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  McDowell - A Novel

  William H. Coles

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  An admired and lauded surgeon climbs to the top of his profession but his callous and questionably moral determination angers colleagues and friends. He becomes a member of the President’s cabinet when he is confronted with personal family tragedy that leads to a conviction for a felony; his world of wealth and privilege collapses. He escapes from prison as a fugitive, constatly on the move to avoid capture by authorities and those he's wronged. To survive and rebuild his life, he befriends strangers that elicit new self-awareness of the value and reward of being huamne.

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  Tanks - Buried in Gas Hunted by...

  Murray Leinster

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  Tanks by Murray Leinster - Two miles of American front had gone dead. And on two lone infantrymen, lost in the menace of the fog-gas and the tanks, depended the outcome of the war of 1932. 
  The persistent, oily smell of fog-gas was everywhere, even in the little pill-box. Outside, all the world was blotted out by the thick gray mist that went rolling slowly across country with the breeze. The noises that came through it were curiously muted—fog-gas mutes all noises somewhat—but somewhere to the right artillery was pounding something with H E shell, and there were those little spitting under-current explosions that told of tanks in action. To the right there was a distant rolling of machine-gun fire. In between was an utter, solemn silence. 
  Sergeant Coffee, disreputable to look at and disrespectful of mien, was sprawling over one of the gunners' seats and talking into a field telephone while mud dripped from him. Corporal Wallis, equally muddy and still more disreputable, was painstakingly manufacturing one complete cigarette from the pinched-out butts of four others. Both were rifle-infantry. Neither had any right or reason to be occupying a definitely machine-gun-section post. The fact that the machine-gun crew was all dead did not seem to make much difference to sector H.Q. at the other end of the telephone wire, judging from the questions that were being asked. 
  "I tell you," drawled Sergeant Coffee, "they're dead.... Yeah, all dead. Just as dead as when I told you the firs' time, maybe even deader.... Gas, o'course. I don't know what kind.... Yeh. They got their masks on." 
  He waited, looking speculatively at the cigarette Corporal Wallis had in manufacture. It began to look imposing. Corporal Wallis regarded it affectionately. Sergeant Coffee put his hand over the mouthpiece, and looked intently at his companion. 
  "Gimme a drag o' that, Pete," he suggested. "I'll slip y' some butts in a minute."

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  Freedom of the Fae

  Taylor Spratt

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  The sky is falling! The sky is falling! 
   
   
   
  Think I'm exaggerating? Well I'm not. I've finally got my brother Michael back, and I wish I could say all is well. But the sh*t has really hit the fan and time is running out for us to make our big escape. 
   
   
   
  Daddy dearest or should I say the new warden of Pembroke Penitentiary is determined to make me the new Gilchrest family sacrifice. With Blackwater down for the count, the entire prison on lock down, AND no food coming inside, all of Pembroke has been turned upside down as we are forced to fight it out for even our basic needs. 
   
   
   
  And let's just say Michael and the guys don't exactly see eye to eye. So yeah, I've got fighting inside and out to contend with. 
   
   
   
  Will we find a way to band together and discover a way out before my father captures me? Or will we starve before that's even a problem? Pick up this sizzling finale of the wildly popular Poison Penitentiary series to find out. 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  Lost Sci-Fi Books 71 thru 80

  Philip K. Dick, Bjarne...

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  Lost Sci-Fi Books 71 thru 80 - Ten Lost Sci-Fi Short Stories from the 1940s, 50s and 60sThe Skull by Philip K. Dick - Conger agreed to kill a stranger he had never seen. But he would make no mistakes because he had the stranger's skull under his arm.Alien Equivalent by Richard R. Smith - Martians were a dying race, frail before the superiority of master Earthmen. Might sons of the red planet emerge from their shells?The Flight Of The Eagle by Alfred Coppel - It was a mysterious plant. It could make its own weather; it was sentient, and it prospered on Venus. But Earth needed it.Prison Of A Billion Years by C.H. Thames - Adam Slade was a man who had nothing to lose by making a break for it. The trouble was, he knew that no one had ever escaped.Day Of Wrath by Bjarne Kirchhoff - The men of the Norgan System had a tough decision to make. Yet there was no hesitation.The Golden Man by Philip K. Dick - The powers of earth had finally exterminated the last of the horrible tribes of mutant freaks spawned by atomic war. Menace to homo sapien supremacy was about ended-but not quite.The Inquisitor by Robert Silverberg - It wasn't that he enjoyed watching the traitors broken in body and spirit. Why did they keep insisting they were innocent?Invader From Infinity by George Whittington - "Destroy the Invader," the orders read—and the spacer flashed into suicidal battle.Glow Worm by Harlan Ellison - He was the last man on Earth, all right. But—was he still a man?Rocket Summer by Ray Bradbury - The first great rocket flight into space, bearing pioneers to the Moon. But President Stanley canceled the flight.

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  Silver Blaze - Sherlock Holmes

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  "Silver Blaze", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 in the cycle collected as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle ranked "Silver Blaze" 13th in a list of his 19 favourite Sherlock Holmes stories.
  Sherlock Holmes and his partner Dr. Watson travel by train to Dartmoor to investigate a crime of disappearance of the great race horse Silver Blaze and the murder of the horse's trainer, John Straker. Holmes and Watson arrive at King's Pyland, from which Silver Blaze is missing. Fitzroy Simpson has come to Dartmoor (and specifically to King's Pyland) to gather information relating to his professional activities, and has become a suspect in the murder. However, to Holmes, from the outset, there seem to be a number of facts that do not fit the inspector's case against Simpson, damning as it looks. It seems odd, for instance, that he would lead the horse out on to the moor simply to injure or kill him. That could be done right in his stall. He could not have stolen the animal. What good would such a famous thoroughbred be to him? Why has an exhaustive search of the neighbourhood not turned up Silver Blaze? What has Simpson done with him?

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  Unintelligent Design

  Geoffrey Beevers

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  A research student goes to his tutor in despair, his whole world on the verge of collapse. His project is evolving badly. Should he have tried a more intelligent design? Is it too late for his tutor to save him?

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