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The Ride is a galactic tale of sex, adventure, and excessive drinking among those who travel the stars. <br><br>My novel "The Ride" is a science fiction adventure about a man who makes his living traveling from planet to planet fighting dangerous animals. This is also a story about the women he meets and falls in love with, who don't want a serious relationship with a man who makes his living traveling from planet to planet fighting dangerous animals. The...
| Автор | Tom Ph.D. Anderson |
Long time ago a satellite detected a massive star ship in the desert of Thar Desert, Pakistan. A team of scientist from all over the world was commissioned to research this massive artifact that holds the key to the world oldest and most thought provoking question. <br><br>Are we alone? Relto Sahi, who specializes in Indus and Sumerian civilizations, was assigned as one of the scientist. His task was to understand the alien language and find out a way to decode the language so that...
| Автор | Stephen Inc. Grisham |
Jovan's world is small and medieval. It was once ruled by the good kingdom of Esis in the south, and the evil kingdom of Krona in the north. Those kingdoms are now fifteen years gone, victims of magic that escaped the control of the mages who wielded it in a final, devastating war. Now the land of Theris is empty and scarred by plagues of magic; most of the war's survivors, people from both kingdoms, marched eastward into the endless desert in a desperate bid for a new start....
| Автор | Aaron Ph.D. Dov |
Frank Dopler at twenty-four was on top of the world. That is until his wife Sarah and their young son Johnathon were ripped suddenly from his life. <br><br>Now approaching forty, Frank has managed to rebuild what could only be called a sustainable life, with his good friend Laura the only true bright spot. But with his optimism about life diminished, Frank will soon learn that there is always more to life than there appears.<br><br>This lesson oddly will begin when Bruce...
| Автор | Jeff MDiv Sieniewicz |
Book II in the Elanclose series, Aqueous Passage continues the adventures of the four clans.<br><br>On board the Genoa Fern has developed a friendship with Oak's antagonist, Elm. Alongside the Lakellers they follow the airship that flies ahead of them as they travel through the Aqueous Passage.<br><br>On the airship Avila Rose Denver is preparing for what may lay ahead. His alliance with Oak has become stronger. He finds an Aviatilian willing to become part of the...
| Автор | Krystyna Faroe |
Few people think for themselves anymore. Bombarded 24/7 by radio, television, internet, cellular microwaves, satellite signals and low frequency electromagnetic radiation, society is inundated with electronic visual, auditory and subliminal messaging. What effect does this have on our mental well being? Is there a deliberate sinister conspiracy at work to take over our thoughts and control our decisions?<br><br>'The Hum' by Ralph Anderson explores the factual...
| Автор | Ralph Anderson |
It's 1000 years in the future, mankind has discovered 'God' through science, this intelligent power now utilized by billions, the purest of fuel, a vast power that can never deplenish. As billions live in colossal floating metropolises, cradled in the sky, high above man's expectations and humble beginnings, the universe seems to blossom with intergalactic friendship and goodwill. <br><br>Science is now a sister of esoteric spirituality, both...
| Автор | Seakiel Ashe |
When the young apprentice Delbit Quint is «bought» by Dr. Faineworth, he arrives in an alternate history version of New York City to help the good doctor with his investigation of «Exxa.» This beautiful young woman had just appeared from nowhere, without clothing, on the streets of Gotham two weeks earlier, her memories of herself and her background completely lost. But when they go to her cell, they find it empty–save for her loose garments. Thus begins a glorious adventure in parallel...
| Автор | Michael Kurland |
The sun is dying. Astronomers can see that the Earth will soon become a frozen planet. All life will vanish from the surface, and the sea and air will freeze, as the light of the sun dwindles to that of a full moon. Mankind is forced to retreat underground, there to try surviving in vast underground habitats–trapped in a World Beneath Ice. Only one person on Earth has the scientific knowledge to rekindle the sun–the incredible Golden Amazon, a woman changed by surgery and genetic engineering...
| Автор | John Russell Fearn |
Dr. Brutus Lloyd is no more than four feet ten inches tall, an amazingly gnome-like man. He's not a dwarf, simply vest-pocket size. His head has a brow like a baby cliff, capped by a tuft of jet-black hair that curled down the immense forehead. His face, though overbalanced by the brow, is powerful for all its smallness. The most surprising thing about him is his deep bass voice. A brilliant scientist and criminologist, his unorthodox methods in combating criminals sometimes causes...
| Автор | John Russell Fearn |
From the swarming, last-redoubt towers of the polar regions, where humanity huddles from the savage heat of Greenhouse Earth, to the dusty refugee camps of a shattered America; from the virtual reality landscape where teenagers seek to repair a wounded planet, to the post-human globe populated by wily transgenic heirs to mankind; and, lastly, across the ideology-splintered ruins of the U.S.A…a cast of dedicated survivors tries to make the best of what’s left behind, picking up the pieces of...
| Автор | Paul Di Filippo |
A scientist’s vengeance propels Peter Curzon seven hundred years into the future, where he finds himself in a very mysterious world. Science has banished the need to work in order to earn money, and people only pursue activities as a vocation and by choice. But everyone is also engaged on a Great Task–constructing gigantic towers, with no discernible purpose, following the orders given to them in the temples of Ijax, a mysterious Buddha-like entity worshipped as a god. Peter alone seems immune...
