Dark Moon is a science fiction novel by American author Charles W. Diffin. Mysterious, dark, out of the unknown deep comes a new satellite to lure three courageous Earthlings on to strange adventures. Dark Moon is part of the Harkness-Bullard sequence, Dark Moon (1931), Brood of the Dark Moon (1931) and The Finding of Haldgren (1932) involving adventures on an errant new planet full of monsters which has been captured as a new moon orbiting Earth. Dark Moon was first published in Astounding Stories in May 1931. Total Running Time (TRT): 3 hours, 25 min. Reading by Richard Kilmer. Charles W. Diffin (1884-1966) was a US engineer, airplane salesman and science fiction writer. He was one of the better writers whom Harry Bates encouraged to write for the new Astounding Stories.

Dark Moon

The Night Horseman is a classic western action novel by American author Max Brand. It is the second novel about Dan Barry, also known as "Whistlin' Dan". A man, a dog, and a horse. The call of the wild geese. A very smart doctor from the east who finds there is a lot to learn from these desert people. A woman loved by three men. A gunslinger who has a debt to settle. Max Brand brings them all together in another one of his over three hundred exciting western tales. Brand is not your typical western writer. A great horse story coupled with the typical excitement one expects from Max Brand makes this a great book. This is the second book about Whistlin’ Dan (Dan Berry). Dan is the total nature man, with the strength and cunning of a panther. He and his horse and wolf-dog communicate with one another marvelously, but he sure doesn't know how to relate to people well… The first novel about Whistlin’ Dan is The Untamed (1919.The Night Horseman (1920) is followed by The Seventh Man (1921) and Dan Barry’s Daughter (1923). Audiobook read by Richard Kilmer, running time 9 hours, 41 min. Unabridged full version. Also available as E-book (ePUB), 91,400 words, average reading time 7 hours, 25 min. Max Brand was the pen name for Frederick Schiller Faust (1892-1944) who was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns.

Whistlin' Dan

The Night Horseman

The Valley of the Moon is a novel by American writer Jack London (as well as the mythic and romantic name for the wine-growing Sonoma Valley of California). The Valley of the Moon is a story of a working-class couple, Billy and Saxon Roberts, struggling laborers in Oakland at the Turn-of-the-Century, who left the city life behind and searched Central and Northern California for a suitable farmland to own. The book is notable for the scenes in which the proletarian hero enjoys fellowship with the artists' colony in Carmel, and he settles in the Valley of the Moon. The valley where it is set, is located north of the San Francisco Bay Area in Sonoma County, California, where Jack London was a resident; he built his ranch in Glen Ellen. The novel has been described as "a road novel fifty years before Kerouac" and as reflecting London's loss of hope in socialism and growing interest in scientific farming. The Valley of the Moon was first published in 1913. AUDIO: Reading by Richard Kilmer, running time: 18 hours, 59 min. E-book: ePUB, 167,700 words, reading time approximately 14 hours. Unabridged full version. Jack London (1876-1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone. London's most famous novels are The Call of the Wild, White Fang, The Sea-Wolf, The Iron Heel, and Martin Eden.

The Valley of the Moon

Alcatraz is a classic western story of a wild horse who many said could not be caught or broken, and the man who set out to prove them wrong. Alcatraz is a horse who had been bred to race but escapes his masters home and gets used to freedom. His escape comes at a terrible price though, as he becomes known as a murderous beast and Marianne, the new ranch owner, wants him killed. But Alcatraz is smart, tough and seems to be a magical horse, able to mystify his hunters that are unable to catch him. Marianne has to call in the only man that can catch him - Red Jim Perris… Alcatraz was first published in 1922. Audiobook read by Richard Kilmer, running time 7 hours and 43 min. Unabridged full version. Also available as E-Book: ePUB, 69,200 words, average reading time 5 hours, 45 min. Max Brand was the pen name for Frederick Schiller Faust (1892-1944) who was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns.

Alcatraz

Phantoms of Reality is a science fiction novella by american author Ray Cummings. ”Red Sensua's knife came up dripping—and the two adventurers knew that chaos and bloody revolution had been unleashed in that shadowy kingdom of the fourth dimension.” Phantoms of reality was first published in Astounding Stories of Super-Science in January, 1930. Total Running Time (TRT): 2 hours, 3 min. Reading by Richard Kilmer. Ray Cummings (1887-1957) was an American author of science fiction, rated one of the "founding fathers of the science fiction pulp genre". Having worked for Thomas Alva Edison, Ray Cummings was inspired by science’s possibilities and began to write science fiction. His most highly regarded work was the novel The Girl in the Golden Atom published in 1922. His career resulted in some 750 novels and short stories, using also the pen names Ray King, Gabrielle Cummings, and Gabriel Wilson.

Phantoms of Reality

The Skylark of Space is a science fiction novel and space opera by American author E. E. ”Doc” Smith and Lee Hawkins Garby, first published in 1928. The Skylark of Space is one of the earliest novels of interstellar travel and is considered a classic of pulp science fiction. Originally serialized in 1928 in the magazine Amazing Stories it is often categorized as the first literary space opera, complete with protagonists perfect in mind, body, and spirit, who fight against villains of absolute evil. The novel begins with the accidental discovery, in a Government laboratory in Washington D. C., of a form of clean nuclear power. Our hero, Dr. Richard Seaton, uses this power to build first a flying belt and then an interstellar spaceship. When his government coworkers do not believe him, Seaton acquires rights to his discovery from the government and commercializes it with the aid of his friend, millionaire inventor Martin Crane. A former colleague, Dr. Marc DuQuesne, joins with the unscrupulous World Steel Corporation to try to steal Seaton's invention. The resulting conflict escalates, as Seaton and Duquesne develop greater and greater technical capabilities and enlist more and more powerful alien races as allies.. The Skylark of Space is considered to be one of the earliest novels of interstellar travel and the first example of space opera. The novel was followed by several sequels, beginning with Skylark Three. Frederik Pohl said of The Skylark of Space, "With the exception of the works of H. G. Wells, possibly those of Jules Verne—and almost no other writer—it has inspired more imitators and done more to change the nature of all the science fiction written after it than almost any other single work." Though the original idea for the novel was Smith's, he co-wrote the first part of the novel with Lee Hawkins Garby, the wife of his college classmate and later neighbor Carl Garby. This is the serialized version from Amazing Stories August, September and October 1928. Note that there were significant changes between the 1928 serialized magazine publication and the 1946 hardcover, and between the early hardcovers and the late 1950s and later paperback editions. Total Running Time (TRT): 9 hours, 19 min. Reading by Richard Kilmer. Edward Elmer Smith (also E. E. Smith or E. E. "Doc" Smith; 1890-1965) was an American food engineer (specializing in doughnut and pastry mixes) and an early science-fiction author, best known for the Lensman and Skylark series. Smith's novels are generally considered to be classic space operas, and he is sometimes called the first of the three "novas" of 20th-century science fiction (with Stanley G. Weinbaum and Robert A. Heinlein as the second and third novas). Lee Hawkins Garby (1892 - 1953) was acknowledged in some circles as an early female writer of science fiction. She made no known contributions to the field beyond her involvement with The Skylark of Space, the first science fiction story in which humans left the solar system, of which she was credited as co-author in the first edition.

