These public-domain works are legally available in both the UK and US. Ash Tales has created an original reading experience for each book, so you can read it online or download a free EPUB or PDF edition to keep.
In the late twenty-first century, Lionel Verney watches private grief become planetary catastrophe as plague empties cities, breaks nations, and leaves the survivors to ask what remains when civilisation does not.
Public domain in the UK and US
Sixty years after the Scarlet Death destroyed civilisation, an elderly survivor crosses the ruins of the San Francisco Bay Area and tells his grandsons how the old world vanished.
Public domain in the UK and US
Generations after modern Britain collapses, forest and a vast inland lake cover England. Felix Aquila leaves his isolated home to cross the feudal landscape that has grown over the old world.
Public domain in the UK and US
Adam Jeffson returns from a polar expedition to find that a purple cloud has emptied the world. Isolation and obsession consume him until he encounters another survivor.
Public domain in the UK and US
Professor Challenger seals his companions inside an oxygenated room as Earth passes through a poisonous belt of ether and the world beyond them appears to die.
Public domain in the UK and US