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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 |
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 |