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By: Robert Sheckley (1928-2005)

Book cover The Hour of Battle
Book cover The Leech

By: Robert Silverberg (1935-)

Starman's Quest by Robert Silverberg Starman's Quest

Travelling at speeds close to that of light, spacemen lived at an accelerated pace. When one of the twin boys left the starship, he grew older while his twin in space barely aged. So the starship twin left the ship to find what happened to his brother who was aging away on earth.

Book cover Postmark Ganymede
Book cover Happy Unfortunate

Here are two early stories by the well known SF Author Robert Silverberg. The Happy Unfortunate was published first in Amazing Stories in 1957 and explores the angst caused when the human race reaches into space but at the cost of needing to breed a new species; specialized 'spacers' who can withstand the tremendous rigors of acceleration. The Hunted Heroes was published in Amazing stories a year earlier, in 1956. It is a futuristic story that holds great hope for the resilience of the human race after the war destroys most of the world.

Book cover The Hunted Heroes

By: Robert Silverberg and Randall Garrett (1935-)

Book cover The Judas Valley

Why did everybody step off the ship in this strange valley and promptly drop dead? How could a well-equipped corps of tough spacemen become a field of rotting skeletons in this quiet world of peace and contentment? It was a mystery Peter and Sherri had to solve. If they could live long enough! [from the Judas Valley]Originally published in Amazing Stories, October 1956

By: Robert Stawell Ball (1840-1913)

Book cover Great Astronomers

Of all the natural sciences there is not one which offers such sublime objects to the attention of the inquirer as does the science of astronomy. From the earliest ages the study of the stars has exercised the same fascination as it possesses at the present day. Among the most primitive peoples, the movements of the sun, the moon, and the stars commanded attention from their supposed influence on human affairs. From the days of Hipparchus down to the present hour the science of astronomy has steadily grown...

By: Robert Sterling Yard (1861-1945)

The Book of the National Parks by Robert Sterling Yard The Book of the National Parks

Robert Sterling Yard (February 1, 1861 – May 17, 1945) was an American writer, journalist, and wilderness activist. Born in Haverstraw, New York, Yard graduated from Princeton University and spent the first twenty years of his career in the editing and publishing business. In 1915, he was recruited by his friend Stephen Mather to help publicize the need for an independent national park agency. Their numerous publications were part of a movement that resulted in legislative support for a National Park Service (NPS) in 1916...

By: Robert W. Chambers (1865-1933)

Book cover The Gay Rebellion
Book cover Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation

By: Robert W. Haseltine

Book cover Prelude to Space

By: Robert W. Lowndes (1916-1998)

Book cover The Troubadour

By: Robert Wicks

Book cover The Quantum Jump

By: Robert Williams Wood (1868-1955)

How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers by Robert Williams Wood How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers

How do you tell apart a parrot from a carrot? A plover from a clover? A bay from a jay? Although there are several ways of differentiating, R. W. Wood’s use of pun and rhyme is one of the most entertaining!

By: Rog Phillips (1909-1965)

Book cover The Unthinking Destroyer

By: Roger D. Aycock (1914-2004)

Book cover Control Group
Book cover Traders Risk

By: Roger Kuykendall

Book cover We Didn't Do Anything Wrong, Hardly
Book cover All Day September

By: Roger North (1653-1734)

Book cover History of Esculent Fish

Roger North, son of Dudley North, 4th Baron North, was a successful member of the bar and later member of parliament. But he had wide ranging interests from architecture to music. He has an avid collector of books and is best known as the biographer of the North family. Here we sample his interest in raising fish. He presents fifteen short sketches of esculent fish, and a longer essay as "A Discourse of Fish and Fish Ponds." - Summary by Larry Wilson

By: Roger Phillips Graham (1909-1965)

Book cover Unthinkable
Book cover The Gallery

By: Roman Frederick Starzl (1899-1976)

Book cover In the Orbit of Saturn
Book cover The Martian Cabal

By: Ron Cocking

Book cover Warning from the Stars

By: Ross Rocklynne (1913-1988)

Book cover Sorry: Wrong Dimension

By: Rossiter W. (Rossiter Worthington) Raymond (1840-1918)

Book cover Peter Cooper The Riverside Biographical Series, Number 4

By: Roswell H. (Roswell Hill) Johnson (1877-1967)

Book cover Applied Eugenics

By: Royal Dixon (1885-1962)

Book cover The Human Side of Animals

By: Rudolf Schmid (1828-1907)

Book cover The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality

By: Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

Book cover With The Night Mail A Story of 2000 A.D. (Together with extracts from the comtemporary magazine in which it appeared)

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