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Static
Wallace West
Disillusioned and drowning in liquor at a remote African trading post, a brilliant young inventor tests his experimental radio, only to have his native mistress betray him to a witch doctor during a dramatic acoustic showdown.
Sticky ropes
W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle
Awakening in a horse corral with a hangover and a new badge, Dusty Corbett steps straight into a lethal range war with the notorious Sticky Rope gang.
Turn backward, o time!
Walter Kubilius
Seeking eternal youth, an aging executive escapes a tightly controlled future society into the twentieth century, only to discover that cheating time carries a terrifying, irreversible price.
Weapon
Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone
When a war against an unyielding alien empire grinds humanity to the brink of collapse, victory hangs not on might, but on an unexpected, maddening weapon.
When love dawns
Adelaide Stirling
A desperate woman flees a dark Scottish castle, pursued by a shadowy conspiracy and a terrifying pursuer.
A Planet for Your Thoughts
James Norman
When grape-headed aliens do all the thinking for humanity, a rebellious freebooter's quest for fuel accidentally sparks an interstellar corporate takeover.
Contamination Crew
Alan Edward Nourse
An indestructible, protoplasmic alien creature smuggles itself aboard a galactic medical survey ship, leaving the crew with a horrifying realization about how to digest their uninvited guest.
Day of the Comet
Ivar Jorgensen
As humanity faces imminent destruction from a rogue comet, an estranged couple and world leaders confront their final hours with startling candor, only to discover the end of the world was a colossal scientific error.
Miracle Gold: A Novel (Vol. 3 of 3)
Richard Dowling
An extraordinary family discovery, a brilliant deformed clockmaker obsessed with a mysterious metal, and a devastating fire intertwine in late-nineteenth-century London, drawing lives together through quiet suffering and unexpected grace.
Planet in Reverse
Henry Guth
A bored space pilot strays into forbidden territory near Neptune, discovering a strange world where time runs backward and a woman exists in a counter-flowing stream.
The Infra-Medians
Sewell Peaslee Wright
When Pete steps into his friend's laboratory machine to rescue his lost companions, he crosses into a desolate realm where shadow-beings crave the finality of death.
The Link
Alan Edward Nourse
For millennia, a peaceful space-faring civilization has fled an ancient enemy, hiding in the shadows of the stars. But two young dreamers decide it is time to turn and face the hunters.
The long question
David Mason
A television game show contestant is isolated on a remote island for what should be two months, but as the months quietly stretch into years, he loses track of time and builds an entire alternate history of the future.
The Monster
S. M. Tenneshaw
A secret experiment in the Arizona desert turns a hubristic scientist into a bloodthirsty beast. When cosmic rays rewrite his biology, a routine rocket launch becomes a nightmare that threatens everyone around him.
The taming of Nan
Ethel Carnie Holdsworth
A marriage held together by habit and endurance faces its ultimate test when a railway porter crippled by an industrial accident and his shrewish wife are uprooted from Lancashire's industrial grit to the quiet hills of Cherrydale.
The Tiger Lily
George Manville Fenn
Trapped between a dangerous, veiled countess and a faithful sweetheart across the seas, a brilliant young artist plunges into a vortex of obsessive passion and studio scandal.
Under a Charm: A Novel. Vol. I
E. Werner
A young man returns to his ancestral estate to reclaim his birthright from a mother who has long manipulated his life from afar. This tale of hidden motives and stubborn pride unfolds against a landscape of shifting political loyalties and deep-seated family resentment.
World Without Glamor
Stephen Marlowe
When a luxury tourist ship from Earth arrives on the dusty, hardscrabble colony planet of Talbor, two disillusioned colonists discover that their romanticized fantasies of civilization are entirely a mirage.
The Frightened Planet
Sidney Austen
A prehistoric warrior finds himself the savior of a technologically advanced but spineless civilization. He must teach a city of cowards how to fight for their survival against a reptilian enemy.
You Don't Make Wine Like the Greeks Did
David E. Fisher
A psychiatrist’s conventional life unravels when a stranger claims to be a time-traveler seeking a cure for his wife’s sudden attachment to the present. Reality begins to blur as the boundaries between clinical observation and romantic obsession dissolve.
Ripeness is All
Jesse Roarke
In a automated future of endless comfort and empty desires, a mindless consumer awakens to a quiet, terrifying question: what is a human life actually for?
The Triumph of Jill
F. E. Mills (Florence Ethel Mills) Young
An impoverished young art teacher in London fights to preserve her independence while navigating a complicated romance with an aspiring painter bound by social divides.
The Ordeal of Colonel Johns
George H. (George Henry) Smith
The past is a fixed point, until a Revolutionary War hero is plucked from the battlefield and forced to witness the stifling, narrow-minded legacy his descendants have built in his name.
Pink Gods and Blue Demons
Cynthia Stockley
Amid the dusty heat of a South African diamond town, a young and vain married woman is drawn into a dangerous web of temptation, glittering jewels, and emotional manipulation.
The Einstein See-Saw
Miles J. (Miles John) Breuer
A brilliant criminal engineer accidentally discovers a way to fold space, only to find himself trapped by the very laws of physics he sought to exploit.
The Return Of The Soul: 1896
Robert Hichens
The terror of a childhood cruelty returns in adulthood when a man suspects his wife is the reincarnated soul of the cat he once murdered. This psychological horror tale explores the suffocating weight of past sins and the thin membrane between human reason and animal instinct.
Christian Gellert's Last Christmas: From "German Tales" Published by the American Publishers' Corporation
Berthold Auerbach
The gentle scholar finds his final, quiet peace through the unexpected arrival of a stranger, proving that even the most solitary life remains inextricably woven into the tapestry of the whole.
The Trap
Betsy Curtis
Hook In a future where youth is a high-stakes commodity, two aging scientists who hold the secret to immortality find themselves constantly outmaneuvered by the very corporation they created.