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Short Science Fiction Collection 027

Various Authors

Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and scientific method, but are not facts of the author’s contempora..

The Double Life

Gaston Leroux

The Double Life is a spirit possession fiction work by Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux, a French journalist and author of detective fiction. In the English-speaking world, he is best known for writing the ..

Adventures in Contentment

David Grayson

Adventures in Contentment is a biographical work by David Grayson.Excerpts:My senses, my nerves, even my muscles were continually strained to the utmost of attainment. If I loitered or paused by ..

Robur-le-Conquerant

Jules Verne

Robur-le-Conquerant is the French version of Robur the Conqueror, a science fiction novel by Jules Verne, published in 1886. It is also known as The Clipper of the Clouds. It has a sequel, Master of t..

The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Great Shadow, also known as The Great Shadow and other Napoleonic Tales, is an action and adventure novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and published in 1892 in J.W. Arrowsmith’s Bristol Libra..

The History of Mr. Polly

H. G. Wells

The History of Mr. Polly is a comic novel written by Herbert George Wells, who was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social ..

Alice's Abenteuer im Wunderland

Lewis Carroll

Die Titelheldin Alice wird während eines langweiligen Picknicks mit ihrer Schwester auf ein weißes Kaninchen aufmerksam, dem sie schließlich in dessen Bau folgt. Dabei landet sie in einer traumartigen..

De Ongelikte Beer

Jack London

De Ongelikte Beer is the Dutch version of Jack London's boxing story The Game, a novel by Jack London about a twenty-year-old boxer Joe, who meets his death in the ring. London was a sports repor..