Books like 'The People That Time Forgot'
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Those Who Survive by Kir Bulychev
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Planet Had No Name! When the exploratory starship from Earth PolarStar crashed in the ice-covered mountains of the nameless planet the few survivors who made it to the warmer lowlands had no idea just how hostile this world could be. The plants were poisonous or actively hunted them, the animals were not all that friendly either. Most of them died. Some had children... -
![Nine Tomorrows by Isaac Asimov]()
Nine Tomorrows by Isaac Asimov
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsNine stories: Profession; The Feeling of Power; The Dying Night; I'm in Marsport without Hilda; The Gentle Vultures; All the Troubles of the World; Spell my Name with an S; The Last Question (one of Asimov's most often requested stories); and The Ugly Little Boy (Asimov's own personal favorite)...Categorized as:
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![Time Pebbles by Jerry Merritt]()
Time Pebbles by Jerry Merritt
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTekla, son of an ancient shaman, loses Ka Li when she is torn from his life by a brutal tribe of Denisovans in a Late Pleistocene kidnapping.Ka Li escapes but is unarmed and forced to flee across the Bering land bridge where she becomes hopelessly lost in the endless tracts of North America. Only Tekla cares enough to search for her over the years...Categorized as:
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![Rapsodie der eenzaamheid by Agnar Mykle, Maurice Michael]()
Rapsodie der eenzaamheid by Agnar Mykle, Maurice Michael
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDutch translation of Lasso rundt fru Luna... -
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![20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Great Illustrated Classics) by Malvina G. Vogel, Jules Verne]()
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Great Illustrated Classics) by Malvina G. Vogel, Jules Verne
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsUnderwater Adventure! Professor Aronnax sets off in search of a giant sea monster, only to find the monster is really a steel-plated submarine. Captured by the mysterious Captain Nemo, Aronnax witnesses the exploration of the Nautilus, the remarkable submarine Nemo has invented. But Aronnax comes to learn that Nemo is near insanity and must escape...Categorized as:
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![S Is For Space by Ray Bradbury]()
S Is For Space by Ray Bradbury
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsS is for science fiction, spine-tingling, supernatural and sublime! S is for stories from a "Star Wilderness that stretched as far as eye and mind could see and imagine"... -
![The Amphibian by Alexander Belyaev]()
The Amphibian by Alexander Belyaev
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Amphibian will throw you back to a time when skin and deep-sea diving had not yet made the Silent World begin yielding up its secrets on a really big scale, as aqualung and snorkel are doing today, and present to you Alexander Belayev's 1928 prevision of the ocean mastered by mankind. Sea-devil has appeared in the Rio de la Plata... -
![The Mysterious Island: Illustrated Edition of Jules Verne's Series Books (Wishletter Classic) by Jules Verne]()
The Mysterious Island: Illustrated Edition of Jules Verne's Series Books (Wishletter Classic) by Jules Verne
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 45 ratingsThis rigorously crafted ebook "The Mysterious Island: Illustrated Edition of Jules Verne's Series Books (Wishletter Classic) " is formatted for your Kindle with a practical and detailed table of contents. ‘The Mysterious Island' - one of the most famous in the world literature novels written by the famous French writer Jules Verne... -
![City by Clifford D. Simak]()
City by Clifford D. Simak
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsSimak's "City" is a series of connected stories, a series of legends, myths, and campfire stories told by Dogs about the end of human civilization, centering on the Webster family, who, among their other accomplishments, designed the ships that took Men to the stars and gave Dogs the gift of speech and robots to be their hands... -
![The Short Victorious War by David Weber]()
The Short Victorious War by David Weber
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsThe proles are revolting.The families who rule the People's Republic of Haven are in trouble. The treasury's empty, the Proles are restless, and civil war is imminent.But the ruling class knows what they need to keep in power; another short, victorious war to unite the people and fill the treasury once more... -
![The Complete Science Fiction Treasury of H.G. Wells by H.G. Wells]()
The Complete Science Fiction Treasury of H.G. Wells by H.G. Wells
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsSeven of Well's greatest, most startling forays into the realm of the fantastic. Includes The Time Machine, Island of Dr. Moreau, Invisible Man, War of the Worlds, First Men in the Moon, Food of the Gods, and In the Days of the Comet...Categorized as:
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![Beast Master's Planet: Omnibus of Beast Master and Lord of Thunder by Andre Norton]()
Beast Master's Planet: Omnibus of Beast Master and Lord of Thunder by Andre Norton
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"In 1959 Andre Norton published The Beast Master, a fast-paced science fiction adventure that introduced to readers a new kind of hero, Hosteen Storm. Storm, a Navajo from the American southwest, served in the Planetary Confederacy forces as a Beast Master teamed with an African eagle, a meerkat, and a dune cat... -
![Complete Stories of Robert Bloch: Final Reckonings (Complete Stories of Robert Bloch, Volume 1) by Robert Bloch]()
