The publisher of Black Cat Press is an internationally known illustrator/author whose fifty books include the Hugo Award-winning The Art of Chesley Bonestell, The Grand Tour, which has been deemed a "modern classic" (with nearly a quarter million copies in print), and an eleven-volume series for young adults--- Worlds Beyond---which received the prestigious Award of Excellence from the American Institute of Physics. Many of these books have gone through multiple printings, foreign translations and have been Book-of-the-Month selections. In addition to his non-fiction books are a number of novels, including Bradamant, Velda and the Bronwyn tetralogy. In addition to reprints of Miller's own books, Black Cat Press also offers reprints of classic science fiction and fantasy novels, including a special line devoted to books featuring some of the great heroines of the two genres: She, Atlantida, Angel Island and many others. Many of these are available only through Black Cat Press. Another specialty line is devoted to the early science fiction that helped inspire the space age. Many of these are unique to Black Cat Press, including brand-new English translations of Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon and Round the Moon. Black Cat Press Catalog
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Disc: $10.00 Unique in the literature of spaceflight, this CD---based on the award-winning book published by Krieger Publishing Co.---is an encyclopedic history of the spaceship from the earliest yearnings for space travel to the advent of human spaceflight in 1961. Covering in unprecedented detail over two millenia of spaceship design, the text chronologically documents thousands of events, with more than 100,000 words of text and over 2000 illustrations and photos graphically demonstrating the centuries-long evolution of an idea that has changed our world forever. Included are rare photos and illustrations from science fiction films, books, and magazines; unique drawings of Soviet spacecraft; NASA photos never before reproduced; and artwork specially commissioned for this book.
Foreword by Sir Arthur C. Clarke.
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Print: $9.00 John Munro's 1897 novel includes one of the first detailed, scientifically accurate descriptions of the potential use of rockets in space exploration. It is also an exciting adventure on an unknown world, filled with action and humor.
Includes the 1894 short story/essay by Munro, "Sun-Rise on the Moon", which is reprinted here for the first time. Illustrated.
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Print: $18.47 Five books that helped inspire a passionate rage for the planet Mars that has continued unabated for over a century. "Mars" was Percival Lowell's first book about the Red Planet and the one in which he first suggested the possibility of intelligent life on that world. Inspired by Lowell's work, H.G. Wells wrote "The War of the Worlds"---here included with its "prequel", "The Crystal Egg" and a non-fiction essay on what physical form life on Mars may take. At the same time that "War of the Worlds" first appeared, American science writer Garrett Serviss published an unofficial sequel: "Edison's Conquest of Mars".
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Print: $9.00 Download: $1.50 This volume contains two classic science fiction stories from 1835: "The Moon Hoax" by Richard Adams Locke and "The Unparalleled Adventures of One Hans Pfaall" by Edgar Allan Poe. In the former, the readers of the NY "Sun" were held in thrall for five days by series of reports detailing the incredible discoveries being made on the moon by famed astronomer, Sir John Herschel. The latter, while written with tongue firmly in cheek, is the first attempt in literature to describe a space flight with scientific plausibility. Also included is "A Journey...To the newly discovered Planet, Georgium Sidus", 1784, by "Vivinair".
Illustrated.
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Print: $19.97 For the very first time Jules Verne's three novels about the adventures of the fabulous Baltimore Gun Club are together in a single volume. In From the Earth to the Moon the club sends a manned projectile into the depths of space by means of a giant cannon. In Around the Moon, we discover how they manage to return to Earth. And in The Purchase of the North Pole, the Gun Club engages in a mad scheme to tilt the very axis of the Earth itself.
From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon are brand-new original translations. The Purchase of the North Pole is a meticulously restored version of the original 19th century English translation, with errors corrected and missing text replaced.
All of the novels are accompanied by their original illustrations and an informative appendix.
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Print: $17.97 Five classic space novels from the age of gaslight and steam engines.
"Voyage to the Moon" (1827) by George Tucker (writing as Joseph Atterley) was the first American science fiction novel to deal with space flight.
"The Moon Hoax" (1835) convinced millions of newspaper readers that eminent astronomer Sir John Herschel had discovered life on the Moon.
"The Unparalleled Adventures of One Hans Pfaal" was Edgar Allan Poe's contribution to space fiction, inspired by George Tucker, who was one of his college instructors.
"The Brick Moon" of 1870 contains the first realistic description of an artificial Earth satellite, anticipating most of the applications of modern satellites.
1900's "Honeymoon in Space" is a charming journey through the solar system, from the Moon to Mars and Jupiter.
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Print: $18.97 In the decades preceding World War II, Germans and Austrians had every reason to believe that if anyone were to conquer space it would be them. Few nationalities had made as much progress in rocketry and astronautics in as short a period of time as they had.
This confidence and enthusiasm is revealed in these four novels. "The Shot Into Infinity" and its sequel "The Stone From the Moon"---both by Otto Willi Gail---are based scrupulously on the pioneering work of Hermann Oberth and Max Valier...but mixed with the bizarre "World Ice Theory" of Hans Horbiger, a theory which was fated to become one of the many pseudosciences embraced by the Nazis. Otfrid von Hanstein's "Between Earth and Moon" also draws upon Oberth's work in its modern-sounding story of the plight of three astronauts stranded in space and the efforts to rescue them. Finally, "A Daring Flight to Mars" is one of the rare attempts at science fiction by Max Valier.
Fully illustrated.
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Print: $9.47 Download: $2.00 First published in English in 1930, this remarkable science fiction novel details the fate of three astronauts stranded in space after a daring trip to the moon. Based on the pioneering work of Hermann Oberth, this suspenseful novel is an accurate mirror of the state of the art of astronautics more than 70 years ago. With the original illustrations by Frank R. Paul and a technical appendix.
