Camarades, la consommation n'est pas un droit, c'est un devoir civique. Ils formaient un joli couple, mais ils ne venaient pas du même monde. - Tu n'es pas heureuse ? A cause de... tout ça. Morey, d'un geste vague, impliquait les vingt-six pièces de leur demeure, leurs cinq voitures, les neuf robots... - Chéri, j'ai essayé. Je t'aime, Morey, mais je crois que je deviens folle de vivre ainsi. J'en ai assez d'être pauvre ! Heureux les humbles, car ils hériteront de la terre. Heureux Morey, héritier de plus de biens matériels qu'il n'en pourra jamais consommer. LE MOINDRE DES FLÉAUX : Et si les autres avaient gagné ? Quand il se réveilla, il se sentait malade et un peu ivre. Il regarda autour de lui. Les indices d'un incroyable carnage pullulaient dans toute la demeure. Royland s'avança en chancelant jusqu'au charnier, fouillant à pleins bras parmi les ossements entassés. Quelque chose de tranchant, aussi acéré qu'une lame de rasoir, le coupa. C'était un fragment de sabre long d'une quinzaine de centimètres. La courbure de l'arme ne laissait aucune place au doute : un sabre de samouraï. Ainsi, la guerre était finie...

In this second volume of Mark Twain's writings for the New York Times, we find the great American humorist at the height of his powers. Twain's wit and wisdom are on full display as he skewers everything from politics to religion to the foibles of human nature. Whether he's writing about the Gilded Age or the Spanish-American War, Twain's insights are always sharp and his observations always hilarious. This collection is a must-read for anyone who loves Twain's work or who wants to understand the social and political landscape of late 19th-century America.

Pohl takes us into the future in this quirky and funny story, where the population of the United States is less than 10,000 people ... total. Yes you guessed it, there was a war; but the 'clean' bombs killed people and left most everything else intact. Our trio of 'Knights' are not very talented or smart or brave, but they have survived very well and now are taking on New York City to fulfill a quest of Arthur. You see, Arthur has no legs. Or arms. Or body. But he is very opinionated nevertheless. Listen to this fascinating story that is full of humor and human nature as only Pohl can do it.

This famous Pohl story explores cybernetic robots and implanted personalities in a way that certainly expanded my way of looking at reality. Is that wall really real? or is it just kinda, sorta real? And who am I? The protagonist, Guy Burckhardt, wakes up screaming from a horrible dream of explosions, searing fire, choking gas and other terrible ways to die. But he wakes up so it must have been just a bad nightmare, right? To find out that piece of information you will need to listen to this inventive and scary story.

In a post-apocalyptic world where every government in the world has been overrun by its own military machinery, only to see that military machinery self-destruct, people are randomly being affected by a plague that seemingly takes over their brains and forces them to commit heinous crimes. Chandler is one of these unfortunate victims, the perpetrator of rape and murder. He is driven out of his community as a Hoaxer (someone who feigns being a victim of the plague), branded on his forehead with the letter H. But he is not feigning. In his travels, he finds the source of the plague, and it's not what people think. It's up to him to deal with it, and he does. But to what end? - Summary by Nick Bulka

This science fiction novel takes place in the year 2203, if we take literally the age of 250 years. A rogue planet, populated by strange machines known as Pyramids, has stolen the Earth from the Solar system, taking it off into interstellar space. The moon has been 'ignited' by alien technology to serve as a miniature sun around which both planets orbit. This new sun is rekindled every 5 years, though as the book opens, the rekindling is nearly overdue and there is fear among the populace that it may never happen again. - Summary by Wikipedia

Paris, 1868. Les Industriels du macadam vous plonge dans le quotidien trépidant des petits métiers et des artistes de rue, où chaque trottoir raconte une histoire.