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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 |
Time traveling, which is not quite the good clean boyish fun it’s cracked up to be, started for me when this woman with the sigil on her forehead looked in on me from the open doorway of the hotel bedroom where I’d hidden myself and the bottles and asked me, “Look, Buster, do you want to live?”
| Автор | Fritz Leiber |
Повесть про последнего человека во Вселенной, как он ужасно страдал по слабому полу и что предпринял по этому поводу.
| Автор | Юрий Табашников |
«Рождение новой республики» – роман про войну лунных колоний за независимость от корпоративной Земли. Позже, намного позже, об этом напишет Хайнлайн…
| Автор | Джек Уильямсон |
The John Carter of Mars Series:<br><br>A Princess of Mars <br>The Gods of Mars <br>Warlord of Mars <br>Thuvia, Maid of Mars <br>The Chessmen of Mars
| Автор | Edgar Rice Burroughs |
