Do you struggle to get your child to sleep? Join millions of parents all over the world and embrace a bedtime routine that will help your child to relax and fall fast asleep. Let your child be lulled to sleep with Alex the Tractor in a sleep-inducing ride around the...

The Time Traders is the first novel in The Time Traders series by Andre Norton. It is part of Norton's Forerunner universe. The Time Traders introduces the series' premise, a confrontation between Western heroes, and the "Reds", and a mysterious alien race that has used...

The Invisible Man is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells, first published in 1897. The Invisible Man is one of the most famous science fiction novels of all time. It tells the story of a scientist who discovers the secret of invisibility and uses it on himself.  The...

"I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments." Similar to Hans Christian Andersen fairy-tales (but with trademark witticisms), ‘The Happy Prince and Other Tales’ (1888) by Oscar Wilde are children’s stories that are a great ride for...

The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells first published in 1898. The book is considered to be one of the first science fiction novels. The War of the Worlds is one of the earliest stories that detail a conflict between mankind and an...

The Food of the Gods, and How It Came to Earth is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells, first published in 1904. Wells called it "a fantasia on the change of scale in human affairs. . . . I had hit upon [the idea] while working out the possibilities of the near future...

The Island of Doctor Moreau is an 1896 science fiction novel written by H. G. Wells.  The text of the novel is the narration of Edward Prendick, a shipwrecked man rescued by a passing boat who is left on a beautiful island in the South Seas. On the island Prendick is...

Key Out of Time is the fourth novel in The Time Traders series by Andre Norton. It was first published in 1963, and as of 2012, had been reprinted in 17 editions with cover changes, as well as twice in a combined edition with The Defiant Agents. It is part of Norton's...

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...

The Lair of the White Worm (also known as The Garden of Evil) is a horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, who also wrote Dracula. It is partly based on the legend of the Lambton Worm. The Lair of the White Worm was Bram Stoker's twelfth and last novel. This novel,...

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....

A Columbus of Space is a science fiction novel by Garrett P. Serviss first published in 1909. A classic science fiction adventure in the style of and dedicated to the readers of Jules Verne. The hero of this tale of scientific wonder is called "A Columbus of Space"...

The Time Machine is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells, first published in 1898. H.G. Wells' classic science fiction-fantasy story, in which a scientist known only as “The Time Traveller” tells the tale of his journey to the year 802,701 A.D. and beyond, where he...

Delia Langley has been a prisoner all her life - a prisoner to high society and its conventions. A prisoner to her wealthy father's overprotective measures. A prisoner to a fiance-to-be in an arrangement made by her father to have a royal heir. Now nineteen, Delia is...

Gambler's World is a science fiction short story by American author Keith Laumer. Here is a story starring the always unconventional Terrestrial Diplomat, Retief. As a diplomat, Retief does not always follow procedure.  Well the truth is that he almost never follows...

The Man Who Saw the Future is a science fiction short story by Edmond Hamilton first published in 1930. A man from the Dark Ages,  an assistant apothecary in 1444 Paris is investigating mysterious thunderclaps in a field, when he is plucked from his time and deposited...

The Gifts of Asti is a science fiction short story written by Andre Norton. She was the guardian of the worlds, but HER world was dead. Varta, the last priestess of Asti, lives alone with Lur, a telepath of the lizardfolk, in Asti's isolated mountain retreat. Decadent...

Kipps is a novel by H. G. Wells, first published in 1905. Humorous yet sympathetic, the perceptive social novel is generally regarded as a masterpiece, and it was his own favourite work. Arthur Kipps, an orphaned draper’s assistant of humble means, unexpectedly...

Gold in the Sky is a 1958 science fiction novel by Alan E. Nourse. A big corporation tries to take over the asteroids in this fast-paced  novel, and they'll stop at nothing to get control… Enjoy the cast in this novel: Greg Hunter. Test pilot, happy only when his life...

The Big Time is a science fiction novel by Fritz Leiber published in 1958. It was awarded the Hugo Award during 1958. The Big Time is a story involving only a few characters, but with a vast, cosmic back story.  The storyline features members of one of two factions,...

Police Your Planet is a science fiction novel by American author Lester del Ray, first published in 1956. Written under the pseudonym "Eric Van Lhin," this hard-boiled story of cheap grifters, Martian slums, and rampant crime featuring ex-cop Bruce Gordon. This book...

Greylorn is a science fiction novella by American author Keith Laumer. Earth is threatened with destruction by a deadly alien plague. The planet’s only hope: Get help from the long-lost Omega Colony, somewhere in space. The fate of the Earth is in the hands of...

