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The Odyssey, Samuel Butler translation, is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad , the other Homeric epic. The poem mainly focuses on the Greek hero Odysseus (known as Ulysses in Roman...

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Doomsday Eve is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert Moore Williams. WERE THESE STRANGERS IMPERVIOUS TO H-BOMBS? In the midst of the war-that terrible conflict that threatened humanity's total destruction-the "new people" suddenly app...

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War and Peace is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in 1869. The work is epic in scale, chronicling the Napoleonic war in Russia and is regarded as one of the most important works of world literature. It is considered as To...

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The Hunchback of Notre Dame (French: Notre-Dame de Paris ) is a French Gothic novel by Victor Hugo published in 1831. The title refers to the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, on which the story is centered. The novel's original French title, Notre-D...

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A Princess of Mars is a science-fiction novel by E. R. Burroughs. John Carter, an American Civil War veteran, goes prospecting in Arizona and, when set upon by Indians, is mysteriously transported to Mars, called "Barsoom" by its inhabitants. Cart...

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The Gods of Mars is a science-fiction novel by E. R. Burroughs. After John Carter's arrival, a boat of Green Martians on the River Iss are ambushed by the previously unknown Plant Men. The lone survivor is his friend Tars Tarkas, the Jeddak of Tha...

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The Warlord of Mars is a science-fiction novel by E. R. Burroughs. After the horrendous battle at the end of the previous book, which ended with the destruction of the religion of Issus, John Carter's wife and two other women were locked in a slow...

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Thuvia, Maid of Mars is a science-fiction novel by E. R. Burroughs. The fourth book of the Barsoom series, Thuvia, Maid of Mars takes up the story of Thuvia, now Princess of Ptarth, and Carthoris, son of John Carter and Dejah Thoris. Thuvia is bet...

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The Clockwork Man is a science fiction novel by British author E. V. ODLE. This is the original cyborg novel. Steampunk before steampunk was cool - one of the first appearances of a cyborg in science fiction literature, and a delicate commentary o...

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The Chessmen of Mars is a science-fiction novel by E. R. Burroughs. In the fifth book in the Barsoom series, Tara of Helium, daughter of John Carter, becomes lost in an unknown area of Mars when her single-seat flier is caught in a rare Martian hu...

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Anything You Can Do... is a science fiction novel by Randal Garrett first published in 1963. One shipwrecked alien against the power of an entire planet means a losing battle... until Earth builds superman! An alien crash lands on Earth, and for t...

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Quest of the Golden Ape is a science fiction novel by Randal Garrett and Stephen Marlowe first published in 1957. How could this man awaken with no past-no childhood-no recollection except of a vague world of terror from which his mother cried out...

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Unwise Child is a science fiction novel by Randal Garrett, first published in 1962. When a super-robot named Snookums discovers how to build his own superbombs, it becomes obvious that Earth is by no means the safest place for him to be. And so Dr...

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The Asses of Balaam is a science fiction novella by Randal Garrett, first published in 1961, under the pen-name David Gordon. The remarkable characteristic of Balaam's ass was that it was more perceptive than its master. Sometimes a child is more ...

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The Dunwich Horror is a horror novella by American author H. P. Lovecraft. It is considered one of the core stories of the Cthulhu Mythos. In a rundown farmhouse near isolated, rural Dunwich, a bizarre family conjures and nurtures an evil entity f...

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The Man in the Iron Mask (French: L'Homme au Masque de Fer) is a name given to a prisoner arrested as Eustache Dauger in 1669 or 1670, and held in a number of jails, including the Bastille and the Fortress of Pignerol (today Pinerolo). He was held...

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The Moon Pool is a fantasy novel by A. Merritt. It originally appeared as two short stories in All-Story Weekly: "The Moon Pool" (1918) and its sequel, "Conquest of the Moon Pool" (1919). These were then reworked into this edition, a novel release...

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The Night Land is a classic horror novel by William Hope Hodgson, first published in 1912. As a work of fantasy it belongs to the Dying Earth subgenre. The importance of The Night Land was recognised by its later revival in paperback by Ballantine...

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A Voyage to Arcturus is a novel by Scottish writer David Lindsay, first published in 1920. An interstellar voyage is the framework for a narrative of a journey through fantastic landscapes. The story is set at Tormance, an imaginary planet orbitin...

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Invaders from the Infinite is a science fiction novel by John W Campbell Jr., first published in 1932. The Alien spaceship was unthinkably huge, enormously powerful, apparently irresistable. It came from the void and settled on Earth, striking awe...

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Islands of Space is a science fiction novel by John W Campbell Jr., first published in 1930. As Earth's faster-than-light spaceship hung in the void between galaxies, Arcot, Wade, Morey and Fuller could see below them, like a vast shining horizon,...

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The Green Odyssey is a science fiction novel by Philip José Farmer first published in 1957. The Green Odyssey is a relatively straightforward adventure story, involving an astronaut named Alan Green who is stranded on a primitive planet, where he ...

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Beyond the Vanishing Point is a science fiction novel by American author Ray Cummings first serialised in Astounding Stories in March 1931. THEY OPENED THE PANDORA'S BOX OF ATOMIC TRAVEL. When George Randolph first caught sight of Orena, he was as...

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Wandl the Invader is a science fiction novel by American author Ray Cummings first serilised in Astounding Stories in 1932. There were nine major planets in the Solar System and it was within their boundaries that man first set up interplanetary c...

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The City at World's End is a classic science fiction novel by American author Edmond Hamilton first published in 1951. This is the story of a present-day town and its people - a small Midwestern city whose fifty thousand inhabitants are suddenly f...

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First Lensman is a science fiction novel and space opera by American author E. E. "Doc" Smith. It was first published in 1950. First Lensman is the sequel to Triplanetary , and the second book of E.E. "Doc" Smith's classic Lensman series. It was T...

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The Galaxy Primes is a science fiction novel and space opera by American author E. E. "Doc" Smith. It was first published in 1959. They were four of the greatest minds in the Universe: Two men, two women, lost in an experimental spaceship billions...

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Spacehounds of IPC is a science fiction novel and space opera by American author E. E. "Doc" Smith. It was first published in 1931. When the Inter-Planetary Corporation's (IPC) crack liner "IPV Arcturus" took off on a routine flight to Mars, it tu...

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A Princess of Mars (1912) is a science fantasy novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first of his Barsoom series. Full of swordplay and daring feats, the novel is considered a classic example of 20th century pulp fiction. It is also a seminal instanc...

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People Minus X is a science fiction novel by Raymond Z. Gallun first published in 1957. A disastrous experiment destroys the moon and kills millions on earth. The invention of artificial flesh lets them return to life as androids, a second and per...

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