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Ergo Sum is sold PWUW (Pay What yoU Want), DRM-free and CC-licensed in order to ensuring total freedom for the consumer. Specifically, we are releasing this book under the CC BY-SA International 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
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Xandegar's Adventure Realm |
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These stories are bad. They are so terrible. A collection of short stories written over the span of thirty or more years. (The author lost count.) Step into the world of Katrina Joyner's wit, humor, and occasional drama with this collection.... [click here for more] |
Writers of the Apocalypse |
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"The Wrong Ship" is a 1,600 word short story about a programmer on the run from the authorities, who winds up stowing away on, you guessed it, the wrong spaceship. It features an artificial intelligence named Charlie, one 1980s film reference, and a stunning lack of helpfulness from the laws of physics.
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When the dead rise in Houston, Dave and Chris Thompson find themselves stranded on the top floor of the Liberty Medical Center, with nowhere to run and no help in sight. With Dave's broken leg making movement impossible and the disintegration of civilization accelerating around them, they have to act fast, or be consumed by the seething horde below. Note: This story is about 10,000 words, or... [click here for more] |
William Esmont |
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When we travel, what—and who—do we take with us? Frank's job takes him to destinations throughout the world, when what he really wants is to spend time with his ailing wife. This sad yet uplifting short story about love and travel, romance and distance, considers how technology can impact our affections (and vice versa). This stand-alone short story is part of Hindmarch's collection of... [click here for more] |
Will Hindmarch |
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Robots just took Kyle's programming job. Now he's out to fulfill his dream of designing games like his favorite robot-controlling MMO title: CRAFTWORLD. But the intersection of life and gameplay isn't what Kyle was expecting. Can play change a world? "Craftworld" is a speculative short story, part of Will Hindmarch's ongoing collection of tales based on modern technology writing. The package... [click here for more] |
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In the world of pharmaceutical software for artificial intelligence, perception is vital. A new diagnostics manual definition for AI mental illness could undermine a burgeoning industry of medicine for machines. Joe's job as a pharmaware rep may be on the line on this next business trip — his self-image certainly is. "The Pharmaware Rep" is part of Will Hindmarch's ongoing collection... [click here for more] |
Will Hindmarch |
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Not long from now, in a war-torn city, a journalist embedded with a military force confronts a contrast between the wars we idolize and the wars we fight. Stranded in a blasted metropolis, the journalist travels with her wounded unit on a dangerous mission to use next-generation weaponry and support robots to locate and eliminate a hidden rebel base. But in the fog of war, the story we want isn't always... [click here for more] |
Will Hindmarch |
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Is it Manna from Heaven when your helium-powered loaf of bread can fly? A "half-baked" science fiction tale from grand master Fritz Leiber, author of the Fafhrd & the Gray Mouser series and many other classics of fantasy and science fiction!... [click here for more] |
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Felines and mysterious fantasy: it's a magical mix that appeals to the imaginations of cat lovers the world around. The first volume of this new anthology series includes colorful stories by authors Nancy Springer, Ann Marston, Jack Williamson, and Fred Chappell, among others -- plus classics by Fritz Leiber and H.P. Lovecraft. ... [click here for more] |
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The opportunity to swap bodies with those outworld aliens and to see the other planet as its natives saw it was too good to pass up. It would be a unique experience...the chance of a lifetime!
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Within a year Earth would be a vassal world, with the Sirian invaders triumphant. Only Standish, Earth's Defense Engineer, could halt that last victorious onslaught—and he was helpless, the lone survivor of a prison ship wrecked in uncharted space.
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The dark between the planets is cold and empty, and filled with every kind of death--from the fast to the seemingly unending…
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The Masters had ruled all space with an unconquerable iron fist. But the Masters were gone. And this new, young race who came now to take their place -- could they hope to defeat the ancient Enemy of All? A thrilling Space Opera by two masters of the genre! ... [click here for more] |
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Like tiny meteors, the space-ships plunged into Earth's atmosphere, carrying death for all who opposed their flight. The fate of a world rested in Hammond's hands—and his wrists were fettered at his sides.
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This was Burnett's last trip. Three more shelves to fill with space-slain warriors--and he would be among the living again.
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The Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Greece and Rome had returned to Earth -- with all their awesome powers intact. Overnight, Earth was transformed. War on any scale was outlawed, along with boom-and-bust economic cycles, and prudery. No change was more startling than the face of New York, where the Empire State Building became the Tower of Zeus. In this totally altered world, William Forrester is an... [click here for more] |
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To remain on Mars meant death from agonizing space-sickness, but Earth-surgery lay days of flight away. And there was only a surface rocket in which to escape—with a traitorous Ganymedean for its pilot.
