The Irritated People
By: Ray Bradbury
2.58
Format: 23 pages, Kindle Edition
Charles Crossley, President of American Jet-Propelled Ships, had a crazy plan to save the world. An…
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1. The Masque of the Red Death
By: Edgar Allan Poe
4.06
Format: 9 pages, Paperback
The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague known as the Red Death by … read more
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"Existem cordas, nos corações dos mais indiferentes, que não podem ser tocadas sem emoção."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
"Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
"There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
"And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
2. The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)
By: Peter S. Beagle
4.16
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780451450524 She was magical, beautiful beyond belief—and comp… read more
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"I love whom I love."-Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)
"The last unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone."-Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)
"You're in the story with the rest of us now, and you must go with it, whether you will or no."-Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)
"The most professional curse ever snarled or croaked or thundered can have no effect on a pure heart."-Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)
3. The Signalman
By: Charles Dickens , Scott Cohn
3.66
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
Presents the tale of a young man who, after listening to an eccentric railroad signalman's predicti… read more
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"Hallow! Below there!"-Charles Dickens, The Signalman
4. The Chrysalids
By: John Wyndham
3.93
Format: 200 pages, Mass Market Paperback
A world paralysed by genetic mutation John Wyndham takes the reader into the anguished heart of … read more
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"We've got to believe that God is sane, Davie boy. We'd be lost indeed if we didn't do that."-John Wyndham, The Chrysalids
"Knowing makes all the difference... It's the difference between just trying to keep alive, and having something to live for"-John Wyndham, The Chrysalids
"The living form defies evolution at its peril; if it does not adapt, it will be broken. The idea of completed man is the supreme vanity: the finished image is a sacrilegious myth."-John Wyndham, The Chrysalids
"... the more complex they made their world, the less capable they were of dealing with it. They had no means of consensus. They learnt to co-operate constructively in small units; but only destructiv…"-John Wyndham, The Chrysalids
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6. A World Out of Time (The State, #1)
By: Larry Niven
4.50
Format: 231 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Jaybee Corbell awoke after more than 200 years as a corpsicle -- in someone else's body, and under … read more
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7. The Mote in God's Eye
By: Larry Niven , Jerry Pournelle
3.58
Format: 448 pages, ebook
In 3016, the 2nd Empire of Man spans hundreds of star systems, thanks to faster-than-light Alderson… read more
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8. The Pit and the Pendulum
By: Edgar Allan Poe
4.15
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Get set for true terror in one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous short stories. We enter the mind… read more
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"How at least shall we distinguish its shadows from those of the tomb?"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
"In the deepest slumber-no! In delirium-no! In a swoon-no! In death-no! even in the grave all is not lost."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
"In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (…"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
"He who has never swooned, is not he who finds strange palaces and wildly familiar faces in coals that glow; is not he who beholds floating in mid-air the sad visions that the many may not view; is no…"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
9. Red Planet
By: Robert A. Heinlein
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
Jim Marlow and his strange-looking Martian friend Willis were allowed to travel only so far. But on… read more
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10. John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1)
By: David Wong
3.88
Format: 362 pages, Paperback
STOP. You should not have touched this flyer with your bare hands. NO, don't put it down. It's too … read more
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"When a man plans, a woman laughs."-David Wong, John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1)
"John, let me make one thing clear,"-David Wong, John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1)
"My melon soul Crushed by your Gallagher of apathy"-David Wong, John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1)
"No. We talked about this. I’m going home to eat a pie."-David Wong, John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1)
11. Blood Music
By: Greg Bear
3.84
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Vergil Ulam has created cellular material that can outperform rats in laboratory tests. When the au… read more
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"It is the bullet you don’t hear that gets you."-Greg Bear, Blood Music
"Thought moves like a dissociation of leaves across a lawn in a breeze."-Greg Bear, Blood Music
"Nothing is lost. Nothing is forgotten. It was in the blood, the flesh. And now, it is forever."-Greg Bear, Blood Music
"He held her hand and shook his head. "They're inside, part of us by now. They are us. Where can we escape?"-Greg Bear, Blood Music
12. Downward to the Earth
By: Robert Silverberg
3.90
Format: 176 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Who knoweth the spirit of men that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to… read more
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13. Rocannon's World
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.32
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