Plague Ship is a science fiction novel by Andre Norton. A fast-moving suspense tale, full of unusual detail and unexpected turns. Several highlights make the book really shine: the sunset gorp hunt on the reefs of an oily sea; a raid on an asteroid's emergency station;...

The History of Mr. Polly is a 1910 comic novel by H. G. Wells. A funny and touching account of the imaginative Mr. Polly who, bored and trapped in his conventional life, makes a U-turn –- and changes everything. The protagonist of The History of Mr. Polly is an...

Ultima Thule is a science fiction novella by American author Mack Reynolds, first published in 1962. Three years after applying, Ronny is provisionally hired by United Planets and sent on a perplexing chase from planet to planet, trying to catch an interstellar saboteur....

...And It Comes Out Here is a science fiction short story by American author Lester del Ray, first published in 1951. There is one fact no sane man can quarrel with ... everything has a beginning and an end. But some men aren't sane; thus it isn't always so! A rather...

A Pail of Air is a science fiction short story by Fritz Leiber which appeared in the December 1951 issue of Galaxy Magazine and was dramatized on the radio show X Minus One in March 1956. The story is narrated by a ten-year-old boy living on Earth after it has become a...

The Yillian Way is a science fiction short story by American author Keith Laumer.  Here is a story starring the always unconventional Terrestrial Diplomat, Retief. The ceremonious protocol of the Yills was impressive, colorful--and, in the long run,...

Derelict is a science fiction short story by American author Alan E. Nourse.         What was the mystery of this great ship from the dark, deep reaches of space? For, within its death-filled chambers—was the avenue of life! In a world run by a military...

The Sargasso of Space is a science fiction novella by American author Edmond Hamilton first published in Astounding Stories 1931. Helpless, doomed, into the graveyard of space floats the wrecked freighter Pallas. Captain Crain faced his crew calmly. "We may as well face...

Rebels of the Red Planet is a science fiction novel by Charles Fontenay first published in 1961. Human genetic engineering experiments to facilitate colonization of Mars take some tragically wrong turns. Include the obligatory 1950's space romance and you have - pulp -...

Under the Sunset is a collection of short stories by Bram Stoker (the author of Dracula), first published in 1881. Originally conceived of by the author to be a collection of “Children’s stories,” these tales lean towards the dark and moody and even sometimes...

The Pirate Planet is a science fiction novel by American author Charles W. Diffin. The Pirate Planet is a story of alien invasion, kidnapping, space travel, weird ugly creatures on a distant planet, and of course a beautiful woman. Two of our three heroes battle it out...

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...

The Ghost of Guir House is a horror novel by American writer Charles Willing Beale first published in 1897. Do you think you understand ghosts? Now you will. 1890s spiritualism infuses this weird, ghostly tale of a spirit romance and a mysterious crime that Mr. Henley's...

The People of the Crater is a science fiction novella by American author Andre Norton. "Send the Black Throne to dust; conquer the Black Ones, and bring the Daughter from the Caves of Darkness." These were the tasks Garin must perform to fulfill the prophecy of the...

Ralestone Luck is a novel by American author Andre Norton. Rupert Ralestone is officially the Marquess of Lorne--but with no family money or prestige, the title is worthless.  He and his younger brother and sister return to the old family homestead--Pirate's...

The Door of the Unreal is a horror novel by the British author Gerald Biss. An early werewolf novel, praised by H.P Lovecraft, calling this novel one of the children of Dracula.  Two strange disappearances occur on a road in Sussex. The second involved a member of the...

Coming Attraction is a science fiction short story by Fritz Leiber originally published in the second issue (November 1950) of Galaxy Science Fiction. The story was nominated for a Retro Hugo Award in 2001. The story is set in Manhattan during a protracted war between...

The Valor of Cappen Varra is a science fiction short story by Poul W. Anderson first published in 1957. "Let little Cappen go," they shouted. "Maybe he can sing the trolls to sleep—" We have said that there are many and strange shadows, memories surviving from dim...

Bread Overhead is a science fiction short story by Fritz Leiber published in 1958. A satire on business, advertising, and politics in the future. Bread is manufactured with the wrong gas injected at the factory, and literally becomes "lighter than air". While no...

The Big Fix    is a science fiction novella by George O. Smith first published in 1959.    Anyone who holds that telepathy and psi powers would mean an end to crime quite obviously underestimates the ingenuity of the human race. Now consider a horserace that had to...

No Strings Attached is a science fiction short story by American author Lester del Ray, first published in 1954. Poor Henry was an unhappy husband whose wife had a habit of using bad clichès. Alféar was a genii who was, quite like most humans, a creature of...

Dead Ringer is a science fiction short story by American author Lester del Ray, first published in 1956. There was nothing, especially on Earth, which could set him free—the truth least of all! A newspaperman is hounded from his jobs because he keeps trying to report...