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Mankind was being assailed by a disease that made the Bubonic Plague seem insignificant. People were dying by the thousands, especially in America and in England. They would choke, strangle to death, and then, horribly, burst apart as if blown up by gas! And the horror had been unwittingly caused by one man, Doctor Blair, who had, ironically, tried to invent something that would benefit mankind by eliminating all disease! Instead, the results of his experiment led to the world facing total...
| Автор | John Russell Fearn |
It is 1847, and Paris is edging closer to its next revolution, but something is also astir inside Mont Dragon in the Ardèche. This is a place of annual pilgrimage for a band of enigmatic nomads, and also a place of interest to the ambitious Bishop of Viviers. In spite of his distaste for travel, Auguste Dupin makes the long southward journey, in the hope that he might be able to help an old friend, the evolutionist Claude Guérande. Guérande believes that he has made discoveries in the caves of...
| Автор | Brian Stableford |
This volume collects 9 classic science fiction stories by Lloyd Biggle, Jr. Included are: «The Rule of the Door,» «Petty Larceny,» «On the Dotted Line,» «Judgement Day,» «Secret Weapon,» «The Perfect Punishment,» «A Slight Case of Limbo,» «D.F.C.,» and «Wings of Song.» Also included is the original 1967 introduction by the author. In «The Rule of the Door»: The owner had a positive mania for closets and doors. Along one entire wall of that spacious living room were closets, large, window-less...
| Автор | Lloyd Biggle jr. |
In Annex 10 in the Adirondack Mountains in New York, the scientists under the leadership of astronomer Dr. Gray can hardly believe the things their instruments are telling them; but, because their equipment is absolutely reliable, they HAVE to believe, and on that ill-fated June 30th, they begin to see the chaos will affect mankind. The Earth is growing steadily hotter. Temperatures rocket as the sun shines through the night and the world is plunged into endless day. Everywhere people are...
| Автор | John Russell Fearn |
The eleven stories in Designer Genes showcase the latest volume in this intriguing science fiction that explores intriguing future possibilities in biotechnology, ranging from stories of imminent technology reflecting issues that are already controversial, to stories that feature drastically altered worlds. Most of the stories are domestic dramas in which ordinary people are trying to get on with their everyday lives in circumstances that are altering in confusing ways by the year or by the day....
| Автор | Brian Stableford |
In THOSE OF MY BLOOD, humans exploring a galactic spacecraft that had crashed on Earth's moon wakened an alien, a luren, who desperately tried to prevent the contamination of human culture with galactic technology–by lying to Earth's vampires. DREAMSPY reveals the truth behind those lies, presenting the story of Elias, a musician kidnapped from Earth into a tangle of galactic espionage, amidst a galactic war over the destruction of the fabric of space. When Kyllikki, a powerful...
| Автор | Jacqueline Lichtenberg |
Throughout the centuries that have passed since humans first ventured into interstellar space, they have been at war with the alien Veich. The human race has, in consequence, been fully militarized, its educational system being a form of military training–which includes, among other disciplines, the elimination of fear from the human psyche. Attitudes to the war have, however, been colored by the gradual discovery of relics revealing that it is echoing an earlier interstellar conflict whose...
| Автор | Brian Stableford |
The bacterial intelligences of Neptune plan to conquer Earth by replacing humans in key positions with alien duplicates. A disturbing new element is introduced when the Neptunians themselves fall under the dictates of the sinister Sefner Quorne, whom the Golden Amazon believes to be dead. Once alerted to the threat, the Golden Amazon hits back with all the ruthless scientific ingenuity at her command. She creates an ultimate doomsday weapon–only to precipitate a reprisal from the denizens of...
| Автор | John Russell Fearn |
What is the potential of the human mind? <br />Jason Patrick LaCost is gifted with a genius level IQ, the ability to feel what other people are thinking and a passion for solving problems. As research head of a large biotech company, Jason makes discoveries that revolutionize agriculture, but pose a threat to corporations that control the planet's food chain. When a corporate shark wants to steal Jason's discoveries things get ugly. Jason's boss has his back, and calls on an...
| Автор | Patrick Rizio |
Cartwright House is a secret government military project. The men and women living there have been given the best food, comfort, and recreational facilities. But they're prisoners, forbidden to leave and closely guarded. For these people have very special powers. And then one man does escape, and Special Agent Don Gregson of the CIA is delegated to find him–and quickly. This is just one of four great stories of the aliens living among us, including «Trojan Horse,» «Agent,» and «The...
| Автор | E.C. Tubb |
Decadent literature is intrinsically and proudly a literature of moral challenge; it is sceptical, cynical, and satirical. It recognizes that everyday morality does not work either in practical or in psychological terms, and is therefore a sham, but that ideal morality is – not necessarily unfortunately – unattainable. This volume collects the best of Brian Stableford's decadent work, including: «Salome,» «O For a Fiery Gloom and Thee,» «The Last Worshipper of Proteus,» «The Evil That Men...
| Автор | Brian Stableford |
Pamela Sargent published the first novel in her «Venus» trilogy, Venus of Dreams, in 1986; it was followed by Venus of Shadows (1988) and Child of Venus (2001). For the first time, Dream of Venus collects the short fiction set against the backdrop of the author's Venus novels, comprising four stories written after the trilogy had been completed. As Sargent writes in her Introduction: «Characters and stories existing in the interfaces of the novels began to speak to me.» These are tales that...