The Skylark of Space

The Secret of the Ninth Planet is a science-fiction novel written by Donald A. Wollheim and first published in 1959. Wollheim takes his heroes on a grand tour of the solar system as that team struggles to prevent an alien force from blowing up the sun. On the day that the theft of the solar system's light begins. Burl Denning is with an archaeological expedition in the Andes, only a few miles from the source of the "disturbance." Within hours the United States Air Force has ordered the expedition to investigate the strange phenomenon that is causing a dimness and a drop in temperature throughout the world. This is the start of a fantastic adventure that eventually takes Burl, a high-school senior, on the first circumnavigation of the solar system. On planet after planet, he and the crew of the Magellan, a gleaming, powerful, and virtually untested spaceship, discover the weird trappings of a brilliantly-designed Sun-tap station. Each planetfall brings unexpected hazards, as the ship draws closer and closer to solving the mystery of the theft. The author has based his story on science fact. Researchers are actually at work on the possibilities of just such a circumnavigation, and on another surprising theory brought out in this book. Total Running Time (TRT): 5 hours, 22 min. Donald A. Wollheim (1914 -1990) was an American science fiction editor, publisher, writer, and fan. A founding member of the Futurians, he was a leading influence on science fiction development and fandom in the 20th century United States.

The Secret of the Ninth Planet

The Opal Serpent is a detective novel by American author Fergus Hume. An old pawnbroker is found strangled with his lips pinned together with an opal serpent broach. He has a beautiful daughter who is apparently the heir of his large estate. But another claimant has made herself known as the actual daughter of the pawnbroker. Follow detective Hurd as he unravels the convoluted mystery of the old man’s death and attempts to determine who is the rightful heir. The Opal Serpent was first released in 1905. Audiobook read by Richard Kilmer, running time 9 hours, 42 min. Unabridged full version. Also available as E-Book: ePUB, 89,600 words, average reading time 7 hours, 30 min. Fergusson Wright Hume, known as Fergus Hume (1859–1932) was a prolific English novelist. His first novel was the self-published novel The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1886), which became a great success. It eventually became the best selling mystery novel of the Victorian era.

The Opal Serpent

A Chain of Evidence is a detective story by American author Carolyn Wells. This is the third mystery story involving the Sherlock Holmes like detective Fleming Stone who is brought in to solve another mystery. Here we have another locked room mystery; this time its an apartment building with but one exit, the front door. The door is chained at 10 p.m., all the windows latched and the only suspects, a young woman and her female servant left in the apartment with the woman's uncle. The next morning, the man is found dead in his bed but its not a natural death, there's a pin stuck in his neck. ”Mr. Stone," I began, "if three persons spent the night in an apartment so securely locked on the inside that there was no possible means of ingress, and if in the morning it was found that one of those three persons had been murdered at midnight, would you say that the guilt must rest upon either one or both of the other two persons?” The solution - who knows? Listen and enjoy. A Chain of Evidence was first published in 1907. Audiobook read by Richard Kilmer, running time 7 hours, 17 min. Unabridged full version. Also available as E-Book: ePUB, 65,300 words, average reading time 5 hours, 25 min. Carolyn Wells (1862–1942) was an American author and poet. Carolyn Wells wrote a total of more than 170 books. During the first ten years of her career, she concentrated on poetry, humor, and children's books. However, Carolyn Wells began reading mystery stories written by Anna Katherine Green, and from then on she devoted her writings to puzzling mysteries in a similar vein.

A Chain of Evidence

Riders of the Silences is a classic western action novel by American writer Max Brand. Wilderness life. Chaste romance. Love triangles. A masquerade ball. Revenge. Shooting. Horses. Gambling. Thievery. No one delves into psychological side of his characters like Max Brand. The Great West, prior to the century's turn, abounded in legend. Stories were told of fabled gunmen whose bullets always magically found their mark, of mighty stallions whose tireless gallop rivaled the speed of the wind, of glorious women whose beauty stunned mind and heart. But nowhere in the vast spread of the mountain-desert country was there a greater legend told than the story of Red Pierre and the phantom gunfighter McGurk. These two men of the wilderness, so unalike, of widely-differing backgrounds, had in common a single trait: each was unbeatable. Fate brought them clashing together, thunder to thunder, lightning to lightning. They were destined to meet at the crossroads of a long, long trail ... a trail which began in the northern wastes of Canada and led, finally, to a deadly confrontation in the mountains of the Far West. Riders of the Silences was first published in 1920. Audiobook read by Richard Kilmer, running time 7 hours and 12 min. Also available as E-Book, ePUB, 70,000 words, average reading time 5 hours, 50 min. Unabridged full version. Max Brand was the pen name for Frederick Schiller Faust (1892-1944) who was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns.

Riders of the Silences

The Man Who Fell Through the Earth is a detective story by American author Carolyn Wells. A lawyer is leaving his office on the top floor of an office building on Madison Avenue. He sees the shadows of two men fighting through the clouded glass of an office door followed by a shot from the office across the hall. He goes to investigate. He finds no sign of either victim or assailant despite the fact that no one could have passed him in the hallway without being seen. A murder has been committed, that of the banker. Who is the murderer? A business associate, the banker’s beautiful ward, or a mysterious woman who had been in the office earlier? And what part, if any, was played by the amnesia victim pulled from the river; a man who insists that his earliest memory is of falling through a hole in the earth? Brice never left the building. How could those arguing get by him? Brice has to call his friend, the brilliant detective Pennington Wise, to help him solve the mystery. The Man Who Fell Through the Earthwas first published in 1919. Audiobook read by Richard Kilmer, running time 6 hours, 40 min. Unabridged full version. Also available as E-Book: ePUB, 64,700 words, average reading time 5 hours, 25 min. Carolyn Wells (1862–1942) was an American author and poet. Carolyn Wells wrote a total of more than 170 books. During the first ten years of her career, she concentrated on poetry, humor, and children's books. However, Carolyn Wells began reading mystery stories written by Anna Katherine Green, and from then on she devoted her writings to puzzling mysteries in a similar vein.

The Man Who Fell Through the Earth

The Gold Bag is a detective story by American author Carolyn Wells. This is the second mystery story involving the Sherlock Holmes like detective Fleming Stone who is brought in to solve another mystery. This case involves a wealthy entrepreneur who is found murdered in the study of his mansion. The mansion is equipped with suspicious servants, the millionaire has a beautiful niece. And what is the agenda of the private secretary and what does the victims will state? Circumstantial evidence in the shape of a gold mesh bag points to a woman as the criminal, and the only possible one is the niece with whom the detective promptly falls in love, though she is already engaged to her uncle's secretary, an alliance which the dead man insisted must be discontinued, otherwise he would disinherit the girl. Fleming Stone is brought in to help local Detective Herbert Burroughs to solve the mystery that hinges on a gold bag and a pair of shoes. The Gold Bag was first published in 1911. Audiobook read by Richard Kilmer, running time 6 hours, 42 min. Unabridged full version. Also available as E-Book: ePUB, 66,600 words, average reading time 5 hours, 35 min. Carolyn Wells (1862–1942) was an American author and poet. Carolyn Wells wrote a total of more than 170 books. During the first ten years of her career, she concentrated on poetry, humor, and children's books. However, Carolyn Wells began reading mystery stories written by Anna Katherine Green, and from then on she devoted her writings to puzzling mysteries in a similar vein.

