Stories Starting with L

It was one of those days--perhaps you've had them--when everything went right!

A time-traveler, Julian West, a young Bostonian who is put into a hypnotic sleep in the late 19th century, and awakens in the year 2000 in a socialist utopia. In conversations with the doctor who awakened him, he discovers a brilliantly realized vision of an ideal future, one that seemed unthinkable in his own century. Crime, war, personal animosity, and want are nonexistent. Equality of the sexes is a fact of life. In short, a messianic state of brotherly love is in effect.

Four people are drowning their sorrows in a downtown bar. Two robbers choose the wrong place to rob. All hell breaks loose, and that's only the beginning!

Into the Trap-Door City of great spiders goes Penrun after the hidden plunder of the space-pirate Halkon.

In The Lord of Death, four scientists, aided by reverse-magnetism, travel to a dead planet where they discover that one human's lust for power destroyed all life there-except for him. In suspended animation, he awaits the newcomers. In The Queen of Life, (considered a feminist tale) the scientists (one has revealed herself as a woman) travel to a planet encased in a glass sphere to protect the overpopulated planet from the sun's radiation. Conflict leads to a riot.

A Black Caesar had arisen on Eros--and all Earth trembled at his distant menace.

Lord of the World is a 1907 novel by Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson that centers upon the reign of the Anti-Christ and the End of the World. It has been called prophetic by Dale Ahlquist, Joseph Pearce, Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis.

High into air are the great New York buildings lifted by a ray whose source no telescope can find.

A volume in the Earthbound Series
Volume V of the Earthbound Series: By a few hundred years after the founding of Nykkyo's homeworld Florans had returned to space to colonize other worlds. One such colony was Varada, which eventually left the hegemony but now desires re-unification. With his talent with languages, Nyk accompanies a delegation to Varada, to serve as interpreter. There, he learns a terrible secret about Varadan society, and he uncovers a sinister motive behind a Floran faction's interest in the forsaken world.

The Lost Continent is one of the least-known of Burroughs' thrilling science-fiction tales. In the year 2137, civilization has been in decline for nearly two centuries, and war-torn Europe is but a distant memory to the inhabitants of the isolated United States. But an American adventurer rediscovers the Old World, which has become a strange and savage land.