Linguistics

Every status-quo-caste society in history has left open two roads to rise above your caste: The Priest and The Warrior....

Against all odds, Rita Van Ardsdale has landed the man of her dreams and is blissfully in love. But her shot at happily ever after is jeopardized when her fiancé is accused of murder. It falls to Rita to crack the case and clear her beloved’s name....

The Chronicles of Clovis, which was published in 1911, was the third of Saki's collections of short stories. The character of Clovis Sangrail is vain, sarcastic, and self-regarding....

The Cold War has turned into a hot war, and the surface of the earth has become a radioactive nuclear wasteland. But the war must go on and it is being conducted by highly intelligent robots....

After two hellish years on the rim of the Arctic, Philip Weyman stumbles back toward civilization, half-starved and half-crazy.

The right choice rewards the innocent with marriage; the wrong choice punishes the guilty by serving him to a starving tiger....

In his absence, Duke Vincentio charges Angelo to enforce the laws of Vienna. Disguised as a friar, the Duke stays to observe the proceedings. But all is not as it should be....

Victory is the story of a loner who believes that the best way to avoid life's pain and pitfalls is to distance himself from others....

"Beyond the Door" is a story that asks and answers the question: What lives beyond the door? And is it dangerous....

When a volcano suddenly seems to erupt and threaten a mountain town of North Carolina, Inspector Strock is sent to determine the danger....

Young Conn Maxwell returns from school on Terra with the news that Merlin, a military super-computer, may be among the spoils, which they think might be their ticket out of poverty....

In Dangerous Crooked Scoundrels, linguist Edwin Battistella collects over 500 insults aimed at American presidents. Covering the broad sweep of American history, he puts insults in their place-the political and cultural context of their times....

One of the first psychic vampire novels of its time - where the vampire feeds off of more than just blood - The House of the Vampire is an early classic in its genre....

The bustling port city of Tangier hosts many strange humans. One can't be too cautious about the people one meets there. They're all weirdies of one kind or another....

Uncontrolled, terribly violent Atomic Vortices are slowly destroying civilization on every human planet throughout the galaxy. Nothing can contain or stop them despite the lensmen's best efforts....

The universe is at peace, but it is a very sensitive balance. Will the temptation of absolute power drive the universe once again into war....

The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists chronicles the tale of Frank Owen, a traveling socialist visionary making his way from town to town in the name of the socialist revolution. When spring arrives, Frank Owen decides to settle in the quiet town of Mugsborough....

The Island of Yew is divided into five kingdoms, the central of which, Spor, is a place ravaged by crimes and robbers. One day, a young girl, Sesely, living in the nicer kingdom of Heg, is enjoying a picnic with some companions....

The bombs have dropped. Thousands and thousands of atomic, then H, then the unthinkable Cobolt bombs. Yet people still live and survive and hope....

Have you ever bunged it on? Behaved like a drongo? Added mayo to a story? Lost your Reg Grundies? Join bestselling storyteller William McInnes as he offers his own take on our colourful and colloquial way with words....