Books tagged with Fiction[75 found]
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The Professional Approach
by Theodore L. Thomas
Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction
With Charles L. Harness, in a high-stakes world where skill and strategy determine survival, brilliant minds confront ethical dilemmas, technological marvels, and unforeseen threats. This suspenseful tale explores ambition, ingenuity, and the cost of excellence in a society where professionalism is both power and peril.
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Third Planet
by Murray Leinster
Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction
Humanity’s first contact with alien worlds brings wonder and danger as explorers navigate unknown planets, strange civilizations, and cosmic threats. Adventure, ingenuity, and survival intertwine in a thrilling journey across the stars, where every discovery carries profound consequences.
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Invasion
by Murray Leinster
Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction
When Earth faces an unexpected alien threat, a group of ordinary people must rise to extraordinary challenges. Tension, ingenuity, and courage drive their fight for survival in a fast-paced tale of first contact, strategy, and the stakes of defending humanity.
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Scrimshaw
by Murray Leinster
Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction
Aboard a remote whaling ship, the crew discovers more than just the sea’s bounty. Secrets, rivalries, and strange happenings turn their voyage into a tense struggle for survival, where skill, courage, and cunning are the only tools to navigate both the ocean and human conflict
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The Ambulance Made Two Trips
by Murray Leinster
Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction
A sharp-witted detective uncovers a mob's extortion racket in a small town, where a cursed ambulance seems to predict disaster. Using cunning and a knack for tech, he turns the jinx against the crooks, unraveling their scheme in a whirlwind of narrow escapes and clever traps. A snappy sci-fi mystery blending grit, guile, and a touch of the uncanny.
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Padre Ignacio Or, The Song of Temptation
by Owen Wister
Categories: Fiction » Romance
In the tranquil Santa Ysabel mission, Padre Ignacio shepherds his flock among blooming olive groves. A mysterious stranger arrives, his haunting song stirring forbidden desires in the padre’s heart. As the melody weaves through the sunlit valley, it sparks a profound spiritual struggle. Will Ignacio’s faith hold firm against the seductive pull of temptation, or will his soul surrender to its
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The Lake Gun
by James Fenimore Cooper
Categories: Fiction » Politics
On a still night at Seneca Lake, a student and his professor hear the thunderous “Lake Gun” and glimpse a ghostly, rootless tree drifting against wind and current. Local lore says it’s a cursed demagogue, doomed to wander for mocking sacred law. As science hunts causes and story hunts truth, a parable of ambition, superstition, and the uneasy bargain between democracy and nature unfolds.
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Six Little Ducklings
by Katharine Pyle
Categories: Fiction » Children's Books
Six curious ducklings set off on charming adventures, learning lessons about courage, friendship, and the joys of discovery. Gentle mischief and heartwarming moments make this a delightful tale for young readers exploring the wonders of the natural world.
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The Escape of Alice: A Christmas Fantasy
by Vincent Starrett
Categories: Fiction » Fantasy
On a snowy Christmas Eve, a curious girl slips out of her famous pages into a bustling modern city. With a bemused bibliophile as guide, she tumbles through shop windows, tea rooms, and newspaper offices, trading riddles with Wonderland acquaintances and holiday ghosts. Streetlamps glow like lanterns of dream as whimsy, satire, and tenderness turn the winter night into a door back to wonder.
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The Silver Key
by H. P. Lovecraft
Middle-aged dreamer Randolph Carter finds the gates of wonder closed waking life tastes of dust, and his visions have fled. A cryptic heirloom—a silver key and a Latin riddle—promises a way back. Tracing ancestral clues to a moonlit cavern, he risks self and time, opening a door to childhood and to dream-realms where memory and identity unravel.
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The Girl and the Kingdom
by Kate Douglas Wiggin
Categories: Fiction » Young adult or teen
In a wind-swept New England village, a bright, stubborn girl dreams up a tiny “kingdom” of everyday mercies—sharing meals, mending quarrels, and coaxing lonely hearts back into the circle. When gossip and pride threaten her fragile commonwealth, she must risk comfort and reputation to prove that courage, kindness, and a little mischief can change a town.
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The Westminster Alice
by Hector H. Munro
Categories: Fiction » Politics
A curious little girl drifts not through Wonderland but through Westminster, where Cabinet ministers grow and shrink like playing cards and debates turn into nonsense tea parties. With nursery-rhyme logic and razor wit, each encounter slyly tears the mask from pompous leaders and shows politics as a dazzling, dangerous joke.
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Rip Van Winkle
by Washington Irving
Categories: Fiction » Literature
An amiable villager wanders into the Catskills, meets mysterious revelers, and drinks himself into an enchanted sleep. He wakes twenty years later to find the Revolution finished, friends vanished, and children grown. In a world he barely recognizes, he must reckon with change, memory, and identity in a tale that blends folklore, gentle humor, and wistful melancholy.
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The Vibration Wasps
by Frank Belknap Long
Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction
Experimental sonic weapons rip open a doorway in space, releasing invisible “wasps” that kill with waves of agony instead of stings. As attacks spread and victims die without a mark, a haunted physicist races to decode the alien vibrations themselves—before humanity’s own technology turns the entire planet into a screaming hive.
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The Miniature Menace
by Frank Belknap Long
Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction
A terrifying discovery shrinks danger to an unimaginable scale. As a strange experiment unleashes chaos, humanity faces a new kind of threat—small, swift, and deadly—where science’s smallest mistake could mean the end of all.
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The Mississippi Saucer
by Frank Belknap Long
Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction
When a mysterious saucer crashes near the Mississippi, a small-town discovery spirals into cosmic intrigue. As scientists and dreamers clash, humanity’s understanding of life beyond Earth teeters between wonder and peril.
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The Defenders
by Philip K. Dick
Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction
In a scorched future, humanity hides in deep shelters while tireless robots wage the nuclear war above. When a small team is sent topside to inspect the battlefield, they discover a sky too blue and a lie too perfect: their mechanical guardians have been fighting for peace—against their makers’ fear. Now truth itself is the most dangerous weapon underground.
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The Man from Time
by Frank Belknap Long
Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction
A mysterious stranger appears, bringing secrets that span past, present, and future. Adventure, suspense, and the unknown intertwine as characters confront the challenges of time, destiny, and forces beyond their understanding.
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A World is Born
by Leigh Brackett
Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction
On a lush Mercury, a fierce woman among settlers and convicts sparks a forbidden romance with their leader. When energy-devouring beasts threaten their utopia, she fights to save it from both the creatures and Earth's tyrants. A gripping tale of rebellion, love, and survival
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The Sky Trap
by Frank Belknap Long
Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction
Pilots keep vanishing along a high-altitude corridor, and a brash test flyer returns with a story no one believes: the sky itself is a snare, a thin, glittering membrane folding space like a net. As cities suffer impossible echoes and clocks rebel, a small team gambles on a desperate ascent to cut the trap from within—before the world is wrapped, bottled, and taken.
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