Bibliotek i Västmanland

The Happy Unfortunate is a science fiction novella by Robert Silverberg, first published in 1957. The story explores the angst caused when the human race reaches into space but at ...

The Variable Man is a science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick, first published in 1953. “He fixed things—clocks, refrigerators, vidsenders and destinies. But he had no business in ...

Second Variety is a science fiction novella by Philip K. Dick, first published in 1953. "The claws were bad enough in the first place—nasty, crawling little death-robots. But when ...

Mr. Spaceship is a science fiction novella by Philip K. Dick, first published in 1953. Humanity is at war with "Yuks," an alien life form which does not use mechanical spaceships n ...

The Defenders is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick, first published in 1953.  The terrible destruction of total nuclear war between the Western and Eastern Blocks has ...

The Crystal Crypt is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick, first published in 1954. In the Crystal Crypt, taken from the 1954 Planet Stories, the war between Mars and Te ...

The Skull is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick, first published in 1952. Conger agreed to kill a stranger he had never seen. He wasn't concerned about getting the wro ...

A Spaceship Named McGuire is a science fiction novella by Randal Garrett, first published in 1961. The basic trouble with McGuire was that, though "he" was a robot spaceship, never ...

Quest of the Golden Ape is a science fiction novel by Randal Garrett and Stephen Marlowe first published in 1957.  How could this man awaken with no past—no childhood—no recollecti ...

Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (popularly known as Fanny Hill) is an erotic novel by English novelist John Cleland first published in London in 1748.    This book has b ...

Trouble on Titan is a science fiction novella by American author Arthur K. Barnes first published in 1941. "When the Queen of the Spaceways meets the King of the Interplanetary Wil ...

The Outcry is a novel by Henry James published in 1911. The Outcry was the last novel James was able to complete before his death in 1916. The storyline concerns the buying up of B ...

The Other House is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in the Illustrated London News in 1896 and then as a book later the same year. Set in England, this book is s ...

Confidence is a novel by Henry James, first published 1879. This light and somewhat awkward comedy centers on artist Bernard Longueville, scientist Gordon Wright, and the sometimes ...

The Tragic Muse is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly in 1889-1890 and then as a book in 1890. This wide, cheerful panorama of English life ...

Beasts, Men and Gods by Polish writer Ferdynand Ossendowski is a travel narrative first published in 1922. “Beasts, Men and Gods” is an account of an epic journey, filled with peri ...

The Misplaced Battleship is a science fiction short story by Harry Harrison first published in 1960. The world class con man and thief known as the Stainless Steel Rat (diGriz) has ...

The Green Odyssey is a science fiction novel by Philip José Farmer first published in 1957. The Green Odyssey is a relatively straightforward adventure story, involving an astronau ...

Rastignac The Devil is a science fiction novella by Philip José Farmer first published in Fantastic Universe May 1954. Here is high fidelity fiction at Philip José Farmer's story-t ...

One Against the Moon is a science-fiction novel written by Donald A. Wollheim and first published in 1956. In One Against the Moon Donald A. Wollheim spins a tale about a stowaway, ...

Eve and David (1843) is the final book in Balzac’s Lost Illusions trilogy, which is part of his sweeping set of novels collectively titled La Comédie Humaine. The story is set in p ...

Sevastopol Sketches are three short stories written by Leo Tolstoy and published in 1855 to record his experiences during the Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855) in the Crimean War (18 ...

Two Poets (1837) is the first book in Balzac’s Lost Illusions trilogy, which is part of his sweeping set of novels collectively titled La Comédie Humaine. The story is set in post- ...

A Distinguished Provincial at Paris (1839) is the second book in Balzac’s Lost Illusions trilogy, which is part of his sweeping set of novels collectively titled La Comédie Humaine ...

The Valley of the Giants is a 1918 novel by American author Peter B. Kyne. In Kyne's Humboldt-inspired novel, a timber baron's wife's wish of saving a favorite stand of redwoods an ...