# library.forgemesh.io – Life on Other Planets Fiction Shelf

> library.forgemesh.io – Life on Other Planets Fiction Shelf is a paid API for AI agents from library.forgemesh.io, paid per call via x402, $0.003/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Returns a ranked list of up to 154 public-domain science fiction books about life on other planets, with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://library.forgemesh.io/life-on-other-planets-fiction
- Price: $0.003/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/library-forgemesh-io-life-on-other-planets-fiction-shelf-fd9f320c
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_ciLF5bIqWHGS734J2UIGN

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability library-forgemesh-io-life-on-other-planets-fiction-shelf-fd9f320c -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Pull me a list of public-domain science fiction books about life on other planets — I want up to 30 titles including classics like The War of the Worlds, with links so I can read the full texts.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a curated, pre-filtered shelf of public-domain science fiction focused specifically on the theme of life on other planets, rather than running a general full-text search. It is ideal when you want a ranked, browsable list rather than passage-level search results, and when you need drill-down routes to access full texts. Prefer it over the full-text search sibling when topic discovery and ranked curation matter more than keyword matching.

## Known failure modes

- Requesting more than 50 books returns only the maximum of 50
- Invalid limit parameter type may cause a validation error
- Network or payment failure (x402) may block access
- If the corpus index is unavailable, no results are returned

## How this service works

Curated shelf: Life on other planets -- Fiction — 154 public-domain books including The gods of Mars, Plague Ship, The war of the worlds. Returns a ranked list with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval. No license, no API key required.

## Output

A ranked list of up to 154 public-domain fiction books on the theme of life on other planets (default 20, max 50 per call), including titles such as The Gods of Mars, Plague Ship, and The War of the Worlds, along with drill-down routes that allow full-text retrieval of each book. No API key or license required.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "limit": {
   "type": "integer",
   "description": "Max books to return (default 20, max 50)"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "books": [
   {
    "year": null,
    "title": "The gods of Mars",
    "author": "Burroughs, Edgar Rice",
    "book_id": 64,
    "subjects": [],
    "download_count": 29142
   }
  ],
  "count": 5,
  "shelf": "Life on other planets -- Fiction",
  "coverage": {
   "target": 61015,
   "indexed": 61015
  },
  "drill_down": [
   "/book-metadata",
   "/book-chapter",
   "/book-quotes",
   "/literature-search"
  ]
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/library-forgemesh-io-life-on-other-planets-fiction-shelf-fd9f320c/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
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