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The inventor of a uniquely powerful new explosive has gone missing while working on a new poison gas for the British. Can Biggles and Ginger find him before the enemy does? Professor Max Beklinder has disappeared. He is the inventor of Linderite explosive, a Lucranian by birth but British by naturalization. The Professor was working on a secret poison gas for the British when he was reported as having been killed in a car accident in Unterhamstadt in Lucrania. Biggles is sent to find out if he is really dead and if not, to get him back.

Getrude Bennet has been called the "most important woman writer of fantasy between Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1759-1797) and C.L. Moore (1911-1987)". This is a complete collection of short stories by the woman who first explored the dark fantasy worlds of the modern era. This book contains tales that were originally published in Weird Tales, Argosy, and All-Story Weekly between 1918-1923. 

The definitive history of Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico, told with with a wry dramatisation. Many think the patron saint of Discordianism a myth, or his life absurdly exaggerated, but they are wrong. Reality is far stranger than fiction could ever be, and Joshua Norton is the absolute proof, a real-life Don Quixote formed in tragedy and triumph, scarred into a delusion of a better world by the violence of this one. 

Sometimes, honor and bravery can win a reprieve from destiny. A story of hope and despair as artificial intelligences, posthumans, and other minds struggle against their fates.

Most famously known for his book The Prophet, the Lebanse poet Kahlil Gibran has been called "the single most important influence on Arabic poetry and literature during the first half of the 20th century". Contained herein are two lesser known works. The Madman was the first book Kahlil published in English, and its success was enough for The Forerunner to be released by the same publisher, less than two years later. 

The story of the first posthuman, and the unbearable weight of expectation. Sound interesting? The author thinks so too!Listen to The Construct's Childhood and experience the compelling world of science fiction.

Fifty-One Tales is a collection of fantasy short stories by Irish writer Lord Dunsany, a major influence on J.R.R. Tolkien, H.P. Lovecraft, Ursula K. LeGuin, and others. Each story is a short vignette, a single moment of strangeness or horror in the face of death.

Three who become legends rise in the ranks. The first full volume of Still Light series. Covers the birth of AI and post-humanity, and the hidden cabal of mystical powers that control humanity’s fate. Three who will become legends begin their rise to power, joining the mystical ranks of Abraxas.

This is not a self-help book or a book of specific guidance. In fact, it was written because too many works that claim to help you find your way either disappear into meaningless abstraction or are so petty and particular they fall at the first hurdle, teaching control instead of acceptance. There are a lot of spiritual self-help books out there, but most of them either pretend to be enlightened or provide such specific direction that you’ll never truly open your mind.

Gertrude Barrows Bennet is better known by her pen name, Francis Stevens. With a career that only spanned three years between 1917 and 1920, when she stopped writing after her mother's death, she is credited as "the woman who invented dark fantasy".  

Stevens, to her credit, manages to keep her story taut and suspenseful, at the same time that she injects pleasing snippets of humor here and there, mainly thanks to the character of Arnold Bertram, a portly thief who had tried to rifle Trenmore’s safe back home and had also been thrown into the year 2118 as a result. 

In a career that spanned a mere three years, Gertrude Barrows Bennett (writing as Francis Stevens) published half a dozen books that came to define the genres that followed on. She is most popularly known as the woman who invented dark fantasy, but on the way she also invented a new, creepier kind of dystopian sci-fi. Today, you would call this a tale of trauma-onset schizophrenia, or perhaps a terrible descent into Dissociative Identity Disorder, foretold by genetics. In 1920, the best way to make sense of it was demonic possession. 

A fun adventure in a Spain that never was, in the vein of Dumas and Stevenson, with more than a taste of Cervantes. Don Rodriguez is a young nobleman who is banished from the family castle and must set out with his rapier and mandolin to win his own estate and perhaps even a bride.  

In the early settler days, the British did more than go to war. Many found the local folklore and beliefs fascinating and collected them together. This is one of the first explorations of South African folk tales. Come now for stories of the naughty Jackal as he tricks Lion and Leopard, or how Tortoise shows his great cunning. Hear of Hare and Heron and Wildebeest and all the other majestic creatures that roam the Savannah and jungles.

An action packed adventure across Arabia in search of a new hashish. A grave peril has reached London. Air Commodore Raymond of Scotland Yard has discovered a new drug, one being used for robberies and more. Gurra is a risk to civilization itself, and only one man can be entrusted to save it. Can Biggles find the source before this new drug scourges civilisation? Join the newly-promoted Detective Air-Inspector Bigglesworth as he is sent on a mission by Scotland Yard in the Arabia’s infamous Rub Al Khali, the Empty Quarter.

The Nightmare was the first in a type of fiction that became known as dark fantasy, and remains a high water mark in the genre. First published in 1916, this debut novel began the three-year career in which Francis Stevens became the person that launched entire genres of modern fictions. With her vast imagination and flair for the unusual and exciting, Gertrude Barrows Bennett created a seed that has grown into thousands of great works.

James Legge was one of the first great popularizers of Eastern ideas and religion in the West. In this foundational work, he provides a translation of the Dao De Jing/ Tao Te Ching that stands up well today, over a 100 years later.

A selection of the very best of Chinese poetry over the course of a thousand years, from 100 years before Christ was born up to the middle ages. Arthur Waley's translations of Chinese poetry are still the benchmark by which such translations are held, nearly 200 years after he introduced the west to the wonder of classical Chinese poetry. 

In the dark days that followed the first world war, it seemed to many that all dreams had died, that wonder and fantasy could not survive in a world that knew trenches and poppies blooming where the blood fell. Come now as we travel through strange adventures and wonderful magics. Learn of the whimsies of gods, and the terrible fates that await those that cross them. See how the office of postman fell vacant in Otford-under-the-wold, and how a sack of emeralds brought only disaster to it's holder. 

Two books by Arthur Waley (1889-1966), the greatest translator of Chinese poetry. Arthur Waley was one of the first great Orientalists, bringing translations and commentaries from China and Japan to the West. This volume combines two of his books. The first book investigates how Zen Buddhism evolved to produce the kinds of artwork that it does and how the artistic practice is also a spiritual practice. The second part contains a selection of poems by China's greatest poet Li Po.