Library

A small collection of public-domain works worth re-reading, republished with care.

• 1908
  The Stranger · Rudyard Kipling

  You never know.
• 1909
  The Machine Stops · E. M. Forster

  A short story about a future in which humanity lives underground, mediated entirely by a global Machine. Written in 1909. Do not let the date fool you.
• 1910
  If · Rudyard Kipling

  If-Then
• 1956
  The Last Question · Isaac Asimov

  Asimov's own favorite of his stories. A question asked across trillions of years, and the one answer that takes that long to arrive.
• 1983
  Report From the Besieged City · Zbigniew Herbert

  He will be the city.