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It Could Be Anything is a science fiction novella by American author Keith Laumer first published in 1963.
A science fiction story by the great Keith Laumer - what more needs to be said?
A young man sets out from his rural town to see the world for himself. What is really over the next hill? What does a big city look like? Is there really an ocean? After all, we only have the testimony of others that tell us about these things. Full confidence and belief in himself, he boards the local train, falls asleep and then ..... finds himself alone, the three cars abandoned .... the engine is gone and the tracks; well, the tracks just end in the middle of a grain field.
What is going on? What kind of reality is this? Or is what we 'know' just illusions and in fact, It Could Be Anything!!! 
Keith Laumer, well-known for his tales of adventure and action, shows us a different side of his talent in this original, exciting and thought-provoking exploration of the meaning of meaning.
It Could be Anything was first published in Amazing Stories, January 1963.
John Keith Laumer (1925-1993) was an American science fiction author. Prior to becoming a full-time writer, he was an officer in the United States Air Force and a diplomat in the United States Foreign Service.
Keith Laumer is known for the Bolo and Retief stories. The Bolo stories chronicle the evolution of super tanks that eventually become self-aware through the constant improvement resulting from centuries of intermittent warfare against various alien races. The Retief stories deals with the adventures of a cynical spacefaring diplomat who constantly has to overcome the red-tape-infused failures of people with names like Ambassador Grossblunder. The Retief stories were greatly influenced by Laumer's earlier career in the US Foreign Service.

It Could Be Anything

The Gifts of Asti is a science fiction short story written by Andre Norton.              
She was the guardian of the worlds, but HER world was dead.
Varta, the last priestess of Asti, lives alone with Lur, a telepath of the lizardfolk, in Asti's isolated mountain retreat.
Decadent Memphir has long since drifted away from the austere paths of Asti, and now the barbarians of Klem are sacking the city, and the smoke of its burning drifts up to the temple.
This story was first published in Fantasy Book Vol. 1, No. 3 1948. 
Andre Alice Norton (1912-2005) was an American writer of science fiction and fantasy with some works of historical fiction and contemporary fiction. She wrote primarily under the pen name Andre Norton, but also under Andrew North and Allen Weston. She was the first woman to be Gandalf Grand Master of Fantasy, first to be SFWA Grand Master, and first inducted by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. In 2005, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, announced the creation of the Andre Norton Award, to be given each year for an outstanding work of fantasy or science fiction for the young adult literature market.

The Gifts of Asti

The Door of the Unreal is a horror novel by the British author Gerald Biss. 
An early werewolf novel, praised by H.P Lovecraft, calling this novel one of the children of Dracula.
Two strange disappearances occur on a road in Sussex. The second involved a member of the aristocracy and a famous actress, so a large, but fruitless investigation is held by Scotland Yard.
An American, visiting an old friend, who is of the local gentry, suspects something horrible and begins to investigate to verify his fears. 
”Werewolves, mysterious disapperances, and supernatural orgies make up this thrilling mystery story. The old belief in lycantrophy is made disturbingly credible, and the possibility that werevolves really exist seems far from remote.
A brilliant conceived experiment in the uncanny, which will keep the reader awake o’nights.”
Originally published in 1919, The Door of the Unreal is one of the first true werewolf classics, and helped to pave the way for the 'golden age' of the genre, which flourished in the two decades following the publication of Gerald Biss's novel.
At the time he wrote the novel Biss was largely covering uncharted territory: most of the now-familiar conventions of the werewolf tale had yet to be set in stone, and the author was not working to the type of narrow pattern which constrained many writers of vampire tales in the years following the publication of Dracula.
Edwin Gerald Jones Biss (1876-1922) was an English motoring journalist and crime writer. His stories were often serialised in journals and newspapers. 
In 1903 his crime fiction was regularly appearing in newspapers in various parts of the country with serialised stories such as The Imposter; Bob Pharazin’s Madness; The White Rose; Who Killed Montagu Jerningham and later The Shadow of the Scaffold. The Dupe was published in 1907 and in 1908 The Fated Five – The Tale of a Great Tontine. This was followed by Branded, a story that in 1921 was made into a movie starring Josephine Earle. The House of Terror was published in 1909 and the Undying Dread serialised in 1911. The Door of the Unreal, published in 1920, was a werewolf story and a change of genre for Biss.

