Apex Magazine is an online short fiction zine of fantastical literature. We publish short stories filled with marrow and passion, works that are twisted, strange, and beautiful. Creations where secret places and dreams are put on display.TABLE OF CONTENTSEditorial by Jason SizemoreORIGINAL FICTIONRoot Rot by Fargo TbakhiYour Own Undoing by P H LeeLove, That Hungry Thing by Cassandra KhawMr. Death by Alix E. HarrowThe Niddah by Elana...

A comprehensive update of the leading algorithms text, with new material on matchings in bipartite graphs, online algorithms, machine learning, and other topics.Some books on algorithms are rigorous but incomplete; others cover masses of material but lack rigor. Introduction to Algorithms uniquely combines rigor and comprehensiveness. It covers a broad range of algorithms in depth, yet makes their design and analysis accessible to all levels of readers, wi...

There are moments in American history when all eyes are focused on a federal court: when its bench speaks for millions of Americans, and when its decision changes the course of history. More often, the story of the federal judiciary is simply a tale of hard work: of finding order in the chaotic system of state and federal law, local custom, and contentious lawyering. The Federal Courts is a story of all of these courts and the judges and justices who served on them, of the case la...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The global populations have drastically decreased due to terminal diseases and nuclear warfare. Julie and Jules shadow Alice through America’s decimated Southland, ultimately uniting forces under a cloud of evil intentions. A series of perilous obstacles bind the three closer together in their quest for redemption. Each broken soul they meet along the rocky path adds to the band’s collective resolve. Is Jules truly the person she claims...

The Forgotten Civilizations: 20 Lost World Novels surveys the durable literary fascination with concealed continents, vanished empires, subterranean realms, and survivals of remote antiquity. Ranging from satirical voyage and Gothic speculation to scientific romance, imperial adventure, proto–science fiction, and supernatural horror, the volume traces how "lost worlds" became laboratories for imagining evolution, race, technology, empire, and cultural memory. Its striking episodes of inacc...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.When Paul Crutcher’s father dies and his wife, Jennifer, finds a PRIVATE PAPERS envelope in his mother’s belongings, the fledgling author resists all temptations to see what secrets are hidden inside. Eventually, curiosity kills the cat, and he can’t help himself from tearing open his past.Paul’s shocking discovery takes him on an “Origin Journey” to the Deep South. He meets a pair of brothers he never knew existed, who drag him...

Wimbourne Books presents the sixteenth in a series of rare or out-of-print ghost stories from Victorian authors. With an introduction by author Alastair Gunn, Volume 16 contains stories published between 1846 and 1901, all set at or around the Christmas period. Readers new to this genre will discover its pleasures; the Victorian quaintness, the sometimes shocking difference in social norms, the almost comical politeness and structured etiquette, the archaic and precise language, but mostly...

Edited by H. L. Gold; ‘Galaxy Science Fiction’ hit the scene in 1950 and quickly became the leading science fiction magazine of its time. Galaxy gave a home to writers that didn't fit into Astounding and F&SF, and readers rejoiced. In this first ‘Galaxy Science Fiction Super Pack’ we bring you more than five hundred pages of fiction. These are the stories that helped Galaxy Magazine carve it's name on the Mount Rushmore of science fiction. The include: ‘Doorstep’ by Keith Laumer; ‘The Chas...

"He hoped he was bringing a man down here to his death, and I’m going to get him for it!"Ward Keller is dead. For the art world, this is sensational news. Keller has spent his fortune in amassing an astonishing collection of artworks, which he housed at The Strong Box - a fortress-like country house with an impenetrable water-covered safe at its centre. And it is shortly after arriving at this incredible residence to take up his inheritance that Keller's heir is brutally attacked, ...

This carefully crafted ebook collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Treasure Island (R. L. Stevenson) Blackbeard: Buccaneer (R. D. Paine) Pieces of Eight (Le Gallienne) Gold-Bug (Edgar A. Poe) The Dark Frigate (C. B. Hawes) Hearts of Three (Jack London) Captain Singleton (Defoe) Swords of Red Brotherhood (Howard) Queen of Black Coast (Howard) Afloat and Ashore (James F. Cooper) Pirate Gow (Defoe) The King of Pirates (Defoe) Barbarossa—Kin...

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens has been part of the Christmas holidays for over a century and a half, since its initial best-selling publication in 1843. Much of the narrative has even shaped other Christmas traditions, including thinking of those in need at this time of year as well as our seasonal longing for snow.This new digital edition of A Christmas Carol includes an image gallery featuring original classic illustrations from the first edition by Victo...

Imagination' was one of the most successful science fiction magazines of its time. While many of it contemporaries tried to push literary boundaries, 'Imagination' focused on adventure and space opera, assuring its financial success. Here are some of the finest stories ever to appear in its pages. Over 200,000 words of pulse-pounding adventure fiction. 'Mr. Spaceship' by Philip K. Dick 'The Mind Digger' by Winston Marks 'Earth Alert!' by Kris Neville 'Stopover Planet' by Robert E. Gilbert ...