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The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells (Illustrated)

H G Wells · 84 pages

For more than one hundred years H. G. Wells' classic science fiction tale of the Martian invasion of Earth has enthralled readers with a combination of imagination and incisive commentary on the imbalance of power that continues to be relevant today. No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater

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The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells (Illustrated Classics)

H. G. H. G. Wells · 88 pages

For more than one hundred years H. G. Wells' classic science fiction tale of the Martian invasion of Earth has enthralled readers with a combination of imagination and incisive commentary on the imbalance of power that continues to be relevant today. No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater

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The Island of Dr. Moreau

Herbert George Wells · 112 pages

Shipwrecked in the south Pacific Ocean, Englishman Edward Prendick awakens aboard a ship where a man named Montgomery and his beastly looking servant were transporting animal cargo. Soon, they arrive on an island and more and more of these bizarre humanlike creatures appear. Prendick senses a sinister secret to the island after he meets with the owner, a one Dr. Moreau...The Island of Doctor Morea

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The Day of the Triffids

John Wyndham · 272 pages

When Bill Masen wakes up blindfolded in hospital there is a bitter irony in his situation. Carefully removing his bandages, he realizes that he is the only person who can see: everyone else, doctors and patients alike, have been blinded by a meteor shower. Now, with civilization in chaos, the triffids - huge, venomous, large-rooted plants able to 'walk', feeding on human flesh - can have their day

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Dungeon Crawler Carl

Matt Dinniman · 464 pages

**The apocalypse will be televised!** A man. His ex-girlfriend's cat. A sadistic game show unlike anything in the universe: a dungeon crawl where survival depends on killing your prey in the most entertaining way possible. In a flash, every human-erected construction on Earth—from Buckingham Palace to the tiniest of sheds—collapses in a heap, sinking into the ground. The buildings and all

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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Jules Verne · 352 pages

A nineteenth-century science fiction tale of an electric submarine, its eccentric captain, and undersea world, which anticipated many of the scientific achievements of the twentieth century.

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The Rise of Nine

Pittacus Lore · 360 pages

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The Infinite Sea

Rick Yancey

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The Eternaut

Hector German Oesterheld · 372 pages

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Starship Troopers

Robert A. Heinlein · 222 pages

Starship Troopers takes place in the midst of an interstellar war between the Terran Federation of Earth and the Arachnids (referred to as "The Bugs") of Klendathu. It is narrated as a series of flashbacks by Juan Rico, and is one of only a few Heinlein novels set out in this fashion. The novel opens with Rico aboard the corvette Rodger Young, about to embark on a raid against the planet of the

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The Sign of Four

Arthur Conan Doyle · 144 pages

The Sign of the Four (1890), also called The Sign of Four, is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. ---------- Also contained in: [Adventures of Sherlock Holmes](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20624138W) [Adventures of Sherlock Holmes](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL18191906W) [Annotated Sherlock Holmes. 1/2](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL151843

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson · 48 pages

A retelling of Robert Louis Stevenson's The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde told in graphic novel format. In the murky streets of Victorian London, a vicious killer is on the prowl. The killer is Mr. Hyde. And why does Henry Jekyll, a respected doctor, try to protect him? The work also contains information about Robert Louis Stevenson's life and the film versions of the work.

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Moby-Dick or, The Whale

Herman Melville · 420 pages

A classic of the sea, telling of the pursuit of Moby Dick, the white whale who defied capture.

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Revelations

Paul Antony Jones · 306 pages

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Old Man's War

John Scalzi · 319 pages

John Scalzi channels Robert Heinlein (including a wry sense of humor) in a novel about a future Earth engaged in an interstellar war against more advanced species. Citizens volunteer for the Colonial Defense Forces after retirement, in exchange for which they have their consciousness transferred into a young body, cloned from their DNA but enhanced. If, against the odds, they survive two years o

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Congo

Michael Crichton · 348 pages

The Andromeda Strain, The Great Train Robbery —and now Congo! It's Crichton in top form—and the terrain this time is darkest Africa. Three daring adventurers trek into the jungle—into the very' heart of the Congo, through cannibal country, past flaming volcanoes—in search of the diamonds of the Lost City of Zinj. Pure H. Rider Haggard, but with the incomparable Crichton difference! His intrepid ba

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Jack Finney · 208 pages

Overview: On a quiet fall evening in the small, peaceful town of Mill Valley, California, Dr. Miles Bennell discovered an insidious, horrifying plot. Silently, subtly, almost imperceptibly, alien life-forms were taking over the bodies and minds of his neighbors, his friends, his family, the woman he loved - the world as he knew it. First published in 1955, this classic thriller of the ultimate ali

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The Taking

Dean Koontz · 410 pages

The new thriller from Dean Koontz is a novel of stunning suspense and visceral terror as doomsday dawns.On the morning that will mark the end of the world they have known, Molly and Niel Sloan awaken to the drumbeat of rain. It has haunted their dreams through the night, and now they find an eerily luminous and silver downpour that drenches their small Californian mountain town.As hours pass they

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Kindred

Octavia E. Butler · 287 pages

Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stay grows longer, more arduou

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Pod

Stephen Wallenfels · 292 pages

As alien spacecrafts fill the sky and zap up any human being who dares to go outside, fifteen-year-old Josh and twelve-year-old Megs, living in different cities, describe what could be their last days on Earth.

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The Left Hand of Darkness

Ursula K. Le Guin · 304 pages

[Comment by Kim Stanley Robinson, on The Guardian's website][1]: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin (1969) > One of my favorite novels is The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K Le Guin. For more than 40 years I've been recommending this book to people who want to try science fiction for the first time, and it still serves very well for that. One of the things I like about it is how

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The Tripods Trilogy

John Christopher

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Dreamcatcher

Stephen King · 870 pages

Once upon a time, in the haunted city of Derry, four boys stood together and did a brave thing. It was something that changed them in ways they could never begin to understand. Twenty-five years after saving a Down's-syndrome kid from bullies, Beav, Henry, Pete, and Jonesy -- now men with separate lives and separate problems -- reunite in the woods of Maine for their annual hunting trip. But wh

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The Pit and the Pendulum

Edgar Allan Poe · 59 pages

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