Books For The Letter B. Page 10 Of 56

Beyond The Door

  [english | 1954]  

Philip Dick

Summary: [The Same Door the first collection of John Updikes short stories in book form was published in 1959 by Alfred A. Knopf. This was the year after his first novel The Poorhouse Fair was published by the same company the one he was with for 50 years. The book consists of 16 stories all previously published in The New Yorker between 1954 and 1959 some in somewhat different form the title page says. ...]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 81

The Burning Bridge

  [english | 1960]  

Poul William Anderson

Summary: [Usually there are two reasons why something is done the reason why it needs to be done and quite separate the reason people want to do it. The foul-up starts when the reason-for-wanting is satisfied... and the need remains!]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 82

Bardelys The Magnificent

  [english | 1905]  

Rafael Sabatini

Summary: [An absorbing story of love and adventure in France of the early seventeenth century.]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure] Downloads: 269

Brain Twister

  [english | 1961]  

Randall Garrett

Summary: [In nineteen-fourteen it was enemy aliens.In nineteen-thirty it was Wobblies.In nineteen-fifty-seven it was fellow-travelers.And in nineteen seventy-one Kenneth J. Malone rolled wearily out of bed wondering what the hell it was going to be now.One thing he told himself was absolutely certain: it was going to be terrible. It always was.]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | thrillers] Downloads: 54

But I Dont Think

  [english | 1959]  

Randall Garrett

Summary: [Real Men Dont Eat Quiche by American Bruce Feirstein is a bestselling tongue-in-cheek book satirizing stereotypes of masculinity published in 1982. It popularized the term quiche-eater meaning a man who is a dilettante a trend-chaser an over-anxious conformist to fashionable forms of lifestyle and socially correct behaviors and opinions one who eschews (or merely lacks) the traditional masculine ...]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 59

By Proxy

  [english | 1960]  

Randall Garrett

Summary: [Its been said that the act of creation is a solitary thing--that teams never create only individuals. But sometimes a team may be needed to make creation effective....]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 320

Beyond The Vanishing Point

  [english | 1931]  

Raymond King Cummings

Summary: [An enemy of the people / Henrik Ibsen tr. by Eleanor Mark-Aveling. -- The sunken bell / Gerhart Hauptmann tr. by C. H. Meltzer. -- The cherry orchard / Anton Chekov tr. by Constance Garnett. -- Cyrano de Bergerac / Edmond Rostand tr. by Gertrude Hall. -- Strife / John Galsworthy. -- Riders to the sea / John M. Synge. -- Beyond the horizon / Eugene ONeill.]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction] Downloads: 331

Brigands Of The Moon

  [english | 1931]  

Raymond King Cummings

Summary: [Gregg Haljan was aware that there was a certain danger in having the giant spaceship Planetara stop off at the moon to pick up Grantlines special cargo of moon ore. For that rare metal--invaluable in keeping Earths technology running--was the target of many greedy eyes. But nevertheless he hadnt figured on the special twist the clever Martian brigands would use. So when he found both the ship and ...]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction] Downloads: 376

Big Pill

  [english | 1952]  

Raymond Gallun

Summary: [Child it was of the now ancient H-bomb. New. Untested. Would its terrible power sweep the stark Saturnian moon of Titan from space ... or miraculously create a flourishing paradise-colony?]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 44

Bad Blood

  [english | 2002]  

Richard Kadrey

Summary: [The Lost Salt Gift of Blood is a collection of short stories by Canadian author Alistair MacLeod set predominantly in Cape Breton Island Nova Scotia and in Newfoundland. It was originally published in 1976. All of its stories were later republished in Island.]
Genres: [fiction | fantasy | short stories] Downloads: 428

Black Neurology

  [english | 2003]  

Richard Kadrey

Excerpts: [... pull with an acquaintance at the city morgue, I convince the attending Medical Examiner to let me watch your autopsy. He begins with a traditional Y incision, ...... clicking away with the disposable camera I picked up at a 7-11 on the way over. This Examiner is a real professional, experienced and respected for ...... the length of you. He reaches forward and pushes a finger into ...]
Genres: [fiction | romance | short stories] Downloads: 306

Butcher Bird

  [english | 2005]  

Richard Kadrey

Summary: [Spyder Lee is a happy man who lives in San Francisco and owns a tattoo shop. One night an angry demon tries to bite his head off before hes saved by a stranger. The demon infected Spyder with something awful - the truth. He can suddenly see the world as it really is: full of angels and demons and monsters and monster-hunters. A world full of black magic and mysteries. These are the Dominions ...]
Genres: [fiction | fantasy | horror] Downloads: 284

The Birth Of Athena

  [english | 2002]  

Richard Kadrey

Excerpts: [... of study, hoping no one will bother to challenge his theories, methods or conclusions. He labors in cognitive science and is working off a fat NSA ...... the regular one-offs with any failing female student who wants to get her C up to an A. In his mind, this is hardly adultery. He lost interest in his ...... father. His kids were all experiments. Each was conceived in a different ...]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 284

The Beetle

  [english | 1897]  

Richard Marsh

Summary: [A fantastic creature born of neither god nor man hypnotic and supernatural stalks British politician Paul Lessingham through turn-of-the-century London. A classic tale of supernatural horror.]
Genres: [fiction | mystery detective | horror] Downloads: 396

A Bottle Of Old Wine

  [english | 1953]  

Richard Lewis

Summary: [A grim tale of a future in which everyone is desperate to escape reality and a hero who wants to have his wine and drink it too.]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 98

Back To Julie

  [english | 1954]  

Richard Wilson

Summary: [The side-shuffle is no dance step. Its the choice between making time... and doing time!]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 417

Beyond The Black River

  [english | 1935]  

Robert Ervin Howard

Summary: [An enemy of the people / Henrik Ibsen tr. by Eleanor Mark-Aveling. -- The sunken bell / Gerhart Hauptmann tr. by C. H. Meltzer. -- The cherry orchard / Anton Chekov tr. by Constance Garnett. -- Cyrano de Bergerac / Edmond Rostand tr. by Gertrude Hall. -- Strife / John Galsworthy. -- Riders to the sea / John M. Synge. -- Beyond the horizon / Eugene ONeill.]
Genres: [fiction | fantasy | short stories] Downloads: 339

Black Canaan

  [english | 1936]  

Robert Ervin Howard

Summary: [If you can get past the considerable racism (the setting is the Jim Crow Deep South the storys told in first person) its a creepy swamp voodoo tale comparable in its eerieness to many of the darker Conan stories. The Pool of the Black One comes to mind. I enjoyed it but you may not if you cant stand casual use of the N word.]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | fantasy] Downloads: 256

Black Colossus

  [english | 1933]  

Robert Ervin Howard

Excerpts: [... the day it was reared by nameless hands on the bank of the nameless river. This unnaturalness was in keeping with the general aura of these devil-haunted ...... time in conjecturing what night-black pits lying below the dome had given sustenance to the monster. Gingerly he drew the sword, and from it dripped ...... The thief stood in a wonderland of magic and splendor, treading ...]
Genres: [fiction | fantasy | short stories] Downloads: 397

Blood Of The Gods

  [english | 1935]  

Robert Ervin Howard

Summary: [Gods of the Blood: The Pagan Revival and White Separatism is a book by Swedish scholar Mattias Gardell discussing Neopaganism and white separatism neo-fascism and antisemitism. It was published by Duke University Press in May 2003.]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 426