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The Big Game Hunting Collection contains three classic accounts of dangerous animals, wilderness travel, and hunting in Africa and India. These works belong to the older tradition of exploration and hunting memoir, combining adventure, natural observation, colonial-era travel, and the constant tension between human beings and the wild.

This book is ostensibly about a theoretical catastrophic geologic event. It turns into a meditation on what it means to be an English person, and at the end, includes a ringing defense of America. (Summary by Judi Mason)

"The Winds of Time" by James H. Schmitz is a science fiction novella written in Sept 1962. The Captain, Gefty Rammer, and one of his passengers, Miss Ruse, must navigate onboard mysteries as well as external complications of space travel and temporal currents. Working together the two newly acquainted humans must solve multiple issues in order to escape the Winds of Time! (Summary by cyndajm)

Rick & Scotty are invited to solve a mystery in Egypt. Traveling with Dr Winston our hero's investigate a mystery that has a global reach as well as an Astronomical scope! (Summary by Cyndajm)

The most dangerous of animals is not the biggest and fiercest—but the one that's hardest to stop. Add intelligence to that ... and you may come to a wrong conclusion as to what the worst menace is.... - Summary by Analog Science Fact & Fiction

Fenómenos meteorológicos surpreendentes. Mitos desfeitos sobre o clima. E a resposta à pergunta que os ouvintes fazem todos os dias: o que é que eu visto amanhã — casaco ou manga curta?

Henry Hasse was a classic Sci Fi author, publishing most of his stories in the 1940's in Sci Fi magazines. He did continue to write and included in this compilation are publications through 1060. Eleven classic stories of "what if...?" and "could we; .should we...?" Thought provoking, this is Sci Fi at it's best. New worlds imagined, new scenarios based on known locations, join us on this adventure through time and space! - Summary by Cyndajm

Join the adventure of teenage Rick Brant, and his friend Scotty as they tackle the impending eruption of the volcano El Viejo on the island of San Luz. Scientific intrigue, danger, and the challenge of battling nature's catastrophic forces create the backdrop for a mid-century Sci-Fi classic. Suspenseful and action-packed adventure, filled with scientific exploration and the urgency to save lives before the volcano erupts. (Summary by Cyndajm)

"Herbert West—Reanimator" is a story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft that was first serialized in February through July 1922 in the amateur publication Home Brew. The story was the basis of the 1985 horror film Re-Animator and its sequels, in addition to numerous other adaptations in various media. You want zombies? Listen to this because Lovecraft was one of the very first and he got zombies right: scary, evil, implacable and out to get you. (Summary by Phil Chenevert)

A podcast created to showcase the amazing action being taken for nature across Nottinghamshire and to inspire more people than ever before to take action to protect and restore nature on their doorstep. Hear from people from who are making a difference for wildlife in our county and beyond.

Looking Backward: 2000-1887 is a utopian novel by Edward Bellamy, first published in 1888. It was the third largest bestseller of its time, after Uncle Tom's Cabin and Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.The book tells the story of Julian West, a young American who, towards the end of the 19th century, falls into a deep, hypnosis-induced sleep and wakes up more than a century later. He finds himself in the same location (Boston, Massachusetts) but in a totally changed world: It is the year 2000 and, while he was sleeping, the U.S.A. has been transformed into a socialist utopia. This book outlines ...

Out of Time’s Abyss is an Edgar Rice Burroughs science fiction novel, the third of his Caspak trilogy. The sequence was first published in Blue Book Magazine as a three-part serial in the issues for September, October and November 1918, with Out of Time's Abyss forming the third installment. The complete trilogy was later combined for publication in book form under the title of The Land That Time Forgot (properly speaking the title of the first part) by A. C. McClurg in June 1924. Beginning with the Ace Books editions of the 1960s, the three segments have usually been issued as separate ...

In a future where everyone is assigned profession-based classifications, defying your place in society can land you in prison. Captain Liam O' Leary of the Estates-General Correctional Institution, better known as The Jug, knows his place. He also knows trouble when he smells it, and the trouble he smells manifests as a large scale prison riot where those rigid class structures don't mean a damn thing and the name of the game is survival! - Summary by Ben Tucker

A morphine-addicted billionaire, Isaac Flint, and his power-hungry partner, "Tiger" Waldron, are not sated with their vast wealth and plot world domination by controlling the world's oxygen supply through technological siphoning of the atmosphere. They'd sell the oxygen back, of course, for a premium, but make no mistake- they would cut off that oxygen for anyone who doesn't bow to them. In their way stands a socialist worker, Gabriel, who uncovers the plot and seeks to stop them. The billionaire's daughter, Catherine Flint, through a chance encounter with Gabriel, becomes entangled with the ...

Tara of Helium, John Carter's second child, is nearly as beautiful as her mother, Deja Thoris, and as independent-minded as her father. These qualities cause her much grief during a long series of imprisonments by hostile aliens. She is aided by a rejected suitor whom she fails to recognize but gradually learns first to trust and then to love, despite what she imagines to be a hopeless chasm between their social classes. A highly evolved race of intelligent beings is discovered in this novel, one of whom forms with Tara a complicated relationship that opens his eyes to the value of certain ...

Published in 1909, this science fiction short story takes place in a future where mankind, seemingly no longer able to survive on earth's surface, exists in a vast underground civilization known as "The Machine". Each individual lives in an isolated, fully-automated cell-like room, connected to global information and communication systems, but cut off from all direct experience. The narrative focuses on Vashti, an "advanced" mother whose total dependence upon The Machine has led her (like most others) to increasingly reverence and even worship it; and her "untechnological" son, Kuno, who has ...

"The Machine Stops" is a science fiction story by E. M. Forster. After initial publication in 1909 the story was republished in Forster's The Eternal Moment and Other Stories in 1928. After being voted one of the best novellas up to 1965, it was included that same year in the populist anthology Modern Short Stories. In 1973 it was also included in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two. The story is particularly notable for predicting new technologies such as instant messaging and the Internet. In the preface to his Collected Short Stories (1947), Forster wrote that "The Machine Stops is...

Elisha Gray was an American electrical engineer who co-founded the Western Electric Manufacturing Company. Gray is best known for his development of a telephone prototype in 1876 in Highland Park, Illinois and is considered by some writers to be the true inventor of the variable resistance telephone, despite losing out to Alexander Graham Bell for the telephone patent.Nature's Miracles: Familiar Talks on Science, published in 1900, is a discussion of science and technology for the general public. Volume II is subtitled Energy and Vibration: Energy, Sound, Heat, Light, Explosives. (Summary from...

Britain is ruled by women who experience invasion and natural disasters. Men eventually figure out a plan to regain power to replace the government. - Summary by Kirk Z

"THE STRANGEST THINGS IN THE WORLD - A Book About Extraordinary Manifestations of Nature" This title sums up the wonderful line up in this book. Short pieces about the strange and often bewildering things that occur in our world, from the insect that is born pregnant, to the fearsome poison arrow frog and about 170 others. If you like odd facts and weird plants and animals, this collection will delight you. So pick something interesting and enjoy reading it. The author is one of the world’s best-known and most respected science writers. This book is a personal and unique distillation of the ...