Научная Фантастика
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If vampires really exist, there has to be a scientific explanation. Dr. Schwick found that answer…
| Автор | Rog Phillips |
When explorers land on a seemingly unpopulated planet, they discover a sugarcane-like substance growing in seemingly cultivated fields, and the canes ring like a pipe organ at night. They need organic matter for their replicators and plants for their hydroponics, so they harvest some of it. Big mistake!
| Автор | Wallace West |
An old woman slowly loses the battle to insanity, or perhaps to her own fey nature, after her husband dies while coming home from his monthly shopping trip. But something supernatural may be in play… A classic fantasy!
| Автор | Wallace West |
"The Boy in the Iron Mask," touches on the contamination of reality by dreams.
| Автор | Arthur Jean Cox |
After a plague has killed almost everyone on the planetm a young woman, newly married, is as far as she knows the last person alive. Her radio engineer husband had made her promise to keep going on air every night to sing, hoping that anyone else still alive will hear her and come find her… [Also published as «The Last Woman»]
| Автор | Wallace West |
A «last person on Earth» tale, set after an alien invasion has wiped out humanity… The last resident of Earth sees the lights of a scouting vehicle and prepares to welcome one of the Masters..
| Автор | Theodore Cogswell |
The assistant to the man who built the world's first successful space rocket schemes to claim the invention for himself. A science fiction crime story! Originally published in Amazing Stories, October 1946.
| Автор | Chester S. Geier |
The world has suffered a terrible calamity, and humans are now subservient to giant barnacles. Only the barnacles themselves are fighting insects on the land… A wild post-apocalyptic tale from the early days of science fiction pulps!
| Автор | Frank Belknap Long |
Since H. G. Wells’ definitive THE INVISIBLE MAN, the subject of invisibility has cropped up many times in science fiction. But seldom has it been expanded upon so wittily (or tied up so neatly) as in this classic tale, originally published in SF Impulse (February 1967).
| Автор | Richard Wilson |
What Machen had done in weird literature, Keene had done on the screen—and it was literally amazing. But few had seen it, since it was never released. It was kept under lock and key at Summit Pictures. Now Keene's new movie, The Nameless, was almost complete…
| Автор | Henry Kuttner |
He was after a fugitive from justice – but the man he found was…himself! A pulp classic originally published in Thrilling Wonder Stories (Spring 1954).
| Автор | Frank Belknap Long |
The machine was not perfect. It could be tricked. It could make mistakes. And—it could learn!
| Автор | Fritz Leiber |
Welcome to our third volume of Mack Reynolds’ work, this time presenting 3 great novels: Galactic Medal of Honor, The Rival Rigelian, and Space Pioneer. These are more recent works than the ones in the first two Mack Reynolds MEGAPACK® and showcase his science fiction at the top of his form.
| Автор | Mack Reynolds |
It was an old dream come true: a machine that could give a man anything in the world. Or nothing… A
| Автор | Richard Wilson |
"Born with the Dead" is a science fiction novella by Robert Silverberg. It describes a near-future world in which the recently dead can be «rekindled» to a new life, but one in which their personalities and attitudes are radically changed; although they possess their memories from their previous lives, their former concerns no longer appear important to them. The story parallels that of Eurydice and Orpheus in the underworld.
| Автор | Robert Silverberg |
It's 1935. Ace daredevil pilot «Lucky» James is murdered moments after landing in New York following a record-breaking, nonstop solo flight from Egypt, it's up to Detective-Captain McCord to solve the case. A classic pulp novelet from the September, 1935 issue of Popular Detective!
| Автор | Robert Wallace |
A man survives a terrible plague, with a new Force in his mind which gives him courage and enables him to accomplish things. He's in Minnesota, on a post WW3 earth, with no central governments remaining in any countries…
| Автор | Charles V. De Vet |
Ryan is a member of a tribe of post-apocalyptic primitives. Each night, the tribe chants about how their ancestors were «the putrefiers of the lakes and the rivers; the consumers, the destroyers, the murderers of the living land; the selfish, the obese, the great collectors…»
| Автор | Robert F. Young |
The aliens chose their first contact at random. Did it really matter that it was a lunatic asylum?
| Автор | Richard Wilson |
It was ironic that Ann Bagley got mixed up with a bunch of extraterrestrials in a night club at the top of the Mile-Hi Building in Chicago. But maybe it was inevitable. She was the daughter of the minister of a flock in a place like Zion, Illinois, home of the ecclesiastical fig newton, only it was a smaller place. I won’t name it here, or name him....<P> Parallel worlds, interplanetary romance, and religion are just some of the elements of this gonzo science fiction story!
| Автор | Richard Wilson |
Worse things can happen on the ocean than watching your ship sink from a lifeboat. There are monsters everywhere, even on the water…
| Автор | Jerome Bixby |
