Thursday
Mar262009
Even More Post-Apocalyptic Ebooks
Thursday, March 26, 2009 at 2:13PM
A while back I came across a huge bundle of post-apocalyptic ebooks on Bittorrent. Today I followed a forum post and found another set of PA ebooks, this time on Feedbooks.com.
Apparently Feedbooks is a site specifically for free or mostly free ebooks, and can generate various ebook file types on the fly as you download them.
They've created a Post-Apocalyptic sub-category with 21 books in it so far.
They include:
City at World's End [en] (1951)
by Edmond Moore Hamilton
Description: The pleasant little American city of Middletown is the first target in an atomic war - but instead of blowing Middletown to smithereens, the super-hydrogen bomb blows it right off the map - to some...
Categories: Novels - Science Fiction
Everyone In Silico Everyone In Silico [en] (2002)
by Jim Munroe
Description: In Vancouver in 2036, people are tired of the rain. They're willing to give up a lot for guaranteed sunshine, a life with no wasted hours. A life free of crime and disease. A life that ends when yo...
Categories: Novels - Science Fiction
The Night Land The Night Land [en] (1912)
by William Hope Hodgson
Description: The Sun has gone out: the Earth is lit only by the glow of residual vulcanism. The last few millions of the human race are gathered together in a gigantic metal pyramid, the Last Redoubt, under sie...
Categories: Novels - Science Fiction - Horror - Fantasy
The Last American The Last American [en] (1889)
by J.A. Mitchell
Description: The astounding discoveries of Khan-li of Dimph-yoo-chur have thrown floods of light upon the domestic life of the Mehrikan people. He little realized when he landed upon that sleeping continent wha...
Categories: Short Fiction - Science Fiction
The Doomsman The Doomsman [en] (1906)
by Van Tassel Sutphen
Description: The state of civilization in 2015 New York will closely resemble that of England in the early days of Saxon settlement -- primitive people will dwell sparsely in patriarchal stockades and will figh...
Categories: Novels - Science Fiction
The Purple Cloud The Purple Cloud [en] (1901)
by Matthew Phipps Shiel
Description: Sheil's free-flowing and persuasive style of writing produces a convincing portrait of Adam Jefferson -- a man who, upon returning alone from an expedition to the North Pole, learns that a world-wi...
Categories: Novels - Science Fiction
Children of Tomorrow Children of Tomorrow [en] (1939)
by Arthur Leo Zagat
Description: They roamed the vanished world that yesterday was America.
Categories: Short Fiction - Science Fiction
Refuge Refuge [en] (2008)
by Richard Herley
Description: Like The Penal Colony, this is a thriller set in the near future. It is twelve years on from a global plague. John Suter believes himself the sole survivor. He has gradually come to terms with h...
Categories: Novels - Science Fiction - Thriller
In the Days of the Comet In the Days of the Comet [en] (1906)
by Herbert George Wells
Description: A fantastic tale of the world's beauty and unity after the Great Change occurs.
Categories: Novels - Science Fiction
Lord of the World Lord of the World [en] (1907)
by Robert Hugh Benson
Description: In or about the year 2000, humanity has reached "that incredibly lofty goal to which its intrinsic efforts can carry it" — but rejected everything but crass materialism. Technology has advanced to ...
Categories: Novels - Science Fiction - Religion
When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth [en] (2006)
by Cory Doctorow
Description: The heroic exploits of "sysadmins" — systems administrators — as they defend the cyber-world, and hence the world at large, from worms and bioweapons.
Categories: Short Fiction - Science Fiction
The Scarlet Plague The Scarlet Plague [en] (1912)
by Jack London
Description: This novella explores life following a devastating plague that wipes out most of humanity.
Categories: Short Fiction - Science Fiction
The Last Man The Last Man [en] (1826)
by Mary Shelley
Description: A futuristic story of tragic love and of the gradual extermination of the human race by plague, The Last Man is Mary Shelley's most important novel after Frankenstein. With intriguing portraits of ...
Categories: Novels - Science Fiction
After London After London [en] (1885)
by John Richard Jefferies
Description: After some sudden and unspecified catastrophe has depopulated England, the countryside reverts to nature, and the few survivors to a quasi-medieval way of life. Beginning with a loving description ...
