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Sanjan Thome, the radioactive man, seals his own doom by striving to save the world from ultimate disaster!
| Автор | Ray Cummings |
Revolt was flaring on Callisto, and Peter Duane held the secret that would make the uprising a success or failure. Yet he could make no move, could favor no side—his memory was gone—he didn't know for whom he fought.
| Автор | Frederik Pohl |
Only once could a man defy the deathless guardians of the Ancient's tomb-city deep in Ganymede's hell-forest and expect to live. Yet Ed Garth had to return, had to lead men to certain doom—to keep a promise to a girl he would never see again.
| Автор | Henry Kuttner |
Classic science fiction from the creator of the Dumarest saga, this early tale by E.C. Tubb has not been seen since its first appearance in 1952.
| Автор | E.C. Tubb |
Sometimes it's more than mere luck that brings cats and humans together…
| Автор | A.R. Morlan |
"On the Beach" is a 1957 post-apocalyptic novel written by British-Australian author Nevil Shute after he emigrated to Australia. The novel details the experiences of a mixed group of people in Melbourne as they await the arrival of deadly radiation spreading towards them from the northern hemisphere following a nuclear war a year previously. As the radiation approaches each person deals with their impending death in different ways.
| Автор | Nevil Shute |
The Push of a Finger—or a careless word, for that matter—can wreck the entire universe. Think not? Well, if it happened this way…
| Автор | Alfred Bester |
This was Burnett's last trip. Three more shelves to fill with space-slain warriors–and he would be among the living again.
| Автор | Рэй Брэдбери |
Simms had the toughest assignment of his career. He must fight his way through Venusian intrigue to deliver a sealed cylinder—a cylinder that held his dishonorable discharge from the service.
| Автор | Carl Jacobi |
Space-weary rocketmen dreamed of an asteroid Earth. But power-mad Norman Haynes had other plans—and he spread his control lines in a doom-net for that oasis in space.
| Автор | Raymond Z. Gallun |
Vulcan was a doom-world. One expedition had mysteriously disappeared, and now another was following in its path—searching for the unknown menace that stalked Vulcan's shadowed gorges.
| Автор | Ray Cummings |
What chance had the castaway Earthman and his crossbow-weaponed Amazons against the mighty Frogmasters of the Veiled Planet?
| Автор | Manly Wade Wellman |
Venus was a horror-world, a place of teeming, nightmare danger, yet with the danger went wealth, and in the Hotlands rested a secret. To find the secret was one thing: to get out alive was another matter.<P> E.C. Tubb wrote the long-running Dumarest space opera series, as well as many other fine science fiction novels during his long career.
| Автор | E.C. Tubb |
In a long career, Edwin Charles Tubb (1919-2010) published 120 novels, and 200 short stories, mostly science fiction, but including historical, detective, and westerns. Guest of Honor at the 1970 World Science Fiction Convention, some of his finest SF short stories were collected in The Best Science Fiction of E. C. Tubb (Wildside Press, 2003). "Patient of Promise" originally appeared in Authentic Science Fiction #82, July 1957 issue. This is its first appearance since then.
| Автор | E.C. Tubb |
Take's place in the near future.Set in San Francisco bay area, someone with some real money, set up in a company of cyber criminals who gain access to everyone's work in the field of A.I. research. They even have a professor from Stanford, Who has been working in the field for all of the 20+years of his career. Now he's at the helm of this mad dash
| Автор | Leroy West |
Cats and bookstores and science fiction…the perfect combination!
| Автор | A.R. Morlan |
What do these things have in common? A secretary at a company goes to ask for reimbursement for a cab ride, and is told she has been overpaying into her pension and is given almost 6 months' salary. A guy goes to rob a bank, and is given more than 20 times the amount he was asking for. A boy goes to Tiffany's to buy his mother a birthday present, and is sold a $7000 necklace for $1…
| Автор | Richard Wilson |
After an atomic bomb blast, a bunch of senior citizens are all that's left of a small town. They shoot down any aircraft thats comes in low enough to be shot, not caring which side it might be from…
| Автор | Jerome Bixby |
William Gresham was a genius whose mind knew no limits…including time!
| Автор | Nelson S. Bond |
It wasn't a bad planet—the food was good…if you managed to eat it!
| Автор | Richard Wilson |
Collected in this volume are three of Fritz Leiber's works: the short novel «The Creature from Cleveland Depths» (originally published in «Galaxy» magazine in 1962); the humorous «Bread Overhead» (originally published in «Galaxy» magazine in 1958); and the short novel «No Great Magic» (originally published in «Galaxy» magazine in 1963). «No Great Magic» is part of Leiber's Change War series.
| Автор | Fritz Leiber |
A different sort of alien invasion story. When the Monolithians decide to use a reporter to head up their public relations campaign, they know the average man has to be reached with their message. What could possibly go wrong?
| Автор | Richard Wilson |
THE EIGHT BILLION derives its title from O. Henry’s THE FOUR MILLION and Meyer Berger’s THE EIGHT MILLION. The “serried bristling city" of New York does not, of course, contain eight billion people. If it did . . . well, read on. If this is not the overpopulation story to end all overpopulation stories, it will at least give them pause.
| Автор | Richard Wilson |