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The Classic Tales of Jacques Futrelle - The Thinking Machine - Bok av Jacques Futrelle - Häftad

The Classic Tales of Jacques Futrelle - The Thinking Machine - Bok av Jacques Futrelle - Häftad

JACQUES FUTRELLE (1875-1912) is widely considered \the American Sherlock Holmes\ for his series of stories about Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, who is better known as The Thinking Machine. Van Dusen, a master of logic, believed he could think himself out of any situation-and solve any crime-through the use of his immense intellect. Through dozens of stories, The Thinking Machine solved locked-room puzzles, kidnappings, and more murders than can be easily counted, proving again and again..

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The Time Machine by H. G. Wells, Fiction, Classics - Bok av H. G. Wells - Inbunden

The Time Machine by H. G. Wells, Fiction, Classics - Bok av H. G. Wells - Inbunden

Wells touches gently on time travel as a notion, but mostly The Time Machine is about the terminal future he sees for mankind: His nameless time traveler ventures to the world that will be 802,701 A.D., And there he finds mankind divided among the Eloi and the Morlocks. The Eloi are a gentle, winsome, idle race, who do not labor; the Morlocks, in contrast, are a barbaric race -- who use the Eloi for food. It's a grim vision, and a gripping one. There's a reason that The Time Machine has become a..

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Bantan Incredible - Bok av Maurice B Gardner - Häftad

Bantan Incredible - Bok av Maurice B Gardner - Häftad

Upon Mandoes Island, an American scientist know only as The Great One, had long since discovered the secret of longevity. In addtion, he has created an electronic machine known as a retrovider, which is capable of photographing a subject's long-dormant brain cells as impressed by what long-dead eyes had witnessed in actuality. Bantan's search for vengeance leads him to Mandoes Island. Despite his precautions, he is taken prisoner. Experiments follow, and the scientist realizes his greatest achievement,..

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The Pothunters by P. G. Wodehouse, Fiction, Literary - Bok av P. G. Wodehouse - Häftad

The Pothunters by P. G. Wodehouse, Fiction, Literary - Bok av P. G. Wodehouse - Häftad

\This robbery of the pots is a rum thing,\ said Vaughan, thoughtfully, when the last shreds of Plunkett's character had been put through the mincing-machine to the satisfaction of all concerned. \Yes. It's the sort of thing one doesn't think possible till it actually happens.\ \What the dickens made them put the things in the Pav. at all? They must have known it wouldn't be safe.\ \Well, you see, they usually cart them into the Board Room, I believe, only this time the governors were going..

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By Rocket to the Moon - Bok av Otto Willi Gail - Häftad

By Rocket to the Moon - Bok av Otto Willi Gail - Häftad

Inspirational science fiction aimed at young adults but far from utopian. It is speculative fiction based on the known science of rocket propulsion in the 1930s.By Rocket to the Moon tells the story of how Tommy Bighead, a young newspaper reporter, went to Germany, found Hans Hardt, who had crossed the ocean - Munich to Detroit - in two hours by rocket plane, joined his crew and helped him build his new machine (a giant rocket) for the moon trip. It then tells of Tommy's miraculous flight with Hans..

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England, My England - Bok av D. H. Lawrence - Häftad

England, My England - Bok av D. H. Lawrence - Häftad

The lull continued. Then suddenly came sharp orders, and a new direction of the guns, and an intense, exciting activity. Yet at the center the soul remained dark and aloof, alone. But even so, it was the soul that heard the new sound: the new, deep \papp!\ of a gun that seemed to touch right upon the soul. He kept up the rapid activity at the machine-gun, sweating. But in his soul was the echo of the new, deep sound, deeper than life. And in confirmation came the awful faint whistling of a shell,..

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The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells, Fiction, Classics, Science Fiction - Bok av H. G. Wells - Häftad

The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells, Fiction, Classics, Science Fiction - Bok av H. G. Wells - Häftad

A century ago, H.G. Wells was one of the men who all but created the science fiction novel. Wells wrote three classics in four years: The Time Machine (1895), The Invisible Man (1897) and The War of the Worlds (1898). The Invisible Man, owes an obvious debt to Frankenstein, as it explores the nature of mankind, asking weather an invisible man still be bound by the morality that seems natural to us. Seems like a natural thing, doesn't it? But listen to the story Wells tells, and the doubt he places..

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