The Space Machine

      Gabriel Just
     The Space Machine

“Nano Stories from Hilbert Space” are very short stories set in the whimsical world of Hilbert Space.“The Space Machine” is the tale of a race of stubborn aliens, who do not believe that traveling through space is physically possible. They also deny the concept of time altogether. Only one scientist amongst them disagrees and attempts the impossible: Traveling back in space.“Nano Stories from Hilbert Space” are very short stories (no longer than 4000 words each)set in the whimsical world of Hilbert Space.Hilbert Space, a very special region of the universe, is a rather unique place.Inhabited by dozens of space faring civilizations and spanning hundreds of systems,it is home to thousands of stories worth telling. While the laws of physics,which lead to the rest of space being quite dull and boring for the most part,are acknowledged here, Hilbert Space is known to find many workarounds, loopholes,and compromises that ensure that it is a dangerous, yet also extremely entertaining domain. “The Space Machine” is the tale of a race of stubborn aliens, who do not believe that traveling through space is physically possible. They also deny the concept of time altogether. Only one scientist amongst them disagrees and attempts the impossible: Traveling back in space.

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    A Collection of Dystopian Tales

      Roo I MacLeod
     A Collection of Dystopian Tales

In the mean streets of Ostere a girl needs to be careful, a boy and his sister are kidnapped, drugs skew a young lads life and a pimp meets his match. Four tales with more free stories to follow if you sign up to www.rooimacleod.comA convict serving his community service cleaning the dystopian streets of Ostere witnesses an attack on a young girl and becomes the hero and suspect at the same time.Three young ladies are chased from their house by a man with a hairy, flashy disposition. They don't take to his bullying attitude and plot his gruesome downfallWith his mother's jewelry in hand Tommy leaves home to seek recompense to pay his ailing mother's medication. Instead he returns with a pill pot of seeds. Coming ...Two children, surplus to requirements by their new stepmother are taken to the dark dingy streets of Ostere and left for dead. Knowing of her plans they have marked the many turns and find their way back home. Enraged she takes them back, deeper into the crime ridden streets of Ostere, to be used and abused by her evil sister.

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    The Rolling Stones

      Robert A. Heinlein
     The Rolling Stones

It doesn’t seem likely for twins to have the same middle name. Even so, it’s clear that Castor and Pollux Stone both have "Trouble" written in that spot on their birth certificates. Of course, anyone who’s met their grandmother Hazel would know that they came by it honestly… Join the Stone twins as they connive, cajole, and bamboozle their way across the Solar System in the company of the most high-spirited and hilarious family in all of science fiction. This light-hearted tale has some of Heinlein’s sassiest dialogue (not to mention the famous Flat Cats incident!). Oddly enough, it’s also a true example of real family values–for when you’re a Stone, your family is your highest priority.

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    Future Home of the Living God

      Louise Erdrich
     Future Home of the Living God

The world as we know it is ending. Evolution has reversed itself, affecting every living creature on earth. Science cannot stop the world from running backwards, as woman after woman gives birth to infants that appear to be primitive species of humans. Twenty-six-year-old Cedar Hawk Songmaker, adopted daughter of a pair of big-hearted, open-minded Minneapolis liberals, is as disturbed and uncertain as the rest of America around her. But for Cedar, this change is profound and deeply personal. She is four months pregnant. Though she wants to tell the adoptive parents who raised her from infancy, Cedar first feels compelled to find her birth mother, Mary Potts, an Ojibwe living on the reservation, to understand both her and her baby’s origins. As Cedar goes back to her own biological beginnings, society around her begins to disintegrate, fueled by a swelling panic about the end of humanity. There are rumors of martial law, of Congress confining pregnant women. Of a registry, and rewards for those who turn these wanted women in. Flickering through the chaos are signs of increasing repression: a shaken Cedar witnesses a family wrenched apart when police violently drag a mother from her husband and child in a parking lot. The streets of her neighborhood have been renamed with Bible verses. A stranger answers the phone when she calls her adoptive parents, who have vanished without a trace. It will take all Cedar has to avoid the prying eyes of potential informants and keep her baby safe. A chilling dystopian novel both provocative and prescient, Future Home of the Living God is a startlingly original work from one of our most acclaimed writers: a moving meditation on female agency, self-determination, biology, and natural rights that speaks to the troubling changes of our time.

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    Now We Are Three

      Joe L. Hensley
     Now We Are Three

Now We Are Three is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Joe L. Hensley is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Joe L. Hensley then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.

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    Wheels Within

      Charles V. De Vet
     Wheels Within

Wheels Within is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Charles V. (Charles Vincent) De Vet is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Charles V. (Charles Vincent) De Vet then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.