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Print: $9.96 First published in English in 1931, this novel for older children was written by one of the most popular German science fiction writers of the time. Closely based on the work of his friends Hermann Oberth and Max Valier, it is an accurate mirror of many of the space travel concepts being discussed by pre-war European experts. At the same time, the book manages to include Gail's bizarre theories about the history of the Earth, many of which presage those of Velikovksy and von Daniken.
The book includes the original illustrations and an afterword about the author and his sources.
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Print: $17.97 In the 1920s and 1930s engineer/scientist/inventor E.F. Northup conducted extensive experiments using electromagnetic guns to launch projectiles. "Zero to Eighty" is a fictionalized account of those experiments, culminating in a trip to the Moon in a rocket given its initial boost by a huge electromagnetic cannon. The book is fully illustrated by photos and diagrams and contains an thorough technical appendix.
"The Moon Conquerors" by R.H. Romans, first published in 1930, was one of the first science fiction novels to describe a spacecraft given its initial launch boost by an electromagnetic gun.
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Print: $9.97 Download: $2.00 First published in English in 1929, Otto Willi Gail's little-known space travel novel is almost documentary in its realism. Based on the latest research by such pioneers in astronautics as Hermann Oberth and Max Valier, "The Shot Into Infinity" is not only an exciting and suspenseful novel but also an accurate mirror of the state of the art of space travel three-quarters of a century ago. Illustrated by Frank R. Paul.
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Print: $11.47 Download: $2.00 Otto Willi Gail was one of the most popular science fiction authors in Germany during the early decades of the twentieth century. In this novel, a sequel to "The Shot Into Infinity" (also available from Black Cat Press), Gail combines several science fiction themes into a single exciting, suspenseful narrative: Space travel, Atlantis, the origins of ancient human cultures and the bizarre World Ice Theory of Hanns Horbiger, which eventually became an official science of Nazi racial theory. Although Horbiger was one of the great pseudoscientists of the twentieth century, Gail's descriptions of space travel were based meticulously on the work of astronautics pioneers Hermann Oberth and Max Valier. In addition to being a thrilling novel, this book is also an accurate mirror of the state of the art of astronautics as it existed more than three-quarters of a century ago.
Includes the original illustrations by Frank R. Paul.
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DrowsyDrowsy (book)
Print: $10.96 Download: $1.72 This remarkable novel by the founder of the legendary "Life" humor magazine combines romance, humor, adventure and science fiction in the story of a mysterious inventor and his claim to have discovered diamonds on the Moon.
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Print: $15.95 Download: $2.03 The single most important work of fiction in the history of astronautics...in fact, it can be argued that Jules Verne literally invented the science of astronautics in this seminal novel. Originally published in 1865, it inspired and influenced every important figure in the history of modern space flight, from Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and Hermann Oberth to Wernher von Braun and Robert Goddard.
In addition to its prescience, it is a biting and often excrutiatingly funny satire of America and Americans.
This edition is a brand-new translation of both From the Earth to the Moon and its sequel, Round the Moon. It contains all of the illustrations from the original French editions as well as special appendices.
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Print: $9.96 Download: $2.20 Have the heroes of "From the Earth to the Moon" gone mad? In an insane bid to mine the coal they believe lay beneath the Arctic ice, they plan to tip the Earth's axis. This would melt the polar ice cap...but it would also mean world-wide devastation and loss of life in the millions. Can they be stopped before the catastrophe occurs?
This edition is based on the anonymous 1890 translation published by Ogilvie. It has been extensively edited, corrected and expanded by the addition of material deleted from the earlier version.
Contains the original illustrations as well as an afterword.
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Print: $10.47 Download: $2.00 This 1705 novel is a prime example of how interplanetary travel was used to satirize earthly mores, politics and society. In spite of its overt satirical purposes, the novel is original in its attempt to give a scientific underpinning to its fantasy, including a flight to the moon by means of a flying machine powered by an internal combustion engine.
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Print: $14.96 Download: $1.78 One of Jules Verne's strangest and most controversial novels. It tells the story of a small band of people on a tiny world torn from earth by a grazing comet and their struggles to survive in the wilderness of interplantary space. A strange mixture of dream-like fantasy and hard science---with the addition of an apparant anti-Semitic element that has had critics arguing for decades. Includes more than 100 illustrations from the original edition as well as an appendix with map and diagram. (Note: This edition is substantially corrected and expanded from the currently available Gutenberg version of the book.)
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Print: $14.97 Download: $5.00 In one of the most audacious science fiction novels of all time, the heroes of Andre Laurie's 1887 classic draw the moon to the earth by means of a titanic electromagnet. After its brief contact with our planet, a band of explorers is carried away...and faced with the problem of how to return to earth before their air and food run out. In spite of its improbable premise, Conquest of the Moon introduces numerous science fiction ideas for the first time, from the need for life-support systems for exploring the lunar surface to solar-generated electricity to ancient alien races. Includes the original illustrations.
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Print: $9.96 The author of War of the Worlds brings us the thrilling story of the first expedition to the Moon...and the discovery there of an ancient, alien civilization. Includes the original illustrations by Claude Shepperson.
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Print: $11.97 Download: $2.50 For the first time, H.G. Wells' science fiction classic, "The War of the Worlds", has been combined with its little-known "prequel", "The Crystal Egg" and the 1907 essay, "The Things That Live On Mars". Illustrated.
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Print: $12.46 Download: $3.44 Famed science writer Garrett P. Serviss literally invented an entire literary genre when he wrote the first-ever space opera: "Edison's Conquest of Mars", his 1898 sequel to H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds". Includes the original illustrations and an appendix.
