The classic Victorian horror story, written by Mary Shelley when she was 20. This is updated into modern English and much easier to read

One of the original female sci-fi writers, Margaret St. Clair was a trailblazer, writing mainly in the pulp magazines in the 1940s and 50s. St. Clair wrote under her own name and her pseudonym Idris Seabright as well as the house pseudonym of Wilton Hazzard at Planet Stories. Here is a collection of 62 short stories penned by St. Clair up to 1962, when she stopped writing short fiction of 12 years, including many which have been out of print since before her death.

A collection of Hugo-nominated author Keith Laumer's Retief stories, collected from Worlds of If magazine and published in the 1960s. Laumer served in the U.S. Foreign Service and called upon these experiences in creating Jaime Retief, a diplomat serving the Corps Diplomatique Terrestrienne, an intergalactic bureaucracy which will drive you nuts! Retief navigates these bumblers with an ease which will make you cheer for him and shake your head at his superiors.

Heart of Darkness, the book the classic movie Apocalypse Now is based on, now translated into easier to read modern English. The story of Marlow, a sailor who must travel down an unnamed African river in search of Mr. Kurtz, the elusive ivory trader. With all the colonialism and hatred of large companies but without the Victorian English and the n-word.

Charlotte Brontë’s beloved classic romance about the passionate love between the orphan Jane Eyre and the brooding and domineering Rochester, but this time updated into modern English.

Twenty-five of Arthur C. Clarke's short stories, straight from the pages of pulp science fiction magazines. Stories include: Time’s Arrow, Technical Error, If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth..., The Curse, The Fires Within, Inheritance, The Forgotten Enemy, Exile of the Eons, A Walk in the Dark, Before Eden, Captain Wyxtpthll's Flying Saucer, Loophole, Superiority, Jupiter Five, Rescue Party, The Other Tiger, Publicity Campaign, Thirty Seconds – Thirty Days, Crime on Mars, Refugee, Security Check,...

Ethics or profit - a valid question today but one which many large companies should have asked during World War II, when titans like Ford, Bayer, Allianz and Nestle chose to do business with the Nazis (and profit very handsomely). This book is an in-depth study of what great companies did and what they got away with.

Jonas Wilkins is a low-level administrator in the future, but is sent back in time to gently nudge world events to make a better future.

Twenty-five short stories from the illustrious author of Psycho and three classic Star Trek episodes, including some science fiction, a little horror and a lot of humor.

In 1719 Daniel Defoe wrote the first great English-language novel. Though a rich story and an excellent window to his times,300-year-old English is difficult to read. Therefore, enjoy an updated translation of the classic story.

A collection of 25 science fiction classics from some of the greatest names in the genre—Clarke, Bradbury, Bloch, Herbert, Asimov, de Camp, Anderson, Pohl, Dick, St. Clair and many others. This anthology was painstakingly pulled from the pulp magazines of the 1940s through 1960s and give a unique perspective of the time they came from.

Deep fakes, media influencers, mutants threatening humanity, simulation games people get lost in—these are all subjects of Philip K. Dick short stories, all written in the 1950s. Dick is best known for the movie adaptations of his books—blockbusters like Total Recall, Minority Report, The Adjustment Bureau and of course, Blade Runner.These works were published starting when Dick was only 24 and show an immense talent, lost in the pages of old sci-fi magazines.