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"CHILDREN of YESTERDAY" - Jan Valtin’s dramatic eyewitness account of the Pacific War in the Philippines 1944-45
After the quite phenomenal success of his monumental political memoir Out of the Night in 1941, Richard Krebs (nom-de-plume: Jan Valtin) was (...)
After the quite phenomenal success of his monumental political memoir Out of the Night in 1941, Richard Krebs (nom-de-plume: Jan Valtin) was arrested and tried for an attempted (political) murder he was accused of having committed in (...)
After the quite phenomenal success of his monumental political memoir Out of the Night in 1941, Richard Krebs (nom-de-plume: Jan Valtin) was arrested and tried for an attempted (political) murder he was accused of having committed in the twenties – for which he was acquitted – in 1942, and then (...)

"The Weapon Shops of Isher" (1949) - a major golden-age novella by A. E. van Vogt never before republished!
This long, well-developed novella, revisiting the saga of the mysterious "Weapon Shops" organization that acts as a check-and balance on the (...)
This long, well-developed novella, revisiting the saga of the mysterious "Weapon Shops" organization that acts as a check-and balance on the powers of the world-dominant Isher dynasty some 7000 years in the future, was first (...)
This long, well-developed novella, revisiting the saga of the mysterious "Weapon Shops" organization that acts as a check-and balance on the powers of the world-dominant Isher dynasty some 7000 years in the future, was first published as the cover story of the February 1949 issue of Thrilling (...)

"Out of the Night" (1941) by Jan Valtin - BOOKS ONE AND TWO
This is the memoir of a militant and full-time party worker in the German Communist Party (KPD) and in the Comintern – the international (...)
This is the memoir of a militant and full-time party worker in the German Communist Party (KPD) and in the Comintern – the international organization of all the Communist parties in the world - in the twenties and thirties, this is a (...)
This is the memoir of a militant and full-time party worker in the German Communist Party (KPD) and in the Comintern – the international organization of all the Communist parties in the world - in the twenties and thirties, this is a first-hand account of many of the dramatic events which (...)

Jack London’s in-depth exploration of the (shocking) living conditions in London’s East End: "The People of the Abyss" (1902)
In 1902 the 25-year-old Jack London, who was already a veteran of a year of vagrant "hobo" wanderings around the American continent when he was (...)
In 1902 the 25-year-old Jack London, who was already a veteran of a year of vagrant "hobo" wanderings around the American continent when he was 17, of a year of sailing on a fishing boat in the Far Pacific when he was 18, and of a (...)
In 1902 the 25-year-old Jack London, who was already a veteran of a year of vagrant "hobo" wanderings around the American continent when he was 17, of a year of sailing on a fishing boat in the Far Pacific when he was 18, and of a year in the Klondike gold-rush in Canada’s Far North when he was (...)

Survival in the Klondike – 10 great stories by Jack London
Jack London’s stories of life and adventure in the Far North, mostly set in the Klondike region of the Northwest Territories in Canada during the (...)
Jack London’s stories of life and adventure in the Far North, mostly set in the Klondike region of the Northwest Territories in Canada during the great gold rush of 1898 there, all feature striking descriptions of the extreme climatic (...)
Jack London’s stories of life and adventure in the Far North, mostly set in the Klondike region of the Northwest Territories in Canada during the great gold rush of 1898 there, all feature striking descriptions of the extreme climatic conditions experienced by the participants in that greatest (...)

"The World of Null-A" (1945) by A. E. van Vogt - the full text
First published in monthly instalments in the August-October 1945 issues of Astounding Science Fiction, this fast-paced and very ambitious (...)
First published in monthly instalments in the August-October 1945 issues of Astounding Science Fiction, this fast-paced and very ambitious blockbuster novel set in 2580 A.D. was A. E. van Vogt’s fourth major novel in that glorious (...)
First published in monthly instalments in the August-October 1945 issues of Astounding Science Fiction, this fast-paced and very ambitious blockbuster novel set in 2580 A.D. was A. E. van Vogt’s fourth major novel in that glorious heyday-decade of science fiction, the golden forties. Regularly (...)

"The Voyage of The Space Beagle (1950)" by A. E. van Vogt - the complete text of this great science-fiction writer’s best novel
If there is one "golden-age" science-fiction novel that has passed the most demanding literary test of all - the test of time – with flying (...)
If there is one "golden-age" science-fiction novel that has passed the most demanding literary test of all - the test of time – with flying colours, it is this brilliant account of the exciting - and thought-provoking - adventures of (...)
If there is one "golden-age" science-fiction novel that has passed the most demanding literary test of all - the test of time – with flying colours, it is this brilliant account of the exciting - and thought-provoking - adventures of mankind’s first voyage of exploration outside of his own (...)

The Funniest Science-Fiction Story: “MUGWUMP 4” (1959) by Robert Silverberg – the complete text
Science fiction is not a domain noted for its humour - adventure in far-off spaces, dramatic encounters with alien life forms and cosmic strife (...)
Science fiction is not a domain noted for its humour - adventure in far-off spaces, dramatic encounters with alien life forms and cosmic strife involving the fate of whole galaxies or at least that of mankind are more what come to mind (...)
Science fiction is not a domain noted for its humour - adventure in far-off spaces, dramatic encounters with alien life forms and cosmic strife involving the fate of whole galaxies or at least that of mankind are more what come to mind when the term is evoked. But a number of noteworthy (...)

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