The Gold Bag

Gunman's Reckoning is a classic western action novel by American authour Max Brand. Gunman’s Reckoning is a tale of a tough guy who gets involved with an evil man with an angel daughter for whom the tough guy falls. It is the story of a drifter that is given a job of righting a wrong that was done andto recover hers and her father's gold mine claims In the midst of doing this, he realizes that what he was called on to do was not the entire truth. But, the drifter puts this aside because in taking this job, he has stumbled upon the answer to a quest that he has been on in quite a while. "It was time then for action, and Lefty Joe prepared for the descent into the home of the enemy. Let it not be thought that he approached this moment with a fallen heart, and with a cringing, snaky feeling as a man might be expected to feel when he approached to murder a sleeping foeman. For that was not Lefty's emotion at all. Rather he was overcome by a tremendous happiness. He could have sung with joy at the thought that he was about to rid himself of this pest." Gunman’s Reckoning is a great example of the works of Max Brand. It has a bit of everything….love; lies, action and humor combine to make a very readable tale. It is a must read for all those enjoying the western genre. Gunman's Reckoning was first published in 1921. Audiobook read by Richard Kilmer, running time 8 hours and 41 min. Also available as E-Book, ePUB, 80,600 words, average reading time 6 hours, 45 min. Unabridged full version. Max Brand was the pen name for Frederick Schiller Faust (1892-1944) who was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns.

Gunman's Reckoning

Operation Interstellar is a science fiction novel by George O. Smith first published in 1950. Haedaecker’s Theory claims that real-time communications across space is impossible. Paul Grayson believes that Z-wave technology will make real time communication possible. Paul sets out to prove his theory but there are those who don’t want him to succeed. Follow Paul’s adventures while he tries to prove his theory correct in the face of stiff opposition from those who do not want him to succeed. Total Running Time (TRT): 5 hours, 47 min. Reading by Richard Kilmer. George Oliver Smith (1911-1981) (also known by the pseudonym Wesley Long) was an American science fiction author. He is not to be confused with George H. Smith, another American science fiction author. Smith wrote mainly about outer space, with such works as Operation Interstellar (1950), Lost in Space (1959), and Troubled Star (1957). Smith continued regularly publishing science fiction novels and stories until 1960. He was given the First Fandom Hall of Fame award in 1980.

Operation Interstellar

Rebel Spurs is a western historic novel by American author Andre Norton. In 1866, only men uprooted by war had reason to ride into Tubacca, Arizona, a nondescript town as shattered and anonymous as the veterans drifting through it. So when Drew Rennie, newly discharged from Forrest’s Confederate scouts, arrived leading everything he owned behind him—his thoroughbred stud Shiloh, a mare about to foal, and a mule—he knew his business would not be questioned. To anyone in Tubacca there could be only one extraordinary thing about Drew, and that he could not reveal: his name, Rennie. Drew had come west from Kentucky to find a father he had thought dead until the year before. Kinship with a man like Hunt Rennie, however—the legendary Don Cazar, owner of a matchless range and prize stallions—was not a claim to be made quickly or lightly. Posing as Drew Kirby the young veteran contrived to get himself and his friend Anse hired as corral hands at Rennie’s Range, but he was hardly prepared for the suspicion and danger which stood between him and his father. As hotheaded as his father, Drew was ready to move on to California—until the day all proof of his Rennie name was stolen from him, and his unwarranted arrest for horse-thieving brought on the accusations of the one man whose trust he needed. Andre Norton’s Ride Proud, Rebel! dramatically portrayed the last year of the Confederacy, when brave men like Drew Rennie met defeat with honor. In this sequel, Drew’s struggle to establish his identity and begin life anew in a raw, unsettled land reflects the courage of thousands of rootless men set adrift by the Civil War. Rebel Spurs was first published in 1962, and is a sequel to Ride Proud, Rebel! (1961). Total Running Time (TRT): 6 hours, 44 min. Reading by Richard Kilmer. Andre Alice Norton (1912-2005) was an American writer of science fiction and fantasy with some works of historical fiction and contemporary fiction. She wrote primarily under the pen name Andre Norton, but also under Andrew North and Allen Weston. She was the first woman to be Gandalf Grand Master of Fantasy, first to be SFWA Grand Master, and first inducted by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. In 2005, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, announced the creation of the Andre Norton Award, to be given each year for an outstanding work of fantasy or science fiction for the young adult literature market.

Rebel Spurs

Brood of the Dark Moon is a science fiction novel by American author Charles W. Diffin. Once more Chet, Walt and Diane are united in a wild ride to the Dark Moon—but this time they go as prisoners of their deadly enemy Schwartzmann. Brood of the Dark Moon is part of the Harkness-Bullard sequence, Dark Moon (1931), Brood of the Dark Moon (1931) and The Finding of Haldgren (1932) involving adventures on an errant new planet full of monsters which has been captured as a new moon orbiting Earth. Brood of the Dark Moon was first published in Astounding Stories August to November 1931. Total Running Time (TRT): 6 hours, 48 min. Reading by Richard Kilmer. Charles W. Diffin (1884-1966) was a US engineer, airplane salesman and science fiction writer. He was one of the better writers whom Harry Bates encouraged to write for the new Astounding Stories.

Brood of the Dark Moon

Jennie Gerhardt is a novel by American author Theodore Dreiser. This is a story of an innocent, caring, beautiful young girl from an extremely poor family who throughout her life is drawn into affairs with two different men from a much higher social class. How members of her family, the family of one of the wealthy men, and society in general react to her situation is the basis of this story. “Jennie Gerhardt” is the life story of a woman who craved affection. Unselfish, sweet, trusting, she is the daughter of poor working people in a Western city. She attracts the attention of one who sits in the seat of the mighty and he plans education and marriage with this girl hungry for love and grateful for recognition. But there comes a tragedy which leaves Jennie to face the world alone, with a dominant instinct for sympathy and love, something of which she accepts at last. Mr. Dreiser’s novel shows a woman’s heart in the midst of a broad picture of modern life which is full of contrast and of vivid characters – the life of rich and poor, the factory and the magnate, the social butterfly and the drudge, the stern fanatic and the epicurean. It is not only Jennie who lives with us, but also her brooding father and contrasting types of men and women following out a mysterious destiny. It is a book which does not preach a moral, but makes one felt – a moral dealing with questions actively in our minds to-day. It is a book of humanity – of real men and women. Theodore Dreiser (1871 - 1945) was an American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school. His novels often featured main characters who succeeded at their objectives despite a lack of a firm moral code, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. Jennie Gerhardt was first published in 1911. Audiobook read by Richard Kilmer, running time 14 hours, 36 min. Unabridged full version.