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Decadent literature is intrinsically and proudly a literature of moral challenge; it is sceptical, cynical, and satirical. It recognizes that everyday morality does not work either in practical or in psychological terms, and is therefore a sham, but that ideal morality is -- not necessarily unfortunately -- unattainable. This volume collects the best of Brian Stableford's decadent work, including:... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
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In a world where Security is all-important, nothing can ever be secure. A mountain-climbing vacation may wind up in deep Space. Or loyalty may prove to be high treason. But it has its rewards. Originally published in the classic pulp magazine, Space Science Fiction (February, 1953 issue).... [click here for more] |
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The lure of precious zolonite drew Morgan to barren Titan—to find a weird beast-empire ruled by a cold-eyed Earth-girl queen.
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An eerie story of a silver land beneath the black Venusian seas. A grim tale of brooding terror whirling out of space to drive men mad, of a menace without name or form, and of the man, Lundy, who fought the horror, his eyes blinded by his will. For to see the terror was to become its slave—a mindless automaton whose only wish was to see behind the shadowed mysterious eyelids of "IT".
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The 15th volume of our MEGAPACK® series is truly MEGA—no less than 70 tales by some of the science fiction field's all-time greatest authors! Here are interplanetary tales, space opera, thought pieces, cats (how you you have science fiction stories without at least one cat?), and even a few modern classics. Included are:
A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER
CONSPIRACY ON CALLISTO, by Frederik Pohl
AFTER... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
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Prepare yourself for more macabre spectacles and contes cruel, crawling things and loathsome gods, predators from deep inside the mind of man and from far outside angled space, all brought to you by the incomparable Frank Belknap Long! Included are 20 short stories and the complete text of Long's 1977 poetry collection. Here are:
JOHNNY ON THE SPOT
THE MAN FROM NOWHERE
FISHERMAN'S LUCK
THE REFUGEES
GRAB... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
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When an atomic researcher steals uranium, will the cops get their man? A classic tale from the pulps, originally published in 10-Story Detective magazine, November 1946.
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As if one mystery of creation weren't enough, there was the myth of the "Demi-Urge." A classic SF short story by the author of The Brave Little Toaster. Originally published in Amazing Stories, June 1963. ... [click here for more] |
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Edmond Hamilton. For most people, this name conjures visions of two-fisted space opera -- pure pulp science fiction. And Hamilton -- known as the author of the "Captain Future" series -- was indeed one of the foremost writers of pulp space opera. Over the years, as his work became more polished and sophisticated, he evolved into far more than that: a visionary of the future whose imagination... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
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In his first collection since "Waltzing with the Dead" (2004), Russell Davis returns with "The End of All Seasons," which offers four poems, fourteen short stories (including one never before published), and a creative nonfiction essay about his own muse. From a contemporary take on The Little Match Girl in "The Last Day of the Rest of her Life" to the last man on Earth, writing on an old typewriter... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
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H.B. Fyfe published dozens of science fiction stories during his three-decade career as a writer. Included in this volume are 16 of his best, originally published in classic science fiction magazines like Astounding Stories and Planet Stories. Included are:
LOCKED OUT COMPROMISE CONFIDENCE CONFORMITY EXPECTED IN VALUE DECEIVED AFTERTHOUGHT EXPERIMENTUM CRUCIS IMPLODE AND PEDDLE KEY DECISION... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
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The fifth volume in the Science Fiction Megapack series collects 25 tales of high adventure through other worlds and times, including 5 Hugo and Nebula Award-winners and nominees. Featured this time are:
AGAPE AMONG THE ROBOTS, by Allen Steele THE STARSHIP MECHANIC, by Jay Lake and Ken Scholes PEACEMAKER, by Gardner Dozois OR ALL THE SEAS WITH OYSTERS, by Avram Davidson GRANDMA, by Carol Emshwiller... [click here for more] |
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Theodore Rose Cogswell (1918 - 1987) was an American science fiction author. His first published story, "The Spectre General" in the magazine ASTOUNDING (June 1952), was a humorous tale in which a long-forgotten maintenance brigade of the Imperial Space Marines holds the promise of reinvigorating a declining Galactic empire. It's a classic and was selected by the Science Fiction Writers of... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
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Vulcan was a doom-world. One expedition had mysteriously disappeared, and now another was following in its path—searching for the unknown menace that stalked Vulcan's shadowed gorges.
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Wildside Press |
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The "Golden Age of Science Fiction" Megapacks are designed to introduce readers to classic science fiction writers who might otherwise be forgotten. This volume assembles 2 novels and 4 shorter works -- almost 500 pages of classic fiction -- by 3-time Hugo Award-winner Clifford D. Simak.
