Jack London
121) Queen of the Yukon
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Sadie owns a riverboat named The Yukon Queen that is used by goldminers up and down the river to reach their claims. Some unscrupulous members of a rival company try to take over the riverboat so they can jump the claims. The miners rally together to try to save the Yukon Queen and prevent the takeover.
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This book presents the reader with some of the earliest classic SF short stories - all of them published between 1858 and 1934, featuring both well-known and long-forgotten writers - dealing for the first time with topics to which science had (some) answers only at much later stages. This includes aspects of alien life forms, transmogrification, pandemics, life on Mars, android robots, big data, matter transmission and impact events to name but a...