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by Edward Bellamy
Looking Backward 2000-1887
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  • Fiction
  • 1888
  • Autor: Edward Bellamy
Bellamy's fantastic utopian novels made a great contribution to the theory of American socialism. In his main work, “After a Hundred Years,” the author described the social system that had come to him. The hero of the book, under the influence of hypnosis, fell asleep in a lethargic dream in 1887, and woke up already in 2000 and was surprised to find that over the past 113 years, a society of universal equality had emerged in the process of peaceful evolution in America. All implements of production are nationalized, the people represent the “industrial army of labor”, competition, business,...
Amazon Rating ~ 4 out of 5

by Clifford D. Simak
Project Mastodon
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  • Fiction
  • 1955
  • Autor: Clifford D. Simak
Three friends built a time machine, set off on it in the distant past, 150 thousand years ago, and founded the state of Mastodonia there. Will they be able to achieve political recognition of Mastodonia in our time, because no one believes in the existence of such a country?...
Number of pages: ~ 34 pages
Amazon Rating ~ 3.9 out of 5

by John Foster West
Cogito, Ergo Sum
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  • Fiction
  • 1954
  • Autor: John Foster West
Is Spirit and Flesh the same thing? Or are these separate entities, dependent and at the same time independent of each other? Perhaps some great Cosmic Law holds this secret. But the only Universal Element on which we can depend, apparently, is the Happy Event. A twisted moment in the Cosmos - and two ego are separated from their bodies and lost in a lonely abyss....
Number of pages: ~ 11 pages
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The Great White Queen A Tale of Treasure and Treason
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  • Fiction
  • 1896
  • Autor: William Le Queux
A young Englishman, along with a classmate - a young man of a mysterious nationality - make an escape from school and go to Africa. Along the way, it turns out that this African is the crown prince of one of the most mysterious kingdoms of the Black continent, where the white man’s foot has not yet stepped. And the Great White Queen rules this state. Not having time to land on the African coast, friends fall into a trap set up by the worst enemy of the royal dynasty of the unknown country of Mo. Innumerable adventures have to go through them on the way to the lost world, but even there...
Number of pages: ~ 143 pages
Amazon Rating ~ 3.5 out of 5

by Ernst Paul
The Raid on the Termites
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Number of pages: ~ 52 pages
Amazon Rating ~ 4.5

by Wallace West
The End of Time
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Millions of millions of creatures living on planet Earth are slowing and falling. What is the reason? The sense of time disappears ... What awaits our world?...
Number of pages: ~ 22 pages
Amazon Rating ~ 4.1 out of 5

by Albert Teichner
Man Made
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  • Fiction
  • 1960
  • Autor: Albert Teichner
In this short story, the author confronts the characters with one of the oldest questions that interest humanity - what is the soul? And like hundreds of times before, history is trying to find a new answer...
Number of pages: ~ 11 pages
Amazon Rating ~ 2.7 out of 5

by Gerald W. Page
The Happy Man
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  • Fiction
  • 1963
  • Autor: Gerald W. Page
In a world where most people sleep and dream about life, only a few, such as Nelson, really walk the earth, hide from guards and tracking robots, only they really live and try to achieve their goal. But the problem is completely different. Nelson is a rebel by nature, and this rebellion cannot lead to anything good ......
Number of pages: ~ 20 pages
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by T. R. Fehrenbach
Remember the Alamo!
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  • Fiction
  • 1961
  • Autor: T. R. Fehrenbach
This is perhaps one of the most powerful stories in modern social philosophy - a small fairy tale, from which frost runs over the skin. An unusual situation, an unpredictable plot - a fascinating story awaits you!...
Number of pages: ~ 13 pages
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by Maurice Nicoll
The Blue Germ
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  • Fiction
  • 1918
  • Autor: Maurice Nicoll
The Blue Germ concentrates on what will bring immortality to society and the individual, but does not focus on science as the basis. Its main qualities are in symbols and tones, and not in conceptualization. He makes interesting and insightful observations and voices a truly unique (for his era) assumption that could become a stepping stone to the medical provision of immortality....
Number of pages: ~ 98 pages
Amazon Rating ~ 4.1 out of 5