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When the Sun went out
Leslie F. (Leslie Francis) Stone
This story follows the final generation of humanity as they abandon the frozen surface of a dying Earth to seek refuge in subterranean vaults. It is a haunting, melancholic vision of a civilization facing its inevitable end.
Dream World
R. A. Lafferty
The world is not what it seems, and the dream that terrorizes the waking mind may be more authentic than the life lived in the sun. This is a story about the fragility of reality.
Grey Roses
Henry Harland
The fragile charm of lost, bohemian lives and the bittersweet persistence of memory define these sketches of expatriate longing. They trace the quiet, often melancholy, contours of people seeking grace in a world that rarely offers it.
Harold's Bride: A Tale
A. L. O. E.
A young woman leaves behind the comforts of England to join her husband at a remote mission station in nineteenth-century India, where she finds that faith and courage are tested by more than just heat and dust.
Last Call for Doomsday!
Edmond Hamilton
HOOK As a rogue asteroid hurtles toward Earth, humanity’s desperate evacuation to Mars is sabotaged from within. One man must navigate a silent, ghost-ridden world to expose the conspiracy before the final collision.
Last Call From Sector 9G
Leigh Brackett
HOOK A disillusioned man finds himself caught in a web of interplanetary conspiracy and ancient, shadow-bound power when a simple job offer turns into a desperate struggle for survival.
Old Rose and Silver
Myrtle Reed
HOOK A quiet, evocative exploration of love, loss, and the resilience of the human heart, set within a circle of gifted, searching people.
Roden's Corner
Henry Seton Merriman
A charitable facade masks a lethal industrial secret, drawing a group of well-meaning socialites into a dangerous confrontation with a cold, calculating mastermind.
The girl he loved
Adelaide Stirling
A young woman’s impulsive, vengeful marriage to a notorious older man spirals into a nightmare of jealousy, poison, and a murder trial that threatens to destroy her and her true love.
The Star-Sent Knaves
Keith Laumer
A seemingly ordinary vault robbery spirals into a cosmic tangle of time travelers, interdimensional agents, and the secret, overarching legacy of human evolution.
Blow the Man Down
Charles L. Fontenay
A lone pirate hijacks a freighter only to find himself trapped in a high-stakes psychological game with the crew he meant to enslave. In the crushing silence of the vacuum, the hunter and the hunted must navigate the lethal indifference of deep space.
I Am a Nucleus
Stephen Barr
A mundane New York life suddenly warps into a whirlwind of impossible coincidences, revealing an unseen, growing intelligence that anchors itself to an unsuspecting man.
I, the Unspeakable
Walter J. Sheldon
A man trapped in a sterile, authoritarian future receives a name so scandalous it ruins his life, eventually leading him to a desperate, life-altering rebellion.
Identity
George O. (George Oliver) Smith
A brilliant but reluctant cryptologist must venture into the treacherous, fog-bound wilds of Venus to save the woman he loves, using the long-lost, forbidden knowledge of a rogue surgeon.
Italian Letters, Vols. I and II
William Godwin
A young man's unshakeable faith in his closest friend becomes the very instrument of his downfall when romantic jealousy and calculated betrayal test the limits of philosophical virtue.
Ladies Must Live
Alice Duer Miller
A cynical social satire turns on an unexpected hinge when two mercenary high-society players drop their defenses and fall in love. In 1910s New York, staying wealthy is a full-time job.
Little sweetheart
Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.
A wealthy man’s life is shattered by the return of a wife he believed long dead, forcing him to choose between a past obligation and the new family he has built. This melodrama plays out against the backdrop of the post-Civil War South, where shifting fortunes and deep-seated secrets dictate the fates of its…
Pleiades Club—Telegraphers' Paradise on Planet Mars
J. W. (Jeff W.) Hayes
A group of telegraphers finds eternal harmony on the planet Mars, where they gather to celebrate their earthly history and the enduring legacy of their craft.
The Boss of Taroomba
E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
A refined artist finds his courage tested against the brutal realities of the Australian bush when he must defend a woman he secretly loves from a desperate gang of outlaws.
The folk of Furry Farm
K. F. (Katherine Frances) Purdon
This rural Irish tale captures the rhythmic, gossiping life of a small community where the landscape is as influential as the people who toil upon it. It is a slow, atmospheric study of village manners, matchmaking, and the quiet endurance required to keep a household—and a legacy—intact.
The Green World
Hal Clement
A scientific expedition to a lush, green world unearths a mystery that reveals they are not the first, nor the most intelligent, life forms to claim the planet.
The Heritage of the Kurts, Volume 2 (of 2)
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
The inheritance of the Kurts is not wealth or land, but a volatile, passionate nature that threatens to consume those who possess it. This concluding volume traces the struggle to master that inherited fire through education, love, and the pursuit of social justice.
The Hermit of Mars
Stephen Bartholomew
A solitary archeologist living on Mars for decades remains content in his isolation, until two men arrive with a weapon that threatens to destroy his quiet world and Earth alike.
The Huntress
Hulbert Footner
The wilderness is a mirror, and for those who wander into its depths, the reflection is often a brutal and beautiful revelation of the self.
