From the queen of genre-bending speculative fiction, comes the newest Sauú tiverse offering, a mystery like no other, where the investigator is not a detective, but a sound scientist. In a world where sound is a tangible force, Muso' mi is a maadiregi— an expert in the art of consuming it. At the prestigious Mahadum, she researches the language of silence, seeking to master the gift her mother calls theft. But academic intrigue turns to deadly peril when her friend vanishes after unearthin...

Francis Bacon's Essays and Wisdom of the Ancients gather the statesman-philosopher at his most compact, practical, and enduring. From his own dedications to Anthony Bacon, Prince Henry, Sir John Constable, and the Duke of Buckingham, the collection traces the growth of works he repeatedly revised and enlarged, presenting brief meditations on truth, death, religion, ambition, friendship, studies, gardens, government, and the conduct of life. Bacon's essays are joined by commentary on their ...

The Lost World Anthology surveys one of literature's most durable imaginative territories: the secluded realm where vanished civilizations, prehistoric survivals, forbidden knowledge, and imperial adventure converge. Ranging from philosophical myth and satirical voyage to Gothic terror, scientific romance, and adventure fiction, the volume traces how inaccessible lands become laboratories for utopian longing, racial anxiety, technological speculation, and cosmic dread. Its standout descent...

The New Atlantis by Francis Bacon is a visionary work of early modern literature that explores the possibilities of knowledge, society, and human progress. Written in the 17th century, this philosophical and utopian tale imagines an ideal society founded on reason, discovery, and the pursuit of knowledge, offering timeless insights that continue to resonate in the modern world. The story follows a group of European explorers who, after being lost at sea, arrive on the mysterious island of ...

A Place Between Waking and Forgetting is dark speculative fiction, an Afro-Irreal collection in which transformative stories of culture, diversity, climate change, unlimited futures, collisions of worlds, mythology, and more, inhabit. It cases black people stories in bold and evocative text, at times deeply flawed but potentially redeemable protagonists in rich hues of blackness and light. Something beautiful, something dark in lyrical language packed with affection, dread, anguis...

According to Wikipedia: "The Novum Organum, full original title Novum Organum Scientiarum, is a philosophical work by Francis Bacon, written in Latin and published in 1620. The title translates as new instrument, i.e. new instrument of science. This is a reference to Aristotle's work Organon, which was his treatise on logic and syllogism. In Novum Organum, Bacon details a new system of logic he believes to be superior to the old ways of syllogism. This is now known as the Baconian method. ...

Lieutenant Laahn Ĉortez is about to sit down to his well-deserved supper when destiny hits—winged, scaled and more than a little tipsy.Rago is a fated mates/forced proximity short story from The Order Universe featuring a puffing dragon shifter and a romp in the fencing hall.

SCIENCE FICTION Ultimate Box Set gathers more than 170 foundational tales of speculation, catastrophe, discovery, and social transformation. Its immense range moves from lunar voyages, subterranean realms, and lost civilizations to mechanized futures, plague-stricken societies, totalitarian states, and post-apocalyptic survival. Romance, Gothic terror, satire, adventure narrative, philosophical fable, scientific extrapolation, and utopian and dystopian fiction coexist here, revealing scien...

Eugen Bacon's work is deemed cheeky with a fierce intelligence in text that's resplendent, delicious, dark and evocative. NPR called her novel Claiming T-Mo 'a confounding mysterious tour de force'. The Road to Woop Woop and Other Stories imbues the same lushness in a writerly language that is Bacon's own. This peculiar hybrid of the untraditional, the extraordinary within, without and along the borders of normalcy will hypnotise and absorb the reader with tales that refuse to be labelled....

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Francis Bacon was a 16th and 17th-century English philosopher, best known for introducing the empirical (scientific) method during the Scientific Revolution. Bacon first outlined the empirical method in his text, “The Advancement of Learning,” which he wrote in 1605. The work is addressed to King James I and divided into two parts. Each part is referred to as a book, with its own distinct sections.Before Bacon, 'learning' largely meant memorizing the classics, especially Aristotle,...

In the dystopian world of Mafinga, Jasmin must contend with a dictator's sorcerer to cleanse the socialist state of its deadly pollution. Mafinga's malevolent king dislikes books and, together with his sorcerer Atari, has collapsed the environment to almost uninhabitable. The sun has killed all the able men, including Jasmin's husband Godi. But Jasmin has Godi's secret story machine that tells of a better world, far different from the wastelands of Mafinga. Jasmin's crime for possessing th...