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Hartmann the Anarchist, or the Doom of a Great City

Read by Phil Benson


Edward Douglas Fawcett


A gem of nineteenth-century science fiction from mountaineer, philosopher and occasional novelist, Edward Douglas Fawcett. Stanley, a wealth…

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…

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…

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…

The Gardener

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Rabindranath Tagore


Most of the lyrics of love and life, the translations of which from Bengali are published in this book, were written much earlier than the s…

To the Lighthouse (Version 2)

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Virginia Woolf


Virginia Woolf's classic modernist novel explores the lives and thoughts of the Ramsays and their guests at the family's summer home on the …

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…

Prose Romances from the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine (1856)

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William Morris


William Morris initiated the genre of high fantasy in a number of short novels written toward the end of his life. But he had already experi…

Poems for my Children

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Ann Hawkshaw


Published in 1847, five years after her epic poem, 'Dionysus the Areopagite', 'Poems For My Children' was Ann Hawkshaw's second collection o…

Storm Cloud on Deka

Read by Phil Chenevert


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…

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 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? …

The Present Picture of New South Wales

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David Dickinson Mann


Convicted of forgery at the age of 23, David Dickenson Mann narrowly escaped hanging and was transported instead to New South Wales, where h…

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 Story of Peterloo

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Francis Archibald Bruton


On 16th August 1819 around 60,000 people gathered at St. Peter’s Fields, Manchester, to rally for parliamentary reform. Shortly after the me…

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 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 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…

Things Seen in Venice

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Lonsdale Ragg and Laura Marie Ragg


Venice, once among the most powerful states of the Western world, now a much-visited but still romantic city of canals, architecture and art…

Cycling in the Alps

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C. L. Freeston


A guide to cycling in the European Alps in the days before surfaced roads and automobile tourism. As the author explains, the spectacular vi…

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