The Luckiest Man in Denv
C. M. (Cyril M.) Kornbluth
In a world reduced to a vertical, warring bunker, a low-level functionary discovers that his only hope for survival is to master the lethal, shifting game of his superiors.
The Pilot and His Wife
Jonas Lie
HOOK A brooding, prideful pilot and his fiercely loyal wife navigate the dangerous, shifting currents of a long-term marriage on the rugged Norwegian coast.
Wind in Her Hair
Kris Neville
The dream of returning to Earth drives a community through four hundred years of space flight, only to meet a crushing, biological reality at the very threshold of their homecoming.
A Terrible Secret: A Novel
May Agnes Fleming
A murder at Catheron Royals shatters a noble house, sending ripples of scandal, secret bigamy, and unrequited longing across two continents.
At Bay
Mrs. Alexander
A man of experience finds his cynical world-weariness challenged when he encounters a young woman haunted by a dark, mysterious past. He must navigate a web of secrets and dangerous men to protect her.
Flora Adair
A. M. Donelan
A skeptical intellectual finds his cold cynicism dismantled by a quiet, devout woman, leading to a spiritual transformation that tests the boundaries between earthly desire and divine surrender.
Grim Green World
Roger D. Aycock
The Luna V is the fifth vessel to attempt a lunar landing, but its crew already knows the grim truth: space is not a vacuum, but a lethal gauntlet of high-speed meteoric dust.
Hostage of Tomorrow
Robert Abernathy
Two American soldiers stumble into a future dominated by a triumphant Nazi regime, only to find themselves fighting a desperate, multi-century war to erase their own grim timeline.
Many Kingdoms
Elizabeth Garver Jordan
A collection of disparate lives unfolds in these eleven stories, revealing how ordinary people navigate the quiet, internal kingdoms of their own hearts and private sorrows.
Pelle the Conqueror
Martin Andersen Nexø
The journey of a boy from the margins of society to the center of his own destiny is a story of hunger, endurance, and the hard-won clarity of youth.
Peter the Priest
Mór Jókai
A determined young monk discovers that his most sacred duty is to confront the dark, vengeful woman who once shattered his life as a knight.
The Sargasso of Space
Edmond Hamilton
Stranded in a graveyard of drifting, abandoned starships, the crew of the *Pallas* must outwit a band of murderous survivors to secure the fuel needed for their escape.
Adèle Dubois
Mary Langdon Bradbury Savage
A humble missionary brings spiritual solace and unexpected romance to the rugged landscape of New Brunswick, bridging the gap between a wild, untamed wilderness and the refined world of European nobility.
Alcatraz of the Starways
Henry Hasse
HOOK A prisoner in a horrific Venusian swamp discovers that his salvation and the future of three worlds lie in the hands of a mysterious, imprisoned princess.
Aloys
R. A. Lafferty
The life of a brilliant, impoverished academic intersects with the world of professional grifting in this tale of sudden glory and swift disappearance. It is a story about the masks men wear and the thin, permeable line between genius and fraud.
Brightside Crossing
Alan Edward Nourse
The most perilous trek in the solar system offers no glory, only the absolute indifference of a star. A veteran explorer returns from a hellish mission to warn a successor that some frontiers are meant to remain unconquered.
Life's little stage
Agnes Giberne
The story of a young woman navigating the quiet, often frustrating transition from schoolroom to adulthood, this narrative explores the subtle, daily struggles that define one's character. It serves as a gentle reminder that the most significant battles are often fought within, rather than upon a grand, public stage.
Other Worlds: A story concerning the wealth earned by American citizens and showing how it can be secured to them instead of to the trusts
Lena Jane Fry
A vision of economic salvation for the working class, this narrative suggests that by bypassing trusts and forming cooperative societies, citizens can reclaim the wealth their labor produces and secure their own future.
Peacemaker
Alan Edward Nourse
This gripping tale of interstellar cat-and-mouse explores the chilling disconnect between two species, proving that the most dangerous enemy is the one you cannot begin to understand.
Picnic
Stephen Marlowe
HOOK A mundane family outing to the asteroids turns into a desperate struggle for survival when a father discovers the celestial body they have chosen for their picnic is not a rock, but a sentient predator.
Poison Planet
William Oberfield
The first crew to land on Venus finds a paradise that hides a lethal secret. Stranded and starving, the men must choose between a slow death and an unthinkable, soul-shattering survival.
Saboteur of Space
Robert Abernathy
A desperate act of sabotage in the high frontier of space threatens to ignite a planetary war, leaving a broken man to choose between his survival and the survival of two worlds. In this tense, claustrophobic drama, the fate of Earth hangs on the clash between a fanatical revolutionary and the desperate crew he…
The Black Tide
Arthur G. Stangland
A veteran space pilot paralyzed by his own imagination must confront his deepest anxieties and a corporate conspiracy to save his brother. He discovers that true courage lies in reclaiming the spirit of individual initiative.
The blacker the berry
Wallace Thurman
This is a stark, unflinching portrait of a woman’s struggle with internalized racism, set against the backdrop of 1920s Harlem. It examines the painful social hierarchies within the Black community, where skin tone dictates belonging.