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With its vivid world-building, psychological depth, and cosmic intrigue, Lorelei of the Red Mist is a timeless blend of pulp adventure and visionary storytelling from two of science fiction’s greatest masters.

Timra and Angelena Caldwell had lived under those names for fifty years. They considered themselves Americans more so than whatever they had been previously. No one from their past had contacted them for more than thirty years. They had been forgotten. They felt safe. That made them happy. When the man slipped into their house with news and a mission, Neither Tim nor Lena wanted any part in what was to come but with advanced warning about the sinister and far-reaching plot, they began to prepare for the worst.

The X-87 was a chaotic marvel, hurtling through the cosmos with a renegade Venusian at the helm and a daring Martian charting its course. But beneath the ships metallic surface, locked away in an alumite cage, lies Penelle, the skilled Shadow Squadman—grasping the future of three worlds in his shackled hands. - Summary by Original Gutenberg text

Step into the year 2430 A.D. with Tarrano the Conqueror, a thrilling narrative that transports you far beyond our present time, much like Columbus would have felt reading about modern life. As the author and narrator, I invite you to experience this future world through a contemporary lens, enriched with colloquialisms that breathe life into the text. Imagine reading a fresh translation of my original story, where the excitement of an advanced age unfolds before you, melding the past with a vivid portrayal of the future.

The Creatures That Time Forgot by Ray Bradbury is a haunting and thought-provoking science fiction masterpiece set in a post-apocalyptic world where humanity’s existence has been compressed into a mere eight days. Following the tragic yet heroic journey of Sim, a boy born into a dying cave society, Bradbury explores the fragility of life, the relentlessness of time, and the desperate yearning for freedom and meaning.

Meet Cosmo—Maine Coon. Mischief-maker. Galaxy’s greatest (and clumsiest) hero. In his imagination, the living room isn’t just a living room—it’s the Living Room Galaxy, filled with meteors (falling books), black holes (under the couch), alien invaders (socks, dogs, and other cats), and the dreaded Vacuum Menace. With his whiskers twitching and tail held high, Cosmo faces every cosmic challenge with courage, wit, and just the right amount of overconfidence. But even heroes face setbacks.

Pillar of Fire by Ray Bradbury is a haunting and philosophical science fiction novella that explores the boundaries between life and death in a sterile, futuristic society that has abolished the very concept of mortality. When William Lantry, a man long dead, awakens in a world where death has been erased from memory and corpses are destroyed rather than buried, he becomes the last ghost of humanity’s forgotten fear. Driven by loneliness and rage, Lantry wages a one-man war against a civilization that refuses to remember its dead.

In a universe where nine planets had become the cradle of interplanetary commerce and the ancient Martian civilization thrived, a startling discovery shattered the status quo—a mysterious tenth planet, a rogue world from the depths of interstellar space. As it veered dangerously close to the Earth-Mars spaceways, it threw astronautic calculations into disarray and ignited chaos on both inhabited worlds. Little did they know, this was no ordinary celestial body. It was WANDL THE INVADER, a vibrant world inhabited by formidable minds and terrifying creatures, arriving with intentions far ...

In a solar system with nine major planets, humanity first ventured into interplanetary commerce, trading with the ancient Martian civilization. But then, a shocking discovery emerged a tenth planet, an enigmatic maverick, was on a collision course with Earth and Mars. This rogue world disrupted astronautical calculations and stirred chaos among the two inhabited planets. Little did they know, this was WANDL THE INVADER—no barren rock, but a vibrant world inhabited by minds and monsters, arriving with a purpose far beyond mere astronomical anomaly! - Summary from the Original book jacket ...

I’m Melanie. I’m a designer, storyteller, and lifelong lover of vintage. I’ve always been drawn to pieces that carry energy and memory, with a little bit of soul in every stitch. For almost twenty years, I’ve been running my shop, Retro Kandy Vintage. I’ve spent a lot of time searching for clothes that tell the truth about where they’ve been. Somewhere along the way, I realized I was trying to do the same thing with myself. I’ve worn many roles over the years as a business owner, artist, partner, and mother. Somewhere in the middle of all of that, I started to wonder which parts ...

He's a dashing millionaire who thinks everything in life is one big joke. He's also my new neighbor, and after a humiliating experience in the cemetery that is my backyard, he becomes my shadow, showing up everywhere just to annoy me. I'm not a fan of happy people. They bother me with their constant grins and rainbows coming out of their ears, and Vander Booth is the king of smiles. Despite my efforts to scare him away with both my profession as an undertaker and my general need for frowning through most of my workday, he sticks around like a bad case of poison ivy.

When Darwin Merriweather, code name, Weatherman, hears about the deadly nationwide pandemic sweeping the country leaving millions dead, he sets about protecting his mountainside home. If the madness has hit the town below, he knows it won’t be long before scavengers climb the mountain. He plans on being ready. However, his work is interrupted when he receives a desperate radio call from two members of the special forces unit he once led.

Librarian-turned-time-cop Beryl Blue journeys to 1922 France, chasing a time tourist who’s deviated from his visit to Jazz Age Paris. A routine mission. Or so Beryl thinks. Luckily, she’s got a new partner to help her figure out what connects a train, a sobbing woman, and a missing piece of luggage to the rogue time traveler they're after.

Time-traveling thieves, the Titanic, and a heist that goes wrong. Very wrong. Marina and Fred, thieves from the year 2125, tackle the biggest—and most daring—robbery of their time crime career when they drop onto the Titanic, minutes before its fatal date with an iceberg. They plan to pilfer as much gold and as many jewels as they can before the doomed ship goes down, then pop back to the future with their ill-gotten gains. A simple plan that soon goes spectacularly wrong, as Marina and Fred discover tempting fate is the biggest gamble of them all.

Full of mid-century science-fiction wonder, cosmic imagination, and bold adventure, Beyond the Stars is Ray Cummings at his most visionary—an exploration of the infinite, the unknown, and the mind-shattering possibilities that lie just outside the reach of human understanding.

Asleep in Armageddon by Ray Bradbury is a haunting and atmospheric science fiction tale that explores the thin boundary between consciousness and madness. After crash-landing on a desolate planetoid, space traveler Leonard Sale finds himself trapped in chilling isolation—until disembodied voices of ancient warriors begin to invade his mind.

Fate happens when you’re making other plans… It’s been a long, long time since Beryl Blue left her gruff and sexy Army sergeant Tom “Sully” Sullivan behind in 1943. Two years to be exact. Though her heart still hurts, she knows Sully’s life is at stake if they ever see each other again. She’s moved on with her new life as a time cop in the year 2132 and is even contemplating a new romance, as she vows to put Sully, and the past, behind her. But fate has other ideas.

Time has met its match in Beryl Blue! Six months after feisty librarian-turned-time-cop Beryl Blue’s last adventure with the gruff and sexy Tom ‘Sully’ Sullivan, she’s back in 2133, chasing time-traveling thieves and other temporal miscreants for the time tourism company, Time Scope, Inc. She misses Sully terribly, but fate has cast a deadly shadow over his future, and until she can find a way to fix that fate, she knows they can never be together. Beryl’s also on a desperate hunt for the man who murdered her parents.

There are very few writers who have ever written the sheer volume of epic (though not always in word count) tales, with a seemingly limitless stream of vibrant worlds, unique characters, and twisting-turning storylines that have kept thousands on the edges of their collective seats for a career spanning seven decades. But Ray Bradbury, the legend, did just that.

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