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Print: $12.97 Download: $2.00 In this extraordinary book, originally published in 1937, renowned inventor and physicist E.F. Northrup (writing under the nom de plume of "Akkad Pseudoman") fictionalizes his biography and development of the electromagnetic gun. A seminal work in the history of astronautics, this book was the first to put electromagnetic launching on a solid theoretical and experimental basis. In addition to a fictional account of a trip to the moon in a liquid-fuel rocket boosted into space by means of an electromagnetic gun, Northup included a detailed Technical Supplement in which he outlines the math, physics and experimental data behind the novel. It was 60 years after the publication of this book that NASA and the aerospace industry first began serious experimentation with liner induction for the launching of spacecraft. Includes the original illustrations.
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MarsMars (book)
Print: $9.97 Download: $2.00 The first of the three classic books Percival Lowell wrote about Mars...and the first in which he suggests that the famous "canals" may be artefacts of a dead or dying civilization. Lowell's theory---though derided by most professional astronomers (and for good reason)---had an enormous impact on both the evolution of planetary exploration and science fiction. Lowell's ideas were the direct inspiration for authors ranging from H.G. Wells and Edgar Rice Burroughs to Ray Bradbuy. Originally published in 1895. Contains the original illustrations and a biographical afterword.
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Print: $6.47 Download: $0.99 Originally published in 1928 in the journal of the German Rocket Society, "Die Rakete", and in English in 1931, this story was written by one of the seminal figures in the early history of space travel: Max Valier. An experimenter and indefatigable prosyletizer of astronautics, Valier did much to convince the public of the possibility of space flight in the near future. He wrote numerous books, countless magazine articles---all of which were published internationally---and lectured widely. This is one of his rare works of fiction.
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Print: $9.96 The 1904 novel often credited with inspiring Edgar Rice Burroughs' "Barsoom" series, "Gulliver of Mars" is a strange combination of contemporary satire and the science fiction of the 18th century...
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Print: $11.97 Download: $3.00 In this little-known work published in 1930, author R.H. Romans takes on cosmic themes ranging from the origin of the earth itself to the origins of the different races of humanity (Romans' great goal was to show the fundamental error in the presumption of racial superiority). In the process he created one of the first great female protagonists of SF---the beautiful genius, Dorothy Brewster---as well as one of the first-ever suggestions that an electromagnetic gun might be used to accelerate spacecraft. Illustrated by Frank R. Paul.
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Print: $8.47 Download: $1.49 Written in AD 160, Lucian of Samosata's story of a journey to the moon may be the first science fiction story ever written. Purporting to be a lost chapter of the Odyssey, it tells how Ulysses' ship is carried to the moon by a vast whirlwind. Lucian's descriptions of the earth seen from space are remarkably similar to those of modern astronauts. This volume also includes "Icaromennipus", another moon-voyage story by Lucian (though this time the flight is made by mechanical means). Includes an introduction and extensive notes.
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Print: $9.65 Download: $1.88 "Roy Rockwood" was the pseudonym of "Uncle Wiggly" creator Howard R. Garis. His "Great Marvels" series, of which this is one, was patently patterned on the successes of Jules Verne, Frank Reade and Tom Swift. Originally published in 1911. Frontispiece.
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Print: $8.97 Download: $1.23 Originally published in 1910 as part of the "Great Marvels" series, "Through Space to Mars" is one of the earliest space fiction novels written for young readers. The author, Howard R. Garis (writing under the house name of Roy Rockwood), was one of the most prolific children's book authors of all time. Among his hundreds of other books he was the creator of the Bobbsey Twins and Tom Swift.
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Print: $9.96 In this classic space travel novel from 1909, author Garrett P. Serviss not only provides the reader with an exhilirating adventure, but also one of the first atomic-powered spacecraft in fiction. Includes the original illustrations and an afterword by Rob Godwin.
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Print: $11.00 Download: $2.00 In this book of prescient science and high adventure, we find one of the earliest realistic descriptions of terraforming and how it might be accomplished. "The Moon Colony" is also one of the earliest SF novels to discuss the work of Robert Goddard on liquid fuel rockets and the possibility of employing solar power on the lunar surface. The novel also features not just one but three outstanding female protagonists.
When a mad scientific genius endeavours to transform the Moon into another Earth, he doesn't count on the resistance from its existing inhabitants.
Originally published in 1937. Illustrated/
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Print: $11.00 Download: $5.00 One of the rarest and most unusual space travel novels ever published, "To the Moon and Back in Ninety Days" describes a journey to Earth's satellite in a no-nonsense documentary style, accompanied by more than 60 photos, diagrams and maps. Originally published in 1922, this is the first reprinting in more than 80 years.
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Print: $12.97 Download: $3.00 Friedrich Mader's classic novel, first published in Germany in 1911,takes its readers on a thrilling journey to the planets and moons of our solar system and then on to the distant stars. It was one of the first science fiction novels to deal with the subject of interstellar travel (and features one of the earliest science fiction heroines to boot). Includes the original illustrations.
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Print: $11.96 Download: $1.76 One of the most prescient science fiction novels ever published, it tells the story of life in the far future of the year 2000 and a trip to Jupiter, Saturn and beyond in a fabulous anti-gravity spaceship.
No less unusual are the author and illustrator. John Jacob Astor was one of the wealthiest men in America and co-founder of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, while Dan Beard created the Boy Scouts of America.
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Print: $9.96 Download: $1.50 George Tucker's 1827 novel was one of the earliest attempts at science fiction by an American author. It is also one of the first uses of anti-gravity in literature. Tucker was one of Edgar Allan Poe's university instructors and this novel was an important influence on Poe's decision to write his own space travel novel.
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Print: $7.72 This slim novel---the only science fiction story ever written by clergyman Edward Everett Hale, who also wrote the classic "Man Without A Country"---contains the first suggestion ever made for an artificial Earth satellite. Written in 1869, it also describes many of the functions modern satellites would fulfill: communications, navigation, weather observation, etc.
Full of humor and gentle satire, the story is as readable today as it was nearly 140 years ago.
Includes "On Vesta", a short essay by Konstantin Tsiolkovksy.