Complete Stories of Robert Bloch: Final Reckonings (Complete Stories of Robert Bloch, Volume 1) by Robert Bloch
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBest known as the author of "Psycho", Robert Bloch is world-renowned for his stories of horror, mystery, fantasy, and science fiction. Many of the 25 stories in this first volume of "The Complete Stories of Robert Bloch" have been unavailable for decades. The stories are in his classic style of gripping suspense, science fiction and fantasy... -
![Fire-Hunter by Jim Kjelgaard]()
Fire-Hunter by Jim Kjelgaard
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Fire-Hunter is the story of Hawk, a pre-historic man who is banished from his tribe for breaking the tribal law by inventing a spear-launching tool. He is left behind with Willow, an injured young woman abandoned by the tribe because of her inability to travel in the nomadic lifestyle they employ... -
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![Neander (Neander, #1) by Harald Johnson]()
Neander (Neander, #1) by Harald Johnson
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"My God. These people really ARE Neanderthals!"At an archeological dig in Gibraltar, a boat explosion shatters the hopes of science journalist Tom Cook. His pregnant fiancée was on the boat and is missing.During the search, things go from bad to worse when Tom plunges through a time portal and into the strange and dangerous era of the Neanderthals... -
![Around the World in Eighty Days & Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne]()
Around the World in Eighty Days & Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations. This growing series is rigorously updated, with scholarly introductions and notes added to new titles...Categorized as:
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![A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury]()
A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsIn "A Sound of Thunder", Time Safari, Inc. offers the greatest hunting trips ever--any year, any animal. But they don't guarantee you'll come back, or what you'll find if you do. And in "Night Call, Collect", who is harassing Emil Barton, the last man in the universe? After decades of waiting on Mars, these twisted phone calls could kill him! Winner of a Peabody Award... -
![Stories Volume 1 by Ray Bradbury]()
Stories Volume 1 by Ray Bradbury
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOne hundred classic stories from the celebrated author of Fahrenheit 451. In this, the first volume of Ray Bradbury's short stories, some of the author's finest works are published together, among them 'Homecoming', 'Veldt', 'A Sound of Thunder' and 'The Long Rain'...Categorized as:
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![The Door Into Summer by Robert A. Heinlein]()
The Door Into Summer by Robert A. Heinlein
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsIt is 1970, and electronics engineer Dan Davis has finally made the invention of a lifetime: a household robot with extraordinary abilities, destined to dramatically change the landscape of everyday routine... -
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Jules Verne (Knickerbocker Classics) by Jules Verne
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis superb collection of classic science fiction features the best of Jules Verne’s epic adventure stories, including Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863), A Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), From the Earth to the Moon (1865), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873)...Categorized as:
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![On Basilisk Station by David Weber]()
On Basilisk Station by David Weber
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsHonor Harrington in trouble: Having made him look the fool, she's been exiled to Basilisk Station in disgrace and set up for ruin by a superior who hates her. Her demoralized crew blames her for their ship's humiliating posting to an out-of-the-way picket station. The aborigines of the system's only habitable planet are smoking homicide-inducing hallucinogens... -
![Doorways in the Sand by Roger Zelazny]()
Doorways in the Sand by Roger Zelazny
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe most humorous – and arguably the finest – novel by the master of inventive science fiction. Humanity is not alone in the cosmos. The aliens have given a precious relic to the people of Earth: star-stone. But the harmony of the galaxy is endangered when they discover that the star-stone has disappeared. Likeable Fred Cassidy is an eternal undergraduate... -
![Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper]()
Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsThe chartered Zarathustra Company had it all their way. Their charter was for a Class III uninhabited planet, which Zarathustra was, and it meant they owned the planet lock stock and barrel. They exploited it, developed it and reaped the huge profits from it without interference from the Colonial Government... -
![The Time Travel Trailer by Karen Musser Nortman]()
The Time Travel Trailer by Karen Musser Nortman
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLARGE PRINT VERSION. A 1937 vintage camper trailer half hidden in weeds catches Lynne McBriar's eye when she is visiting an elderly friend Ben. Ben eagerly sells it to her and she just as eagerly embarks on a restoration. But after each remodel, sleeping in the trailer lands Lynne and her daughter Dinah in a previous decade-exciting, yet frightening... -
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![H.G. Wells: Six Novels by H.G. Wells, Michael A. Cramer]()
H.G. Wells: Six Novels by H.G. Wells, Michael A. Cramer
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe was the first to popularize the concept of time travel. He disturbed - and fascinated - us with a frightening doctor's island. He wrote of an invisible man, of men on the moon, and of a war of the worlds. He has influenced countless other writers, artists, and even scientists. H. G...Categorized as:
