Harry Harrison was recognized as a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America. He was best known for his 'Deathworld' and 'Stainless Steel Rat' series. He was nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and Sideways Awards. He was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2004. This omnibus edition of his work includes four complete novels and six short stories. Both of his best known series, 'Deathworld' and 'The Stainless Steel Rat' are represented herein. Hours of science fiction delight await you in this five hundred page omnibus edition of some of his finest work.
Collected here in this omnibus edition are five of the great Pirate novels and a number of wonderful short stories. You'll go in search of adventure in 'Kidnapped' by Robert Louis Stevenson, 'A Brush with the Chinese' by G. A. Henty, and 'The Madman and the Pirate' by R.M. Ballantyne. Authors include Howard Pyle, W. B. Lord, Harry Collingwood, Richard Glasspoole, and many others. This is the swashbuckling pirate anthology you've been waiting for. Over 750 pages and more than 300,000 words of pulse pounding pirate adventures await you. Grab your eyepatch and set sail for adventure. For pirate lovers of all ages!
Collected here in this omnibus edition are five of the greatest Pirate novels ever written, as well as a number of wonderful short stories. You'll go in search of adventure with
'Treasure Island' by Robert Louis Stevenson,
'Captain Blood' by Rafael Sabatini,
'Ghost Pirates' by William Hope Hodgson.
Other authors include James Fenimore Cooper,
Howard Pyle,
Lucretia Parker,
Murray Leinster and many others.
This is the swashbuckling pirate anthology you've been waiting for. Over 800 pages and more than 300,000 words of pulse pounding pirate adventures await you. Grab your eyepatch and set sail for adventure. For pirate lovers of all ages!
Philip K. Dick was a very influential science fiction writer. More than a dozen of his stories or novels have been adapted for the screen including 'Blade Runner', 'Total Recall', 'Minority Report', and 'The Adjustment Bureau'. His work questioned the nature of reality and was often set against the backdrop of corporate power and greed. The editors of www.fantasticstoriesoftheimagination.com have compiled thirteen of Philip K. Dick's stories for this collection. Included are: 'The Eyes Have It'; 'Beyond the Door'; 'Beyond Lies the Wub'; 'Mr. Spaceship'; 'The Skull'; 'The Crystal Crypt'; 'The Defenders'; 'The Hanging Stranger'; 'The Gun'; 'Tony and the Beetles'; 'The Variable Man'; 'Piper in the Woods'; and 'Second Variety'.
Collected here in this giant omnibus edition are twelve of Lord Dunsany’s greatest books including 'The Gods of Pegana', 'Time and the Gods', 'The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories', 'A Dreamer’s Tales', 'The Book of Wonder', 'Fifty-One Tales', 'The Last Book of Wonder', 'Tales of Three Hemispheres', 'Tales of War', 'Unhappy Far-Off Things', 'Plays of Gods and Men', 'Don Rodriguez Chronicles of Shadow Valley'. Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett was the 18th Baron of Dunsany, better known as Lord Dunsany. He began writing fantasy in the 1890s and helped shape modern fantasy. Authors such as J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, Jack Vance, Michael Moorcock, and Neil Gaiman all owe a deep debt to Dunsany’s work. «Come with me, ladies and gentlemen who are in any wise weary of London: come with me: and those that tire at all of the world we know: for we have new worlds here.» Included here are ‘Of Skarl the Drummer’; ‘Of the Making of the Worlds’; ‘Of the Game of the Gods’; ‘The Chaunt of the Gods’; ‘The Sayings of Kib’; ‘Concerning Sish’; ‘The Sayings of Slid’; ‘The Deeds of Mung’; ‘The Chaunt of the Priests’; ‘The Sayings of Limpang-Tung’; ‘Of Yoharneth-Lahai’; ‘Of Roon, the God of Going, and the Thousand Home Gods’; ‘The Revolt of the Home Gods’; ‘Of Dorozhand’; ‘The Eye in the Waste’; ‘Of the Thing That Is Neither God Nor Beast’; ‘Yonath the Prophet’; ‘Yug the Prophet’; ‘Alhireth-Hotep The Prophet’; ‘Kabok The Prophet’; ‘Of the Calamity That Befel Yun-ilara by the Sea, and of the Building of the Tower of the Ending of Days’; ‘Of How the Gods Whelmed Sidith’; ‘Of How Imbaun Became High Prophet in Aradec of all the Gods Save One’; ‘Of How Imbaun Met Zodrak’; ‘Pegana’; ‘The Sayings of Imbaun’; ‘Of How Imbaun Spake of Death to the King’; ‘Of Ood’; ‘The River’; ‘The Bird of Doom and THE END’; ‘Time and the Gods’; ‘The Coming of the Sea’; ‘A Legend of the Dawn’; ‘The Vengeance of Men’; ‘When the Gods Slept’; ‘The King That Was Not’; ‘The Cave of Kai’; ‘The Sorrow of Search’; ‘The Men of Yarnith’; ‘For the Honour of the Gods’; ‘Night and Morning’; ‘Usury’; ‘Mlideen’; ‘The Secret of the Gods’; ‘The South Wind’; ‘In the Land of Time’; ‘The Relenting of Sarnidac’; ‘The Jest of the Gods’; ‘The Dreams of the Prophet’; ‘The Journey of the King’; ‘The Sword of Welleran’; ‘The Fall of Babbulkund’; ‘The Kith of the Elf-Folk’; ‘The Highwaymen ‘; ‘In the Twilight’; ‘The Ghosts’; ‘The Whirlpool’; ‘The Hurricane’; ‘The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth’; ‘The Lord of Cities ‘; ‘The Doom of La Traviata’; ‘On the Dry Land’; ‘Poltarnees, Beholder of Ocean’; ‘Blagdaross’; ‘The Madness of Andelsprutz’; ‘Where the Tides Ebb and Flow’; ‘Bethmoora’; ‘Idle Days on the Yann’; ‘The Sword and the Idol’; ‘The Idle City’; ‘The Hashish Man’; ‘Poor Old Bill’; ‘The Beggars’; ‘Carcassonne’; ‘In Zaccarath’; ‘The Field’; ‘The Day of the Poll’; ‘The Unhappy Body’; ‘The Bride of the Man-horse’; ‘Distressing Tale of Thangobrind the Jeweller’; ‘The House of the Sphinx’; ‘Probable Adventure of the Three Literary Men’; ‘The Injudicious Prayers of Pombo the Idolater’; ‘The Loot of Bombasharna’; ‘Miss Cubbidge and the Dragon of Romance’; ‘The Quest of the Queen’s Tears’; ‘The Hoard of the Gibbelins’; ‘How Nuth Would Have Practised His Art upon the Gnoles’; ‘How One Came, as Was Foretold, to the City of Never’; ‘The Coronation of Mr. Thomas Shap’; ‘Chu-bu and Sheemish’; ‘The Wonderful Window’; ‘Epilogue’; ‘The Assignation’; ‘Charon’; ‘The Death of Pan’; ‘The Sphinx at Gizeh’; ‘The Hen’; ‘Wind and Fog’; ‘The Raft-Builders’; ‘The Workman’; ‘The Guest’; ‘Death and Odysseus’; ‘Death and the Orange’; ‘The Prayer of the Flowers’; ‘Time and the Tradesman’; ‘The Little City’; ‘The Unpasturable Fields’; ‘The Worm and the Angel’; ‘The Songless Country’; ‘The Latest Thing’; ‘The Demagogue and the