Jennie Gerhardt

The Captain of the Pole Star, and Other Tales is a collection of early Sir Arthur Conan Doyle short stories. This collection includes stories of mystery, comedy, shipwrecks and fantasy. Stories included are: - The Captain of the “Pole Star” - J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement - The Great Keinplatz Experiment - The Man From Archangel - That Little Square Box - John Huxford's Hiatus - Cyprian Overbeck Wells--A Literary Mosaic - John Barrington Cowles - Elias B. Hopkins, Parson of Jackman's Gulch - The Ring of Thoth The Captain of the Pole Star and Other Tales was first published in 1890. Audiobook read by Richard Kilmer, running time 9 hours, 21 min. Unabridged full version. Also available as E-Book: ePUB, 84,600 words, average reading time 7 hours. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a Scottish physician and writer, most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, generally considered a milestone in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger. He was a prolific writer whose other works include science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction and historical novels.

The Captain of the Pole Star, and Other Tales

Burning Daylight is a novel by Jack London, published in 1910, which was one of the best-selling books of that year and it was London's best-selling book in his lifetime. The novel takes place in the Yukon Territory in 1893. The main character, nicknamed "Burning Daylight" was the most successful entrepreneur of the Alaskan Gold Rush. The story of the main character was partially based upon the life of Oakland entrepreneur "Borax" Smith. The novel was subsequently filmed as a First National movie starring Milton Sills with Doris Kenyon. The novel was adapted for American films in 1914, 1920, 1928, and 2010. Jack London (1876-1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone. London's most famous novels are The Call of the Wild, White Fang, The Sea-Wolf, The Iron Heel, and Martin Eden.

Burning Daylight

The Ultimate Weapon is a science fiction novel by John W Campbell Jr., first published in 1936. The novel was originally published as a serial in Amazing Stories under the title of Uncertainty. The star Mira was unpredictably variable. Sometimes it was blazing, brilliant and hot. Other times it was oddly dim, cool, shedding little warmth on its many planets. Gresth Gkae, leader of the Mirans, was seeking a better star, one to which his "people" could migrate. That star had to be steady, reliable, with a good planetary system. And in his astronomical searching, he found Sol. With hundreds of ships, each larger than whole Terrestrial spaceports, and traveling faster than the speed of light, the Mirans set out to move in to Solar regions and take over. And on Earth there was nothing which would be capable of beating off this incredible armada—until Buck Kendall stumbled upon THE ULTIMATE WEAPON. Total Running Time (TRT): 3 hours, 38 min. Reading by Richard Kilmer. John W Campbell Jr., (1910-1971) was an American science fiction writer and editor. As editor of Astounding Science Fiction (later called Analog Science Fiction and Fact) from late 1937 until his death, he is generally credited with shaping the so-called Golden Age of Science Fiction.

The Ultimate Weapon

The Forgotten Planet is a science fiction novel by Murray Leinster first published in 1954. The "forgotten" planet had been seeded for life, first with microbes and later with plants and insects. A third expedition, intended to complete the seeding with animals, never occurred. Over the millennia the insects and plants grew to gigantic sizes. The action of the novel describes the fight for survival by descendants of a crashed spaceship as they battle wolf-sized ants, flies the size of chickens, and gigantic flying wasps. NATURE'S MISLEAD MADHOUSE! Beneath dense gray clouds through which no sun shone lay a forgotten planet. It was a nightmare world of grotesque and terrifying animal-plant life. Gigantic beetles, spiders, bugs and ants filled the putrid, musty earth—ready to kill and devour anything in sight. There were men amidst this horror—men who cringed and ran from the ravening monsters and huddled in the mushroom forests at night. Burl was one of these creatures. But one day inspiration hit Burl. He would find a weapon—he would fight back. And with this idea the first step was taken in man's most desperate flight for freedom in this most horrible of all worlds. But it was only a first step. The Forgotten Planet is based upon Mad Planet and Red Dust (Argosy 1920 and 1921), and Nightmare Planet (Science Fiction Plus, 1953). Total Running Time (TRT): 7 hours, 3 min. Reading by Richard Kilmer. Murray Leinster (1896-1975) was a pen name of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, an award-winning American writer of science fiction and alternate history. He wrote and published over 1,500 short stories and articles, 14 movie scripts, and hundreds of radio scripts and television plays.

The Forgotten Planet

Jetta of the Lowlands is a science fiction novel by American author Ray Cummings. In the year 2020 the oceans have drained from the surface of the earth, leaving the one-time sea floor bared to sun and wind. It is deadly hot, down in the depth of the great Lowland areas, and it is only adventurers and outcasts of human kind who can endure life in what few habital places left. Fantastic and sinister are the Lowlands into which Philip Grant descends on his dangerous assignment. Jetta of the Lowlands was first published in Astounding Stories of Super-Science in September, October and November, 1930. Total Running Time (TRT): 4 hours, 7 min. Reading by Richard Kilmer. Ray Cummings (1887-1957) was an American author of science fiction, rated one of the "founding fathers of the science fiction pulp genre". Having worked for Thomas Alva Edison, Ray Cummings was inspired by science’s possibilities and began to write science fiction. His most highly regarded work was the novel The Girl in the Golden Atom published in 1922. His career resulted in some 750 novels and short stories, using also the pen names Ray King, Gabrielle Cummings, and Gabriel Wilson.

Jetta of the Lowlands

Supermind is a science fiction novel by Randal Garrett and Laurence M. Janifer under the pen-name of ”Mark Phillips”, first published under the title Occasion for Disaster in 1960/61. This third book after BrainTwister and The Impossibles concludes the story around FBI agent Ken Malone. Kenneth Malone lives in a world where psionic powers such as telepathy and teleportation exist. He must cope with them as well as an FBI Director who leaves Malone continually confused about what situation he is being asked to handle and what he is expected to do about it. Someone or something is causing confusion in the U.S. Government, Unions, The Mafia, and other sectors of society and Malone has been given the job of finding the source of the confusion. A good story composed of science fiction and slap stick comedy with a bit of romance thrown into the mix. Supermind is the third part of their ”Psi-Power series” and was first published as Occasion for Disaster in Analog, November/December 1960 and January/February 1961.The first story they wrote in the series was Brain Twister (first published as That Sweet Little Old Lady, published in the Sept./October 1959 edition of Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact. Subsequent stories include The Impossibles (first published as Out Like a Light in Analog, April/May/June 1960). This series is one of the highlights of 1960s SF, and still highly recommended. Total Running Time (TRT): 7 hours, 56 min. Reading by Richard Kilmer. Randall Garrett (1927-1987) was an American science fiction and fantasy author. He was a prolific contributor to Astounding and other science fiction magazines of the 1950s and 1960s. He instructed Robert Silverberg in the techniques of selling large quantities of action-adventure science fiction, and collaborated with him on two novels about Earth bringing civilization to an alien planet. Laurence M. Janifer (1933-2002) was an American science fiction author, with a career spanning over 50 years. Though his first published work was a short story in Cosmos magazine in 1953, his career as a writer can be said to have started in 1959 when he began writing for Astounding and Galaxy Science Fiction. He co-wrote the first novel in the "Psi-Power" series: Brain Twister, written with Randall Garrett under the joint pseudonym Mark Phillips.