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Print: $7.97 Download: $1.01 This short novel is typical of the many moon-voyage books published before the 19th century: full of sharp satire, high adventure and low humor...and a haughty contempt for anything resembling science. In the pseudonymous "Captain Samuel Brunt's" story, his hero is taken on a journey to the moon by the strange inhabitants of the land of Cacklogallinia: six-foot intelligent chickens...
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Print: $14.00 Download: $5.00 The first volume the "Rocket Rider" series, this is one of the rare books for young readers that Howard R. Garis wrote under his own name. Inspired by the world-famous exploits of rocket pioneer Max Valier, the series is devoted to the application of rocket power to every imaginable form of locomotion. Sadly, the series was canceled before Garis could write a promised adventure in outer space.
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Print: $10.47 Download: $3.00 The "Rocket Rider" series were only one of the many series of books the prolific Howard R. Garis (author of the "Uncle Wiggly" stories) penned in his lifetime. Among the few he wrote under his own name, the "Rocket Rider" books were the result of an interest in science that pervaded many of Garis' other series, such as the "Great Marvel" series (written as by Roy Rockwood) and "Tom Swift" (as by Victor Appleton). Although the "Rocket Rider" books reflected a growing interest in rocket-propulsion---inspired by the work of Max Valier---Garis invariably got the explanation of the rocket principle entirely wrong.
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Print: $9.97 Download: $2.00 Howard R. Garis was one of the most prolific writers of children's literature during the first decades of the 20th century. Many of these were science fiction, such as his "Great Marvel Series", written as by Roy Rockwood. Inspired by the experiments of Max Valier, Garis devoted the Rocket Rider series to depicting rocket propulsion employed by many different vehicles, from aircraft to sleds. Sadly, his explanation of how rockets work is wrong in every book!
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Print: $8.97 Download: $1.88 One of only four novels written by aeronautical and astronautical pioneer, A.M. Low, one of the founders of the British Interplanetary Society, "Adrift in the Stratosphere" is the bizarre tale of three young British men who find themselves lost among the invisible worlds that inhabit the upper stratosphere when their rocket-propelled balloon goes astray...
Originally published in 1937. Illustrated.
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Print: $13.00 Download: $5.00 Robert Cromie's 1890 novel features a detailed description of a spacecraft, a plausible description of Mars and many fascinating technological prophecies, such as the wireless broadcast of televised plays and concerts. Includes a foreword by Jules Verne (the only one the famed French author ever wrote), a frontispiece and map.
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Print: $20.00 Download: $5.00 Published by an anonymous author only months before Jules Verne's classic "From the Earth to the Moon", this little-known novel tells of a voyage to the moon by an antigravity spacecraft. Set in 1854, the story contains one of the best-thought-out and detailed descriptions of a spacecraft to be found in early science fiction...it even includes a garden to provide oxygen for the astronauts!
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Print: $13.00 Download: $5.00 A simple country parson finds himself in communication with a super-human Venusian who has visited earth incognito. Aleriel's description of his explorations of Mars and other planets in our solar system leads the parson to a kind of religious epiphany as he realizes Earth's humble place in the universe.
Combines for the first time in one volume "Voice From Another World" (1874) and "Letters From the Planets" (1883). Illustrated.
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Print: $14.00 Download: $5.00 Originally published in 1751, John Daniel is a fantasy-adventure that mixes Gulliver’s Travels and Robinson Crusoe. In the history of space fiction, it marks the first real depiction of space travel by means of a mechanical device...indeed, the Eagle is one of the most carefully realized flying machines in all fiction. John Daniel set the stage for the carefully researched scientific verisimilitude of Poe and Verne. Illustrated.
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Print: $9.96 Download: $1.46 When all-American Gibson Girl Zaidie Rettick married Lord Redgrave little did she think her honeymoon would take her on an adventure through the solar system. George Griffith's 1900 classic introduces his heroine and hero to the gentle Bird-Folk of Venus, the horrifying monsters of Jupiter and the fleets of aerial battleships of the evil Martian warlords.
Includes the original Stanley L. Wood illustrations.
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Print: $10.71 Download: $1.69 An atomic-powered spaceship on a mission to divert an asteroid from an impending collision with earth might sound like an up-to-date SF scenario...unless the book was written in 1916!This nearly forgotten little classic contains one of the most accurate depictions of space travel ever written---in addition to being funny, suspenseful, exciting and as readable now as it was 90 years ago!This the first reprinting of The Moon-Maker in half a century. Includes the prequel novel, The Man Who Rocked the Earth.
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Print: $8.97 In this 1851 updating of Swift's "Gulliver's Travels", Elbert Perce's hapless hero finds himself undergoing fabulous adventures on three fantastic worlds: one he reaches by ship, one by jet-propelled balloon and one by means of the first realistically-described rocket-powered spacecraft in all of literature.
High humor, satire and grand adventure are combined in this slim, nearly forgotten classic of American literature. Illustrated.
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Print: $14.95 Introducing the word "astronaut" into the English language for the first time, Percy Greg's classic novel of a trip to Mars and the discovery of a dysfunctional scientific utopia includes an accurate depiction of space travel as well as pointed social commentary.
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Print: $14.50 Download: $5.00 Containing many ideas and devices that predate those in Edgar Rice Burroughs' classic---and better-known---"Barsoom" series, Fenton Ash's 1909 novel is one of the earliest space travel books intended for teenage readers. Illustrated.
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Print: $15.00 Download: $5.00 In this novel, originally published in 1911, author Mark Wicks describes a journey to the Moon and Mars in the spaceship "Areonal". Heavily influenced by the work of Percival Lowell, the book accurately mirrors the popular interest in Mars at the turn of the last century. Included are the original illustrations, many of them drawn by the author.