Demi-Monde’; ‘The Giant Poppy’; ‘Roses’; ‘The Man With the Golden Ear-Rings’; ‘The Dream of King Karna-Vootra’; ‘The Storm’; ‘A Mistaken Identity’; ‘The True History of the Hare and the Tortoise’; ‘Alone the Immortals’; ‘A Moral Little Tale’; ‘The Return of Song’; ‘Spring In Town’; ‘How the Enemy Came to Thlunrana’; ‘A Losing Game’; ‘Taking Up Picadilly’; ‘After the Fire’; ‘The City’; ‘The Food of Death’; ‘The Lonely Idol’; ‘The Sphinx in Thebes (Massachusetts)’; ‘The Reward’; ‘The Trouble in Leafy Green Street’; ‘The Mist’; ‘Furrow-Maker’; ‘Lobster Salad’; ‘The Return of the Exiles’; ‘Nature and Time’; ‘The Song of the Blackbird’; ‘The Messengers’; ‘The Three Tall Sons’; ‘Compromise’; ‘What We Have Come To’; ‘The Tomb of Pan’; ‘A Tale of London’; ‘Thirteen at Table’; ‘The City on Mallington Moor’; ‘Why the Milkman Shudders When He Perceives the Dawn’; ‘The Bad Old Woman in Black’; ‘The Bird of the Difficult Eye’; ‘The Long Porter’s Tale’; ‘The Loot of Loma’; ‘The Secret of the Sea’; ‘How Ali Came to the Black Country’; ‘The Bureau d’Echange de Maux’; ‘A Story of Land and Sea’; ‘Guarantee To The Reader’; ‘A Tale of the Equator’; ‘A Narrow Escape’; ‘The Watch-Tower’; ‘How Plash-Goo Came to the Land of None’s Desire’; ‘The Three Sailors’ Gambit’; ‘The Exiles Club’; ‘The Three Infernal Jokes’; ‘The Last Dream Of Bwona Khubla’; ‘How the Office of Postman Fell Vacant In Otford-under-the-Wold’; ‘The Prayer Of Boob Aheera’; ‘East And West’; ‘A Pretty Quarrel’; ‘How The Gods Avenged Meoul Ki Ning’; ‘The Gift Of The Gods’; ‘The Sack Of Emeralds’; ‘The Old Brown Coat’; ‘An Archive Of The Older Mysteries’; ‘A City Of Wonder’; ‘First Tale: Idle Days on the Yann’; ‘Second Tale: A Shop In Go-By Street’; ‘Third Tale: The Avenger Of Perdondaris’; ‘The Prayer of the Men of Daleswood’; ‘The Road’; ‘An Imperial Monument’; ‘A Walk to the Trenches’; ‘A Walk in Picardy’; ‘What Happened on the Night of the Twenty-Seventh’; ‘Standing To’; ‘The Splendid Traveller’; ‘Shells’; ‘Two Degrees of Envy’; ‘The Master of No Man’s Land’; ‘Weeds and Wire’; ‘Spring in England and Flanders’; ‘The Nightmare Countries’; ‘Spring and the Kaiser’; ‘Two Songs’; ‘The Punishment’; ‘The English Spirit’; ‘The Last Mirage’; ‘A Famous Man’; ‘The Oases of Death’; ‘Anglo-Saxon Tyranny’; ‘Memories’; ‘The Movement’; ‘Nature’s Cad’; ‘The Home of Herr Schnitzelhaaser’; ‘A Deed of Mercy’; ‘Last Scene of All’; ‘Old England’; ‘The Cathedral Of Arras’; ‘A Good War’; ‘The House With Two Storeys’; ‘Bermondsey versus Wurtemburg’; ‘On An Old Battle-Field’; ‘The Real Thing’; ‘A Garden Of Arras’; ‘After Hell’; ‘A Happy Valley’; ‘In Bethune’; ‘In An Old Drawing-Room’; ‘The Homes Of Arras’; ‘The Laughter of the Gods’; ‘The Queen’s Enemies’; ‘The Tents of the Arabs’; ‘A Night at an Inn’; and ‘Don Rodriguez Chronicles of Shadow Valley’.
The editors at www.fantasticstoriesoftheimagination.com present the Conan Super Pack: twenty-three short stories and poems and a full length novel. Conan the Barbarian was the greatest hero of the Hyborian Age. Orphaned at a young age he was forced to live by his wits, brawn, and the skill of his sword arm. This mighty warrior rises from obscurity to one day become the King of Aquilonia. Included are twelve wonderful original illustrations.
