Bruce Drake: 5 books

Arthur Drake, a teenage gang leader in London, crosses the line and has to flee England. Shanghaied, he spends over two years aboard ship on the Downey Cruiser. Art and four friends escape into California and end up in the gold fields in 1848. Being some of the first, they strike it rich. The captain...

Blue River is an action packed story of seven kids, in Kansas, in the 1840's. Indians kill then loot their families' wagons and leave nothing for them to survive with. The seven youngsters mesh as a family and together they fight untrained oxen, kidnappers, cattle thieves and their doubts as...

The Carr family wanted to control the moonshine trade in the Pennsylvania hills. They came into rock Holler shooting two Lee children, beating one to death and battered the family badly. The Lees' moved west to avoid the Garrs' tyranny. Outlaws fire at their wagons and Arnold fights, is wounded...

Through a set of circumstances, Ronald Holden finds himself alone, and his heart is broken. Unbeknownst to him, crazy neighbors murder his family and seek his life. Death nearly finds him as he flees his home. A friendly family nurses him back to health. They run into trouble trying to cross the Illinois...

A survey of the last 100 years of science fiction, with representative stories and illuminating essays by the top writers, poets, and scholars, from Edgar Rice Burroughs and Samuel Butler to Robert A. Heinlein and and Jack Vance, from E.E. "Doc" Smith and Clifford D. Simak to Ted Chiang and Charles Stross-- and everyone in between. More than one million words of classic fiction and essays!