As the overly-protective heir to a beloved literary estate, Hilary Foulkes has made numerous enemies among the fans and authors stifled by his inflexibility. So many enemies, in fact, that when he is stabbed nearly to death in a room with only one door, which nobody was seen entering or exiting, he's hardly sure who to suspect. As more attempts are made on Foulkes' life, more clues point to the identity of his would-be murderer; each one draws the...

The Mysterious Island was published in 1874, and it is one of Verne's longest novels. The plot depicts a group of men who have become castaways stranded on an island in the Pacific during the American Civil War. The novel describes their attempts not only to survive but also, with the aid of the scientific and technological know-how, to rebuild their world from the meager resources of the island. At the end, however, it is realized that Captain Nemo,...

An anthology of alternate-history and time-travel stories from the mid-19th century to the present. They range from Edgar Allen Poe's Three Sundays in a Week to Harry Turtledove's The Last Article, in which the Indian independence leader, Gandhi, battles not the British, but the Germans.