Hidden Gold by Wilder Anthony

First published in Top-Notch Magazine, December 1919, When Super-Apes Plot may just have been the very first, the original, of the humanoid ape tale to appear in media, decades before King Kong was a twinkle in Merian C. Cooper’s eye.The dystopian fantasy of apes taking on the status and abusive power of humans, while humans suffer the bloody torture and abasement we’ve traditionally visited on animals, has its own manifest impact.The sight of intelligent apes forc...

In 'When Super-Apes Plot,' Wilder Anthony weaves a compelling narrative that explores the complex relationship between humanity and evolutionary science through the lens of a thrilling adventure. Set in a near-future world where genetic engineering has birthed hyper-intelligent apes, Anthony employs a rich, vivid prose style that combines speculative fiction with philosophical inquiry. The text challenges ethical boundaries and examines the consequences of scientific hubris, delving into t...

DAWN in the Borneo jungle! The rising sun shone down upon what may have been the strangest sight seen in that vast wilderness since the beginning of time. A dark and gloomy lake, some ten miles wide, lay shimmering beneath gray mists which rose like clouds of steam from its glassy surface; here and there this surface was broken by waterspouts which constantly boiled up and fell back again as though heated from the depths' beneath by gigantic fires.On all sides was virgin jungle. A ...

Suspenseful and richly atmospheric, June Hur's The Forest of Stolen Girls is a haunting historical mystery sure to keep readers guessing until the last page.1426, Joseon (Korea). Hwani's family has never been the same since she and her younger sister went missing and were later found unconscious in the forest near a gruesome crime scene.Years later, Detective Min—Hwani's father—learns that thirteen girls have recently disappeared f...

‘I’m Scarface. I’m just about ten times as hard-boiled as Johnny Lovo ever thought of being. I’ve bumped off six or eight myself and another one – especially a rat like you – wouldn’t mean a thing in my young life. Get me?’Scarface is the iconic fictionalization of one of history’s most notorious gangsters, Al Capone. It follows Tony Guarino’s harsh upbringing on the streets of Chicago, where a young man unwilling to contemplate a life of humble poverty hungers to...

How can a girl possibly have married a lion? How can a man have a tree growing out of his head?And how can a woman have children made of wax?The stories in this collection make these questions seem simple, everyday ones - then deftly supplies simple, everyday answers.Surprising and humorous, these beautifully rendered tales demonstrate McCall Smith's renowned storytelling skills.

From the bestselling author of the Ender Universe novels comes Orson Scott Card's TreasonLanik Mueller's birthright as heir to planet Treason's most powerful rulership will never be realized. He is a "rad"--radical regenerative. A freak among people who can regenerate injured flesh... and trade extra body parts to the Offworld oppressors for iron. For, on a planet without hard metals--or the means of escape--iron is power in the race to build a spacecraft....

Her father traded away her youth.Sea bandits stole her freedom.She has one way to get them back:Become the most powerful pirate in the world.South China coast, 1801. Sold as a child to a floating brothel, 26-year-old Yang has finally bought her freedom, only to be kidnapped by a brutal pirate gang and forced to marry their leader.Dragged through stormy seas and lawless bandi...

Young Lorens van Norreys must save his family legacy from Nazi invasion in this thrilling series opener from the New York Times–bestselling author.The House of Norreys—those merchants of gems for over three hundred years—faces its greatest crisis ever: the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. The old Jonkheer lay dying in his bed when he called his grandson to be with him in the last hours of his life, and at this time, young Lorens van Norreys is entrusted ...

Doc Savage returns from his Fortress of Solitude to discover the cold corpse of King Kong lying on his doorstep. He stuns his men when he reveals that he knows this creature. The story of how Doc Savage first ventured to Skull Island back in 1920 comprises this epic adventure of how Doc Savage first became the Man of Bronze!

For six days and nights, a storm tosses the Robinson family's ship around on the sea, before dashing it on the rocks off a deserted island. All the sailors are gone. The family is alone! But nothing can keep the cheerful Swiss family Robinson down for long. Father and Mother Robinson, along with their four irrepressible boys, quickly settle into their new home--mining the shipwreck for supplies, discovering valuable resources on the island and animal friends, and even turning the treetops ...