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In Jules Verne's 1874 novel The Mysterious Island, the Civil War is raging in the United States. Five Northern men have been taken prisoner by the Confederate army in Richmond, Virginia. The city is e ...
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A novel about the future that's closer than we think. ... Roo'd is geek-addled cyberpunk fiction at its finest, about a teenage boy with two prosthetic legs and a band of misfit body-modders, shamanis ...
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Only humanity's two-fisted diplomat can save us now! ... " . . . into the chaotic Galactic political scene, the CDT emerged to carry forward the ancient diplomatic tradition . . . Corps diplomats ...
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by H. G. Wells [1898] The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us. His grey eyes shone and twinkled, and his usually pale face was flushe ...
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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
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I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space. Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Line ...
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During the War of the Rebellion, a new and influential club was established in the city of Baltimore in the State of Maryland. It is well known with what energy the taste for military matters became d ...
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1. I once had a Tai Chi instructor who explained the difference between Chinese and Western medicine thus: "Western medicine is based on corpses, things that you discover by cutting up dead bodies and ...
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Atlantean tale from the author of King Solomon's Mines.
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The Sun and stars have gone out, and the last million humans prepare for their probable extinction.
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My Pa disappeared somewhere in the wilds of 1975, when I was just fourteen years old. He was the Ambassador to 1975, but back home in 1898, in New Jerusalem, Utah, they all thought he was Ambassador t ...
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Winner of the 2006 Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Nebula Award for Best Novella ... There are big changes taking place on the tiny planet of Morobe's Pea. The entire planet has been s ...
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"Cory Doctorow straps on his miner's helmet and takes you deep into the caverns and underground rivers of Pop Culture, here filtered through SF-coloured glasses. Enjoy." ... - Neil Gaiman, author of A ...
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What if Google started working with the Department of Homeland Security?
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"Mama, I'm not a super-villain," Hershie said for the millionth time. He chased the last of the gravy on his plate with a hunk of dark rye, skirting the shriveled derma left behind from his kishka. Ev ...
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The kids in my local bat-house breathe heavy metals, and their gelatinous bodies quiver nauseously during our counseling sessions, and for all that, they reacted just like I had when I told them I was ...
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It's the untethering of my parents' house that's on my plate today. The flying of a kite on a windy Toronto Hallowe'en day and the suspension of worry for a shiny moment. And sail surface isn't even a ...
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George twiddled his thumbs in his booth and watched how the brown, clayey knuckles danced overtop of one another. Not as supple as they had once been, his thumbs -- no longer the texture of wet clay o ...
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