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![Skull Island by Will Murray, Michael McConnohie]()
Skull Island by Will Murray, Michael McConnohie
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen King Kong famously fell from his death perch on the summit of the Empire State Building early in 1933, the question on many moviegoers' minds was: Where the heck was Doc Savage? For the tallest skyscraper in Manhattan was also the world headquarters of the famous superman-scientist known as the Man of Bronze... -
![The Guns of the South by Harry Turtledove]()
The Guns of the South by Harry Turtledove
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsJanuary 1864 –General Robert E. Lee faces defeat. The Army of Northern Virginia is ragged and ill-equpped. Gettysburg has broken the back of the Confederacy and decimated its manpower.Then, Andries Rhoodie, a strange man with an unplaceable accent, approaches Lee with an extraordinary offer... -
![The Pride of Chanur by C.J. Cherryh]()
The Pride of Chanur by C.J. Cherryh
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsNo one at Meetpoint Station had ever seen a creature like the Outsider. Naked-hided, blunt toothed and blunt-fingered, Tully was the sole surviving member of his company -- a communicative, spacefaring species hitherto unknown -- and he was a prisoner of his discoverer/ captors the sadistic, treacherous kif, until his escape onto the hani ship The Pride of Chanur... -
![The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge by Harry Harrison]()
The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge by Harry Harrison
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsDiGriz and Angelina are happily married and expecting the birth of their sons. The planet Cliaand is waging interstellar war, and against the odds, its Grey Men are invading and taking over planet after planet. The Rat is sent to Cliaand to start a one-man guerrilla campaign to put a stop to the plans of the planet's leader, Kraj... -
![Lest Darkness Fall by L. Sprague de Camp]()
Lest Darkness Fall by L. Sprague de Camp
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWhen am I? Padway asked himself after the lightning-flash knocked him down. He knew where he was--Rome. He was there to study archaeology, and even though the lightning had left him dazed, he could see the familiar Roman buildings...Categorized as:
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![Before Adam by Jack London]()
Before Adam by Jack London
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBefore Adam is a novel by Jack London, serialized in 1906 and 1907 in Everybody's Magazine. It is the story of a man who dreams he lives the life of an early hominid. The story offers an early view of human evolution. The majority of the story is told through the eyes of the man's hominid alter ego, one of the Cave People... -
![Paycheck and Other Classic Stories by Philip K. Dick, Steven Owen Godersky]()
Paycheck and Other Classic Stories by Philip K. Dick, Steven Owen Godersky
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsElectronic mechanic Jennings wakes up with no memory of the past two years of his life -- except that he had agreed to work for Retherick Construction.Payment for his services, now completed, is a bag of seemingly worthless objects: a code key, a ticket stub, a receipt, a length of wire, half a poker chip, a piece of green cloth and a bus token...Categorized as:
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![The Wind From the Sun by Arthur C. Clarke]()
The Wind From the Sun by Arthur C. Clarke
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA volume containing all 18 short stories written by Arthur C. Clarke in the 1960s. They depict a future in which technologies are beginning to dictate man's lifestyle - even to demand life for themselves.Contentsvii • Preface (The Wind from the Sun) • (1972) • essay by Arthur C. Clarke3 • The Food of the Gods • (1964) • shortstory by Arthur C...Categorized as:
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![A Journey To The Center Of The Earth by Raymond James, Jules Verne]()
A Journey To The Center Of The Earth by Raymond James, Jules Verne
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt was a secret message by an ancient alchemist, found on a crumbling scrap of parchment. And if Saknussemm was right, then every theory about the molten core of the earth is wrong. Prof. Otto Lidenbrock has to learn the truth. So Lidenbrock, his nephew Axel, and the Icelandic hunter Hans climb down the cone of an arctic volcano and into..Categorized as:
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![The Country of the Blind and Other Science-Fiction Stories by H.G. Wells]()
The Country of the Blind and Other Science-Fiction Stories by H.G. Wells
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Dover Thrift Edition:"The Country of the Blind" (1904)"The Star" (1897)"The New Accelerator" (1901)"The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes" (1895)"Under the Knife" (1896)"The Queer Story of Brownlow's Newspaper"...Categorized as:
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![Startide Rising by David Brin]()
Startide Rising by David Brin
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsDavid Brin's Uplift novels are among the most thrilling and extraordinary science fiction ever written. Sundiver, Startide Rising, and The Uplift War--a New York Times bestseller--together make up one of the most beloved sagas of all time. Brin's tales are set in a future universe in which no species can reach sentience without being "uplifted" by a patron race... -
![Deathworld 1 by Harry Harrison]()
Deathworld 1 by Harry Harrison
