A sensitive story of a young man who needn’t have run.

A science fiction collection of short stories written by women during the Golden Age of Science Fiction.Get your copy now!

Madness in Experience and History brings together experience and history to show their impact on madness or mental illness.Drawing on the writings of two twentieth-century French philosophers, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Michel Foucault, the author pairs a phenomenological approach with an archaeological approach to present a new perspective on mental illness as an experience that arises out of common behavioral patterns and shared historical structures. Many today feel frus...

Three Classic Short Stories from The Golden Age of Science Fiction by Hugo Gernsback. Featured here: "Grove of the Unborn", "Homesick", and "Time Enough At Last".

Grove Of The Unborn by Lyn Venable.

Homesick by Lyn Venable.

Fantastic Universe' started publishing in 1953 and continued until March 1960. It was one of the better magazines to launch during the boom in science fiction magazines publishing. It published many important stories' by some of the fields best known writers. Collected in this over sized edition are more than 175,000 words of science fiction and fantasy. Escape back to the golden age of science fiction! 'Exile from Space' by Judith Merril 'Cogito, Ergo Sum' by John Foster West 'Grove of th...

A collection of early science fiction written by women during the Golden Age of science fiction.Get your copy now!

Time Enough at Last by Lyn Venable is a captivating anthology that invites readers into worlds where irony and fate intertwine. The titular story, "Time Enough at Last," originally published in IF Worlds of Science Fiction in January 1953, follows Henry Bemis, a bank teller trapped in a mundane existence, who dreams of endless hours spent reading. As nuclear catastrophe reshapes the world, Henry finds solitude amidst the ruins, surrounded by the books he has always yearned to explore. Yet,...

Homesick by Lynn Venable - What thrill is there in going out among the stars if coming back means bitter loneliness?Frankston pushed listlessly at a red checker with his right forefinger. He knew the move would cost him a man, but he lacked enough interest in the game to plot out a safe move. His opponent, James, jumped the red disk with a black king and removed it from the board. Gregory, across the room, flicked rapidly through the pages of a magazine, t...

p>On a remote world, a hard-worked battalion of space marines still follows orders handed down from a vanished empire. Life is crude, discipline is old-fashioned, and most of the men no longer understand the technology they are sworn to maintain. When an impulsive young soldier discovers more than he should, he stumbles into a crisis that reaches far beyond his isolated garrison.Across the stars, a failing regime hunts enemies both real and imagined while its machines, ships, and l...

Here for your reading delectation, are 25 outre tales of crime. Since history has proven that there is nothing unusual or unexpected about the human (or inhuman) drive to break the law, it should come as no surprise that the weird, the strange, the supernatural, and the just plain odd often, in fictional form, manifest themselves allayed to the criminal element. Included are:INTRODUCTION, by Shawn GarrettTHE WINDOW OF HORRORS, by H.L. MenckenTHE FOOTSTEPS ON THE STAIR...