The Hyborian Age
The Phoenix on the Sword
The Scarlet Citadel
The Tower of the Elephant
Black Colossus
The Slithering Shadow
The Pool of the Black One
Gods of the North
Shadows in Zamboula
Shadows in the Moonlight
Queen of the Black Coast
The Devil in Iron
The People of the Black Circle
A Witch Shall Be Born
Rogues in the House
Jewels of Gwahlur
Beyond the Black River
The Hour of the Dragon
Red Nails; Adventurer
At The Bazaar
Dreams Of Nineveh
The Gates of Nineveh
Empire’s Destiny
The editors at www.fantasticstoriesoftheimagination.com present thirty-two wonderful tales of fantasy in this completely revised second edition text. More than seven hundred and fifty pages for your reading pleasure. Escape today! 'Immortal' by Shariann Lewitt; 'The Thing in the Attic' by James Blish; 'To Serve A Prince' by B.W. Clough; 'Red Nails' by Robert E. Howard; 'Your Name Is Eve' by Michael M. Jones; 'The Knights of Arthur' by Frederik Pohl; 'Go Through' by Alma Alexander; 'Piper in the Woods' by Philip K. Dick; 'Maeve' by Lillian Csernica; 'A Knyght Ther Was' by Robert F. Young; 'Edenbridge' by Paul Kincaid; 'The Moon Is Green' by Fritz Leiber; 'Where Angels Fall' by Jean-Louis Trudel; 'The Worlds of If' by Stanley G. Weinbaum; 'The Street That Wasn't There' by Simak and Jacobi; 'Double Exposure' by Lou Antonelli; 'Rastignac The Devil' by Philip José Farmer; 'Pest Control' by Chuck Rothman; 'Anomaly' by David Niall Wilson; 'The World That Couldn't Be' by Clifford D. Simak; 'A Stitch in Time Saves Nine' by Edward J. McFadden III; 'Man Overboard!' by F. Marion Crawford; 'Wisteria' by Ada Milenkovic Brown; 'A Traveler in Time' by August Derleth; 'Lawnmower Moe' by William R. Eakin; 'Way Station' by Mary Elizabeth Counselman; 'The Ghost of Mohammed Din' by Clark Ashton Smith; 'No Strings Attached' by Lester del Rey; 'Second Sight' by Alan E. Nourse; 'Of Time And Texas' by William F. Nolan; 'The Rats in the Walls' by H. P. Lovecraft; and 'Gainful Employment' by Jamie Wild.
The editors at www.fantasticstoriesoftheimagination.com present Fantasy and Science Fiction from the Present, Past, and Future.
The Cold Calculations by Michael A. Burstein,
They Twinkled like Jewels by Philip José Farmer,
Lingua Franca by Carole McDonnell,
Dawn of Flame by Stanley G. Weinbaum,
Don’t Jump by Jamie Wild,
Youth by Isaac Asimov,
Digger Don't Take No Requests by John Teehan,
Lighter than You Think by Nelson Bond,
Garden of Souls by M. Turville Heitz,
The Variable Man by Philip K. Dick,
Starwisps by Edward J. McFadden III,
Gorgono and Slith by Ray Bradbury,
I Was There When They Made the Video by Cynthia Ward,
The Perfect Host by Theodore Sturgeon,
That Universe We Both Dreamed Of by Jay O’Connell,
The Lake of Light by Jack Williamson,
Lies, Truth, and the Color of Faith by Gerri Leen,
Hopscotch and Hottentots by Lou Antonelli,
No Place to Hide by James Dorr,
Industrial Revolution by Poul Anderson,
The Visitor by Ann Wilkes,
Travel Diary by Alfred Bester,
Encounter in Redgunk by William R. Eakin,
The Second Satellite by Edmond Hamilton,
The Indecorous Rescue of Clarinda Merwin by Brenda W. Clough,
Lost Paradise by C. L. Moore,
Siblings by Warren Lapine,
Gun for Hire by Mack Reynolds,
The Answer by H. Beam Piper,
Pythias by Frederik Pohl,
Arm of the Law by Harry Harrison,
The Good Neighbors by Edgar Pangborn,
The Intruder by Emil Petaja,
The Six Fingers of Time by R. A. Lafferty,
An Ounce of Cure by Alan Edward Nourse,
The Hoofer by Walter M. Miller, Jr.,
The Stellar Legion by Leigh Brackett,
Year of the Big Thaw by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Completely revised and updated, this second edition text is one of the most comprehensive sci-fi eBooks on the market today.
Collected here are eighteen stories that bend time and space by the incomparable R. A. Lafferty. Lafferty was the winner of the Hugo and World Fantasy Award and a six time Nebula Award Nominee. His quirky style made his work hard to pigeonhole and market, but he still managed to influence a wide array of today’s best writers. Simply on of the best writers the science fiction and fantasy field has ever produced.