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"The Vortex Blaster" is a collection of three science fiction short stories by author E. E. Smith, published in 1960. The stories included are "The Vortex Blaster", "Storm Cloud on Deka" und "The Vortex Blaster Makes War", and they all bear the stamp of unmistakable quality to be expected from the old sci-fi specialist Smith! The hero of the collection is Neal "Storm" Cloud, a nuclear engineer with an amazingly mathematical mind.

"Personality Plus" is an early novel by American author Edna Ferber. Originally published in 1914, it chronicles the travels and events in the life of Emma McChesney. Ferber achieved her first successes with a series of stories centering on this character, a stylish and intelligent divorced mother who rises rapidly in business.

"The Thing in the Attic" is a sci-fi story by James B. Blish, published in 1954. "Honath and his fellow arch-doubters did not believe in the Giants, and for this they were cast into Hell. And when survival depended upon unwavering faith in their beliefs, they saw that there were Giants, after all..." A classic and exotic tale of survival against all odds and amongst - yes - real space giants!

An intriguing novella by author Murray Leinster, published in 1949, about machines which have the capacity to retain emotions for the missions they accomplish, and weird signals from the future, which annihilate less advanced mechanisms! A classic piece of sci-fi pulp by the masterful Leinster.

"The Importance of Being Earnest" is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed in 1895 in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personæ to escape burdensome social obligations. Working within the social conventions of late Victorian London, the play's major themes are the triviality with which it treats institutions as serious as marriage, and the resulting satire of Victorian ways. Contemporary reviews all praised the play's humor.

"The Golden Goose Book" is a wonderful classic of children's fairy tales by L. Leslie Brooke, first published in 1905. It includes the mostly universally well known and well loved tales "The Golden Goose", "The Three Bears", "The Three Little Pigs" and "Tom Thumb"... Time to listen up in delight and rediscover these timeless classics!

"Tedric" is a sci-fi & fantasy novel by E. E. Smith, published in 1953. Tedric, our hero, is a smith (both blacksmith and whitesmith) residing in a small town near a castle in a situation approximately equivalent to England of the 1200s. He received instruction in advanced metallurgy from a time-traveler that wanted to change the situation in his own time by modifying certain events of the past. From this instruction he was able to build better suits of armor and help defeat the villains of the piece.

"The Adventure of the Speckled Band" is a Sherlock Holmes story. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle believed this was his best Holmes story. Plot: Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson rise unusually early one morning to meet a young woman named Helen Stoner. Helen fears that her life is being threatened. Helen's twin sister had died almost two years earlier, shortly before she was also to be married. Helen had heard her sister's dying words, "The speckled band!" but was unable to decode their meaning.

Two sci-fi stories by respected sci-fi author Robert Silverberg, "The Happy Unfortunate", published in 1957, and "The Hunted Heroes", published in 1956. Both stories pit humanity against severe odds for survival; both in space ("The Happy Unfortunate") and on ravaged Earth ("The Hunted Heroes").

Cobb's Anatomy is a wonderfully humorous work by Irvin S. Cobb, published in 1912. The author discusses the tummy, teeth, hair, hands and feet parts of the human body, creating deep belly laughs in the lucky listener of this classic piece of American humor!

"Anthem" is a fascinating dystopian sci-fi novella by Ayn Rand, published in 1938. It takes place at some unspecified future date when mankind has entered another dark age. Technological advancement is now carefully planned and the concept of individuality has been eliminated... Equality 7-2521, our hero, realizes the importance of his own existence only when he comes to know and feel that one is the centre of one's universe, and that one's own perception gives the world and one's life its meaning.

"Emma McChesney and Company" is the third instalment in a series of novels about the independent career woman, mother and divorcee Emma McChesney, published in 1915 by author Edna Ferber, famed and loved for her beautiful descriptions of "ordinary women" and their lives. This work is no exception; here our heroine travels to Argentina to sell her products - petticoats and skirts - but will success be awaiting...? And what about romance...?

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"No Great Magic" fits into author Fritz Leiber's dizzying view of history as a battlefield in constant change. He explores the idea in his "Change War" novel, "The Big Time", and this work is part of the action. It works by itself as the tale of poor Greta, a girl taken in "like a pet" by a company of Shakespearean actors. She lives in the dressing room of their little theater in New York's Central Park. Leiber - an actor's son - brings an insider's eye to life behind the curtain. But Greta begins to doubt the curtain is real.

"The Sign of the Broken Sword" features Chesterton's famous characters Father Brown, and former criminal Flambeau. The story revolves around the mysterious death of General Sir Arthur St. Clare; hanged on a tree with his broken sword hung round his neck... How will Father Brown go about trying to solve this case? Wonderfully intelligent and exciting!

"The Judas Valley" is a co-authored sci-fi story by Robert Silverberg and Randall Garrett, published in magazine form in 1956. Our two heroes, Peter and Sherri, have to solve - and do it quickly! - the mystery behind the deaths of seasoned space personnel on a strangely peaceful planet; or else they are next in turn.

"The Little Mermaid" is a fairy tale about a young mermaid willing to give up her life in the sea and her identity as a mermaid to gain a human soul. When she rises up to the surface one day, she watches a birthday celebration being held on a ship in honor of a handsome prince, and falls in love with him from a safe distance. A violent storm hits, and the Little Mermaid saves the prince from drowning. She delivers him unconscious to the shore near a temple.

"Salvage in Space" is a science fiction tale by Jack Williamson, published in 1933. An isolated and poor asteroid miner who collects bits of metallic ore in the asteroid belt on his very own planet of debris, sees and manages to capture a derelict space ship with a destructive and evil monster aboard and a beautiful dead girl(!)... exactly how will all of this unfold?

"The Willows" is one of Blackwood's best-known works and has been influential on a number of later writers. Horror author H. P. Lovecraft considered it to be the finest supernatural tale in English literature. The work is an example of early modern horror and is connected within the literary tradition of weird fiction. Two friends are midway on a canoe trip down the Danube River.

This chilling masterpiece by Edgar Allan Poe, published in 1841, has been recognized as the world's first modern detective story(!). C. Auguste Dupin is a man in Paris who tries to solve the mystery of the brutal murder of two women. Numerous witnesses heard a suspect, though no one agrees on what language was spoken. At the murder scene, Dupin finds a hair that does not appear to be human.