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Super Man and the Bug Out

by Cory Doctorow

Published: 2001-10-01. 10,947 Words.

Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction

A daring adventure unfolds as a young hero faces unexpected threats in a high-tech world. With wit, courage, and quick thinking, he navigates danger, uncovers secrets, and discovers the power—and responsibility—of extraordinary abilities in a modern landscape of intrigue.

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Shadow of the Mothaship

by Cory Doctorow

Published: 2000-01-01. 11,117 Words.

Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction

The story follows a spacefaring adventure in which humans encounter remnants of a vast, ancient alien civilization.

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Return to Pleasure Island

by Cory Doctorow

Published: 2000-08-01. 11,217 Words.

Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction

This story follows a group of children who revisit an amusement park or “Pleasure Island”, a place filled with wonder, technology, and peril.

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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 Time Machine

by H. G. Wells

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

Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction

A pioneering science fiction novel that follows an unnamed scientist, referred to as the Time Traveller, who invents a machine that allows him to travel through time.

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The Road to Sinharat

by Leigh Brackett

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

Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction

The story follows Matthew Carse, a former archaeologist turned mercenary who has made a life for himself on the colonized, declining Mars.

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Lorelei of the Red Mist

by Leigh Brackett & Ray Bradbury

Published: 1946-01-01. 22,491 Words.

Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction

A haunting tale of mystery and danger unfolds as a woman emerges from the shadows of a deadly red mist. Secrets, suspense, and otherworldly forces collide, drawing characters into a world where survival depends on courage, cunning, and confronting the unknown lurking just beyond the fog.

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Thralls of the Endless Night

by Leigh Brackett

Published: 1943-01-01. 11,982 Words.

Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction

The story follows a tough and independent space pilot who crash-lands on Mars during a routine flight.

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The Jewel of Bas

by Leigh Brackett

Published: 1944-01-01. 18,117 Words.

Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction

On a dying, red desert world, a hard-bitten wanderer is hired to retrieve a legendary gem said to cure any wound—and enslave any will. Rival clans, treacherous priests, and mutant guardians close in as he crosses salt seas and black canyons to a forbidden city. To claim the prize, he must decide whether to save a people from its shining doom or keep the darkness for himself.

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The Vanishing Venusians

by Leigh Brackett

Published: 1945-04-01. 10,837 Words.

Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction

The story follows an Earthman traveling across the harsh landscape of Venus, which is a swampy, dangerous world filled with strange creatures.

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The Blue Behemoth

by Leigh Brackett

Published: 1943-08-01. 10,842 Words.

Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction

On a dying frontier world, a broke prospector teams with a sharp-eyed smuggler to chase a myth: the Blue Behemoth, a city-sized relic buried in salt flats and storm glass. Syndicates, scholars, and native clans all want it. But the closer they come, the more the machine seems awake. To claim its power, they must choose—ignite a new empire, or bury a weapon that could end worlds.

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Citadel of Lost Ships

by Leigh Brackett

Published: 1943-03-01. 12,508 Words.

Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction

In the far reaches of space, a smuggler and outcast becomes entangled in rebellion and betrayal among forgotten worlds. As power shifts and secrets unfold, he must choose between survival and sacrifice in a cosmic struggle for freedom and redemption.

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Black Amazon of Mars

by Leigh Brackett

Published: 1951-03-01. 23,993 Words.

Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction

A rugged mercenary treks across a frozen Martian wasteland, drawn to a fabled city ruled by a mysterious warrior queen. Battling savage tribes and unearthly beasts, he uncovers ancient secrets that threaten the planet’s fate. This thrilling sci-fi saga blends sword-and-sorcery grit with cosmic wonder, exploring loyalty, power, and destiny in a stark, alien realm.

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Mr. Spaceship

by Philip K. Dick

Published: 1953-01-01. 10,910 Words.

Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction

In a future where humanity battles alien minds, a daring experiment fuses man and machine into a living starship powered by human intellect. As the vessel gains consciousness, it challenges its creators’ control, questioning what it means to be alive—and whether humanity’s salvation might demand its own surrender.

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The Variable Man

by Philip K. Dick

Published: 1953-07-01. 25,730 Words.

Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction

A science fiction novella that combines themes of time, technology, unpredictability, and human ingenuity.

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Second Variety

by Philip K. Dick

Published: 1953-05-01. 15,630 Words.

Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction

After a nuclear war leaves Earth a scorched battlefield, self-replicating robots built to protect the last survivors learn to imitate the humans they hunt. A small band of soldiers and refugees navigate ruined outposts and shifting alliances, never sure who—or what—to trust, as each new “variety” perfects the masquerade and survival demands a terrible choice.

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Vacuums Suck Hard! The Adventures of the USS Big Stick

by J. R. Handley

Published: 2019-01-13. 21,614 Words.

Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction » Space opera

What could possibly go wrong?
Gunnery Sergeant John Doe is frustrated. He didn’t join the Space Corps to be shuttled-around in a ship. He joined to fight. Something that’ll help him pick-up chicks. Hoping this tour will be different—only to be performing boring patrols. with no action in sight tears. Then came the enemy no one expected.

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