Adapted & expanded from the short story "The Dowry of Angyar". A world shared by three native human… read more
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14. The Birds
By: Daphne du Maurier
3.89
Format: 75 pages, Paperback
"The birds kept coming at him from the air, silent save for the beating wings. The terrible, flutte… read more
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15. Arkfall
By: Carolyn Ives Gilman
4.36
Format: None pages, Paperback
Humans live deep within an apparently lifeless planet covered by massive ice sheets. Having to surv… read more
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16. Terminal World
By: Alastair Reynolds
3.89
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
Spearpoint, the last human city, is an atmosphere-piercing spire of vast size. Clinging to its skin… read more
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17. The Red Room
By: H.G. Wells
3.55
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
"It's your own choosing," said the man with the withered arm once more. I heard the faint sound of … read more
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18. The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes:
By: H.G. Wells
4.00
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
The transitory mental aberration of Sidney Davidson, remarkable enough in itself, is still more rem… read more
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19. The Haunter of the Dark: The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus, #3
By: H.P. Lovecraft , August Derleth
3.95
Format: 544 pages, Paperback
WARNING! YOU ARE ABOUT TO ENTER A NEW DIMENSION OF UTMOST TERROR When you open this book you wil… read more
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"Into his mind floated pictures of alien orbs with great stone towers, and other orbs with titan mountains and no mark of life, and still remoter spaces where only a stirring in vague blackness told o…"-H.P. Lovecraft, The Haunter of the Dark: The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus, #3
"And beyond all else he glimpsed an infinite gulf of sheer darkness, where solid and semi-solid forms were known only by their windy stirrings, and cloudy patterns of force seemed to superimpose order…"-H.P. Lovecraft, The Haunter of the Dark: The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus, #3
20. Cycle of the Werewolf
By: Stephen King , Bernie Wrightson
3.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
The first scream came from the snowbound railwayman who felt the fangs ripping at his throat. The n… read more
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21. The Cask of Amontillado
By: Edgar Allan Poe
4.08
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
"The Cask of Amontillado" (sometimes spelled "The Casque ..") is a short story written by Edgar All… read more
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"For the love of God, Montresor!"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado
"He did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado
"The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado
"The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado
22. The Ice Owl
By: Carolyn Ives Gilman
1.75
Format: 134 pages, ebook
A Best Novella Nominee for the Hugo Awards. This story first appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & … read more
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23. Planet of Exile
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
1.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Earth colony of Landin has been stranded on Werel for ten years--& ten of Werel's years are ove… read more
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24. Julia
By: Sandra Newman
3.78
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
London, chief city of Airstrip One, the third most populous province of Oceana. It's 1984 and Julia… read more
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"У цьому весь жах. Ти не маєш вибору, а все ж мусиш діяти точно так, ніби маєш."-Sandra Newman, Julia
25. Exile's End
By: Carolyn Ives Gilman
4.03
Format: 48 pages, ebook
Exile's End is a complex, sometimes uncomfortable examination of artifact repatriation and cultural… read more
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"How do you lose your name? When people stop telling your story. Why must we tell our story? Because others start telling it for us."-Carolyn Ives Gilman, Exile's End
"He came to the prison of ghosts; For Hoarder people do not free their dead. Their feet fall heavy, weighted by the past They do not hear the spirits cry for freedom They heap up secrets in an archive…"-Carolyn Ives Gilman, Exile's End
"Let’s sing of the lightbeam journey Of the man who was not a man Sent by the Whispering Kindom To search the sky for ghosts. How did he find the way? He followed the poison papers, He followed the sc…"-Carolyn Ives Gilman, Exile's End
26. Infinite Stars: Dark Frontiers
By: Bryan Thomas Schmidt
4.13
Format: 632 pages, Kindle Edition
The second volume of short science fiction anthology. 26 stories from series such as Confederation… read more
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27. Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 175, April 2021
By: Neil Clarke
3.45
Format: 189 pages, ebook
FICTION Sarcophagus by Ray Nayler The Field Tiger by Endria Isa Richardson Ouroboros by Dean-Pau… read more
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28. The Heat Death of The Universe
By: Pamela Zoline
4.20
Format: 10 pages, ebook
An example of feminist science-fiction writing. Sarah Boyle is a vivacious and intelligent youn… read more
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29. The Billiard Ball
By: Isaac Asimov
4.07
Format: 18 pages, None
Science Fiction novelette first published in If, March 1967 (Vol 17, No 3, Issue 112). read more
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30. Blowups Happen
By: Robert A. Heinlein
3.80
Format: 35 pages, None
"Blowups Happen" is a 1940 science fiction short story by American writer Robert A. Heinlein. It is… read more
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31. The Irritated People
By: Ray Bradbury
2.58
Format: 23 pages, Kindle Edition
Charles Crossley, President of American Jet-Propelled Ships, had a crazy plan to save the world. An… read more
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