The Pleiades was Earth’s first starship, and it could travel anywhere instantaneously — but where it ended up could not be predicted… or even if the ship could return to Earth!
Starting out as a harrowing wartime sea adventure, The Land that Time Forgot ultimately develops into a lost world adventure story
Tarzan’s fearsome call summons the most formidable array of jungle fighters ever known… THE BEASTS OF TARZAN.
The present romance, the second in the Mysterious Island triad, was originally issued in Paris with the title of L’Abandonné. Jules Verne’s list of stories already ran then to some twenty volumes—a number which has since grown to almost Dumasien proportions. L’Abandonné, like its two companion tales, ran its course as a serial through the […]
Book Excerpt s royal kinsman, Namedides, and has been away from his native realm for years, but he is of the blood of the old dynasty, and many of the barons would secretly hail the overthrow of Conan, who is a nobody without royal or even noble blood. But the common people are loyal to […]
Being memoirs of the adventures of David Balfour in the year 1751: how he was kidnapped and cast away; his sufferings in a desert isle; his journey in the wild highlands; his acquaintance with Alan Breck Stewart and other notorious highland Jacobites; with all that he suffered at the hands of his uncle, Ebenezer Balfour […]
Intelligence agents have uncovered something beyond belief, but the evidence is incontrovertible: the USA’s greatest adversary is sending its own agents back through time! And someone (or something) is presenting them with technologies and weapons far beyond our most advanced science. We have only one option: create time-transfer technology ourselves, find the opposition’s ancient source…and […]
Book Excerpt “Him fella my brother belong me,” was the answer. “Him fella die too much.” “You sing out, him fella brother belong you die too much,” the white man went on in threatening tones. “I cross too much along you. What name you sing out, eh? You fat-head make um brother belong you die […]
Book Excerpt eeps a bright look-out at night, or, in vulgar English, a sharp fellow who is not to be taken in.Then there was Good, who is not like either of us, being short, dark, stout — very stout — with twinkling black eyes, in one of which an eyeglass is everlastingly fixed. I say stout, but […]
Two young Englishmen, messing about in boats, notice some suspicious German naval activities — and are drawn into a world of intrigue and excitement!