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A well-to-do doctor wakes up to find himself on a ship at sea. How did he get there, and how will he get home? But before those questions can be answered, the crew begins to succumb to a mysterious illness, one by one -- and questions about the doctor's true identity are never settled.

The stories in this book are centered on a dockside pub where the same people come to tell each other stories and let the night watchman cadge a pint from them. (Goodreads)

Ezekial Robertson went to war before he was old enough to shave. He fought and killed those he learned too late were not his enemies. Returning from the insane and confusing war, there was no family left for him at home in Carolina so he left for Texas in search of a cure for his chronic loneliness...

A collection of short sea and nautical stories.

The captain of a family-owned starship arranges a marriage for her son in hopes of achieving faster-than-light travel and maybe, just maybe, marital bliss. Before Hisako Saski is even born, her parents make a deal on her behalf. In exchange for a first-class education and a boost out of poverty,...

Plum Creek is a historical novel set in nineteenth-century Texas.  It is a coming-of-age story involving Billy McCulloch, a fifteen-year-old boy who accompanies a former Texas Ranger, a black man, and two of his uncles on a quest to rescue a fourteen-year-old girl. The girl was captured by a band of...

Alarm auf der Venus-Basis! Die IVs überfallen die Erde - sie beginnen ihre Schreckensherrschaft Perry Rhodan, der mit der GOOD HOPE, dem Beiboot des auf dem Mond zerstörten Arkoniden-Raumers, zur Venus flog, um dort einen Stützpunkt und ein Ausbildungszentrum seiner Dritten Macht zu errichten,...

For over eighty years this delightful classic has provided entertainment through mathematical problems commonly known as recreations. Although they often involve fundamental mathematical methods and notions, their chief appeal is as games or puzzles rather than the usefulness of their conclusions. This...

This early work by William Wymark Jacobs was originally published in 1902 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Dialstone Lane' is one of the author's few full length novels. Jacobs worked as a clerk in the civil service before turning to writing in his late twenties,...

Die Natur des Planeten ist tödlich - doch noch gefährlicher sind die Menschen selbst, die dort leben... Nur Perry Rhodan und Reginald Bull, die beiden Exponenten einer ungestümen, vorwärtsstrebenden Menschheit, wurden auf dem Planeten WANDERER einer Behandlung unterzogen, die für 62 Erdenjahre...

Höchste Alarmstufe in Terrania - Die Roboter revoltieren! Die Dritte Macht - jene glückliche Mischung aus arkonidischer Supertechnik und menschlichem Tatendrang - kann, nach irdischer Zeit gemessen, bereits auf ein zehnjähriges Bestehen zurückblicken. In diesen zehn Jahren ist viel geschehen:...

This fully revised, updated and extended edition of a successful text, introduces some of the important philosophical issues arising from social research practices and historical research in the social sciences. Since its initial publication the field of social research and philosophy has been widely...

The danger of infection remains the most serious drawback to internal fixation. Prevention, using all available prophylactic measures should be the central feature in every surgical department. Though the infection rate may remain below the acceptable level of 2 %, the infected patient derives little...