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsThe planet was called Pyrrus...a strange place where all the beasts, plants and natural elements were designed for one specific purpose: to destroy man.The settlers there were supermen...twice as strong as ordinary men and with milli-second reflexes. They had to be. For their business was murder.. -
![The Air Merchant by Alexander Belyaev]()
The Air Merchant by Alexander Belyaev
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsImagine if one man devised a way to gain control of one vital resource no one can live without... -
![Breed to Come by Andre Norton]()
Breed to Come by Andre Norton
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen desperate measures failed to control what men had begun and could not stop, they fled their polluted planet, leaving behind an epidemic virus born of experimentation. Yet unlike men, whom the disease could destroy, the animals of the planet thrived. Each generation was more forceful and intelligent than the last... -
![The Zero Stone by Andre Norton]()
The Zero Stone by Andre Norton
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsA mysterious stone, born of worlds long extinct, is the key to unimaginable powers in this latest novel from the winner of the Science Fiction Grand Master Award. Murdoc Jern and his mutant feline companion, Eet, are hunted throughout space when Murdoc comes into possession of a magnificent gem... -
![Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre]()
Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsIn a world devastated by nuclear holocaust, Snake is a healer. One of an elite band dedicated to caring for sick humanity, she goes wherever her skills are needed. With her she takes the three deadly reptiles through which her cures are accomplished: a cobra, a rattlesnake & a snake called Grass--a creature with the power to induce benign dreams, to smooth the path between life & death... -
![Search for Dinosaurs by David Bischoff]()
Search for Dinosaurs by David Bischoff
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Time Machine series challenges young readers to use their imagination and decision-making skills to write their own story. Options in the text allow readers to choose any path they like within the plot. Readers must draw on background information about the period to make the right choices...Categorized as:
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![Storm by George R. Stewart, Ernest Callenbach]()
Storm by George R. Stewart, Ernest Callenbach
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA violent storm, affectionately known as Maria, sweeps through California and changes the lives of many in its path... -
![Rebel Spurs by Andre Norton]()
Rebel Spurs by Andre Norton
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn 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...Categorized as:
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![The Samurai by Barry Sadler, Carol Eason]()
The Samurai by Barry Sadler, Carol Eason
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIngram Condemned to outlive the ages and wander the globe, Casca finds himself in feudal Japan, where he joins forces with the legendary samurai warrior, Muramassa... -
![Lest Darkness Fall/To Bring the Light by L. Sprague de Camp, David Drake]()
Lest Darkness Fall/To Bring the Light by L. Sprague de Camp, David Drake
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Rome fell, the light of reason flickered out across the Empire. The Dark Ages had begun. Could a man from the 20th century prevent the fall of Rome? When lightning struck, Martin Padway was hurled backward into the sixth century. Like him, her fate was to bring Rome into being. Together, they must strive to bring the light, lest darkness fall...Categorized as:
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![The World That Couldn't Be by Clifford D. Simak]()
The World That Couldn't Be by Clifford D. Simak
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLike every farmer on every planet, Duncan had to hunt down anything that damaged his crops—even though he was aware this was…Duncan, a plantation owner on an alien world tracks the strange animal Cytha and gets a lesson in xeno-ecology.Clifford Donald Simak (August 3, 1904 - April 25, 1988) was an American science fiction writer... -
![The Dechronization of Sam Magruder by George Gaylord Simpson, Stephen Jay Gould]()
The Dechronization of Sam Magruder by George Gaylord Simpson, Stephen Jay Gould
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis lost novella by the century's most renowned paleontologist has been called the greatest time-travel story in more than one hundred years.Vanishing from Earth on February 30, 2162, while working on a problem of quantum theory, research chronologist Sam Magruder is thrown back 80 million years in time...Categorized as:
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![Viaje al centro de la Tierra + Un drama en México + Diez horas de caza by Jules Verne]()
Viaje al centro de la Tierra + Un drama en México + Diez horas de caza by Jules Verne
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEl desciframiento de una inscripción grabada por un alquimista islandés del siglo XVI, Arne Saknussemm, revela al profesor de mineralogía Otto Lidenbrock el camino para llegar al centro de la Tierra. Junto con su sobrino Axel y un guía llamado Hans, decide aventurarse en una expedición hacia las entrañas de nuestro planeta a través de la chimenea del volcán islandés Snæfellsjökull... -
![The Ugly Little Boy by Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg]()
The Ugly Little Boy by Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsAsimov wrote the short story "The Ugly Little Boy" in 1958. But there is much more to the story of the little Neanderthal boy plucked out of time and transferred to the 21st century. Now, Robert Silverberg--in this second collaboration with Asimov--has made this sf classic into an engrossing novel-length tale...Categorized as:
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