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By: Richard R. Smith | |
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No Hiding Place | |
Compatible |
By: Richard Sabia | |
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I Was a Teen-Age Secret Weapon
Poor Dolliver Wims is a terribly misunderstood teen age boy from the backwoods. Is he mean or evil? Quite the opposite: He does nothing wrong, hurts no one and wants only to be liked and to help, yet he seems to be blamed for every accident that ever happens to anyone in the University research facility where he 'works' as a porter. Why does disaster seem to swirl around him like a tornado whips around it's eye. He never is hurt in the slightest way while others slash themselves with previously innocent knives, are smashed by falling bookcases that had no cause to fall, and are shot by guns that are safely tucked away... | |
The Premiere |
By: Richard W. Church (1815-1890) | |
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Bacon
This investigation of Bacon the scholar and man of letters begins with a look at the early days ang progresses to his relationships with Queen Elizabeth and James I. It includes accounts of his positions as solicitor general, attorney-general, and chancellor. The book concludes with Bacon's failure, his overall philosophy, and summaries of his writings. |
By: Richard Wilson (1920-1987) | |
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Double Take |
By: Rick Raphael (1919-1994) | |
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Code Three | |
A Filbert Is a Nut | |
The Thirst Quenchers | |
Sonny |
By: Roald Amundsen (1872-1928) | |
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The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition in the Fram, 1910-12
In contrast to Scott’s South Pole expedition, Amundsen’s expedition benefited from good equipment, appropriate clothing, and a fundamentally different primary task (Amundsen did no surveying on his route south and is known to have taken only two photographs) Amundsen had a better understanding of dogs and their handling, and he used of skis more effectively. He pioneered an entirely new route to the Pole and they returned. In Amundsen’s own words: “Victory awaits him who has everything in order — luck, people call it... |
By: Robert J. Braidwood (1907-2003) | |
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Prehistoric Men
This little book, first published in 1948, is part of the Chicago Natural History Popular History series that explains difficult subjects in ways and terms we all can understand. It was published at a time in Anthropology when exciting things like carbon dating were first being used and refined. "Prehistory means the time before written history began. Actually, more than 99 per cent of man’s story is prehistory. Man is at least half a million years old, but he did not begin to write history until about 5,000 years ago... |
By: Robert Armitage Sterndale | |
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Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
NATURAL HISTORY OF THE MAMMALIA OF INDIA AND CEYLON.By Robert A. Sterndale, F.R.G.S., F.Z.S., &C., PREFACE. This work is designed to meet an existing want, viz.: a popular manual of Indian Mammalia. At present the only work of the kind is one which treats exclusively of the Peninsula of India, and which consequently omits the more interesting types found in Assam, Burmah, and Ceylon, as well as the countries bordering the British Indian Empire on the North. The geographical limits of the present work have been extended to all territories likely to be reached by the sportsman from India, thus greatly enlarging the field of its usefulness... |
By: Robert Arthur (1909-1969) | |
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The Aggravation of Elmer | |
The Indulgence of Negu Mah |
By: Robert Baden-Powell (1857-1941) | |
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Young Knights of the Empire : Their Code, and Further Scout Yarns |
By: Robert Bloch | |
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This Crowded Earth
Robert Bloch was a prolific writer in many genres. As a young man he was encouraged by his mentor H. P. Lovecraft, and was a close friend of Stanley G. Weinbaum. Besides hundreds of short stories and novels he wrote a number of television and film scripts including several for the original Star Trek. In 1959 Bloch wrote the novel Psycho which Alfred Hitchcock adapted to film a year later. He received the Hugo Award, the World Fantasy Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and he is a past president of the Mystery Writers of America. Published in Amazing Stories in 1958, This Crowded Earth is a thriller set on an overpopulated Earth of the future. |
By: Robert Boyle (1627-1691) | |
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The Sceptical Chymistor Chymico-Physical Doubts |
By: Robert Carmichael-Smyth | |
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A Letter from Major Robert Carmichael-Smyth to His Friend, the Author of 'The Clockmaker' |
By: Robert Charles Hope (1855-1926) | |
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The Leper in England: with some account of English lazar-houses |
By: Robert Donald Locke | |
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Next Door, Next World |
By: Robert E. Gilbert (1924-1993) | |
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Stopover Planet |
By: Robert F. Young (1915-1986) | |
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Star Mother | |
Collector's Item | |
The Servant Problem |
By: Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912) | |
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The Journals of Robert Falcon Scott