Supermind

This morning I saw a star twinkling just over the fore-yard, the first since the beginning of May. There is considerable discontent among the crew, many of whom are anxious to get back home to be in time for the herring season, when labour always commands a high price upon the Scotch coast. As yet their displeasure is only signified by sullen countenances and black looks, but I heard from the second mate this afternoon that they contemplated sending a deputation to the Captain to explain their grievance. I much doubt how he will receive it, as he is a man of fierce temper, and very sensitive about anything approaching to an infringement of his rights. I shall venture after dinner to say a few words to him upon the subject. I have always found that he will tolerate from me what he would resent from any other member of the crew. Amsterdam Island, at the north-west corner of Spitzbergen, is visible upon our starboard quarter-a rugged line of volcanic rocks, intersected by white seams, which represent glaciers. It is curious to think that at the present moment there is probably no human being nearer to us than the Danish settlements in the south of Greenland-a good nine hundred miles as the crow flies. A captain takes a great responsibility upon himself when he risks his vessel under such circumstances. No whaler has ever remained in these latitudes till so advanced a period of the year.9 P.M, -I have spoken to Captain Craigie, and though the result has been hardly satisfactory, I am bound to say that he listened to what I had to say very quietly and even deferentially. When I had finished he put on that air of iron determination which I have frequently observed upon his face, and paced rapidly backwards and forwards across the narrow cabin for some minutes.

The Captain of the Polestar, and other tales

A Story of the Days To Come is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells that was first published in the June to October 1897 issues of The Pall Mall Magazine. Set in London in the early 22nd century, this novella depicts the troubles of two lovers, Denton and Elizabeth. Elizabeth is a well-to-do woman with many connections, but Denton is only a middle-class worker. Elizabeth's father strongly disapproves of the match, and orders a hypnotist to hypnotize his daughter into thinking that she is in love with another. When the scheme is found out, Denton and Elizabeth elope, leading to a string of events that take them from the top of London society to horrifying depths of "underneath" London. Set in a dystopian future London of the 22nd century the novella explores the implications of excessive urbanization, class warfare, and advances in the technology of medicine, communication, transportation, and agriculture. Like When the Sleeper Wakes, published in the same year, the stories extrapolate the trends Wells observed in nineteenth-century Victorian London two hundred years into the future. The London of the early 22nd century is over 30 million people in population, with the lower classes living in subterranean dwellings, and the middle and upper classes living in skyscrapers and largely communal accommodations. Moving walkways interconnect the city, with fast air-travel and superhighways available between cities. The countryside is largely abandoned. The novella was later included in an 1899 collection of Wells's short stories, Tales of Space and Time. Total Running Time (TRT): 3 hours, 46 min. Herbert George "H. G." Wells (1866-1946) was an English writer, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, even writing textbooks and rules for war games. Wells is one person sometimes called "The Father of Science Fiction", as are Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback. His most notable science fiction works include The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, The Invisible Man and The Island of Doctor Moreau.

A Story of the Days To Come

Murder Madness is a science fiction novel by Murray Leinster first published in 1930. Murder Madness! Seven Secret Service men had completely disappeared. Another had been found a screaming, homicidal maniac, whose fingers writhed like snakes. So Bell, of the secret "Trade," plunges into South America after The Master--the mighty, unknown octopus of power whose diabolical poison threatens a continent! Murder Madness was first published in Astounding Stories Stories of Super-Science in May, June, July and August 1930. It was first published in book form in1931 by Brewer and Warren. Total Running Time (TRT): 7 hours, 32 min. Murray Leinster (1896-1975) was a pen name of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, an award-winning American writer of science fiction and alternate history. He wrote and published over 1,500 short stories and articles, 14 movie scripts, and hundreds of radio scripts and television plays.

Murder Madness

Two Thousand Miles Below is a science fiction novel by American author Charles W. Diffin. Rawson learns to his cost that the life-spark of a fabled race glows in the black heart of a dead, Western volcano. The main character is Dean Rawson, who plans on discovering a way of mining power from a dead volcano, but ends up discovering more than he bargained for. Two Thousand Miles Below was originally produced in four parts in Astounding Stories in June, September, November 1932 and January 1933. Total Running Time (TRT): 6 hours, 3 min. Reading by Richard Kilmer. Charles W. Diffin (1884-1966) was a US engineer, airplane salesman and science fiction writer. He was one of the better writers whom Harry Bates encouraged to write for the new Astounding Stories.

Two Thousand Miles Below

The Planet Strappers is a science fiction novel by Raymond Z. Gallun first published in 1961. “Out There – the world’s first space colony – adventures and dangers beyond human ken!” A Million Miles Beyond the Moon... ... Nelson and Ramos sped on toward Mars in their tiny plastic-bubble spacecraft. They were on the alert—it didn't pay to take anything for granted in the Big Vacuum.... The way between the worlds was mostly empty space—except for the outlaws of the void who drifted, patiently and vengefully waiting for a victim, then struck! Nelsen and Ramos tensed—blips on the radar screen! Maybe meteors... More blips—and fist-sized chunks of rock flicked through their fragile vehicles. Air puffed out ... and Nelson and Ramos were fighting for their lives... ... A Million Miles Beyond the Moon! The Planet Strappers started out as The Bunch, a group of student-astronauts in the back room of a store in Jarviston, Minnesota. They wanted off Earth, and they begged, borrowed and built what they needed to make it. They got what they wanted--a start on the road to the stars--but no one brought up on Earth could have imagined what was waiting for them Out There! This is a classic SF story, well told with some pretty good characters. Even the 1961 projection of space science holds up with only the slightest amount of squinting. Total Running Time (TRT): 7 hours, 21 min. Reading by Richard Kilmer. Raymond Zinke Gallun (1911-1994) was an American science fiction writer and one of the early sci-fi pulp writers who popularized the genre. His first book, People Minus X, was published in 1957, followed by The Planet Strappers in 1961. Gallun was honored with the I-CON Lifetime Achievement Award in 1985 at I-CON IV; the award was later renamed The Raymond Z. Gallun Award. His pen names includes Dow Elstar, E.V. Raymond and William Callahan.

The Planet Strappers

The Finding of Haldgren is a science fiction novel by American author Charles W. Diffin. Chet Ballard answers the pinpoint of light that from the craggy desolation of the moon stabs out man's old call for help. A signal is discovered on the Moon, leading to adventur, suspense, thrills, and an adventurous ride through space. The Finding of Haldgren is part of the Harkness-Bullard sequence, Dark Moon (1931), Brood of the Dark Moon (1931) and The Finding of Haldgren (1932) involving adventures on an errant new planet full of monsters which has been captured as a new moon orbiting Earth. The Finding of Haldgren was first published in Astounding Stories, April 1932. Total Running Time (TRT): 3 hours, 38 min. Reading by Richard Kilmer. Charles W. Diffin (1884-1966) was a US engineer, airplane salesman and science fiction writer. He was one of the better writers whom Harry Bates encouraged to write for the new Astounding Stories.

