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Shannach-The-Last
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…
The Adventure of the Copper Beeches
A governess comes to Sherlock Holmes for advice on an offer of a excellent position with a new employer. But the conditions are odd and exp…
Three Science Fiction Stories
The Moon is Green, Bread Overhead and What's He Doing In There?! Three of the best known and loved Science Fiction short stories by the won…
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
"That government is best which governs least" is the famous opening line of this essay. The slavery crisis inflamed New England i…
The Thing in the Attic
"Honath and his fellow arch-doubters did not believe in the Giants, and for this they were cast into Hell. And when survival depended u…
Buccaneer of the Star Seas
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 Tales of Mother Goose
These stories were the original ones collected by Charles Perrault and published in French in 1696. You may have heard of some of them and …
Acres of Diamonds
One of the most requested motivational lectures of all time. "I say that you ought to get rich, and it is your duty to get rich ... Th…
The Biography of a Grizzly
Wahb (meaning White Bear) is an orphaned Grizzly Bear who learns to respect his fears, fight for peace, and trust the healing powers of a st…
Nor Iron Bars A Cage
Iron bars do not confine a Man—only his body. There are more subtle, and more confining bindings, however....Police methods of the future wi…
The Wishing Horse of Oz
The magical kingdom of Oz is happily doing all the wonderful things it does in peace and happiness, not knowing that a far off evil and gras…
The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians
The Polity of the Lacedaemonians talks about the laws and institutions created by Lycurgus, which train and develop Spartan citizens from bi…
Uncle Remus Returns
Uncle Remus tells these 11 stories but to the son of the original "little boy" who is visiting his grandmother on the plantation. …
Mother Goose in Prose
Before he wrote the Oz books, L. Frank Baum wrote this book which was the best selling book of 1897. Taking 22 beloved nursery rhymes, he ex…
The Flame Breathers
Did the planet Vulcan exist? It supposedly orbited our sun on the opposite side from the Earth but it was only theoretical speculation. On…
Anthem
This Novella by Ayn Rand was first published in England in 1938. It takes place at some unspecified future date when mankind has entered an…
Lysistrata
The women of Athens are sick of the Peloponnesian war that has dragged on for year after year after year, causing great hardship to everyo…
Med Ship Man
Scattered through the galaxy are thousands of worlds colonized by humans. Many have native microbes dangerous to the human immigrants. Other…
The Shaggy Man of Oz
"During the past few years, several readers have written me asking: "What ever happened to the Nome King's tunnel under the Deadly…
The Tar Baby and Other Rhymes of Uncle Remus
26 of Uncle Remus's stories put into verse and song. With the exception of the Tar Baby story, they were all new to this publication of 1904…