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Craphound

by Cory Doctorow

Published: 1998-03-01. 9,724 Words.

Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction

In a near-future world, a scruffy collector and his alien pal hunt garage sales for quirky treasures like old cowboy trunks. Their thrilling bids spark cash and tension, as human nostalgia clashes with alien detachment. This witty sci-fi tale explores junk-hunting’s thrill and the ache of lost memories, probing what makes objects priceless in a universe of odd desires.

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A Place So Foreign

by Cory Doctorow

Published: 2000-01-01. 20,972 Words.

Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction

A young boy in 1970s America is whisked to a futuristic world of time travel and alien tech when his inventor father vanishes. Navigating a dazzling, disorienting society, he uncovers secrets tying his family to cosmic conspiracies. This vibrant sci-fi tale blends wonder, rebellion, and the quest for belonging

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Revolt of the Outworlds

by Stephen Marlowe

Published: 1954-12-01. 18,379 Words.

Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction

Far from the comfortable Inner Worlds, the mining colonies seethe under corporate rule. When a decorated pilot is sent to crush a budding rebellion, he uncovers a conspiracy pitting Earth’s profiteers against a frontier fighting to breathe. Hunted by his own command and shadowed by pirate fleets, he must choose—ignite a war that could free the outworlds or burn them all.

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Recruit for Andromeda

by Stephen Marlowe

Published: 1953-07-01. 32,796 Words.

Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction

A restless young man is singled out by a shadowy interstellar service and hurled into rigorous training, mind-bending tests, and missions on worlds where gravity, time, and loyalty feel different. As he learns to read alien motives and survive political traps, a deeper secret about his origin emerges—forcing a choice between the planet that shaped him and the wider destiny that claims him.

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Quest of the Golden Ape

by Stephen Marlowe

Published: 1957-03-01. 33,953 Words.

Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction

A man from Earth is haunted by dreams of a radiant woman and a jungle world ruled by cruel sorcery. Drawn across dimensions, he awakens to a lost heritage and a perilous hunt for a mythical golden ape whose secret can topple tyrants. With rebels, telepaths, and blade duels in alien temples, he must claim his destiny—or watch two worlds fall.

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The War in the Air

by H. G. Wells

Published: 1908-01-01. 97,639 Words.

Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction

A bicycle mechanic is swept into a global conflict when fleets of airships and flying machines unleash a new kind of warfare. From burning cities to ruined empires, he witnesses civilization collapse almost overnight, as human ingenuity in the sky becomes the engine of terror, chaos, and a perilous, uncertain future for everyone left alive.

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The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth

by H. G. Wells

Published: 1904-01-01. 76,061 Words.

Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction

Two eccentric scientists brew a nutrient that makes life grow without limit. Soon hens, weeds, rats—and children—swell to monstrous size, turning farms into jungles and towns into battlegrounds. As frightened authorities move to crush the “giants,” a new generation refuses to shrink back. A darkly comic fable of invention, fear, and the price of progress when growth becomes destiny.

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The Sleeper Awakes

by H. G. Wells

Published: 1910-01-01. 76,943 Words.

Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction

A man falls into a trance and wakes two centuries later to find his fortune has made him owner of the world—and a prisoner of the men who rule in his name. Drawn into a glittering, mechanized city of airships and moving roads, he becomes a symbol for the poor and a pawn for a would-be dictator. As crowds rise and skies burn, he must choose between spectacle, power, and justice.

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Tales of Space and Time

by H. G. Wells

Published: 1899-01-01. 72,992 Words.

Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction

A collection of imaginative stories that journey through the wonders and perils of science, time, and the cosmos. From strange worlds to human ambition, each tale explores the limits of knowledge, the consequences of discovery, and the mysteries of existence.

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The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance

by H. G. Wells

Published: 1897-01-01. 49,903 Words.

Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction

A brilliant but desperate scientist renders himself invisible and discovers it frees him from consequence—and from his own humanity. Hunted through snowy villages and London streets, he turns to theft, terror, and a scheme for dominion. As friends recoil and enemies multiply, a final, chilling pursuit asks whether a man can vanish without losing his soul.