The Door of the Unreal

Olga Romanoff: Or, the Syren of the Skies: A Sequel to "The Angel of the Revolution". Is a science fiction novel by the English writer George Griffith.
Olga Romanoff is the sequel to The Angel of the Revolution (1893) and set 125 years later. The novel describes the upheaval which transforms this Utopian state to one of total anarchy.
Both Olga Romanoff and the prequel The Angel of the Revolution are remarkable for their foresight of battle tactics in air warfare and for their anticipation of radar, sonar and nuclear weapons. They include elements which would only later become commonplace, notably the struggle by international cartels for world domination and the apocalyptic visions of Armageddon on Earth and of disaster from the heavens by a comet.
The Syren of the Skies appeared in Pearson's Weekly in 1893-1894 and was published in book form as Olga Romanoff in 1894.
George Griffith (1857–1906), was one of the most influential British writers of science fiction and noted explorer, who wrote during the late Victorian and Edwardian age. Griffith was extremely popular in the United Kingdom, though he failed to find similar acclaim in the United States, in part due to his revolutionary and socialist views. A journalist, rather than scientist, what his stories lack in scientific rigor and literary grace, they make up for in sheer exuberance of execution.

Olga Romanoff

...And It Comes Out Here is a science fiction short story by American author Lester del Ray, first published in 1951.
There is one fact no sane man can quarrel with ... 
everything has a beginning and an end.
 But some men aren't sane; thus it isn't always so!
A rather special take on time travel - how do you convince your earlier self it is safe to get into the time machine?
...And It Comes Out Here was first published in Galaxy Science Fiction February 1951. 
Lester del Rey (1915 - 1993) was an American science fiction author and editor. He was the author of many books in the juvenile Winston Science Fiction series, and the editor at Del Rey Books, the fantasy and science fiction imprint of Ballantine Books.
Del Rey was awarded the 1972 E. E. Smith Memorial Award for Imaginative Fiction (for the Skylark) by the New England Science Fiction Association and a special 1985 Balrog Award for his contributions to fantasy, voted by fans and organized by Locus Magazine. The Science Fiction Writers of America named him its 11th SFWA Grand Master in 1990.

...And It Comes Out Here

The Mad Planet is a science fiction novel by Murray Leinster first published in 1920.
It is 30,000 years following dramatically changed climate conditions on earth which had let massive amounts of carbon dioxide belch from the interior of the planet into the atmosphere. 
Over the millenia this would have quite devastating effects on life as it had once been known. Much of the human and animal population would not survive the climate change, and indeed those few humans who did survive knew nothing of all which their predecessors had learned and built. Indeed, they knew not even of their existence. On the other hand insects and fungi would flourish over time. 
And so those few remaining humans were unknowingly at the very beginning of the building of a tribal society, which at the time of the story of Burl simply meant food and survival. 
And so it was Burl who chose to travel beyond his small tribal community in an effort to hunt for something new and different to hopefully impress Saya, the young female of his tribe to whom he felt a peculiar attraction. The Mad Planet is Burl's adventure.
The Mad Planet was first published in Tales of Wonder No. 6, 1920. 
Murray Leinster (1896-1975) was a pen name of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, an award-winning American writer of science fiction and alternate history. He wrote and published over 1,500 short stories and articles, 14 movie scripts, and hundreds of radio scripts and television plays.

