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Written in the prophetic technological vein of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells, Griffith's epic masterpiece tells the story of a Great War which never was. Airship squadrons and steam fleets clash over the world's great kingdoms, leaving panic and devastation in their wake....
Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2015-11-26
Format(s) : ePub
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The sequel to Bellamy's Looking Backward where a young man falls asleep in 1887 and wakes in a utopian year 2000, where all social ills are solved. This novel continues the thread of his utopian vision.Equality begins when Julian West returns to the year 2000 to...
Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2015-11-26
Format(s) : ePub
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Must Professor George Challenger and friends, barricaded in a room, see Earth die? As our globe passes through a belt of poisonous ether, terror sweeps mankind; cities riot; communications cease.
Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2015-11-26
Format(s) : ePub
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What was "The Blind Spot?" A room in San Francisco where strange things happened - or a doorway into another cosmos, a different world, or perhaps the key to the past or future?What would happen if two things occupied the same place at the same time - even such a small...
Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2015-11-26
Format(s) : ePub
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After huge gold deposits were found in Antarctica and gold became common, the world's financial markets went into a tailspin and every currency lost its value. As bankers meet to find a solution they are approached by one Dr. Syx, who has an evil sneer and a source of a...
Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2015-11-26
Format(s) : ePub
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The fifth and final adventure of Carson Napier among the exotic peoples and beasts of Amtor is Burroughs' THE WIZARD OF VENUS. Sequel to his fabulous four Venus novels, it is an adventure not to be missed as Napier encounters a new kind of science and a new master of...
Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2015-11-26
Format(s) : ePub
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The endeavour of small Greek historians to add interest to their work by magnifying the exploits of their countrymen and piling wonder upon wonder, Lucian first condemned in his "Instructions for Writing History," and then caricatured in his "True History," wherein is...
Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2015-11-26
Format(s) : ePub
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When George Randolph first caught sight of Orena, he was astounded by its gleaming perfection. Here were hills and valleys, lakes and streams, glowing with the light of the most precious of metals. And, more astonishing than that, it was a world of miniature perfection...
Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2015-11-26
Format(s) : ePub
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On Poloda, a world far beyond the reach of any telescope on Earth, there appeared a mysterious being. The inhabitants called him Tangor - 'from nothing' - and enlisted him in their savage warfare. And Tangor, the Earthman so strangely transported to a remote planet,...
Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2015-11-26
Format(s) : ePub
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When a young boy tells Don that he's seen a ghost, Don only laughs. There's no such thing as ghosts - and the little boy probably saw a reflection. But to prove the boy wrong, Don and his friend go to the hill where the boy says that the ghost floated towards him and...
Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2015-11-26
Format(s) : ePub
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Two worlds with very different futures for humanity...In The Lord of Death, four scientists, aided by reverse-magnetism, travel to a dead planet where they discover that one human's lust for power destroyed all life there-except for him. In suspended animation, he...
Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2015-11-26
Format(s) : ePub
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The Earth passes into the Aquas Nebula, resulting in torrents of rain the world over. Only one odd scientist realises what's going to happen and does his best to warn people - building an ark to save himself and as many people as he can.
Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2015-11-26
Format(s) : ePub
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The Girl in the Golden Atom is the story of a young chemist who finds a hidden atomic world within his mother's wedding ring. Under a microscope, he sees within the ring a beautiful young woman sitting before a cave. Enchanted by her, he shrinks himself so that he can...
Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2015-11-26
Format(s) : ePub
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Out of nowhere came the grim, cold, black-clad men, to kidnap three Earth people and carry them to a weird and terrible world where a man could be a giant at will.
Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2015-11-26
Format(s) : ePub
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There were nine major planets in the Solar System, and it was within their boundaries that man first set up interplanetary commerce and began trading with the ancient Martian civilization. And then they discovered a tenth planet - a maverick!This tenth world, if it had...
Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2015-11-26
Format(s) : ePub
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Horne, the spaceship's pilot, had been warned. "Don't forget the meteor swarm." And Horne's directional calculations for the Vega Queen's course took that advice into account; the spaceship would go fifteen thousand miles out of its way to avoid those deadly celestial...
Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2015-11-26
Format(s) : ePub
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The finest tale ever written of fabled Atlantis,The Lost Continent is a sweeping, fiery saga of the last days of the doomed land. Atlantis, at the height of its power and glory, is without equal. It has established far-flung colonies in Egypt and Central America, and...
Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2015-11-26
Format(s) : ePub
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Set during the reign of King George II, this gruesome tale concerns the persecution of the Bannerworth family by Sir Francis Varney: a vampire who has developed the habit of creeping into the Bannerworth home and sucking the blood of their daughter, Flora. Varney is...
Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2015-11-26
Format(s) : ePub
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A young Boston gentleman is mysteriously transported from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century - from a world of war and want to one of peace and plenty.
Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2015-11-26
Format(s) : ePub
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'Suddenly out of the darkness, out of the night, there swooped something with a swish like an aeroplane. The whole group of us were covered for an instant by a canopy of leathery wings, and I had a momentary vision of a long, snake-like neck, a fierce, red, greedy eye,...
Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2015-10-29
Format(s) : ePub
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