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Lorelei of the Red Mist
Published in Planet Stories in 1946, this story is a great mix of Golden Age Sci Fi and Swords & Sorcery. The first half was written by…
The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians
The Polity of the Lacedaemonians talks about the laws and institutions created by Lycurgus, which train and develop Spartan citizens from bi…
Armageddon- 2419 A.D.
This is the original ‘Buck Rogers’ SF classic. Thrill to the adventures of Anthony "Buck" Rogers, one of the most celebrated chara…
Mrs. Warren's Profession
.Mrs. Warren's Profession is a play written by George Bernard Shaw in 1893, and first performed in London in 1902 but was banned after two p…
Adaptation
In 1960 when this was published, the Cold War was at its height. Communism and Free Enterprise (Democracy) were locked in a ferocious strug…
The Men in the Walls
There are giant, technologically superior aliens who have conquered Earth. People live like vermin in holes in the insulation material of th…
Half-Past Bedtime
Ah, the wonderful adventures of Marian after she meets the strange Mr. Jugg. "And who are you, Mr Jugg?" she inquired. "I'm t…
The Flame Breathers
Did the planet Vulcan exist? It supposedly orbited our sun on the opposite side from the Earth but it was only theoretical speculation. On…
Uncle Remus Returns
Uncle Remus tells these 11 stories but to the son of the original "little boy" who is visiting his grandmother on the plantation. …
Lysistrata
The women of Athens are sick of the Peloponnesian war that has dragged on for year after year after year, causing great hardship to everyo…
Mother Goose in Prose
Before he wrote the Oz books, L. Frank Baum wrote this book which was the best selling book of 1897. Taking 22 beloved nursery rhymes, he ex…
Med Ship Man
Scattered through the galaxy are thousands of worlds colonized by humans. Many have native microbes dangerous to the human immigrants. Other…
Shannach-The-Last
A true pulp science fiction from 1952 from the pen of Leigh Douglas Brackett. In the deep caves of Mars an alien race ruled and enslaved me…
Anchorite
Randall Garrett sticks a sharp needle into our government and society in this wonderful story. He projects the current trends towards patern…
The Dragon Queen of Jupiter
The French Foreign legion has been exported to Space as the Space foreign legion. They are fighting now on Jupiter and the natives, led by …
The Children's Life of the Bee
Buzz, buzz, buzz. A fascinating and beautifully written explanation of the life of the honey bee. Maeterlinck, who won the Noble Prize for L…
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
"That government is best which governs least" is the famous opening line of this essay. The slavery crisis inflamed New England i…
The Biography of a Grizzly
Wahb (meaning White Bear) is an orphaned Grizzly Bear who learns to respect his fears, fight for peace, and trust the healing powers of a st…
Nor Iron Bars A Cage
Iron bars do not confine a Man—only his body. There are more subtle, and more confining bindings, however....Police methods of the future wi…
The Thing in the Attic
"Honath and his fellow arch-doubters did not believe in the Giants, and for this they were cast into Hell. And when survival depended u…