Jose : 913 books

In this short story a private investigator is hired to find out who “killed” and old servant bot by smashing his head with a pipe. He takes the case just to tie him over the dearth of his usual customers, suspicious people looking for dirt on their cheating spouses. His snooping leads to the conclusion...

After his wife's brutal murder, Campbell, a pirate legend, gave up his life on the open seas to raise his two young daughters in peace. But, inevitably, his past eventually catches up with him in the form of Carapepino, a pretentious but clumsy pirate, desperately trying to win favour with the infamous...

Everybody's noticed that Campbell's been acting strangely. What they don't know is that his destiny on the high seas is catching up with him, despite his best intentions. Times are changing, and the golden age of piracy is threatened by a different kind of lawlessness; one driven by power and politics,...

Itaca is sure that something bad has happened when Campbell never shows up to collect her and Genova from the bookstore in town. And her fears are not unfounded... it turns out that Campbell has been kidnapped for mysterious reasons somehow connected with his estranged villain of a brother, Inferno....

Following Captain Inferno's discovery of his whereabouts, Campbell and his two young daughters have been forced to flee their home and seek refuge on Bakalaoo Island, the leper colony. The slow pace of life in their new home gives Campbell plenty of time to reflect on his past, including his early...

Es ésta una edición renovada del libro de poemas que Jose Luis Campos editó en los años 70, magníficamente ilustrado por el pintor Joaquín de Molina, es un libro mágico, tierno y verdad como bien nos explica Manuel Alcántara en su prólogo:...

A Zombie Prescription is a short story “novella” that wends its way through the stark and, at times, bleak depiction of life in 21st Century America (Amuzistann). From the ubiquity of media programming and mind-numbing technology, to the environmental engineering and corrupt corporate interests...

The incredible, amazing, epoch-shaping collection of golden age science fiction! Volume I contains these masterpieces of sci-fi: They Twinkled Like Jewels, by Philip Jose Farmer This Crowded Earth, by Robert Bloch Time and Time Again, by H. Beam Piper Time Enough At Last, by Lynn Venable Toy Shop,...

After the tragic loss of a close friend Jory and Jordan's lives come together to conquer the dark forces that took their friend's life.

In this short story a young man is the accidental witness to a rape, unknown to perpetrators and victim. The young man flees and needs to figure out where he stands but his moral compass has to be re-calibrated. The resetting of his true north happens on an unexpected way.

First published in 1994, this was my first story ever written and first published, all that in the same month. Man, I said to myself, this writing thing is a piece of cake. Of course, beginner's luck doesn't last long and while I got to see more of my stories published during the years to follow,...

From award-winning author Philip Jose Farmer comes his most famous science fiction work: the first combined edition of the first two Riverworld novels, To Your Scattered Bodies Go and The Fabulous Riverboat. Imagine that every human who ever lived, from the earliest Neanderthals to the present,...

Filipino national hero Jose Rizal wrote The Social Cancer in Berlin in 1887. Upon his return to his country, he was summoned to the palace by the Governor General because of the subversive ideas his book had inspired in the nation. Rizal wrote of his consequent persecution by the church: "My book made...

Few novels have made a more shattering impact on their society than El Filibusterismo - and its predecessor, Noli Me Tangere of Jose Rizal. And surely no writer has paid a higher penalty for self-expression. Rizal was executed by firing squad mainly because of these two books. Filipinos, inspired by...