Космическая фантастика
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Рядовой полет космического пассажирского корабля из-за необъяснимого явления становится самым долгим рейсом, подвергая пассажиров и членов экипажа тяжелым испытаниям.
| Автор | Павел Хохлов |
Спустя полторы тысячи лет после катастрофы и великого исхода из Старой Империи на родину возвращаются потомки переселенцев. Они несут с собой странные пугающие технологии и опасные идеи, способные снова ввергнуть мир в хаос…
| Автор | Фрэнк Герберт |
Масштабная экологическая трансформация подошла к завершению. На Арракисе появились леса, озера и реки. Но нет больше великой пустыни и нет песчаных червей, производивших Пряность – самую большую драгоценность планеты…
| Автор | Фрэнк Герберт |
No conceivable force could penetrate Terri’s shield. Yet he was defenseless.
| Автор | Gordon R. Dickson |
If you ever get to drinking beer in your favorite saloon and meet a scared little guy who wants to buy you the joint, supply you with fur coats and dolls and run you for Congress—listen well! That is, if you really want the joint, the fur coats, the dolls and a seat in Congress. Just ask Mike Murphy . . . .
| Автор | Louis Trimble |
Once upon a time in Lankhmar, City of the Black Toga, in the world of Nehwon, two years after the Year of the Feathered Death, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser parted their ways.
| Автор | Fritz Leiber |
Everything was aimed at satisfying the whims of women. The popular cliches, the pretty romances, the catchwords of advertising became realities; and the compound kept the men enslaved. George knew what he had to do . . . .
| Автор | Irving E. Cox, Jr. |
Jamie Bingham Walsh should have been known as Schizo Jimmie. People with whom he came in really close contact had their minds split and started to live in dream worlds.
| Автор | Fritz Leiber |
The weird, invisible insect depopulated an entire planet. Now it was felling Thompson’s crew as his ship hurtled toward the sun … certain death for all, including the disease carrier. Forgotten in the panic was Buster, Thompson’s wise cat.
| Автор | Robert Moore Williams |
In order to make Izaak Walton’s sport complete, there must be an angler, a fish, and some bait. All three existed on Arz but there was a question as to which was which.
| Автор | Roger Dee |
The Emperor must be getting old, they thought, to deal so mercifully with the upstart Jursan Rebels—which was quite true. He was not too young to dream....
| Автор | H. B. Fyfe |
The starways’ Lone Watcher had expected some odd developments in his singular, nerve-fraught job on the asteroid. But nothing like the weird twenty-one-day liquid test devised by the invading Steel-Blues.
| Автор | Vaseleos Garson |
Wilbur Murphy sought romance, excitement, and an impossible Horseman of Space. With polite smiles, the planet frustrated him at every turn—until he found them all the hard way!
| Автор | Jack Vance |
“You forget, baroness, the runic rhymes of the Prussian Nostradamus,” said Dr. Rumanescue, Vividy’s astrologist and family magician. “Wenn der Kassette-Teufel . . . ’—or, to translate roughly, ‘When the casket-demon is let out, The life of the Von Sheer is in doubt.’”
| Автор | Fritz Leiber |
If this story has a moral, it is: “Leave well enough alone.” Just look what happened to Kenzie “mad-about-ants” MacKenzie, who didn’t . . . .
| Автор | Mark Clifton |
“You wanted out?” Walker leaned forward, unwilling to believe what he had heard. “Are you trying to tell me that you arranged your discharge?” Millet shrugged. “Why, of course. Nobody ever has bothered to ask me about that up to now, but I certainly did arrange it. It wasn’t hard, you know. All I had to do was set up some sort of relationship with a so-called security risk, and I was on my way out.” “Why . . . that’s damned near treason.”
| Автор | Ed M. Clinton, Jr. |
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.
| Автор | Fritz Leiber |
Naturally human work was more creative, more inspiring, more important than robot drudgery. Naturally it was the most important task in all the world … or was it?
| Автор | William W. Stuart |
For every weapon there was a defense, but not against the deadliest weapon—man himself!
| Автор | Robert J. Shea |
Under the new system of the Managerials, the fight was not for life but for death! And great was the ingenuity of—The Victor.
| Автор | Bryce Walton |
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.
| Автор | Fritz Leiber |
The man is rare who will give his life for what is merely the lesser of two evils. Merrick’s decision was even tougher: to save human beings at the expense of humanity, or vice versa?
| Автор | Alfred Coppel |
An archaeologist discovers the remains of an intelligent species, here on Earth.
| Автор | Fritz Leiber |