Books published in 1961
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A Prize For Edie
[english | 1961]Jesse Franklin Bone
Summary: [The Committee had unquestionably made a mistake. There was no doubt that Edie had achieved the long-sought cancer cure... but awarding the Nobel Prize was nonetheless a mistake...]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 437
A Spaceship Named Mcguire
[english | 1961]Randall Garrett
Summary: [The basic trouble with McGuire was that though he was a robot spaceship nevertheless he had a definite weakness that a man might understand....]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 252
Attrition
[english | 1961]Jim Wannamaker
Summary: [Of course if Man is to survive he must be adaptable as any life form must. But thats not enough he must adapt faster than the competing forms. And on new planets that can be tricky....]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 445
Black Man Burden
[english | 1961]Dallas Mccord Reynolds
Summary: [The turmoil in Africa is only beginning?and it must grow worse before its better. Not until the people of Africa know they are Africans?not warring tribesmen?will there be peace....]
Genres: [science fiction | post 1930] Downloads: 469
Black Mans Burden
[english | 1961]Mack Reynolds
Summary: [The turmoil in Africa is only beginning?and it must grow worse before its better. Not until the people of Africa know they are Africans?not warring tribesmen?will there be peace....]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 476
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
Card Trick
[english | 1961]Randall Garrett
Summary: [The Psi Lodge had their ways and means of applying pressure when pressure was needed. But the peculiar talent this fellow showed was one that even theyd never heard of...!]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 44
Dead World
[english | 1961]Jack Douglas
Summary: [Out on the ice-buried planet Commander Red Stone led his Free Companions to almost certain death. They died for a dangerous dream that had only one chance in a thousand trillion to come true. Is there a better reason for dying?]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 132
Descriptions Of Two Species Of Frogs Genus Ptychohyla
[english | 1961]William Duellman
Excerpts: [... 1-2, pp. 349-357 April 27, 1961. Descriptions of Two Species of Frogs, Genus Ptychohyla Studies of American Hylid Frogs, V. BY WILLIAM E. DUELLMAN. UNIVERSITY ...... (1954:169) discussed the generic characters and pointed out that both the ventrolateral glands and horny nuptial spines were seasonal in their development, ...... of species. In both groups breeding males have large ...]
Genres: [science] Downloads: 201
Drug Supplies In The American Revolution
[english | 1961]George Griffenhagen
Excerpts: [... ReadingAre you enjoy this book? Other books that may be interesting to you:Sarah Tytler : A Houseful Of GirlsSix sisters make up the houseful ...... interesting to you:Sarah Tytler : A Houseful Of GirlsSix sisters make up the houseful of girls.They all have their own distinct personalities and ...... make up the houseful of girls.They all have their own distinct personalities and ...]
Genres: [history | post 1930] Downloads: 397
Fifty Per Cent Prophet
[english | 1961]Randall Garrett
Summary: [That he was a phony Swami was beyond doubt. That he was a genuine prophet though seemed... but then whats the difference between a dictator and a true prophet? So was he....]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 208
Flamedown
[english | 1961]Horace Brown Fyfe
Summary: [It was of course one Hell of an ending for a trip to Mars--]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 168
Four Day Planet
[english | 1961]Henry Beam Piper
Summary: [BlackBerry Planet is a business history of Research In Motions mobile device the BlackBerry written by Canadian writer and historian Alastair Sweeny. The hardback edition was published by John Wiley Canada in 2009.]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction] Downloads: 490
Freedom
[english | 1961]Mack Reynolds
Summary: [Freedom of expression - Secular Theocracy Versus Liberal Democracy is a book edited by Sita Ram Goel and which he published under his Voice of India imprint in 1998. The book contains previously published official documents of court cases and newspaper articles. The book is about censorship and Freedom of Expression in India. It criticizes the banning of books and the what he considers to be the ...]
Genres: [fiction | political | science fiction] Downloads: 130
Gamblers World
[english | 1961]John Keith Laumer
Summary: [Diplomat/agent/action short story disguised as science fiction. You can do much worse wasting 30 minutes.]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 428
Geographic Variation In The Harvest Mouse
[english | 1961]J Knox Jones
Summary: [Geographic Variation In The Harvest Mouse Reithrodontomys Megalotis On The Central Great Plains And In Adjacent Regions by J Knox Jones. This title has fewer than 24 printed text pages. Geographic Variation in the Harvest Mouse Reithrodontomys megalotis On the Central Great Plains And in Adjacent Regions is presented here in a high quality kindle edition. This popular classic work by J. Knox ...]
Genres: [science | post 1930] Downloads: 410
Gone Fishing
[english | 1961]James Henry Schmitz
Summary: [There is no predictable correlation between intelligence and ethics nor is ruthlessness necessarily an evil thing. And there is nothing like enforced uninterrupted contemplation to learn to distinguish one from another....]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 263
Hanging By A Thread
[english | 1961]Randall Garrett
Summary: [Its seldom that the fate of a shipful of men literally hangs by a thread?but its also seldom that a device every part of which has been thoroughly tested wont work....]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 232
Invaders From The Infinite
[english | 1961]John Wood Campbell
Summary: [The black star passes.--Islands of space.--Invaders from the infinite.]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction] Downloads: 246
Join Our Gang
[english | 1961]Sterling Lanier
Summary: [They didnt exactly hold a gun at anybodys head all they offered was help. Of course they did sort of encourage people to ask for help....]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 73