The Finding of Haldgren

First on the Moon is a science fiction novel by American author Jeff Sutton. It was a top secret, and yet the enemy knew. They knew that the Americans were about to send a manned rocket to the moon and thereby claim it for Old Glory. They knew also that whoever held the moon would command the Earth ... and they were determined to stop us at all costs! When assassination and sabotage failed to stop the take-off, they'd have to use even more drastic measures. There might be an H-bomb loaded rocket missile, there could be a Red spaceship with a suicide crew, and there was always the possibility of their placing a spy aboard the U.S. rocket. FIRST ON THE MOON is a thrilling adventure of the very near future. Written with up-to-the-minute accuracy by a professional aviation research engineer, it is a top-notch novel that is science-fiction only by the thinnest margin! The four men had been scrutinized, watched, investigated, and intensively trained for more than a year. They were the best men to be found for that first, all-important flight to the Moon--the pioneer manned rocket that would give either the East or the West control over the Earth. Yet when the race started, Adam Crag found that he had a saboteur among his crew ... a traitor! Such a man could give the Reds possession of Luna, and thereby dominate the world it circled. Any one of the other three could be the hidden enemy, and if he didn't discover the agent soon--even while they were roaring on rocket jets through outer space--then Adam Crag, his expedition, and his country would be destroyed! First on the Moon was first published in 1958. Total Running Time (TRT): 6 hours, 58 min. Reading by Richard Kilmer. Jefferson Howard Sutton (1913-1979) was an American author who published 23 novels in more than 10 languagees, including a number of science fiction, war, political, and juvenile books.

First on the Moon

Ride Proud, Rebel! is a western historic novel by American author Andre Norton. A dramatic portrayal of the last year of the Confederacy, when brave men met defeat with honor. Drew Rennie, served as a cavalry scout in Confederate general John Hunt Morgan's command. He had left home in 1862 after a final break with his harsh grandfather, who despised him since his birth because of his mother's runaway marriage to a Texan. During the final year of conflict Drew has the additional responsibility of looking out for his headstrong fifteen-year-old cousin Boyd, who has run away from home to join Morgan's command and has a lot to learn in the school of hard knocks the army provides. The story follows the two of them and a new friend, Anson Kirby, through campaigns in Kentucky, Tennessee and later on deeper into the South, first with Morgan and later under Forrest. Ride Proud, Rebel! was first published in 1961, and is a prequel to Rebel Spurs (1962). Total Running Time (TRT): 7 hours, 35 min. Reading by Richard Kilmer. Andre Alice Norton (1912-2005) was an American writer of science fiction and fantasy with some works of historical fiction and contemporary fiction. She wrote primarily under the pen name Andre Norton, but also under Andrew North and Allen Weston. She was the first woman to be Gandalf Grand Master of Fantasy, first to be SFWA Grand Master, and first inducted by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. In 2005, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, announced the creation of the Andre Norton Award, to be given each year for an outstanding work of fantasy or science fiction for the young adult literature market.

Ride Proud, Rebel!

The Moon Master is a science fiction novel by American author Charles W. Diffin. Through infinite deeps of space Jerry Foster hurtles to the Moon—only to be trapped by a barbaric race and offered as a living sacrifice to Oong, their loathsome, hypnotic god. The Moon Master was first published in Astounding Stories, June 1930. Total Running Time (TRT): 2 hours, 40 min. Reading by Richard Kilmer. Charles W. Diffin (1884-1966) was a US engineer, airplane salesman and science fiction writer. He was one of the better writers whom Harry Bates encouraged to write for the new Astounding Stories.

The Moon Master

The Untamed is a classic western action novel by American author Max Brand. It is the first novel about Dan Barry, also known as "Whistlin' Dan". Whistlin' Dan Berry is one of the most interesting characters in Western fiction. With uncanny abilities he controls a wild stallion, appropriately named Satan, and a ferocious wolf dog, Black Bart. Easy going, Berry proves absolutely unforgiving when physically assaulted by a feared, vicious outlaw, Jim Silent. Seemingly without any emotions, Whistlin' Dan is relentless in his vengeful search for Silent and his outlaw gang. This is the first book about Whistlin’ Dan (Dan Berry). Dan is the total nature man, with the strength and cunning of a panther. He and his horse and wolf-dog communicate with one another marvelously, but he sure doesn't know how to relate to people well… The Untamed was followed by The Night Horseman (1920), The Seventh Man (1921) and Dan Barry’s Daughter (1923). The Untamed was first published in 1919 in All Story Weekly as a six-part serial. The novel was made into a motion picture starring Tom Mix in 1920. Audiobook read by Richard Kilmer, running time 7 hours, 26 min. Unabridged full version. Also available as E-Book: ePUB, 71,900 words, average reading time 6 hours. Max Brand was the pen name for Frederick Schiller Faust (1892-1944) who was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns.

The Untamed

The Mystery Girl is a detective story by American author Carolyn Wells. This is the thirteenth mystery story involving the Sherlock Holmes like detective Fleming Stone who is brought in to solve another mystery. Corinth is little New England college town. In the middle of the election of a new president of the University the favorite candidate is found dead. Is it murder or suicide? All entrances to the study where the body was found were locked from the inside. The future college president and groom-to-be had no known cause for suicide, yet no clues in either direction appeared to make any sense. Was Anita, the Mystery Girl, who had just arrived in the New England college town, somehow involved? Did she have any reason to murder the well-liked man? Perhaps some love letters between the two that nobody was to know about? And what of the mark of a ring on the deceased man's forehead? The college town was abuzz, and it seemed everyone had their own ideas of what actually happened. Fleming Stone is once more called in to solve the mystery… The Mystery Girl was first published in 1922. Audiobook read by Roger Melin, running time 8 hours, 6 min. Unabridged full version. Also available as E-Book: ePUB, 62,500 words, average reading time 5 hours, 10 min. Carolyn Wells (1862–1942) was an American author and poet. Carolyn Wells wrote a total of more than 170 books. During the first ten years of her career, she concentrated on poetry, humor, and children's books. However, Carolyn Wells began reading mystery stories written by Anna Katherine Green, and from then on she devoted her writings to puzzling mysteries in a similar vein.

The Mystery Girl

Bull Hunter is a classic western action novel by American authour Max Brand. Bull Hunter was a man who could rip a tree trunk from the ground with his bare hands or tame the wildest stallion with his kind manner. Nobody west of the Pecos would have dared run afoul of the mighty frontiersman. But Pete Reeve didn't have the reputation of a dead shot because he relied on his common sense. Then Bull and Pete crossed paths, and townsfolk from Cheyenne to San Antonio braced for the battle. Bull Hunter was first published in 1921. Audiobook read by Richard Kilmer, running time 5 hours and 40 min. Also available as E-Book, ePUB, 52,900 words, average reading time 4 hours, 25 min. Unabridged full version. Max Brand was the pen name for Frederick Schiller Faust (1892-1944) who was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns.

Bull Hunter

The Garden of Eden is a classic western action novel by American writer Max Brand. Ben Connor is a gambler who knows horses. He goes out west to get away from the gambling life he has been leading in New York. There he discovers a breed of grey horses that he thinks are the best horses he has ever seen. The problem is that these horses are bred in a secret valley known as the Garden of Eden and that outsiders are not welcome there. Connor sees these horses as a means of getting rich on the race tracks, but how to get one is a problem. So, Connor decides to infiltrate the small, isolated religious cult in order to get his hands on their purebred Eden Gray horses. A great horse story coupled with the typical excitement one expects from Max Brand makes this agreat book. The Garden of Eden was first published in 1921. Audiobook read by Richard Kilmer, running time 7 hours and 39 min. Unabridged full version. Also available as E-Book, ePUB, 75,300 words, average reading time 6 hours, 15 min. Max Brand was the pen name for Frederick Schiller Faust (1892-1944) who was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns.