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Print: $8.00 Washington Gladden was a noted clergyman, theologian and social reformer whose many books on these subjects were highly respected. It may have come as a surprise to his admirers to find this delightful fantasy, first published in a children's magazine in 1880. And although Gladden was writing with tongue clearly in cheek, he displays a good knowledge of and appreciation for technology, science and astronomy. Indeed, this story contains one of the first mentions of the need of a life support system for lunar explorers. Illustrated.
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Print: $12.46 James Cowan's 1899 science fiction fantasy anticipated the Christian apologetics of C.S. Lewis' better-known "Perelandra" series.
A small group of earthlings are carried off to Mars where they encounter an entirely new kind of Christianity that embraces parallel evolution and multiple reincarnations of Christ.
Includes the original illustrations.
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Print: $11.96 Originally published in 1907, this little-known science fiction classic describes a planet beset by world war---a war involving super-weapons of almost inconceivable power---while under the threat of annihilation by a fast-approaching comet. The World Peril of 1910 is not only one of the first books to describe the potential of a comet impact with earth, it includes the world's first countdown...
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Print: $9.47 Download: $2.00 This utopian novel by the author of "The Last Days of Pompeii" was a best-seller when it first appeared and eventually proved to be enormously influential not only the development of science fiction at the turn of the 20th century but even upon the development of Nazi pseudoscience. The novel features ZEE, princess of a subterranean race of super-beings possessed of extraordinary abilities, powers and knowledge of advanced science.
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Print: $19.97 "The Blue Lagoon"---the classic novel of adventure and romance in the South Seas---along with its two sequels. Includes the short story by Morgan Robertson, "The Three Laws and the Golden Rule", which may have inspired these stories. Illustrated by Ron Miller.
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Print: $9.97 Download: $2.00 An expedition discoveries a lost tribe of Cro-Magnons hidden deep within the wastes of Antartica. The village, led by Dian, a beautiful barbarian queen, is threatened by invading Neanderthals. Can the modern explorers save Dian's people? Perhaps, but at what cost? A fantasy classic from 1930.
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SalomeSalome (book)
Print: $9.00 Download: $2.00 Oscar Wilde's Salome was originally published in French in 1891. Three years later an English translation was published. The play tells in one act the Biblical story of Salome, stepdaughter of the tetrarch Herod Antipas, who, to her stepfather's dismay but to the delight of her mother Herodias, requests the head of Jokanaan (John the Baptist) on a silver platter as a reward for dancing the Dance of the Seven Veils. Illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley, including drawings expurgated from the original edition
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Print: $9.47 Download: $2.00 The story of Helen of Troy---whose matchless beauty became the impetus behind the tragedies of the Trojan War---translated and retold from the original Greek by Andrew Lang in the form of modern English verse.
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Print: $9.75 Separating fact from fiction, legend from history, "The Life and Legend of Pocahontas" tells the true story of America's first heroine. Illustrated.
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Print: $12.47 H. Rider Haggard's classic tale of the life and loves of Egypt's last pharoah: the fabulous Cleopatra. Includes the original illustrations.
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Print: $10.97 Download: $2.00 Yahna, the scarlet-feathered winged princess of a dying race of Martians, may be the only person in the solar system capable of saving Earth from itself...
Originally published in 1959.
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SheShe (book)
Print: $12.96 H. Rider Haggard's classic novel about two men in search of a lost civilization in the depths of Africa and the mythical woman who rules it, the immortal, all-powerful queen known as She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed." The queen known as Ayesha...
Cover and frontispiece by Ron Miller.
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Print: $13.00 Download: $2.00 Sixteen years after the events in his classic adventure novel, "She", H. Rider Haggard continues the incredible story of the immortal beauty, Ayesha, "She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed".
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Print: $16.00 Download: $5.00 In this prequel to "She", H. Rider Haggard unites two of his most popular characters: the immortal Ayesha---She-who-must-be-obeyed---and Allan Quatermain, the hero of novels such as the classic "King Solomon's Mines".
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Print: $8.97 This charming, little-known fantasy by the author of "The Time Machine" and "The War of the Worlds" is also a sharply satirical look at the mores and moral of Edwardian England. Includes the original illustrations.
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Print: $9.96 Download: $1.32 Mermaids, selkies, nixies, undines and water nymphs...Nine classic tales, poems and folk stories---from Oscar Wilde to Hans Christian Andersen---about the most seductive of all sea creatures. Cover and interior illustrations by Ron Miller.
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Print: $8.97 Download: $2.00 A young man agrees to have an electro-chemical robot created in the form of the woman he loves in this classic SF novel from 1884.
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Print: $11.97 Download: $2.00 In this early SF classic, originally published in 1922---a young chemist discovers---through the use of a new drug than shrinks him to sub-atomic size---a world hidden within a single atom of his mother’s wedding ring...and a beautiful warrior-queen named Lylda. He is eventually joined by four companions in his bid to aid Lylda in her battle for the conquest of the Golden World.
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Print: $11.97 Download: $1.17 When two amateur archeologists in Australia uncover a hidden high-tech tomb they inadvertantly awaken a millenias-old superhuman. Does the beautiful Earani mean to save humanity or destroy it? An acclaimed science fiction classic by Erle Cox, this 1928 novel has not been reprinted for decades.
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Print: $7.47 Download: $0.69 While Eudena is not the central character of this short 1897 novel by H.G. Wells, she is nevertheless a strong, heroic, independent woman who succeeds in holding her own with the story's hero, Ugh-Lomi, the caveman. Includes the original illustrations.
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Print: $7.47 Download: $0.69 Written shortly after the death of his beloved wife, this little book is one of Mark Twain's masterpieces. Vilified and banned when it was first published, it is one and the same time it is one of his funniest, wisest, gentlest and most romatic tales...and one of the greatest love stories ever told.
Includes the original illustrations.
