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The Heads of Cerberus

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Francis Stevens


A pioneering work in the alternate worlds genre, The Heads of Cerberus was serialized in The Thrill Book in 1919 and published as a novel in…

The Miserly Robot

In Short Science Fiction Collection 078

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R. J. Rice


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…

05 Ch.3, Pt.3 - Shade

In Popular Lectures on Scientific Subjects

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Hermann Von Helmholtz


This presents a summary of many of Hemholtz's areas of research. He investigated the workings of the brain in its appreciation of art and mu…

Export Commodity

In Short Science Fiction Collection 083

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Irving E. Cox, Jr.


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…

But Then Who Cares for Figures

In Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times

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Alice Duer Miller


A collection of poetry and some other short works by suffragist Alice Duer MIller. Many of these satirical works were first published in the…

The Star

In Short Science Fiction Collection 084

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H. G. Wells


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…

The Fox and the Hen

In The Fables of Pilpay

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Abdullah Ibn Al-Muqaffaʿ


These moralistic stories within stories date back to the Sanskrit text Panchatantra (200 BC – 300 AD). They were first translated into Arabi…

Towns of Western Nevada - Virginia City, Gold Hill , Silver City

In A History of the Comstock Silver Lode and Mines

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Dan Dequille


This is a brief account of the Comstock Lode silver mines, and description of the geographic features of the state of Nevada including the r…

The passing crowd

In The Rover Vol. 01 No. 11

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Seba Smith


"The Rover: A weekly magazine of tales, poetry and engravings, original and selected" was a magazine started in 1843 by Seba Smith…

Chapter 13. Part 1 - Bona Dea

In Nequa or The Problem of the Ages

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Jack Adams


Nequa or The Problem of the Ages is one of the first feminist science fiction books published in the United States. It was first serialized …

Chapter 1

In Ellen Middleton

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Georgiana Fullerton


Ellen Middleton had a happy childhood with her uncle and aunt. She grew up alongside her cousin Julia. Suddenly, something happened. Her lif…

13 Magnetism of Flame and gasses - atmospheric magnetism

In Faraday As A Discoverer

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John Tyndall


This is the first of two related Faraday projects. It is about Faraday and deals more with biographical references to Faraday, outlining the…

Once Upon a Monbeast...

In Short Science Fiction Collection 080

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Charles E. Fritch


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…