R Chauncey: 4 books

Professor Littleton receives a letter from an unknown woman that offers him a chance to find the fable Indian city of gold, Cibola. Littleton assumes the letter is a joke written by one of his former students and ignores it. Later that night, Julia Hamilton, shows up at his house and forces...

Lyle Morton, an employee of the Department of Information in Crown City (the capital city of the united world) leaves work on June 1, 3075, and disappears with a glass disk that contains information that could destroy the five most powerful and richest men in the world. The five hire Lee Adams and...

Every city on Earth with a population of fifty thousand or more is attacked by aliens who exterminate the political, industrial, economic, and military leadership of the world. Over seven billion people are disintegrated in two hours. Eleven people discover the general area where the alien command...

Hugo Bettauer's The Blue Stain, a novel of racial mixing and "passing," starts and ends in Georgia but also takes the reader to Vienna and New York. First published in 1922, the novel tells the story of Carletto, son of a white European academic and an African American daughter of former slaves, who,...