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The difference engine by William Gibson
1855: The Industrial Revolution is in full and inexorable swing, powered by steam-driven cybernetic Engines. Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical …
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1855: The Industrial Revolution is in full and inexorable swing, powered by steam-driven cybernetic Engines. Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical …

Inferno (Italian: [iɱˈfɛrno]; Italian for "Hell") is the first part of Italian writer Dante Alighieri's 14th-century epic poem Divine Comedy. …

Here is the text of Nabokov's own screen adaptation of his celebrated novel, written in California in 1960 for the …

The People of Paper is an exploratory novel, depicting the painful struggles of life and writing through a fantastical world …

Outlaw journalist Spider Jerusalem, determined to expose the misdeeds of a president that sent professional assassins after him, is diagnosed …

France, 1861. When an epidemic threatens to wipe out the silk trade in France, silkworm breeder Herve Joncour has to …

The Picture of Dorian Gray is a philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde. A shorter novella-length version was published in the …

Philip Pullman: The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1) (Paperback, 1999, Ballantine Books)
In a landmark epic of fantasy and storytelling, Philip Pullman invites readers into a world as convincing and thoroughly realized …

A Game of Thrones is the first novel in A Song of Ice and Fire, a series of fantasy novels …

"Command the murderous chalices! Drink ye harpooners! Drink and swear, ye men that man the deathful whaleboat's bow -- Death …

[The story of the famous fictional surgeon-turned-pirate, Dr. Peter Blood. What's interesting -- besides the thunderingly well told adventure story …