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    Tom the Berserker Book One

      Beth Hoyer
     Tom the Berserker Book One

Tom a Human male of the species called Moorra with short black curly hair wearing blue clothing. His clothes was a jumpsuit but detachable on his arms. He sat in a chair in a bedroom sitting. Tom was absent mildly staring at the wall letting his thoughts wander.He recalled the Queen speaking "Doctor, I plan to use Tom here to amuse the Keos as an excuse to keep him alive. The Keos have been strongly insisting on hybrids of Keo Moorra to die like has always have done. I refused to do it to Tom as I made an oath to his father after his mother his mate Tomah was killed off by a Keo who didn't do this on my orders."He eyed the doctor from memory that spoke "I recommended that you have him get nourishment from the Daffodil drug via injections to his arm. He'll be easily controlled from the addiction to the drugged status to do whatever you want him to do." He stiffened from the memory as the Queen spoke "Do the recommendation doctor and start the injections now. He's old enough to be weaned from the mother milk substance. Besides I aim to have him implanted with the breathing device once you say he's old enough to withstand wearing it."He continued to stiffen as the doctor spoke "Actually my Queen there is another method for him to gain nourishment once he receives the breathing device which is by feeding tube implanted in his arm. I recommended you wait till it's obvious that he's a threat to Keos to have the devices implanted. I'm not sure if he has inherited the Banshee side or not. I figured once he has shown any indication of inheriting that is when you can implant him of the devices."He recalled the Queen speaking "Fine I'll tell the guards to keep an eye onto him very strongly so start the injections now." He continued to recall the doctor speaking "Certainly my Queen." Followed by the memory going black as Tom jerked open his eyes feeling rage hitting him as the memory stopped its course running through him. He kneel feeling the ground stop being smooth but rugged.

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    The Medicine

      Francisco Figueira
     The Medicine

How would the world react if a plant capable of curing any disease was found?What would you do if no one knew about it but you?This is not just a story. This is not to entertain. This is far from having the size and the writing of a conventional book. If you are looking for hours of pleasant writing about descriptions of characters or places, this is not what you are searching for.This is a small written work belonging to a sci-fi series called Softweapons that is solely focused on sharing with you powerful ideas that will most probably shake some of your beliefs about yourself and the world. Softweapons mixes plot with reflections, explanations and philosophic texts in a writing that is neither formal nor poetical. It is just as if someone was reporting something that happened.

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    Love with a big 0x004c

      Tobias Gavran
     Love with a big 0x004c

Love with a big 0x004c is an experimental Sci-Fi short story following the evolution of an Artificial Intelligence after the extinction of humankind.It was inspired by the prompt of Goodreads user "Aura" (https://www./user/show/15363571) in "Goodreads Friends with benefits".Nicolas, a once successful author, now struggles to make a comeback. His agent pays him and unexpected visit, and triggers a series of things that start to go terribly wrong. A past as grave as Nicolas' is best left undisturbed.

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    Mara and Dann

      Doris Lessing
     Mara and Dann

A visionary novel from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. It is sooner than you might think. And the Earth’s climate is much changed – it’s colder than ever before in the north, and unbearably dry and hot in the south. Mara, who is seven, and her four-year-old brother Dann find themselves somewhere very strange, not home … They are taken in by a kindly, grandmotherly woman, but this new life is hard: hunger, dirt, thirst and danger are the children’s constant companions. Drought and fire carry off their adoptive home and force them to set off northward into the unknown, to experience a series of adventures that bring them to an altogether altered world, where they can start to learn and build anew. Doris Lessing has written a compelling, troubling and entertaining novel that, through the remarkable odyssey of a brother and sister living in the imagined future, manages to tell us a great deal about the present we perceive only dimly and scarcely know how to value.

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    Homesick

      Lyn Venable
     Homesick

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.

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    The Giants From Outer Space

      Robert W. Krepps
     The Giants From Outer Space

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

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    The Happy Man

      Gerald W. Page
     The Happy Man

The Happy Man is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Gerald W. Page is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Gerald W. Page then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.

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    Hevun's Rebel

      C M Weller
     Hevun's Rebel

Sahra was on the opposite side of the station to Ore Processing when it blew up. She already had enough troubles with an overcrowded home, never enough food, the constant threat of death… and the whole being a slave thing. The humans need a saviour, rebels keep exploding the wrong places, and she needs a better source of income to feed her family.She's humanity's best hope.Hevun help them all.Sahra was on the opposite side of the station to Ore Processing when it blew up. For a tunnel rat and a slave, this means nothing but trouble. But for Sahra, that's just the beginning.Her people need a Saviour to lead them to freedom, but no such person dare volunteer with the Masters' guns ready to fire at all times. What harm could there be in doing a few things to help the Saviour finally turn up?As it happens… quite a lot.Between lockdowns, angry masters, the mistaken actions of the Rebels, angry sibs, and more rules in home and at work, Sahra has enough to deal with.But when she returns to an area that should have killed her the first time, Sahra discovers… something… special.Can she get the Rebels to listen to her when she can barely speak?Can she help the Saviour arrive at last?Can she find enough food for her family (Nineteen members and counting) every day?And, more importantly, can she trust her brother to keep his big mouth shut?She's humanity's best hope.Hevun help them all.

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