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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The Power Ball	John Lymington	As long ago as 1937 successful inventor and scientist Sir Arthur Barnes created a device which generated electricity on a practical scale without the need for fuel or machinery or power distribution …	OL10570332W
It Was the Day of the Robot	Frank Belknap Long	The Big Brain denies John Tabor's request to marry, and in the twenty-second century it is the Brain that makes the decisions. Should he try an artificial woman to his own specifications, "for spacem…	OL10570345W
The Apes	Eden Phillpotts	These Apes of Mr. Phillpotts ruled the earth before Man appeared on its surface. In many ways they were rather like ourselves. For example, they believed that they were the supreme achievement of the…	OL1089927W
Ficciones	Jorge Luis Borges	A collection of his short stories in which Borges often uses the labyrinth as a literary device to expound his ideas on all aspects of human life and endeavor. ---------- Contains: [Tlön, Uqba…	OL110971W
A Time for Survival	Philip McCutchan	Only a very privileged few — the men and women best able to re-habilitate Britain — were given the chance of survival in special shelters when the Chinese dropped the Bomb. Fewer still survived the b…	OL14851301W
Beneath the Moors	Brian Lumley	Prof. Ewart Masters spends his convalescence, following a car accident, at the home of his nephew Jason Masters, pursuing his studies of ancient civilizations, during which he makes startling discove…	OL14925336W
Twists in Time	Murray Leinster	Suppose you hopped into your time-machine, zipped backwards a century and landed smack on your great-great-grandpa, rendering him dead in the prime of bachelorhood. Impossible? Of course it is,…	OL15556239W
Darling Wendy and Other Stories	Melissa Crandall	Limited print run (300) collection of speculative fiction short stories. No longer in print. Contact author's website for purchase information. "Melissa Crandall re-imagines the fairytale form wit…	OL15672801W
Beswitched	Kate Saunders,Paola Escobar	On her way, reluctantly, to a boarding school in present-day England, Flora suddenly finds herself in 1935, the new girl at St. Winifred's, having been summoned via a magic spell by her new dormitory…	OL15916303W
truth city	Nick Sapien	Truth City epitomizes man's greatest achievement; it is a special place on Earth, the birthplace of the Truth Machine. The Truth Machine in turn allows human beings the chance to shed their former in…	OL16085847W
Writing science fiction and fantasy	Tina Lee,Sheila Williams,Jane Yolen,Connie Willis,Hal Clement,Gardner R. Dozois,Poul Anderson,James Patrick Kelly,Robert A. Heinlein,Isaac Asimov,John Barnes,Stanley Schmidt,Norman Spinrad,Ian Randal Strock	Twenty essays on writing science fiction and fantasy by leading speculative fiction writers. An enjoyable and informative read. On the Writing of Speculative Fiction - Robert A. Heinlein Living t…	OL16500819W
Odd Places	Guy Anthony De Marco	Odd Places by Guy Anthony De Marco A long, dark road stretches before you, waiting to take you to Odd Places... - A pair of thugs discover their prey isn’t as helpless as they expected. -…	OL16795436W
The Private Enemy	Nicola L. C. Talbot	The last Earl of Wynherne lies dead on the study floor. His daughter is missing and seemingly respectable Mr Allerton is found stabbed in the leg. Fenland Detective Inspector Hadley is called in to i…	OL17106340W
Superluminal	Vonda N. McIntyre	To pilot an interstellar spaceship a very special kind of human being is required. In the strange superluminal world which ships enter beyond the speed of light, ordinary humans age and wither and di…	OL1921524W
A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking	T. Kingfisher	Fourteen year old Mona is a baker but she is also a not-very-powerful wizard - her medium of choice is dough. She can make pastries dance and bread light and fluffy - nothing extreme or dangerous. Bu…	OL20924196W
Africa Risen	Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki,Sheree Renée Thomas,Zelda Knight	A group of cabinet ministers query a supercomputer containing the minds of the country’s ancestors. A child robot on a dying planet uncovers signs of fragile new life. A descendent of a rain goddess …	OL27172733W
El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan	Jorge Luis Borges	Contains: [Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL444914W)	OL444760W
Ivy Cole And the Moon	Gina Farago	Ivy Cole is a vigilante werewolf who uses her monthly change to rid her town of people who she thinks deserve to die. She's lived the life of a lone wolf who has to move on whenever her neighbours ge…	OL8110321W
The Santaroga Barrier	Frank Herbert	On the face of it Santaroga seemed like any other small California town in an agricultural valley. But this one had its own — unofficial — rules. Outsiders found no houses available to let or fo…	OL893522W
5.5BW	Melissa Crandall; Siofra Shaman Skye; Lorraine Spaziani	Collection of short fiction and poetry (mostly poetry).	OL9773943W