Capt. Robert F. Scott's bid to be the leader of the first expedition to reach the South Pole is one of the most famous journeys of all time. What started as a scientific expedition turned out to be an unwilling race against a team lead by R. Admunsen to reach the Pole. The Norwegian flag already stood at the end of the trail when Scott's party reached their target. All the five men of the Scott expedition who took part in the last march to the Pole perished on their way back to safety. Robert F. Scott kept a journal throughout the journey, all the way to the tragic end, documenting all aspects of the expedition... |
By: Robert Fitzroy (1805-1865) | |
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Barometer and Weather Guide |
By: Robert Goadby (1721-1778) | |
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Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew, King of the Beggars
The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew recounts the wide-ranging exploits of a real-life rogue – a wily professional mendicant who roams 18th-century England extracting charity from merchants, clergyman, and members of the landed gentry alike, employing in his craft an ingenious variety of deceptions and disguises put on for the purpose. Often he impersonates a shipwreck-surviving seaman and uses his wide knowledge of foreign parts and personages to achieve plausibility. Or he might appear on a doorstep as a destitute woman in widow's weeds, toting borrowed babes to enhance the effect... |
By: Robert Grant (1852-1940) | |
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The King's Men A Tale of To-morrow |
By: Robert H. Wilson | |
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Out Around Rigel |
By: Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914) | |
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Lord of the World
“Mr. Benson sees the world, four or five generations hence, free at last from all minor quarrels, and ranged against itself in two camps, Humanitarianism for those who believe in no divinity but that of man, Catholicism for those who believe in no divinity but that of God.” This apocalyptic novel from the early 1900's is sometimes deemed one of the first modern dystopias. |
By: Robert J. Martin | |
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Beyond Pandora |
By: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) | |
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Records of a Family of Engineers |
By: Robert M. Yerkes (1876-1956) | |
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The Dancing Mouse A Study in Animal Behavior | |
The Mental Life of Monkeys and Apes A Study of Ideational Behavior |
By: Robert Means Lawrence (1847-1935) | |
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Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery |
By: Robert Moore Williams (1907-1977) | |
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Be It Ever Thus |
By: Robert N Bader | |
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Amphibians and Reptiles in Captivity
In recent years the number of people interested in keeping amphibians and reptiles in captivity has grown rapidly. All too often, these same people have little knowledge of the proper care needed for their captives, nor do they know where to turn in order to learn the needs of their animals. It is the intent of the authors of this special issue to offer the proper information needed to successfully keep amphibians and reptiles in captivity. We are by no means THE experts on the subject, nor do we claim to cover all the facts. However, we do hope that enough information is furnished to answer most of the common questions asked by people. - Summary by Tom R. Johnson |
By: Robert Record (1510?-1558) | |
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The Path-Way to Knowledg Containing the First Principles of Geometrie |
By: Robert S. (Robert Shirley) Richardson (1902-1981) | |
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Disturbing Sun |
By: Robert S. Ball (1840-1913) | |
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The Story of the Heavens | |
Time and Tide A Romance of the Moon |
By: Robert Shea (1933-1994) | |
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The Helpful Robots | |
Resurrection | |
Mutineer |
By: Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) | |
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The Status Civilization
Will Barrent awakes without memories just before being deposited on Omega, a planet for criminals where the average life expectancy is 3 years. He’s listed as a murderer and released into the illicit society as a “peon” the lowest class imaginable. A mysterious girl gives him a weapon that starts him on his path to status, a path that requires constant brutality. But it must be borne if our hero is to discover the reason for his imprisonment; A reason that pits him against himself, and involves the sardonically similar but devoutly different creeds of Omega and Earth... | |
Watchbird
3 Robert Sheckley short stories that demonstrate the breathof his fantastic imagination. In Watchbird, the question "can machines solve human problems?" is answered with a resounding YES! But there may be a few unforeseen glitches. Just a few. Warrior Race drops us into an alien race of warriors who fight in a way you will never be able to imagine until you listen. And Beside Still Waters is a gentle story that shows us a man who really wants to get away from it all ... sitting on a rock in the asteroid belt with only a robot for a friend. No girls allowed! A poignant and unsettling story to say the least. | |
Warrior Race | |
Beside Still Waters | |
Forever | |
Cost of Living | |
Death Wish | |
The Hour of Battle | |
The Leech |
By: Robert Silverberg (1935-) | |
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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. | |
Postmark Ganymede | |
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. | |
The Hunted Heroes |
By: Robert Silverberg and Randall Garrett (1935-) | |
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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 |