SHUFFLE, by Edwin Baird; EVERY MAN A KING, by E. Hoffmann Price; BLIND MAN'S BLUFF, by Edwin Baird; THE MAD DETECTIVE, by John D. Swain; SON OF THE WHITE WOLF, by Robert E.... more info>> (Published: 2007)
Words: 59825 - Reading Time: 170-239 min.
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Adventure Tales #5
by John Gregory Betancourt, Achmed Abdullah, Vincent Starrett
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The fifth issue of ADVENTURE TALES showcases the work of Achmed Abdullah, with two long stories: "The Remittance Woman" and "Their Own Dear Land." Also features are "The Pearls of Paruki," by J. Allan Dunn, and "The Midwatch Tragedy," by Vincent Starrett. (Published: 2008)
Words: 63738 - Reading Time: 182-254 min.
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Alibi and Dr. Morelle
by Ernest Dudley
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A Wildside Mystery Classic. At the time that Ted Patrick is planning to pull off his biggest house-breaking job, Dr. Morelle, aided as ever by Miss Frayle, sets up an off-beat criminological experiment, which is destined to have unexpected results. The success of Ted Patrick's coup, achieved with the inside help of a pretty blonde, Myra Campbell, is marred by the killing of a village policeman. Patrick gets away with the loot but runs into trouble when his cleverly planned alibi crumbles dramati... more info>> (Published: 1959)
Words: 56379 - Reading Time: 161-225 min.
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Alien StarSwarm
by Robert Sheckley
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Salvatore commands the battleship Endymion. He's seen his share of battles and fought them bravely, too. So he doesn't hesitate when beautiful Princess Hatari pleads for his help. She wants to regain her throne, but it may be more than Salvatore can accomplish, for the deadly race known as the Balderdash has taken over the planet Melchior--and now, even his own men have turned against him! (Published: 1990)
Words: 19318 - Reading Time: 55-77 min.
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Alienist
by Laurence M. Janifer
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Space travel was supposed to be safe. Accidents only happened to other people. So what was Gerald Knave doing stranded in the middle of space, with no way to get home--and no idea where he was? (Published: 2001)
Words: 68266 - Reading Time: 195-273 min.
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All for Naught
by John E. Stith
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All For Naught collects a novella and a novelette: "Naught for Hire" and "Naught Again." "Naught for Hire" is a quirky, action-packed, comedy set just a few years from now. Nick Naught, private eye, walks down some strange mean streets as he tries to stay ahead of the killers on his tail and tries to cope in a world where all the irritations we have with technology are magnified. Gadgets act up in big ways, including voice operated machines that talk back to people. Nick Naught winds up on a hit... more info>> (Published: 2005)
Words: 35722 - Reading Time: 102-142 min.
Category: Science Fiction/Humor
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All White Girls
by Michael Bracken
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They're dying in the fleshpits in the Windy City. They're all white girls. One young woman is missing. Another is dead. They were drawn to the Windy City like moths to a flame, but the city's bright lights can't illuminate every dark corner. Hidden in the alleys and back streets and in a three-block long stretch of strip clubs and adult book stores are the men who prey on young women like these: the pedophiles, pimps, and pornographers. When former partners, unlicensed private investigator Big D... more info>> (Published: 2001)
Words: 42947 - Reading Time: 122-171 min.
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Amazon Nights: Classic Adventure Tales from the Pulps
by Arthur O. Friel
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When one thinks of the classic adventure-story authors of the pulp fiction era, H. Rider Haggard, Talbot Mundy, and Rafael Sabatini may come first to mind. But Arthur O. Friel's stellar contributions -- particularly his stories featuring Lourenço and Pedro, two workers on a rubber-tree plantation in the Amazon, and the adventures they have exploring the rain forest's mysterious back-country during the flood season -- certainly de¬serve honorable mention. Here are tales of peril and last-minute r... more info>> (Published: 2005)
Words: 128207 - Reading Time: 366-512 min.
Category: Fantasy/Classic Literature
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Ambrov Keon [Sime~Gen, Book 7]
by Jean Lorrah
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When Sime killed Gen, it was the normal way of things--after all, Gens weren't really people, were they? They existed only to provide Simes with life-giving selyn. And then Risa Tigue, a Sime, injured and needing selyn, stumbles on the trail of a gen named Sergi ambrov Keon. Sergi is a Companion, a Gen who can control the transfer of Selyn without harming either Sime or Gen. In Risa, Sergi sees the potential for that rarest of beings, a Channel. But can Risa survive the transformation--and even ... more info>> (Published: 1986)
Words: 76537 - Reading Time: 218-306 min.
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An Antarctic Mystery; or, The Sphinx of the Ice Fields: A Sequel to Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
by Jules Vernes
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During his twilight years, the French author Jules Verne (1828-1905) wrote two original sequels to books that had fired his own youthful imagination but which he felt to be incomplete: Johann Wyss's "Swiss Family Robinson" and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket." "Arthur Gordon Pym" (1845) was only one of many Poe stories which Verne admired; no other single author had more impact on his writing. Verne acknowledged this debt in his only major piece of literary cri... more info>> (Published: 2005)
Words: 78857 - Reading Time: 225-315 min.