The Garden of Eden

The World Beyond is a science fiction short story by American author Ray Cummings. Out of nowhere came these grim, cold, black-clad men, to kidnap three Earth people and carry them to a weird and terrible world where a man could be a giant at will. Lee Anthony finds himself and two of his friends kidnapped and taken on a very strange voyage. The World Beyond was first published in Amazing Stories in July, 1942. Total Running Time (TRT): 1 hours, 31 min. Ray Cummings (1887-1957) was an American author of science fiction, rated one of the "founding fathers of the science fiction pulp genre". Having worked for Thomas Alva Edison, Ray Cummings was inspired by science’s possibilities and began to write science fiction. His most highly regarded work was the novel The Girl in the Golden Atom published in 1922. His career resulted in some 750 novels and short stories, using also the pen names Ray King, Gabrielle Cummings, and Gabriel Wilson.

The World Beyond

Skylark Three is a science fiction novel and space opera by American author E. E. ”Doc” Smith. It was first published in 1930. Skylark Three is the second novel in the Skylark series. Originally serialized through the Amazing Stories magazine in 1930, it was first collected in book form in 1948. The novel concerns Richard Seaton and his allies who have encounters with aliens while fighting DuQuesne and the Fenachrone. In this sequel to The Skylark of Space, danger again waits for genius inventor and interplanetary adventurer Dr. Richard Seaton. Seaton’s allies on the planet Kondal are suffering devastating attacks by the forces of the Third Planet. Even worse, the menacing Fenachrones are threatening to conquer the galaxy and wipe out all who oppose them. And don’t forget Seaton’s arch-nemesis, DuQuesne, who embarks on a mission of his own. Featuring even more technological wizardry, alien worlds, and all-out action than in the first novel, Skylark Three is wieved as the high point of the Skylark series. Skylark Three is the second book in the Skylark series and is set a year after the events of The Skylark of Space, during which year antagonist Marc "Blackie" DuQuesne has used the wealth obtained in the previous book to buy a controlling interest in the story's 'World Steel Corporation', a large company known for its ruthless attitude. This is the serialized version from Amazing Stories in August, September and October 1930. Total Running Time (TRT): 9 hours, 57 min. Edward Elmer Smith (also E. E. Smith or E. E. "Doc" Smith; 1890-1965) was an American food engineer (specializing in doughnut and pastry mixes) and an early science-fiction author, best known for the Lensman and Skylark series. Smith's novels are generally considered to be classic space operas, and he is sometimes called the first of the three "novas" of 20th-century science fiction (with Stanley G. Weinbaum and Robert A. Heinlein as the second and third novas).

Skylark Three

Black Jack is a classic western action novel by American writer Max Brand. In this classic western story, the son of a notorious outlaw is adopted into a wealthy, law-abiding family as an infant after his father is killed in an attempted robbery. The raucous beginning of Brand's Western is traditional. A gunfighter is shot dead in the street. However, when spinster Elizabeth Cornish takes his baby to raise and wagers with her brother that blood will not "will out", that Jack's son will not be a murderer - a fascinating story of nature versus nurture emerges. Will the son follow in the footsteps of his outlaw father or will his life be guided by the respectable woman who nurtured him to manhood? Another exciting tale by the master of the pulp western, Max Brand. “The moment he rose out of the chair and faced them, Gainor had stopped short. He was quite capable of fast thinking, and now his glance flickered from Terry to the sheriff and back again. It was plain that he had shrewd suspicions as to the purpose behind that call. The sheriff was merely confused. He flushed as much as his tanned-leather skin permitted. As for Terry, the moment his glance fell on the sheriff he felt his muscles jump into hard ridges, and an almost uncontrollable desire to go at the throat of the other seized him. He quelled that desire and fought it back with a chill of fear.” Black Jack was first published in 1921. Audiobook read by Richard Kilmer, running time 8 hours and 18 min. Unabridged full version. Also available as E-Book: ePUB, 76,700 words, average reading time 6 hours, 25 min. Max Brand was the pen name for Frederick Schiller Faust (1892-1944) who was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns.

Black Jack

The Girl in the Golden Atom is a science fiction novel by American author Ray Cummings first published in 1923. A classic work of science fiction, this novel was one of the first to explore the world of the atom. The Girl in the Golden Atom is the story of a young chemist who finds a hidden atomic world within his mother’s wedding ring. Under a microscope, he sees within the ring a beautiful young woman sitting before a cave. While examining a golden ring under a microscope, a chemist discovers a sub-atomic world. During his examination of this world he sees a beautiful young girl. After developing chemicals that will allow him to either shrink or grow larger in size, he and three friends journey to this small world. Total Running Time (TRT): 10 hours, 55 min. Ray Cummings (1887-1957) was an American author of science fiction, rated one of the "founding fathers of the science fiction pulp genre". Having worked for Thomas Alva Edison, Ray Cummings was inspired by science’s possibilities and began to write science fiction. His most highly regarded work was the novel The Girl in the Golden Atom published in 1922. His career resulted in some 750 novels and short stories, using also the pen names Ray King, Gabrielle Cummings, and Gabriel Wilson.

The Girl in the Golden Atom

A collection of three short stories and two novellas written between 1897 and 1898. All the stories had first been published in various monthly periodicals and this was the first volume to collect these stories.    contains  "The Crystal Egg"  "The Star"  "A Story of the Stone Age"  "A Story of the Days To Come"  "The Man Who Could Work Miracles"

Tales of Space and Time

This is a story of intrigue, unfolding in the author's best style -- a thrilling narrative of Jocelyn Thew and the English Service. The reader will follow with avidity the daring moves of Thew from the time he sails from New York on the "City of Boston," accompanied by a dying man and a special nurse in the person of Katharine Beverley, a society girl who is under obligations to Thew.

The Box with the Broken Seals

A Story of the Stone Age is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, first published in 1897. This story is of a time beyond the memory of man, before the beginning of history. . . The story is set during the Stone Age, and tells of a caveman named Ugh-lomi, who bonds with the young woman Eudena and kills his rival, the de facto tribal leader Uya. Whilst in exile, Ugh-lomi becomes the first man to ride a horse, and to combine stone and wood to fashion an axe. He uses this weapon, along with his wits, to survive encounters with cave bears, hyenas and rhinos, and ultimately claim the position of tribal leader for himself. The story was featured in three parts between May and August 1897 in The Idler magazine, and was later released in collected editions. Total Running Time (TRT): 2 hours, 31 min. Herbert George "H. G." Wells (1866-1946) was an English writer, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, even writing textbooks and rules for war games. Wells is one person sometimes called "The Father of Science Fiction", as are Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback. His most notable science fiction works include The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, The Invisible Man and The Island of Doctor Moreau.

A Story of the Stone Age

This is a story about Jacob Pratt who "stood bond" for his brother and then lost all his money and was unable to pay his debts. Two years later his brother is finally able to restore him to an enviable financial position. Jacob rewards those who stood beside him during his time of trials and attempts to get even with those who had cast him aside. He finds that revenge is not always sweet. Even though Jacob has plenty of money, he is unable to win the girl of his dreams.

