I love reading. I really don’t get enough time to do that anymore.
I’m in the process of creating e-books of some of my favorites
- Edgar Rice Burrough’s Barsoom Series
Burroughs wrote these in the early part of the last century, and a they can be challenging to modern readers, both for the writing style and the content. They’re straightforward action, mostly focused and beating the bad guys and getting the girl, who seems to spend a lot of time not understanding our poor hero’s intentions. - A Princess of Mars
I just added illustrations and pullquotes to this edition. I will keep working through it, updating it from time to time. - The Gods of Mars
- Warlord of Mars
- Thuvia, Maid of Mars
- Chessmen of Mars - Updated with new images and proper footnotes!
- Master Mind of Mars
This novel isn't Public Domain yet (Thanks Sonny Bono!), but it is available in Australia. - Fighting Man of Mars
Also not in the Public Domain - Swords of Mars
Also not in the Public Domain - Synthetic Men of Mars
Also not in the Public Domain - Llana of Gathol
Also not in the Public Domain - Howard Phillips Lovecraft’s Weird Tales
Lovecraft has a cult following, which is funny because he always wrote about cults. He takes a view of a universe in which humanity is not only insignificant, but stands on the edge of doom once beings greater than we take notice. - At the Mountains of Madness
The horrors of an antediluvian age sleeps in the south polep - I present these three as a triptych, the nighmares that sleep beneath the waves
- Dagon
- The Shadow Over Innsmouth
- The Call of Cthulhu
Arguably Lovecraft's most well known work. I've updated this edition with some minor typeset upgrades, and I've added a temporary cover image. - The Innsmouth Look
All three stories wrapped up on one gooey book.
- EE “Doc” Smith
Just happy adventure stories with strong, exceptional men doing strong, exceptional things. Lensmen became a sort of model for Green Lantern, with its interstellar police who is above the law. - Wind in the Willows
I love this book. It's strange and surreal, a psychodelic rapture of the joys of nature. - H. G. Wells
- The War of the Worlds
I don't really think this needs any introduction. Now with Illustrations! - Little Wars
Wells lays out a modest game to be played on the floor. The argument could be made that without this slim book of rules, much of the gaming industry would be very different. Wells laid out the first well-documented rules for what we would later call a war game. He manages to be a little condescending to any gaming women, but I think his attitude is probably pretty good for someone who grew up in Victorian England. Wells himself was a pacifist and didn't like war, but he was interested in the mechanics of it. This book was published before the first World War, and reflects the mechanistic, logical concept of war that became such a tragedy for so many men.
- The War of the Worlds
- The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler's brilliant and racy novel about extortion in the California sun - The Mysterious Rider
My father is a western fan, so I formatted this Zane Gray story for him. - The Illustrated Key to the Tarot
I've recently been looking for something to re-introduce creative processes to my life, and this has been workng for me. I certainly don't subscribe to the belief that tarot cards define the future, but the process of identifying the symbolic interactions and the story generated by the cards is a creative refresher for me.