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Anal Cousins: Case Studies in Variant Sexual Practices
by William Maltese
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Carolyne's parents are determined to go to any length to assure her virginity at marriage, and so they recruit two cousins for sexual explorations that will leave less evidence behind. Adam, his hormones raging, willingly allows himself to be seduced by a cousin who is already jaded by normal sex and needs something more from the men in her life. A gang-raped young woman turns to her trusted cousin and unorthodox sex to combat the trauma of gang-rape, unwanted pregnancy, and abortion. Two men, t... more info>> (Published: 2007)
Words: 41566 - Reading Time: 118-166 min.
Category: Erotica
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And Devious the Line of Duty
by Tom Godwin
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Sometimes the most diligent and loyal thing an old man can do is fumble, drink beer, and let a young man get into trouble.... A classic tale from the golden age of science fiction, edited by the legendary John W. Campbell, Jr. (Published: 1962)
Words: 13410 - Reading Time: 38-53 min.
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Astounding Stories: The Players
by Everett B. Cole
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This text from the golden age of science fiction originally appeared in Astounding Science Fiction Stories, April 1955. Editor John W. Campbell, Jr.'s introduction: "A Playboy is someone with power, too much time on his hands, and too little sense of a goal worth achieving. And if the Playboy happens to belong to a highly advanced culture...." (Published: 1955)
Words: 19077 - Reading Time: 54-76 min.
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Avalon
by V.J. Banis
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It's 1945 on Avalon, Santa Catalina Island, "The coast of Hollywood." Yachts and fishing boats bob in water clearer than crystal, sunbathers bask on the white sand beaches, and from the legendary Avalon Ballroom, the music of Freddy Martin's Orchestra fills the air. Three beautiful young women prepare to embark upon their life's journeys:Gerri will be an actress, everyone is sure of that; and Maria a big band singer; and Maggie, the most beautiful of them all, will "wed," not just marry, but tri... more info>> (Published: 2007)
Words: 89528 - Reading Time: 255-358 min.
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Baby Boy Blue
by Marilyn Mattie Brahen
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In 1944 the boy Walter Buehl encounters a grisly scene: his mother lies stabbed to death on the kitchen floor, with his teenaged brother Tony crouching beside her, bloody knife in hand. Forty-one years later Tony escapes from the state psychiatric hospital where he's been held in the interim, and Walter, now a prominent businessman, presses the Philadelphia Police Department for action. But Lt. Asher Lowenstein isn't convinced of Tony's guilt, and he asks his friend, psychic Tam Westington, to ... more info>> (Published: 2010)
Words: 44355 - Reading Time: 126-177 min.
Category: Mystery/Crime/Suspense/Thriller
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Back of the Boat Gourmet Cooking: Afloat--Pool-Side--Backyard
by William Maltese, Bonnie Clark
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This book's for YOU--if you own a boat and are looking for enjoyable on-board eating that's not just another typical hamburger or hot dog, and is still quick and easy to prepare. The authors provide invaluable tips for truly great menu alternatives, requiring very little fuss, muss, or bother--whether afloat, pool-side, or in the backyard. Stay hungry! (Published: 2010)
Words: 17132 - Reading Time: 48-68 min.
Category: General Nonfiction/Reference
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Bad Girls
by Michael Bracken
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When a French secret service operative is murdered on a lonely Alpine highway, a womanizing CIA agent must find the killer and terminate ... with Extreme Prejudice. Back in the states, the same agent discovers ... The Only Good Red. Three years after a bank robbery goes bad, a convict on the verge of parole learns that his partner's wife really knows how to set up a ... Con Job. When an attractive young woman borrows money for a new car, it's the loan manager who learns never to trust the ... Fi... more info>> (Published: 2000)
Words: 37335 - Reading Time: 106-149 min.
Category: Mystery/Crime
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Badge of Infamy
by Lester del Rey
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The computer seemed to work as it should. The speed was within acceptable limits. He gave up trying to see the ground and was forced to trust the machinery designed for amateur pilots. The flare bloomed, and he yanked down on the little lever. It could have been worse. They hit the ground, bounced twice, and turned over. The ship was a mess when Feldman freed himself from the elastic straps of the seat. Chris had shrieked as they hit, but she was unbuckling herself now. He threw her her spacesui... more info>> (Published: 1931)
Words: 31184 - Reading Time: 89-124 min.
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Balak
by Stephen Mark Rainey
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Two years ago, Claire Challis's four-year-old son disappeared without a trace. Now, a neighbor's child has vanished right outside of her apartment. Determined to discover the fate of her missing son, Claire sets out on a quest that will lead to a place of madness, horror, and fate worse than death and she'll come face to face with Balak... (Published: 2000)
Words: 99525 - Reading Time: 284-398 min.
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