The Mad Planet

Tono-Bungay is a realist semiautobiographical novel written by H. G. Wells and published in 1909. It has been called "arguably his most artistic book".
It is narrated by George Ponderevo, a science student who is drafted in to help with the promotion of Tono-Bungay, a harmful stimulant disguised as a miraculous cure-all, the creation of his uncle Edward. The quack remedy Tono-Bungay seems to have been based upon the patent medicines Carter's Little Liver Pills and Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People....
As the tonic prospers, George experiences a swift rise in social status, elevating him to riches and opportunities that he had never imagined, nor indeed desired. The novel displays Edward's social climbing satirically, and also George's discomfort at rising in social class. The hero's personal life is narrated with unusual frankness for an Edwardian novel.... The empire eventually overextends itself and George tries to save his uncle.
With Kipps, The History of Mr Polly, and Tono-Bungay, his biographer David C. Smith has written, H. G. Wells "is able to claim a permanent place in English fiction, close to Dickens because of the extraordinary humanity of some of his characters, but also because of his ability to invoke a place, a class, a social scene. These novels are very personal as well, treating aspects of Wells's own life, matters which would come under attack later, but only after he added his sexual and extramarital views to the personal side of his work".
Wells himself was "disposed to regard Tono-Bungay as the finest and most finished novel upon the accepted lines" that he had "written or was ever likely to write".
Herbert George "H. G." Wells (1866-1946) was an English writer, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, even writing textbooks and rules for war games.
Wells is one person sometimes called "The Father of Science Fiction", as are Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback. His most notable science fiction works include The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, The Invisible Man and The Island of Doctor Moreau.

Tono-Bungay

Greylorn is a science fiction novella by American author Keith Laumer.
Earth is threatened with destruction by a deadly alien plague. The planet’s only hope: Get help from the long-lost Omega Colony, somewhere in space.
The fate of the Earth is in the hands of Lieutenant Commander Greylorn in charge of the search for Omega, and every decision he will make during Man’s first contact with an alien race...
So, Commander Greylorn has a problem. No, actually he has two of them. It's not enough that the remaining residents of Earth have pinned their last hope of salvation on him and his mission. He has to find a colony that presumedly was established at an unknown star two centuries before and beg their help. But first, he has the small matter of a mutiny on board his starship, and people are trying to kill him!
Written in an era when radios used vacuum tubes, the scientific component of the story is quaint and dated. But Laumer makes the centerpiece of his tale the retelling of how, four years out on the voyage, his crew decides it wants to give up and go home when it meets an alien race... that apparently breeds humans in captivity as food animals!
Beating the aliens, shanghaiing the crew, finding the colony and saving Mother Earth - just the ingredients for a rattling good yarn!
Greylorn was Laumers first published science fiction novella and appeared in Amazing Magazine in April 1959.
John Keith Laumer (1925-1993) was an American science fiction author. Prior to becoming a full-time writer, he was an officer in the United States Air Force and a diplomat in the United States Foreign Service. 
Keith Laumer is known for the Bolo and Retief stories. The Bolo stories chronicle the evolution of super tanks that eventually become self-aware through the constant improvement resulting from centuries of intermittent warfare against various alien races. The Retief stories deals with the adventures of a cynical spacefaring diplomat who constantly has to overcome the red-tape-infused failures of people with names like Ambassador Grossblunder. The Retief stories were greatly influenced by Laumer's earlier career in the US Foreign Service.

Greylorn

Tarzans Vilda Vänner skildrar hur Tarzan, två år efter äventyren i Tarzans Återkomst, på resa i Paris, får reda på att hans ärkefiende, Rokoff, har rymt från sitt fängelse, där han satt på livstid.
Innan Tarzan ens hinner packa för att återvända till London och sin familj, Jane Porter, som är Lady Greystoke och deras nyfödde son, får han ett telegram att sonen blivit bortrövad!
Tarzan och Jane ger sig båda in i jakten på kidnapparna, som snart visar sig vara just Rokoff och hans hejdukar. Jakten tar Tarzan åter till Afrikas djungler, öde öar i havet, kannibaler och möten med kinesiska pirater.
Med sig denna gång har Tarzan sina vilda vänner, ett gäng gorillor från Kershaks stam, Heeta, leoparden och Mugambi, infödingshövding. Ska han och Jane hinna rädda sin son?
Tarzans Vilda Vänner gavs ut på svenska 1922 (originalets titel: The Beasts of Tarzan, 1914). E-bok: ePUB, 59 400 ord, lästid ca 4 tim, 55 min. Översättning E. Lindberg och Peter Anneroth.
Edgar Rice Burroughs, född 1 september 1875 i Chicago, Illinois, död 19 mars 1950 i Encino, Kalifornien, var en amerikansk författare. Sitt genombrott fick han med debutromanen Tarzan Apornas Son, vilken följdes av ett flertal Tarzanromaner.
Burroughs skrev dock även science fiction, som till exempel berättelserna om den ihåliga jorden i berättelserna om Pellucidar och bokserien om John Carter på Mars.