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Print: $11.96 Originally published in Britain under the title "Narrative of a Four Months Residence among the Natives of a Valley of the Marquesas Islands", "Typee" was Melville’s first novel. Published in 1846, five years before "Moby-Dick", it was the most popular of the author’s works during his lifetime. There is an autobiographical element to the book for, like his hero, Melville also himself jumped from a ship in the Marquesas. The novel, however, is a study of innocence and the questions that surround it. Tommo, the deserter, and his friend Toby find themselves in the land of the cannibalistic Typees, who live in a virtual Eden and want for nothing...and have little respect for life... Tommo eventually finds himself torn between his infatuation for the beautiful Fayaway and a longing for civilization.
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Print: $11.96 Scheherazade was the world's greatest story-teller...her life depended on it. So as she kept the Caliph of Bagdad entertained, she remained alive. So for a thousand and one nights she told her tales...
This is a new edition of Andrew Lang's classic collection, The Arabian Nights Entertainments.
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Print: $10.96 Based on her screenplay for the classic science fiction epic, "Metropolis", Thea von Harbou's novel takes us to an incredible 21st-century city---a city run by a despot who keeps its workers buried in vast, underground factories. When a saint-like agitator arises in the form of a beautiful woman named Maria, he is inclined to dismiss her...until his son falls in love with the woman. His answer? To have an insane scientist create a robot in her image, a robot that will lead the workers in a self-destructive riot...
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Print: $13.54 George Allan England was one of the most popular authors of his time and "The Flying Legion" was one of his most popular books. It's the story of a mental and physical giant known only as "The Master" who, in his penthouse high atop a New York skyscraper, hatches one of the boldest schemes ever conceived: to steal the treasures hidden deep within the secret city of Mecca. Together with a team of trusted adventurers, including "Captain Alden", perhaps the most amazing heroine in all of adventure literature, they set off in huge, futuristic aircraft for the East...
Five interior illustrations.
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Print: $6.97 The haunting, classic fantasy of the transformation of a beautiful woman into a vixen, and the effect on her doting husband. A fantasy made all the more realistic and poignant by the author's straightforward, matter-of-fact style of story-telling. Originally published in 1922.
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Print: $9.96 The great transcontinental airship, Magellan’s Pride, runs into a mountain in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean where no mounatain should be. Three survivors crawl from the wreckage to discover themselves lost in a world of the distant past, in an Atlantis peopled by Cro-Magnons and Neanderthals and haunted by mammoths and sabre-toothed tigers...
Claire Stranlay must learn to survive in this strange, hostile new world and does so in the only way she knows how...
This classic novel of adventure has not been reprinted since its original publication in 1932
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Print: $9.96 A shipwrecked sailor finds himself on a strange island whose inhabitants range from degenerate descendants of pirates to creatures from Greek myth---including an uninhibited French-speaking dryad...
A classic from the author of "Deluge".
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Print: $11.96 Gerry "Catch-'em-Alive" Carlyle is an interplanetary hunter capturing live specimens of extraterrestrial animals for the London Interplanetary Zoo.
While early science fiction had already featured many superb female characters, Gerry Carlyle was the first to be featured in her own popular series---that ran for nearly a decade in Thrilling Wonder Stories magazine.
This book gathers all seven original stories, along with several of the original pulp magazine illustrations and a special Field Guide to many of the weird creatures Gerry encountered.
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Print: $11.96 The classic novel from 1900 about the last days of the great continent of Atlantis. Fast-paced adventure and well-drawn characters---including two the most outstanding female characters in Victorian fiction---make this book as good a read today as it was a century ago.
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Print: $13.00 Download: $5.00 Handicap Haven is where Earth has exiled a population of bizarre "freaks" unacceptable on a planet consumed by perfection. Banned forever from returning to their home planet, they look outward---to the stars.
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Print: $12.00 One of the great fantasy classics---and a major influence on H.P. Lovecraft---Abraham's Merritt's epic adventure takes his heroes to a lost world deep in the Himalayan mountains, a world controlled by a bizarrely alien metal intelligence and its human queen, the fabulous Norhala.
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Print: $11.96 When Abel, a stranger from Europe, visits the deep Amazonian jungle, he discovers Rima, the mysterious "Bird Girl". W.H. Hudson's novel is justly famed for the poetic, mystical and other-worldly feelings it evokes in its description of the rainforest and its denizens---and the mysterious girl who seems to embody its spirit.
Originally published in 1904.
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Print: $14.40 Download: $1.50 Originally published in 1753 and rarely reprinted since,Robert Paltock's epic novel has been favorably compared to such classics as "Robinson Crusoe" and "Gulliver's Travels". Part satire, part exciting adventure, part science fiction, the novel tells of the discovery of a strange race of winged humans living deep within the Earth beneath the South Pole. A resourceful castaway finds his life inextricably entwined with that of the courageous flying woman, Youwarkee...
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Print: $6.97 Download: $1.77 This little classic is one of the earliest American science fiction stories. It tells the story of a scientist so obsessed with his research that he stops at nothing---deception, theft and even murder---to achieve his ends. He ultimately succeeds, but at price even he never anticipated.
Originally published in 1858.
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Print: $8.47 Meet the Queen of England...Her name is Victory and she is the leader of a band of barbarians who are all that remain of the once-mighty nation. Two hundred years after the Great War that demolished Europe, she must pit all of her courage, resourcefulness and strength in a battle to not only survive, but aid her lover, Lt. Jefferson Turck, to return alive to the civilization he once knew...
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Print: $9.96 Edgar Rice Burroughs' novels were filled with amazing female characters---strong, courageous, intelligent and independent---but few as extraordinary as Nadara, the Cave Girl...
When Waldo Emerson Smith-Jones, a pampered Bostonian socialite, finds himself marooned on an unchartered island, he must depend upon Nadara's skills to survive...and to make a new man of himself.
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Print: $9.96 Edgar Rice Burrough's classic tale of interplanetary adventure and romance.
Cover art and frontispiece illustration by Ron Miller.
