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This book is illustrated. Thoroughly understanding and appreciating this remark, Cuffy roused himself and looked on with profound interest, while his master cut up a dried fish. Having received a large share of it, he forgot everything else, and devoted all his powers, physical and mental, to the...

A witch living in a graveyard for disobedient women. Slow-moving aliens filling the skies. A determined gumiho chef unable to taste their own cooking. Death masquerading in the guise of an elderly woman who crashes funerals for the sandwiches. Superheroes who make toast with their laser eye vision....

NOTE: This issue was published late and was first released in March, 2019. The Summer 2018 issue of GlitterShip magazine! Featuring great queer prose and poetry from far future cosmic horror to ghost busting on WWI-era airships and everything in between. TOC: "These...

Spring 2018 issue of GlitterShip! GlitterShip is a science fiction and fantasy magazine devoted to LGBTQIA+ fiction. This issue features stories and poems that will be published as episodes 60 through 65 on GlitterShip.com. Original fiction: "Stories My Body Can Tell"...

A tale of adventure among the black slaver of West Africa.

(Excerpt): "Old Ravenshaw, as his familiars styled him, was a settler, if we may use such a term in reference to one who was, perhaps, among the most unsettled of men. He had settled with his family on the banks of the Red River. The colony on that river is now one of the frontier towns of Canada....

Set in the outback of Canada this book unfolds in the area with which Ballantyne was so familiar. If you like to read about this area you will find lots in this book to amuse you. (Excerpt from Chapter I): "On the northern shores of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence there stood, not very long ago, a...

This book throws you back in time to a world where balloons are the future. The most eventful flights of the day are recounted, complete with the science that was being explored or the fame that was being chased. It gives great insight into the world that was, and the author's scepticism about any future flight makes you wonder at what the future holds. (Goodreads)

(Excerpt): "Baby Will’s mother was a gentle and loving, but weak woman. His father, William Horace Osten by name, was a large, hearty, affectionate, but coarse man. He appreciated his wife’s gentle, loving nature, but could not understand her weakness. She admired her husband’s manly, energetic...

Excerpt: "Fred Temple was a tall, handsome young fellow of about five-and-twenty. He had a romantic spirit, a quiet gentlemanly manner, a pleasant smile, and a passionate desire for violent exercise. To look at him you would have supposed that he was rather a lazy man, for all his motions were...

John Dalton was an English scientist known for his famous work in the development of modern atomic theory; and his research on color-blindness (daltonism), in which the affected person is unable to distinguish between red and green.

Excerpt: "On a certain summer morning, about the middle of the present century, a big bluff man, of seafaring aspect, found himself sauntering in a certain street near London Bridge. He was a man of above fifty, but looked under forty in consequence of the healthful vigour of his frame, the freshness of his saltwater face, and the blackness of his shaggy hair."