Project Gutenberg's science fiction bookshelf

Recommendation, EE Smith's Triplanetary. This is the first book the Lensman series, unfortunately I do not see the rest of the series available through this means.<p>While a product of his time these stories are incredible. If you like space battles he had some very original ideas, some of which even many modern science fiction writers haven't touched.

Ah, cool, they've got some of E.E. Smith's stuff and Campbell's stuff. Capek's <i>R.U.R.</i> as well. A bunch of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells.<p>I also spy some cool short works of Phillip K. Dick (<i>Second Variety</i>), some Cory Doctorow, some Harry Harrison. Very nifty!

Some recommendations for people:<p>Omnilingual by H. Beam Piper, known for his alternative time line stories.<p>Beyond Lies the Wub, by Philip K Dick, a collection of his early short stories.<p>A Princess of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs. The beginning of his Mars series about its civilization's decline.

Is there a way to know what other Hacker News readers recommend?<p>I use Goodreads, but while I've found it pretty good as a source of new books to read, the ratings system ends up with everything coming within a few points of 4 (4.1, 3.9, 4.2).<p>I'm guilty of tagging books I read with either 4 or 5 usually, unless it's pretty bad.<p>Anyway, what I wanted to ask was if there was a way to know what a subgroup of readers thinks of a book.

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I love Project Gutenberg.<p>For those of you who enjoy listening to audio books, there's a project called Librivox -- <a href="http://librivox.org" rel="nofollow">http://librivox.org</a> -- that provides volunteer-read audio versions of public-domain books. (The quality of the volunteers is mixed, and sometimes every chapter is read by a different person, which can be a little disorienting, but hey, it's free!)

What i really want to see is a great Tablet front end for Gutenberg. I haven't found one yet and haven't gotten around to making one either :-(

pleasantly surprised with the selection. a couple kurt vonneguts, a bunch of philip k dicks, lots of jules verne, as well as h. g. wells.<p>awesome!

any recommendations where to start? :)

H.Beam Piper, amazing writer.