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Print: $18.95 In this sequel to "A Princess of Mars", John Carter of Helium has rescued Thuvia, princess of Ptarth, from the Therns and now Carthoris, John Carter's son, has fallen in love with her. But Thuvia is stolen away by Astok, Prince of Dusar, Ptarth's rival. Carthoris tracks Thuvia across Barsoom and rescues her only to find she is already betrothed to Kulan Tith, Jeddak of Kaol, an ally of Helium.
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Print: $9.96 The sequel to "At the Earth's Core".
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Print: $9.97 When David Innes and his inventor friend pierced the crust of the earth in their mechanical mole, they broke out into a strange inner worldl of eternal day---a world back in the stone age, where prehistoric monsters still lived and cave men and women battled the against fierce inhuman masters...
Originally published in 1914. Cover and interior illustration by Ron Miller
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Print: $9.97 Download: $2.00 The Moon declares war on Earth with catastrophic consequences. Only a lone Earthman and a beautiful, barbarian queen can save both planets from destruction in this 1929 classic of epic pulp fiction.
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Print: $12.46 All three of Edgar Rice Burroughs' classic "Caspak" series in one volume: "The Land That Time Forgot", "The People That Time Forgot" and "Out of Time's Abyss". Cover and interior art by Ron Miller.
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Print: $11.97 Download: $2.00 "The Blue Pagoda" was originally commissioned as a completion to the unfinished A. Merritt novel, "The Fox Woman". However, it stands on its own as one of the great fantasy novels of the 20th century. Written by the legendary fantasist Hannes Bok---winner of the first artist's Hugo ever awarded---this is the first reprinting in nearly 60 years and the first reprinting as an independent book. This edition includes the author's original interior illustrations.
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Print: $6.97 In this short novel by SF legend Stanley Weinbaum, we meet Margaret of Urbs---"Black Margot"---the despotic, immortal ruler trying to maintain the remnants of civilization on an Earth that has reverted to barbarism after a cataclysmic war...and the man she falls in love with...a man devoted to overthrowing her...
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Print: $7.50 A traveler to the moon's distant past teams up with a strange being---the Mother---to save her race from extinction.
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Print: $13.00 Download: $5.00 Copper risks her life to prove that her enslaved people are truly human.
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Print: $10.47 Download: $3.00 One of the great classics of feminist science fiction, "Angel Island"---published 90 years ago---tells the tragic story of what happens when a group of shipwrecked sailors discover that the island they've been marooned on is inhabited by five beautiful winged women...
Includes the short story "Friend Island" by Francis Stevens, a classic of feminist fantasy from 1918.
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Print: $10.97 Download: $2.00 One of the great classic lost race novels is this 1908 homage to H. Rider Haggard by W.C. Morrow. "Lentala" tells the story of the discovery of a mysterious island civilization lost deep in Oceania and its powerful, beautiful Queen...
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Print: $11.97 A Voyage to Arcturus, first published in 1920, has been described as the major underground novel of the 20th century. The secret of the book's strangeness and popularity lies in the author's view of the "real" world as an illusion, which must be rejected in order to perceive genuine "truth".
Ignored in his own time, Lindsay is today considered to be one of the most important of Scottish writers, a major fantasist bridging the link between George Macdonald and more modern writers such as Alasdair Gray, who have also used surrealism and magic realism in their works.
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Print: $11.96 A classic novel, first published in 1920, about the discovery of the last remnants of Atlantis in the mountains of the Sahara Desert---a lost civilization ruled by ruthless barbarian queen...
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Print: $15.25 Download: $2.00 Christina Rossetti's enigmatic "The Goblin Market" has stirred debate since its first publication nearly 150 years ago. Is it an innocent tale of fantasy for children, with a wholly uplifting moral? Or is it one of the most lushly erotic works of literature ever created? This special edition is lavishly illustrated by Ron Miller, Hugo Award-Winning author-illustrator of "The Grand Tour" and "The Art of Chesley Bonestell". For mature readers only.
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Print: $13.97 Download: $2.00 When pretty Anne Bedo flees into the Australian outback in order to avoid an unwanted marriage, she little dreams of the incredible adventures that await her...not the least of which is the discovery of a lost colony of Atlantis which makes her their new queen...
A classic of feminist science fiction originally published in 1904.
Illustrated.
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Print: $12.97 Download: $1.25 First published in 1897, this classic masterpiece of occult horror outsold "Dracula", which was released the same year. Is the deadly creature known only as "The Beetle" human or beast, male or female...or something terrible never before seen on Earth?
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Print: $14.00 Download: $5.00 Isabelle de Keralio is one of the leaders of an expedition attempting to reach the North Pole by steamship, balloon and submarine. Facing storms, ice, starvation and rampaging polar bears she finally discovers the bizarre, unbelievable secret of the North Pole. Originally published in French in 1893 as "A French Woman at the North Pole" and in English in 1898. Includes the original illustrations.
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Print: $9.96 Oscar Wilde's classic novel about a man who stays young and handsome while his hidden portrait reflects the effects of his dissipation and crimes...
Often considered one of the great horror classics, Dorian Gray is also a metaphor of Wilde's own life.
Sixteen interior illustrations by Ron Miller.
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Print: $11.00 Download: $5.00 Originally published in 1909, this long-out-of-print classic of American humor was the last book to be published in Twain's lifetime. Ironically, the story involves the adventures of a crusty American sea-dog named Capt. Stormfield after he arrives in heaven on board a comet...only a year before Twain himself died at his home, Stormfield, Connecticut...in the same year Halley's Comet revisited the earth.
"I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.'"
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Print: $11.97 A special edition of Jules Verne's masterpiece, edited, expanded, corrected and illustrated by Ron Miller, with a text newly translated from the original French.. In addition to more than 200 notes that introduce the reader to Verne's science and world, there are numerous full-page illustrations, special chapter heads and maps.