| Автор | John Russell Fearn |
The unfolding story of the Golden Amazon enters a new phase when she renounces all ties with the Earth, the planet of her birth. Together with her husband Abna, former Lord of Jupiter, and their daughter Viona, she sets off in the Ultra on an exploratory journey to the stars. Their first mission takes them to the strange worlds of the two suns, Alpha and Proxima Centauri. Here the Amazon encounters Mizanu, the embodiment of evil, and her most deadly foe yet–for the creature is nothing less than...
| Автор | John Russell Fearn |
A laboratory accident suddenly sends four modern-day humans backwards in time, their individual organic bodies almost untouched by the phenomenon, while the physical world around them gradually retreats through the ages. Onward and onward they careen through the past, until they appear in the vividly green Carboniferous Age, filled with overwhelmingly excessive vegetation, festering swamps, and fetid lagoons. The accumulation of rotted vegetation is everywhere around them, vegetation that will...
| Автор | John Russell Fearn |
With his astonishing future vision, Howard V. Hendrix has emerged as one of the new masters of science fiction, drawing extraordinary praise for his debut novel, <I>Lightpaths</I>, «a taut…space-age slice of life» (<I> Publishers Weekly</I>), and its «brilliant» (<I>Locus</I>) follow-up, <I>Standing Wave</I>. <P> Now Hendrix meshes virtual reality, deep-space exploration, and human nature in a novel starkly breathtaking in its portrayal of...
| Автор | Howard V. Hendrix |
In the year 4004 AD, the entire universe of habitable worlds has been filled with human beings, thanks to an ancient teleport network and unlimited growth. Humans live on more than a hundred quadrillion terraformed planets, all woven into a bureaucratic and restrictive Empire. VALENCIES tracks a frustrated group of libertarian anarchists on the marginal planet Victoria. Kael, son of three gay doctors, and Theri, daughter of a man and woman bound by maniacal doctrinal tenets, are a young couple...
| Автор | Damien Broderick |
Gordon Fryer, a young, unemployed engineer, finds a post as a scientific guinea pig and assistant to an elderly scientist, Dr. Royd. But the result of Royd’s experiment predicts the exact hour and day of Gordon's death–a mere thirteen years hence–with a series of photographs of the future. Fryer makes a deadly enemy of Royd’s butler, Blessington, who targets him with poison-pen letters, but when his campaign culminates in attempted murder, Blessington is imprisoned. Fryer and his new wife...
| Автор | John Russell Fearn |
The planet Attica has two continents: Lambda and Delta. The indigenous alien population being restricted to Delta, Earth's colony was planted on Lambda. Before the arrival of the Daedalus, two sailing ships had set out from Lambda to cross the ocean separating the two continents, and neither had returned. Now a third is on its way, and Mariel Valory and Alex Alexander of the Daedalus have hitched a lift, in order that Mariel might use her talent to try to make contact with the aliens....
| Автор | Brian Stableford |
Archeology wasn't supposed to get him killed. For two decades, Harry Deacon had served as a skilled and loyal soldier, and it'd cost him his marriage and many dead friends. His new career of digging for artifacts and esoteric knowledge seems safe enough–until he finds an Anasazi tomb in Chaco Canyon that shouldn't be there. Only hours after Harry emails news of his discovery to a fellow archeologist at a conference in Scotland, she and her students are murdered–and Harry and his...
| Автор | Eric G. Swedin |
There was something strange about Ann Bonney's mission to the unexplored world called Chameleon. Though only women were judged fit for space, Earth's Central Computer had for some reason placed a man among them … an artist who was not docile like other men. For Language Specialist Gia Kennedy, the answer lay in the baffling rituals of the planet's primitive natives – an answer that hovered just out of reach. There, in the heart of an alien wilderness, Gia would defy her culture...
| Автор | Sheila Finch |
The fourth landing of the Daedalus Mission confronts Alex and his companions with a colonial culture seemingly modeled on a classic Utopian dream, but all of its inhabitants are infected with a mysterious alien parasite, and they no longer seem entirely human. Are they being controlled by the parasite, or has the parasite merely enabled them to transform themselves? Can the visitors from Earth avoid infection themselves, and what will the consequences be if they cannot? For once, the risks of...
| Автор | Brian Stableford |
Jaguar is sent back to Planetoid One, her first Planetoid assignment, to investigate a prisoner convicted of killing Supervisor Diane Lasher, once her friend. As she walks the corridors of her own past, Jaguar is haunted by ghosts who might or might not be real, and plagued by attempts to kill her before she gets to the truth. Alex takes extreme measures to make sure he's there to protect her, before she becomes one more victim of the strangler whose life is in her hands.
| Автор | B.A. Chepaitis |
This volume collects four classic tales from the SF pulp magazines by a master of the genre! <P> THE MAN FROM HELL… <P> From top to bottom the Brant Building became insubstantial, like the illusion of a dream world. It hung transparent, incredible, for a moment with the figures of people momentarily visible through the suddenly glassified walls–then with staggering abruptness the whole 1,000-foot mass snapped into black extinction! Its very foundations changed to cavernous...
| Автор | John Russell Fearn |
Ginn Hollis was fourteen when her father's mysterious death left her alone on the planet Kelmer. She's grown up since then. Kelmer is a harsh world, an old world: its people are ancient, its civilization long fallen and dimly dreaming under a brown dwarf sun the natives call the Ember Star. But now, long dormant forces are beginning to stir on Kelmer, forces that could destroy the planet forever…or bring it back to life. One being stands at the center of the turmoil. His origins are...
| Автор | Charles Allen Gramlich |