“I’m just looking at the Moon,” she said listlessly. “It’s green. Green as a beer bottle, green as emeralds, green as leaves with sunshine striking through them and green grass to lie on.” She couldn’t help saying those last words. They were her token to the face, even though it couldn’t hear.
What do you do when in the aftermath of a nuclear holocaust the only way to survive is to kill or be killed? Two strangers, a man and a woman, come across each other in a hostile world where every life hangs by the thread. Instead of killing each other they decide to strike up a purely sexual relationship yet never losing the sight of their weapons. But things can never go as per plan when lust for blood runs higher than carnal lust. Will they survive? Or will they suffer the same gory end as...
This collection brings together some of the most incredible sci-fi stories ever told in one convenient, high-quality, low-priced Kindle volume! This book now contains several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! The Sentimentalists, by Murray Leinster The Girls from Earth, by Frank Robinson The Death Traps of FX-31, by Sewell Wright Song in a minor key, by C.L. Moore Sentry of the Sky, by Evelyn E. Smith Meeting of the Minds, by Robert Sheckley Junior, by Robert...
The Second Fritz Leiber MEGAPACK® collects 14 more stories (plus a poem) by the acclaimed creator of the Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series. Here are adventures in the future, through other dimensions, and across parallel worlds – with plenty of humor, cats, and fun! Included are:<P> A PAIL OF AIR<BR> WHAT'S HE DOING IN THERE?<BR> APPOINTMENT IN TOMORROW<BR> KREATIVITY FOR KATS<BR> A BIT OF THE DARK WORLD<BR> THE DREAMS OF ALBERT MORELAND<BR> ...
Welcome to another wide-ranging collection of dark fantasy and horror stories. From familiar classics to rare pulp stories, from the Victorian era to contemporary tales, there's something here for every taste. Included are:<P> GARAGE SALE, by Janet Fox<BR> SOULS OF THE DAMNED, by John D. Swain<BR> JOHNNY ON THE SPOT, by Frank Belknap Long<BR> THE HAUNTED CHAIR, by Richard Marsh<BR> THE UPPER BERTH, by F. Marion Crawford<BR> A BIT OF THE DARK WORLD,...
This is the story of a beautiful woman. And of a monster. It is also the story off our silly, selfish, culture-bound inhabitants of the planet Earth. Es, who was something of an artist. Gene, who studied atoms—and fought the world and himself. Louis, who philosophized. And Larry—that’s my name—who tried to write books.
Three things warned the wizard’s apprentice that something was wrong: first the deep-trodden prints of iron-shod hooves along the forest path—he sensed them through his boots before stooping to feel them out in the dark; next, the eerie drone of a bee unnaturally abroad by night; and finally, a faint aromatic odor of burning.
There was an old Simorgyan legend, Fafhrd had insisted, according to which on the seventh day of the seventh moon of the seventh year of the Sevens-Cycle the king of the sea journeyed to the other end of the earth, leaving his opalescently beautiful green wives and faintly silver-scaled slim concubines free to find them lovers if they could . . . and this, Fafhrd had stridently asserted he knew by the spectral calm and other occult tokens, was the place of the sea-king’s home and the eve of the...