Categories: Novels - Science Fiction - Adventure
The Time Machine The Time Machine [en] (1895)
by Herbert George Wells
Description: The book's protagonist is an amateur inventor or scientist living in London who is never named; he is identified simply as The Time Traveller. Having demonstrated to friends using a miniature model...
Categories: Novels - Science Fiction
The Star The Star [en] (1897)
by Herbert George Wells
Categories: Short Fiction - Science Fiction
The War of the Worlds The War of the Worlds [en] (1898)
by Herbert George Wells
Description: The War of the Worlds (1898), by H. G. Wells, is an early science fiction novel which describes an invasion of England by aliens from Mars. It is one of the earliest and best-known depictions of an...
Categories: Novels - Science Fiction - War
The Poison Belt The Poison Belt [en] (1913)
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Description: The Poison Belt was the second story, a novella, that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about Professor Challenger. Written in 1913, roughly a year before the outbreak of World War I, much of it takes p...
Categories: Novels - Science Fiction
Last and First Men Last and First Men [en] (1930)
by William Olaf Stapledon
Description: Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future is a science fiction novel written in 1930 by the British author Olaf Stapledon. A work of unprecedented scale in the genre, it describes the ...
Categories: Novels - Science Fiction
Sweet Their Blood and Sticky Sweet Their Blood and Sticky [en] (1961)
by Albert Teichner
Description: They weren't human--weren't even related to humanity through ties of blood--but they were our heirs!
Categories: Short Fiction - Science Fiction
Deathworld Deathworld [en] (1960)
by Harry Harrison
Description: Some planet in the galaxy must—by definition—be the toughest, meanest, nastiest of all. If Pyrrus wasn't it ... it was an awfully good approximation!
Categories: Novels - Science Fiction - Adventure
Maybe I'll try to figure out which of Gerard of Utah's books are copyright free and add them to Feedbooks as well.
Apparently Feedbooks is a site specifically for free or mostly free ebooks, and can generate various ebook file types on the fly as you download them.
They've created a Post-Apocalyptic sub-category with 21 books in it so far.
They include:
City at World's End [en] (1951)
by Edmond Moore Hamilton
Description: The pleasant little American city of Middletown is the first target in an atomic war - but instead of blowing Middletown to smithereens, the super-hydrogen bomb blows it right off the map - to some...
Categories: Novels - Science Fiction
Everyone In Silico Everyone In Silico [en] (2002)
by Jim Munroe
Description: In Vancouver in 2036, people are tired of the rain. They're willing to give up a lot for guaranteed sunshine, a life with no wasted hours. A life free of crime and disease. A life that ends when yo...
Categories: Novels - Science Fiction
The Night Land The Night Land [en] (1912)
by William Hope Hodgson
Description: The Sun has gone out: the Earth is lit only by the glow of residual vulcanism. The last few millions of the human race are gathered together in a gigantic metal pyramid, the Last Redoubt, under sie...
Categories: Novels - Science Fiction - Horror - Fantasy
The Last American The Last American [en] (1889)
by J.A. Mitchell
Description: The astounding discoveries of Khan-li of Dimph-yoo-chur have thrown floods of light upon the domestic life of the Mehrikan people. He little realized when he landed upon that sleeping continent wha...
Categories: Short Fiction - Science Fiction
The Doomsman The Doomsman [en] (1906)
by Van Tassel Sutphen
Description: The state of civilization in 2015 New York will closely resemble that of England in the early days of Saxon settlement -- primitive people will dwell sparsely in patriarchal stockades and will figh...
Categories: Novels - Science Fiction
The Purple Cloud The Purple Cloud [en] (1901)
by Matthew Phipps Shiel
Description: Sheil's free-flowing and persuasive style of writing produces a convincing portrait of Adam Jefferson -- a man who, upon returning alone from an expedition to the North Pole, learns that a world-wi...
Categories: Novels - Science Fiction
Children of Tomorrow Children of Tomorrow [en] (1939)
by Arthur Leo Zagat
Description: They roamed the vanished world that yesterday was America.