Jacob's Ladder

The Titan is a novel by American author Theodore Dreiser. After his release from prison, Frank Cowperwood invests in stocks subsequent to the Panic of 1873, and becomes a millionaire again. He decides to move out of Philadelphia and start a new life in the West. He moves to Chicago and decides to take over the street-railway system. He bankrupts several opponents with the help of John J. McKenty and other political allies. Meanwhile, Chicago society finds out about his past in Philadelphia and the couple are no longer invited to dinner parties… The Titan is a sequel to Dreiser’s 1912 novel The Financier. The Titan is the second part of Dreiser's Trilogy of Desire, a saga of ruthless businessman Frank Cowperwood (modeled after real-life streetcar tycoon Charles Yerkes). The third part of the trilogy, The Stoic, was Dreiser's final novel, published in 1947 after his death. Theodore Dreiser (1871 - 1945) was an American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school. His novels often featured main characters who succeeded at their objectives despite a lack of a firm moral code, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. Audiobook read by Richard Kilmer, running time 22 hours, 18 min. Unabridged full version.

American Dream

The Titan

The Rangeland Avenger is a classic western action novel by American authour Max Brand. If you enjoy a fast-moving western dealing with vengeance and well-deserved payback, you'll like The Rangeland Avenger by Max Brand. A soft spoken but ruthless gunman cuts a path of deadly payback across the Wild West in this exciting adventure. When Riley Sinclair heads into the town of Sour Creek to seek vengeance for the death of his brother, he doesn't expect any trouble given his reputation and his skills with a gun. However, he is not prepared for meeting Cold Feet, a man locally known for his abject lack of courage and his non-existent fighting skills. "And maybe I ain't. Sinclair brushed the entire argument away into a thin mist of smoke. "Now, look here, Cold Feet, I'm about to go to sleep, and when I sleep, I sure sleep sound, taking it by and large. They's times when I don't more'n close one eye all night, and they's times when you'd have to pull my eyes open, one by one, to wake me up. Understand? I'm going to sleep the second way tonight. About eight hours of the soundest sleep you ever heard tell of." Originally published in 1922 in Western Story Magazine under the title of Three Who Paid, written under the pseudonym of George Owen Baxter, and subsequently in book form under the title The Rangeland Avenger in 1924. Audiobook read by Richard Kilmer, running time 7 hours and 12 min. Unabridged full version. Also available as a E-Book, ePUB, 77,600 words, average reading time 6 hours, 25 min. Max Brand was the pen name for Frederick Schiller Faust (1892-1944) who was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns.

The Rangeland Avenger

Way of the Lawless (aka Free Range) is a classic western action novel by American writer Max Brand. Andrew Lanning has been raised by his Uncle Jasper to know how to shoot just like the gunmen of the days when the West was a little younger and wilder. Unfortunately, Andrew is a bit too gentle and soft. But when he’s confronted, he takes an adversary down with one punch. Thinking he’s killed the man, he runs. But when he’s being hunted by a posse, and realizes they aren’t playing fair, he kills the leader, and thus begins his life as a desperado. ”He made one mistake in the beginning. He pushed the chestnut too hard the first and second days, so that on the third day he was forced to give the gelding his head and go at a jarring trot most of the day. On the fourth and fifth days, however, he had the reward for his caution. The chestnut's ribs were beginning to show painfully, but he kept doggedly at his work with no sign of faltering. The sixth day brought Andrew Lanning in close view of the lower hills. And on the seventh day he put his fortune boldly to the touch and jogged into the first little town before him.” Way of the Lawless was first published under title Free Range. This unabridged edition was published in 1921. Audiobook read by Richard Kilmer. running time 7 hours and 36 min. Also available as E-Book: ePUB, 71,000 words, average reading time 5 hours, 55 min. Max Brand was the pen name for Frederick Schiller Faust (1892-1944) who was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns.

Way of the Lawless

A former defense attorney turned righteous crusader is the hero of this blockbuster novel from an early master of the thriller genre    A businessman is found stabbed through the heart, the obvious suspect his partner: Oliver Hilditch, a cold-eyed fellow with a paper-thin alibi. Hilditch seems destined for the gallows, but he is saved by brilliant defense attorney Francis Ledsam, who uses every legal trick he knows to free his client. It is a defense to be proud of, but Ledsam's joy vanishes when Hilditch's wife informs him that her husband is guilty of crimes far more monstrous than murder.     His faith in his career shaken, Ledsam vows never again to defend a guilty man. But when his newfound principles run up against the harsh reality of real-world justice, he finds himself trapped between his love for a beautiful woman and a powerful desire to do the right thing—no matter the cost.

The Evil Shepherd

The People of the Mist is a classic lost race fantasy novel written by H. Rider Haggard. This is the tale of a British adventurer seeking wealth in the wilds of Africa, finding romance, and discovering a lost race and its monstrous god. The penniless Leonard Outram attempts to redress the undeserved loss of his family estates and his fiancee by seeking his fortune in Africa. In the course of his adventures, he and his Zulu companion Otter save a young Portuguese woman, Juanna Rodd, together with her nursemaid Soa, from slavery. Leonard and Juanna are plainly attracted to each other, but prone to bickering, and their romance is impeded by the watchful and jealous Soa. The protagonists seek the legendary People of the Mist, said to possess a fabulous hoard of jewels. On finding them, they immediately become embroiled in the turbulent political affairs of the lost race, which is driven by a power-struggle between its king and the priests of its giant crocodile god. The heroic Outram can do little more than react to events. The action climaxes in a hair-raising escape by “tobogganing” a large flat stone down a steep glacier. The People of the Mist was first published serially in the weekly magazine Tit-Bits, between December 1893 and August 1894; the first edition in book form was published in 1894. Audiobook read by Richard Kilmer, running time 16 hours, 20 min. Unabridged full version. Also available as E-Book: ePUB, 146,400 words, average reading time 12 hours, 10 min. Sir Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925) was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. Haggard's stories are still widely read today. Haggard's Lost World genre influenced popular American pulp writers such as Edgar Rice Burroughs, Robert E. Howard, Talbot Mundy, Philip José Farmer, and Abraham Merritt. Allan Quatermain, the adventure hero of King Solomon's Mines and its sequel Allan Quatermain, was a template for the American character Indiana Jones, featured in the films Raiders of the Lost Ark, Temple of Doom, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Quatermain has gained recent popularity thanks to being a main character in the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

Allan Quatermain

The People of the Mist

The Financier is a novel by American author Theodore Dreiser Frank Cowperwood, a fiercely ambitious businessman, emerges as the very embodiment of greed as he relentlessly seeks satisfaction in wealth, women, and power. As Cowperwood deals and double-deals, betrays and is in turn betrayed, his rise and fall come to represent the American success story stripped down to brutal realities-a struggle for spoils without conscience or pity. Dreiser's 1912 classic remains an unsparing social critique as well as a devastating character study of one of the most unforgettable American businessmen in twentieth-century literature. “In its bigness, its insight into large phases of the evolution of American life, its portrayal of the fight for gold and power and the love for women, this novel is certain to be ranked as one of the great examples of modern fiction.” Theodore Dreiser (1871 - 1945) was an American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school. His novels often featured main characters who succeeded at their objectives despite a lack of a firm moral code, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. Audiobook read by Richard Kilmer, running time 21 hours, 43 min. Unabridged full version.

The Financier

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