Tarzans Vilda Vänner

I denna bok filosoferas det kring mat och ätande men också om sömn och mående. Det konstateras att det är viktigt vad vi äter och när vi äter, men också hur vi äter. Mycket eller lite, ensidigt eller varierat eller en blandning av alltihop. I en historisk utblick går det också att följa vad vi ätit genom årtusenden och varför det blev just som det blev och hur detta har påverkat dagens matvanor.

Äta Vad När Hur? : En liten betraktelse över livet och maten

The Provincial Lady Goes Further is a largely autobiographical novel by English author E. M. Delafield. It takes the form of a journal of the life of an upper-middle class Englishwoman in the 1930s. 
The Provincial Lady Goes Further continues where the original Diary of a Provincial Lady left off and is a highly amusing account of the life of a fairly ordinary middle-class wife and mother living in Devon in the 1930's. This is the second of Delafield autobiographical novels, a wonderful continuation that begins with astonishment at the receiving of a large royalty cheque from the publishing of Diary of a Provincial Lady…
Delafield became a director of Time and Tide, a British weekly political and literary review magazine. When the editor 'wanted some light "middles", preferably in serial form, she promised to think of something to submit'. It was thus, in 1930, that her most popular and enduring work Diary of a Provincial Lady was written. Diary of a Provincial Lady (1930) inspired several sequels which chronicled later portions of her life: The Provincial Lady Goes Further (1932), The Provincial Lady in America (1934), and The Provincial Lady in Wartime (1940).
The Provincial Lady Goes Further was first published in 1932. E-book: ePUB, 55,800 words, average reading time 4 hours, 40 min.

The Provincial Lady Goes Further

I fantasins värld finns inga begränsningar – en perfekt utgångspunkt för att ge sig hän åt hämningslöst, njutningsfullt sex. Just det handlar Fantasier om, och det är framförallt kvinnorna som tar för sig och en gång för alla motbevisar den trötta gamla föreställningen att män skulle vara kåtast. Fantasier är en samling noveller av ett flertal anonyma författare som med liv och framförallt lust utforskar människans sexuella begär och längtan på ett modernt, inspirerande och nyanserat sätt.

Fantasier del 1

Portofino, Italien, 1943. 
Elodie vet hur hon ska försvinna obemärkt i mängden av människor som, liksom hon, anlänt till den vackra kuststaden med båt. Men skräcken för att de tyska officerarna i hamnen ska granska hennes dåligt förfalskade identitetshandlingar får henne att stå som fastfrusen på kajen och trots tyskarnas rytande uppmaningar får hon inte fram ett ord. Plötsligt tar en okänd man Elodie under sina vingar och i desperat behov av någonstans att bo följer hon med honom till hans hem vid Portofinos klippor.
Bara några månader tidigare var Elodie Bertolotti en lovande cellist i Verona, obekymrad om allt som pågick i omvärlden. Men när Mussolinis terrorvälde drabbar hennes familj lockar Luca, en ung bokhandlare, in henne i motståndsrörelsen.
I Portofino får Elodie en fristad hos doctor Angelo Rosselli. Han är en man som bär på sina egna svåra hemligheter, fyllda av skuld och ånger. Men Elodies ankomst väcker hopp och glädje, något som Angelo trodde var förlorat för alltid.
Veronas dotter fångar hopp, spänning och kärlek under en farlig tid, i en berättelse om den första kärleken, stor sorg och oväntat mod.

Veronas dotter

Alyson Richman