Infinity: 1105 books

//~Mission to locate Earth-temperate planet for colonisation: failed … //~1000 years out from Earth base, damage to colony sleeper hangars 1, 3 and 4 sustained … all lives lost … hangars 2 and 5 still operational … //~Mission parameters adjusted: Augmentation of colonists to commence …...

When a young tug pilot's career is ruined by a collision in Earth orbit he has no choice but to accept a commission to fly an eccentric ship builder to a planet far from the trade routes. When they discover alien ruins on the planet and the hulk of a missing generation ship they are thrown into the...

Edwardian Britain: 1910. Kora Blackmore, thrown into Bedlam mental hospital by her father – Britain's leading industrialist Sir Tantalus Blackmore – is one day visited by a mysterious gentleman, who gains her trust then makes off with her to his family home in Sheffield. But Kora is afflicted...

When Salvageman Ed saves Ella Rodriguez from spider-drones on the pleasure planet of Sinclair’s Landfall, he has no idea what he’s letting himself in for. Ella is not at all what she seems, as he’s soon about to find out. What follows, as the spider-drones and the Hayakawa Organisation...

All the excitement of Broadway during the glory days of the Great White Way comes to life in Tales of a Broadway Flack, David A. Longs engrossing new biography about Sol Jacobson, press agent for some of Broadways most memorable shows and legendary performers, from Desi Arnaz and Eddie Bracken (Too...

Samuel Langhorne Clemens was a young man of thirty when he boarded the sail-steamer Ajax on March 7, 1866, to venture on an ocean voyage to the Hawaiian Islands as a roving reporter for The Sacramento Union. He had not yet written Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, or Life on the Mississippi. He was poor...

Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died on July 4, 1826. This was exactly 50 years after the Declaration of Independence was adopted.

A riveting tale of a world voyage combined fun with world events like the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, mudslides, Suez Canal and piracy. See how we fared.

Garry (Douglas) Kilworth is a varied and prolific writer who has travelled widely since childhood, living in a number of countries, especially in the Far East. His books include science fiction and fantasy, historical novels, literary novels, short story collections, children's books and film novelisations....

From the totally not bestselling author of Crandolin (shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award), an extraordinary and moving novel that confronts and defies boundaries. “Thank you,” said Arthur. “There’s always hope.” He’d always hated that facile truism, but said it because he’d...

From the last great sea battles of WWII to dive bomber pilot, helicopter pilot #153, squadron commander, sailing bum and mathematics professor, a most unusual career.

The Air Force Special Services decided to form a show to tour Korea, which would be comprised of male Air Force personnel who had amateur or professional entertainment experience. The selected airmen for the proposed show would perform under all conditions, weather included. No special accommodations...

Life jumps the rails, runs away from you and there’s no catching it up. Not ever. A free short story from Iain Rowan, winner of the Derringer Award for best short crime story. "I mean it," the gunman shrieked, and he pointed the revolver at Ward, the end of the barrel moving...

From automobile airbag to airplane, from shopping cart to earth orbiting satellite, from Barbie® doll to Lincoln Logs®... these 150+ wondrous innovations made our world a better place to live and often a lot more fun! Learn their amazing origins.