Included are:
TIME QUARRY [novel] EMPIRE [novel] THE STREET THAT WASN'T THERE [short story] THE WORLD... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
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The Fourth Science Fiction Megapack selects 25 more modern and classic science fiction stories, by talented authors new and old. Authors in this volume include: Mary A. Turzillo, E.C. Tubb, Murray Leinster, Philip K. Dick, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Jason Andrew, Henry Kuttner, Cynthia Ward, George H. Scithers and John Gregory Betancourt, Milton Lesser, John Russell Fearn, Harry Harrison, Isaac Asimov, Ayn... [click here for more] |
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This volume contains twelve stories which, for one reason or another, have lain uncollected after their initial publication, an era spanning the years 1986 to 1999. Additionally, four never-sold stories of roughly the same vintage—pulled from Di Filippo's files, with the oldest dating from 1984—see print here for the first time. THE MAN WHOM THINGS HATED FLASHERS BELOW THE WRACK THE GREAT... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
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Here are eight wonderful stories and two evocative poems for cat-people of all ages, including "The Hemingway Kittens," "Cat in the Box," "...And Mongo Was His Name-O," "The Cat Tracker Lady of Asad Alley," "The Cat with the Tulip Face," "A Little Pinch Is All You Need," "Hunger," "White Comma," "No Heaven Will Not Ever Heaven Be...," and "Universes." As Robert Reginald says in his Introduction: "This... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
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He found the old book under the floorboards of a cabin. Was it a trashy dime novel—or something more sinister?
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Wildside Press |
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“The Inquisitor,” was written in May, 1956 for William Hamling's IMAGINATION magazine, as Robert Silverberg writes in his lengthly introduction, "a few weeks before my graduation from Columbia, and put my own byline on it, but when Hamling published it in the December, 1956 issue of IMAGINATION it was credited to Randall Garrett, and so it has remained in bibliographies to this day. It’s my work,... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
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Groff ruled the world through Fear. Fear of his awful power ... his twisted, mad brain. For one day that brain would crack. When it did, the World would dissolve in cataclysmic Chaos.
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"Get Gunther," the official orders read. It was to laugh! For Click and Irish were marooned on the pirate's asteroid--their only weapons a single gun and a news-reel camera.
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In a future where everyone is implanted with the same knowledge, the Dictator has created a humanity of ruthless zombies. But the one who can see the truth must protect himself at all costs—because in this world of the blind, the one-eyed man isn't king—he will be killed! ... [click here for more] |
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"Send the Black Throne to dust; conquer the Black Ones, and bring the Daughter from the Caves of Darkness." These were the tasks Garin must perform to fulfill the prophecy of the Ancient Ones . . . and establish his own destiny in this hidden land! This is Andre Norton's first story, originally published in 1947 under the pseudonym "Andrew North." ... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
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The Philip K. Dick Megapack assembles no less than 15 classic science fiction stories by Philip K. Dick. Included are:
INTRODUCTION: PHILIP K. DICK
EXHIBIT PIECE
BEYOND LIES THE WUB
THE DEFENDERS
THE CRYSTAL CRYPT
BEYOND THE DOOR
SECOND VARIETY
THE EYES HAVE IT
THE GUN
THE VARIABLE MAN
TONY AND THE BEETLES
THE HANGING STRANGER
THE SKULL
PIPER IN THE WOODS
MR. SPACESHIP
STRANGE EDEN
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Wildside Press |
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A science fiction classic by British master Philip E. High!
Harcourt smiled his professional smile. “Now, you came to me because you felt something was wrong, some probably frightening aberration which we will deal with later. Were you under pressure at the time.”
“A policeman is always under pressure.” Nevinson sighed. “Unfortunately this happened three weeks ago while on a holiday in... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
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"""The Randall Garrett Megapack"" (and its companion volume, ""The Second Randall Garrett Megapack"") together encompass 42 classic-era science fiction tales by Randall Garrett. Readers interested in works by the author of the Lord Darcy and the Queen's Own F.B.I. series will find much of interest here! [Note that we omit one story--an early magazine version of a novel included in the second volume--as... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
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Hours of great reading await, with tales from some of the 20th century's most renowned science fiction authors, Here are 25 science fiction stories (plus a bonus short-short):
UNKNOWN THINGS, by Reginald Bretnor CAPTIVES OF THE FLAME, by Samuel R. Delany EXPEDITER, by Mack Reynolds ONE-SHOT, by James Blish SHIPWRECK IN THE SKY, by Eando Binder ZEN, by Jerome Bixby LANCELOT BIGGS COOKS A PIRATE, by... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
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Hours of great reading await, with tales from some of the 20th century's most renowned science fiction authors, Here are 25 science fiction stories:
WHAT’S HE DOING IN THERE? by Fritz Leiber THE MARCHING MORONS, by C.M. Kornbluth GHOST, by Darrell Schweitzer DEATH WISH, by Robert Sheckley THE WAVERIES, by Fredric Brown ADAM AND NO EVE, by Alfred Bester FOXY LADY, by Lawrence Watt-Evans THIN... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
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The "Golden Age of Science Fiction" Megapacks are designed to introduce readers to classic science fiction writers of the 1940s-1960s who might otherwise be forgotten. Horace B. Fyfe (1918-1997) is one such unjustly forgotten author. Included here are 15 science fiction stories plus one novel, representing some of his best work. Included are:
THE WATER EATER (1953) UNBEGOTTEN CHILD (1953)... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
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The castaway was a wanted man—but he didn't know how badly he was wanted! A science fiction classic by the author of CITY and MASTODONIA.
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Wildside Press |
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