A woman and the world's toughest swimming challenge: Ocean's Seven – alone through the most dangerous straits worldwide: from the English Channel to New Zealand's Cook Strait. After years of training, multiple world record holder Nathalie Pohl has fulfilled her big dream and became the first German woman to swim across all seven straits. She fights her way through marathon distances in the sea for up to 15 hours at a time – against strong currents and high waves, in shark waters, at night ...

High on a hill on the south side of Louisville, Kentucky, a massive Tudor Gothic Revival building still stands as a testament to past struggles with a deadly disease. The structure was once part of the sprawling complex of Waverly Hills Sanatorium, established in 1910 for the treatment of tuberculosis. Waverly Hills expanded rapidly, with racially segregated facilities housing up to five hundred patients a day by World War II before new medical developments led to the institution's closure...

FOUR FRIENDS, ONE MURDER, AND A DARK FATE THAT MAY LEAVE THEM ALL DOOMED …After the mysterious death of their best friend, Ella, Yuki, and Rory are the talk of their elite school, Grimrose Académie. The police ruled Ariane’s death as a suicide, but the trio is determined to find out what really happened.When Nani Eszes arrives as their newest roommate, it sets into motion a series of events that no one could have predicted. As the girls retrace their friend’s final days, th...

LAGUE OF PYTHONSWhen the police arrested him they had not been gentle. There were four of them. They were from the plant's own security force and carried no guns. They didn't need any; Chandler had put up no resistance after the first few moments—that is, he stopped as soon as he could stop—but the police hadn't stopped. He remembered that very clearly. He remembered the nightstick across the side of his head that left his ear squashed and puffy, he remembered the kick in the gut t...

He gave me information before he died, and I had no trouble locating the spot I wanted. I waited till dark before landing a few hundred yards from the war-dome. Then I hid my space-drive suit in a cluster of ancient trees and walked into the building that housed the most murderous weapon of all time. The sentry challenged me, of course, but I was ready for him. After a quick look at my stolen credentials he sheathed his ray pistol.

Arthur made it alive through the Third World War. Well, if you can call a computer brain alive. He's not much more than a suitcase and a typewriter, but he has skills, skills that a lot of people want and need in a post-apocalyptic world. So he and his friends are on the run. But is there anywhere safe for them to run to?

What is the fate of the colonists who went out from Earth to settle the far planets beyond our universe? Space-ships have been unable to evoke radar responses from these planets, and in a novel as well-written as it is ingenious, one man starts out from Halsey's Planet to find the answer. If there is one... A satirical science fiction novel first published in 1954.

On a remote, radiation-blasted asteroid where isotope production depends on dangerous machinery and self-repairing robots, John Tinker keeps his wit sharp because everything else is brittle. Stranded with the suspicious Drake and drawn to the voice of Siria Cottrell, he turns loneliness into flirtation, even as the setting warns of catastrophe at every turn. What begins as banter and fascination soon becomes a fight for survival when Tinker sees Drake dragging Siria toward her ship and rea...

Ross was a junior trader on Halsey's Planet, and had great prospects but was not happy at all. Everything smelled of decay. The whole planet seemed to be slowly disappearing, the population dwindling month by month and year by year and yet no one seemd to care or even notice. Something was very, very wrong. When the first interstellar transport in 30 years arrived on Halsey's Planet, it brought things to a head. The ship had touched on six other colony worlds - and all six had been devoid ...

At Grimrose Académie, a fairy-tale curse has deadly consequences …Nani, Yuki, Ella, and Rory have discovered a curse that’s leaving a trail of dead bodies at Grimrose. But the four friends know nothing of its origins, or how to stop the cycle of doomed fates.And each girl harbors her own secret. One is learning why she was brought to the school. One struggles to keep her new and deadly power under control. One knows exactly how much time she has left.And one, trying...

We rely on your support to help us keep producing beautiful, free, and unrestricted editions of literature for the digital age. Will you support our efforts with a donation ? After noticing that interstellar spaceships are bypassing their destination planets because they're not able to contact the inhabitants on arrival, a man is sent out to investigate what is happening to humanity. Traveling faster than light, he visits several worlds in his attempt to find the answer, including a world ...

The Five Hells of Orion by Frederik Pohl is a gripping science fiction novella that delves into themes of survival, exploration, and human resilience in the face of extraterrestrial challenges. Known for his ability to weave complex human emotions with speculative science, Pohl delivers a tense, adventurous story set on a distant planet in the Orion system.The plot follows a space reconnaissance mission led by Colonel Santiago, whose crew is tasked with exploring a hostile and mysterious p...