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Print: $14.97 This special edition of Jules Verne's classic novel corrects more than 3000 errors in the original 1872 English translation and replaces the 23% of the text that had been expurgated by the original translator for political, ideological and other reasons. In addition, there are nearly two dozen illustrations created especially for this edition by Ron Miller, cutaway views and schematics of the Nautilus, maps, details of Verne's diving suits and many other special features.
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Print: $11.73 Download: $2.40 Extraordinary Voyages is an indispensible companion for the reader of Jules Verne. Nearly 150 maps, charts, diagrams and schematic drawings illustrate all of the voyages made by Verne's characters and all of the places visited by them. In addition to the maps are diagrams of many of Verne's fictional inventions, including the "Nautilus" and the "Albatross". Other pages are devoted to the ships in Verne's books, 19th century submarines and proposed helicopters, diving suits and many other subjects.
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Print: $9.97 Download: $3.81 A selection of grim Victorian verses dealing with disease, dying, death and mutilation. Ranging from the disturbing "The Doll's Funeral" to "Good-bye, Old Arm" and "Measuring the Baby", these poems are tailor-made for reading at the next shower or hospital visit. Introduction by Sommer Browning, illustrations by Mahendra Singh.
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VeldaVelda (book)
Print: $14.96 Download: $6.32 Velda Bellinghausen, showgirl turned private eye, must clear a tormented teenage girl of a charge of murder---when even her client confesses to having committed the brutal crime. From the seedy alleys of Greenwich Village to the glamorous penthouse studios of famous pinup artists to the fetid swamps of the Florida Keys, Velda pursues what only she believes is the truth...a pursuit that proves to be deadlier than even she ever thought possible...
"Velda is the kind of detective I like!" Richard S. Prather, creator of the Shell Scott series.
"Pure cheese...but who cares!" Kevin Burton Smith, Thrilling Detective Website.
Be sure to visit Velda's personal website! http:/www.veldapi.com
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Print: $14.96 Download: $5.96 Here is a baker's dozen of some of detective Velda Bellinghausen's greatest cases. From murdered magicians to killer clowns, from Margate, New Jersey to Hollywood, California, the slinky sleuth faces endless danger, adventure and thrills...to say nothing of an occasional fee. Be sure to visit Velda's personal website at http://www.black-cat-studios.com/velda
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Print: $17.46 The official Velda: Girl Detective 2007 Calendar, inspired by Velda Bellinghausen, heroine of the novel, "Velda", the short story collection, "Thirteen Steps to Velda" and the "Velda: Girl Detective" comic book series (http://www.veldapi.com)
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Print: $12.96 She is beautiful, lithe and swift: deadly as the blade flashing in her deft grip. The blood of kings runs strongly in her veins, but her weakling brother wears the crown---and a ruthless maniac is his puppetmaster. To save her kingdom, Bronwyn must enlist a rebel force of gypsies, giants, peasants, pirates and changelings... Book One of the series. Cover art and illustrations by the author. "A vivid and exceptional fantasy world." --Allan Steele "The tale as a whole is one that Robert Jordan might well have told at five times the length and with only one fifth of the wit and fun." --John Grant
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Print: $14.96 Download: $5.46 In Book Two of the Bronwyn tetralogy, the princess becomes a prisoner in her own kingdom. But iron bars are no match for her iron will. With the help of her strange collection of companions, she engineers an escape...but must still face the faerie-haunted Dark Forest and the spies and bounty hunters of her deadliest enemies. Cover art and illustrations by the author. "The tale as a whole is one that Robert Jordan might well have told at five times the length and with only one fifth of the wit and fun." --John Grant
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Print: $12.38 Download: $2.50 In the third volume of the Bronwyn series, the princess faces her ultimate challenge as she leads an army against her own country.Cover art and illustrations by the author."The tale as a whole is one that Robert Jordan might well have told at five times the length and with only one fifth of the wit and fun." --John Grant
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Print: $15.00 Download: $4.52 In the fourth volume of the Bronwyn tetralogy, Bronwyn must defeat a mad scientist bent on the destruction of the world---a quest that takes her from pirate ships and harems to faerie kingdoms and the moon. Cover art and illustrations by the author. "A vivid and exciting fantasy world."---Allan Steele
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Print: $15.00 Download: $6.00 In this first volume of the biography of the infamous space pirate, Captain Judikah, we follow her career from street urchin and petty thief in the sordid back alleys of the great spaceport city of Blavek to her adventures as a shanghaied crewmember aboard a dreaded hellship to her eventual membership in the Space Patrol...and the astonishing discovery she then made. A discovery destined to forever change Judikah's life... The beginning of a new, independent series taking place in the world of the Bronwyn tetralogy. (http://black-cat-studios.com/black-cat-press/miller.html)
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Print: $29.87 Download: FREE A complete pictorial guide to the life and world of Princess Bronwyn, heroine of the four-volume series of steampunk/fantasy novels by Ron Miller (see http://www.black-cat-studios.com/books). Includes biography, geography, science, art and literature.
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Print: $8.90 Download: FREE A brief introduction to the basics of good cover design. It describes what makes a good cover, how to handle typography and artwork and how to obtain art for your book (including a list of sources for free artwork). Illustrated in color with many examples.
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Print: $11.80 A brilliant satire of the spate of South Sea tales and movies that assaulted the public in the 1920's, the story of the cruise of the "Kawa" to the hitherto unknown Filbert Islands is a classic of humorous literature. All of the original illustrations are included.
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Print: $10.00 A novelization of the life and career of the infamous Lady Godiva. Illustrated.
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Print: $7.00 Download: $2.00 Morgan Robertson's classic short story, "Three Laws and the Golden Rule", and its prequel, "Primordial" not only laid the groundwork for such later novels as "The Blue Lagoon" but many of the themes in Edgar Rice Burroughs' work.
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