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The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories

by H. G. Wells

Published: 1897-01-01. 161,697 Words.

Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction

An explorer stumbles into a hidden valley where every inhabitant is blind—and discovers that sight can be a curse. Around this fable of power and perception gather uncanny tales: meteors that redraw the skies, doors that open into lost Edens, and ants that wage imperial war. Each story tilts the familiar until it feels wonderfully, dangerously new.

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The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents

by H. G. Wells

Published: 1895-01-01. 44,713 Words.

Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction

An eager anarchist pockets a vial he thinks will loose plague on London an orchid drinks its keeper an explorer nurses a prehistoric egg a man wakes with another’s life in his veins an experiment hurls a schoolmaster sideways from the world. These quick, uncanny tales turn laboratories and drawing rooms into thresholds where curiosity slips into terror and wonder.

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The War of the Worlds

by H. G. Wells

Published: 1898-01-01. 60,937 Words.

Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction

One peaceful English county is shattered when metal cylinders fall from the sky and unfold into towering tripods armed with heat rays and poison gas. As cities burn and refugees choke the roads, an ordinary man fights to find his family, while humanity’s pride crumbles before an invading intelligence that barely notices us.

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The Island of Doctor Moreau

by H. G. Wells

Published: 1896-01-01. 44,245 Words.

Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction

A gripping tale of science gone too far, where a shipwrecked man discovers a secluded island of horrific experiments. Blurring the line between human and animal, the story explores ethics, identity, and the terrifying consequences of unchecked curiosity and ambition.

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The World Set Free

by H. G. Wells

Published: 1914-01-01. 65,522 Words.

Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction

An eccentric king, visionary scientists and terrified civilians watch the dawn of a new power: artificial radioactivity that can level cities yet promises endless energy. As airborne wars ignite and continents burn, scattered survivors struggle to forge a fragile world-state out of the ashes before humanity finishes its extinction.

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Twelve Stories and a Dream

by H. G. Wells

Published: 1903-01-01. 73,685 Words.

Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction

We slip through a dozen strange tales and one lingering vision: anxious clerks bargaining with fate, lovers warped by time, cursed objects, alien visitations and nightmares that refuse to end. Blending satire, romance and quiet horror, each story nudges reality sideways, hinting that the everyday world is far less solid than it seems.

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The Time Machine

by H. G. Wells

Published: 1895-01-01. 32,872 Words.

Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction

An eccentric inventor hurtles into Earth’s far future and finds a sunlit Eden of childlike Eloi, hunted at night by the subterranean Morlocks. Searching for his stolen machine, he descends into tunnels of industry and hunger, glimpses the world’s dying seas, and races home with a stark warning about comfort, class, and how progress can devour its makers.

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The Road to Sinharat

by Leigh Brackett

Published: 1949-03-01. 13,163 Words.

Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction

Across Mars’s dry sea-bottoms, a hard-bitten wanderer must pose as a renegade and ride with warring tribes toward Sinharat, a buried city whose priests promise immortality with forbidden science. Between Earth police, barbarian warlords, and a ruthless queen, he follows the legend through dust storms and ruin-lit catacombs to stop a conquest rising from the dead.

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The Vibration Wasps

by Frank Belknap Long

Published: 1945-01-01. 6,650 Words.

Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction

Experimental sonic weapons rip open a doorway in space, releasing invisible “wasps” that kill with waves of agony instead of stings. As attacks spread and victims die without a mark, a haunted physicist races to decode the alien vibrations themselves—before humanity’s own technology turns the entire planet into a screaming hive.

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The Miniature Menace

by Frank Belknap Long

Published: 1937-01-01. 9,261 Words.

Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction

A terrifying discovery shrinks danger to an unimaginable scale. As a strange experiment unleashes chaos, humanity faces a new kind of threat—small, swift, and deadly—where science’s smallest mistake could mean the end of all.

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