Categories: Short Fiction - Science Fiction
Refuge Refuge [en] (2008)
by Richard Herley
Description: Like The Penal Colony, this is a thriller set in the near future. It is twelve years on from a global plague. John Suter believes himself the sole survivor. He has gradually come to terms with h...
Categories: Novels - Science Fiction - Thriller
In the Days of the Comet In the Days of the Comet [en] (1906)
by Herbert George Wells
Description: A fantastic tale of the world's beauty and unity after the Great Change occurs.
Categories: Novels - Science Fiction
Lord of the World Lord of the World [en] (1907)
by Robert Hugh Benson
Description: In or about the year 2000, humanity has reached "that incredibly lofty goal to which its intrinsic efforts can carry it" — but rejected everything but crass materialism. Technology has advanced to ...
Categories: Novels - Science Fiction - Religion
When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth [en] (2006)
by Cory Doctorow
Description: The heroic exploits of "sysadmins" — systems administrators — as they defend the cyber-world, and hence the world at large, from worms and bioweapons.
Categories: Short Fiction - Science Fiction
The Scarlet Plague The Scarlet Plague [en] (1912)
by Jack London
Description: This novella explores life following a devastating plague that wipes out most of humanity.
Categories: Short Fiction - Science Fiction
The Last Man The Last Man [en] (1826)
by Mary Shelley
Description: A futuristic story of tragic love and of the gradual extermination of the human race by plague, The Last Man is Mary Shelley's most important novel after Frankenstein. With intriguing portraits of ...
Categories: Novels - Science Fiction
After London After London [en] (1885)
by John Richard Jefferies
Description: After some sudden and unspecified catastrophe has depopulated England, the countryside reverts to nature, and the few survivors to a quasi-medieval way of life. Beginning with a loving description ...
Categories: Novels - Science Fiction - Adventure
The Time Machine The Time Machine [en] (1895)
by Herbert George Wells
Description: The book's protagonist is an amateur inventor or scientist living in London who is never named; he is identified simply as The Time Traveller. Having demonstrated to friends using a miniature model...
Categories: Novels - Science Fiction
The Star The Star [en] (1897)
by Herbert George Wells
Categories: Short Fiction - Science Fiction
The War of the Worlds The War of the Worlds [en] (1898)
by Herbert George Wells
Description: The War of the Worlds (1898), by H. G. Wells, is an early science fiction novel which describes an invasion of England by aliens from Mars. It is one of the earliest and best-known depictions of an...
Categories: Novels - Science Fiction - War
The Poison Belt The Poison Belt [en] (1913)
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Description: The Poison Belt was the second story, a novella, that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about Professor Challenger. Written in 1913, roughly a year before the outbreak of World War I, much of it takes p...
Categories: Novels - Science Fiction
Last and First Men Last and First Men [en] (1930)
by William Olaf Stapledon
Description: Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future is a science fiction novel written in 1930 by the British author Olaf Stapledon. A work of unprecedented scale in the genre, it describes the ...
Categories: Novels - Science Fiction
Sweet Their Blood and Sticky Sweet Their Blood and Sticky [en] (1961)
by Albert Teichner
Description: They weren't human--weren't even related to humanity through ties of blood--but they were our heirs!
Categories: Short Fiction - Science Fiction
Deathworld Deathworld [en] (1960)
by Harry Harrison
Description: Some planet in the galaxy must—by definition—be the toughest, meanest, nastiest of all. If Pyrrus wasn't it ... it was an awfully good approximation!
Categories: Novels - Science Fiction - Adventure
Maybe I'll try to figure out which of Gerard of Utah's books are copyright free and add them to Feedbooks as well.
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Feel free to. It's getting harder and harder to find PA ebooks seeing is how I'm trying to keep my collection zombie and magic free. Then again, I'm not looking too hard nowadays. In the course of looking for an English version of Merle's "Malevil" (which I found in German, argh!), I found a couple others, but not too much else.
Feel free to. It's getting harder and harder to find PA ebooks seeing is how I'm trying to keep my collection zombie and magic free. Then again, I'm not looking too hard nowadays. In the course of looking for an English version of Merle's "Malevil" (which I found in German, argh!), I found a couple others, but not too much else.