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The Ultimate Weapon

The Ultimate Weapon is a science fiction novel by John W Campbell Jr., first published in 1936. The novel was originally published as a serial in Amazing Stories under the title of ...


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Islands of Space

Islands of Space is a science fiction novel by John W Campbell Jr., first published in 1930. The second book - and first full-length novel - featuring Arcot, Wade & Morey, the Thre ...


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Invaders from the Infinite

Invaders from the Infinite is a science fiction novel by John W Campbell Jr., first published in 1932. The famous scientific trio of Arcot, Wade and Morey, challenged by the most r ...


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The Black Star Passes

The Black Star Passes is a science fiction novel by John W Campbell Jr., first published in 1930. A sky pirate armed with superior weapons of his own invention... First contact wit ...


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The Street That Wasn't There

The Street That Wasn't There is a science fiction short story by Clifford D. Simak and Carl Richard Jacobi first published in 1941 in the science fiction magazine Comet. A science ...


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Second Childhood

Second Childhood is a science fiction short story by Clifford D. Simak frist published in Galaxy Science Fiction magazine in 1951. Achieving immortality is only half of the problem ...


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The World That Couldn't Be

The World That Couldn't Be is a science fiction short story by American author Clifford D. Simak, first published in Galaxy Science Fiction in January 1958.  Layard was a curiosity ...


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Project Mastodon

Project Mastodon is a science fiction short story by Clifford D. Simak, first published in March 1955 in the Galaxy magazine. Clifford Simak deals with the implications of time tra ...


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Hellhounds of the Cosmos

Hellhounds of the Cosmos is a science fiction short story by Clifford D. Simak, from Astounding Stories of 1932. Earth is being attacked by horrible black monsters that appear from ...


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Empire

Empire is a science fiction novel by Clifford D. Simak, first published in 1951. In a future time, the solar system is powered by one energy source, controlled by one huge organisa ...


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Eve and David

Eve and David (1843) is the final book in Balzac’s Lost Illusions trilogy, which is part of his sweeping set of novels collectively titled La Comédie Humaine. The story is set in p ...


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Sevastopol

Sevastopol Sketches are three short stories written by Leo Tolstoy and published in 1855 to record his experiences during the Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855) in the Crimean War (18 ...


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Two Poets

Two Poets (1837) is the first book in Balzac’s Lost Illusions trilogy, which is part of his sweeping set of novels collectively titled La Comédie Humaine. The story is set in post- ...


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A Distinguished Provincial At Paris

A Distinguished Provincial at Paris (1839) is the second book in Balzac’s Lost Illusions trilogy, which is part of his sweeping set of novels collectively titled La Comédie Humaine ...


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The Valley of the Giants

The Valley of the Giants is a 1918 novel by American author Peter B. Kyne. In Kyne's Humboldt-inspired novel, a timber baron's wife's wish of saving a favorite stand of redwoods an ...


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The Wings of the Dove

The Wings of the Dove is a 1902 novel by Henry James. This novel tells the story of Milly Theale, an American heiress stricken with a serious disease, and her effect on the people ...


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An International Episode

An International Episode is an 1878 short story by Henry James. Two men visting the US from London meet a pair of charming women who return the visit the following year in London. ...


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Daisy Miller

Daisy Miller is a novella by Henry James that first appeared in Cornhill Magazine in June–July 1878, and in book form the following year. It portrays the confused courtship of the ...


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The Coxon Fund

The Coxon Fund is an 1894 short story by Henry James. This novella explores the relationship between Frank Saltram, a charismatic speaker who is also a freeloader; Ruth Anvoy, a yo ...


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The Bostonians

The Bostonians is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Century Magazine in 1885–1886 and then as a book in 1886. This bittersweet tragicomedy centers on an od ...


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The Altar of the Dead

The Altar of the Dead is a short story by Henry James, first published in his collection Terminations in 1895. A fable of literally life and death significance, the story explores ...


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What Maisie Knew

What Maisie Knew is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Chap-Book and (revised and abridged) in the New Review in 1897 and then as a book later that year. It ...


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Washington Square

Washington Square is a novel by Henry James. Originally published in 1880 as a serial in Cornhill Magazine and Harper's New Monthly Magazine, it is a structurally simple tragicomed ...


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The Way It Came

The Way It Came is a short story published in 1896 in London by Henry James. The unnamed female narrator recounts her obsession with the mystical coincidence of two friends who see ...


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The Third Person

The Third Person is a short story by Henry James, first published and included in the collection The Soft Side, published in 1900. The Third Person is an amusing spoof on spooking. ...