| Автор | Pamela Sargent |
NSA agent Eric Price is sent to Sedona, Arizona to investigate strange activities at a secret underground base. A new type of stealth aircraft is being tested there, he discovers. But there’s something odd about the set-up, and Eric must investigate further. With the help of the beautiful Nataly, he begins to penetrate the mystery of the Sedona Conspiracy, and discovers that it has extraterrestrial origins. But more than one alien race is involved, and suddenly Eric and Nataly find themselves...
| Автор | James C. Glass |
hey call them the «rat-catchers.» They're the crew of the spaceship Daedalus, which a declining Earth has sent to re-establish contact with its long-lost colonies. Biologist Alex Alexander, together with his staff, must help solve the mysteries of human and alien ecosystems that they encounter far from home. On the world called Wildeblood, named for the ecologist/Emperor who founded it, the settlers' descendants harbor a terrible secret–a secret that Alex must uncover, if the colony is...
| Автор | Brian Stableford |
They call them the «rat-catchers.» They're the crew of the spaceship Daedalus, which an economically destitute Earth has dispatched on a mission to re-establish contact with its far-flung, long-lost space colonies. Alex Alexander, ship's biologist, must help solve the mysteries of human and alien ecosystems that he encounters light-years from home. The planet Floria initially appears to be one of the few Earth colonies that's actually prospered since its initial settlement. But...
| Автор | Brian Stableford |
It was the future perfect, the greatest society in human history, with peace and plenty, and total sexual freedom. Utopia paid you the Universal Guaranteed Income, whether you worked or not. Yet something was wrong it was a fractured Utopia.<P> By the thousands, the disenchanted fled the cities to join tiny, mobile towns that sprang up wildly. It was called The Commune Phenomenon. Super leaders of the super future challenged Swain to locate the worm of discontent. Strange, because Swain...
| Автор | Mack Reynolds |
When the first Martian capsule lands, Alex Smith is drawn to the scene out of curiosity and wonder. But soon he must flee, when the great alien striders begin devastating the countryside and harvesting the living bodies of men and women to drain their blood. Smith wanders south, being drafted into the Army, witnessing major battles between the Martians and the American troops, and following the trail of destruction all the way to San Francisco. There he finds a city deserted of human life....
| Автор | Robert Reginald |
When Steve, a hapless school teacher, consults a hypnotherapist to solve his personal problems, he «remembers» being abducted by aliens. When he starts attending sessions of Alien Abductees Anonymous (AlAbAn), he sees a pattern in the stories being told, and thinks his own experiences might provide a key. While his love life continues to deteriorate, Steve must grapple with questions of where the aliens might originate, and what their activities portend for the future of the human race. A...
| Автор | Brian Stableford |
Rod Garvin, governor of North America and Mars, is supposed to be on vacation, spending time in France with his wife, Flora, and the son he had never met, Felix. But the war leaders of North America have a new assignment for Garvin: find Lani, Imperatrix of North America, and convince her to come out of hiding.<P> Trailed by assassins, Garvin sets out for the Egypt colony, where the incognito Lani is worshipped as the incarnation of Isis. But Rod Garvin is no longer on his own. Son Felix...
| Автор | E. Hoffmann Price |
The 35th issue of WEIRDBOOK presents more stories in the Weird Tales tradition! Here are horror and dark fantasy stories set in this world – and beyond. Included this time are:<P> The Pullulations of the Tribe, by Adrian Cole<BR> The Dead of Night, by Christian Riley<BR> Mother of My Children, by Bruce L. Priddy<BR> The Man Who Murders Happiness, by John R. Fultz<BR> A Handful of Dust, by Tom English<BR> Revolution à l’Orange, by Paul...
| Автор | Adrian Cole |
When Wyndham Smith is transported to the 45th century, he finds himself fighting a sterile dystopia in which machines have created a sterile womb for mankind, without pain or suffering. Humanity is on the verge of deliberate racial suicide, but Wyndham and Vinetta escape the doomed city, fleeing to Sicily. There they must fight a Man Killer robot that has been programmed to eliminate the last hope of mankind. Can the two lovers defeat this implacable metal monster? Originally published under the...
| Автор | S. Fowler Wright |
PROBLEM ONE: An Earthman is suddenly and mysteriously transposed to an alien planet: an utterly empty, completely lifeless outpost of a far-flung galaxy. The Earthman has no idea where he is, how he came to be on the godforsaken world, or how to get home. <P> PROBLEM TWO: For company there is only a computer: a computer which has all the answers to all of the Earthman’s questions. But the computer is programmed to give information only to those properly trained and qualified to...
| Автор | Walt Richmond |
Judy Carrington, a college junior, takes a summer job in the library of Sinnett Harbor, a small Maine seacoast town. When Judy meets Assistant Forest Ranger Timothy Wade, she is sure her summer will not be a dull one. Suddenly, Tim and Judy find themselves entangled in a strange series of events involving a masked intruder who always casts a frightening twisted shadow… Then Judy receives a gasping call for help from the Pulitzer Prize novelist Sandys Winter. When she goes to rescue him, she not...
| Автор | Edith Dorian |
SLAVE AND SLAVER! Condemned to death, the barbarian hero Valzar was thrown into the sea, along with his bond-slave Lynor. The peace of the slavemasters had returned to the lands of the north…or so it seemed. But the slavemasters reckoned not the gods of chance, those frivolous supernatural beings who delight in fouling the plans of men. And more important, they reckoned not the magic of the ancient science that still existed in the Forbidden Temple.<P> In a time when men had long...
| Автор | Dave Van Arnam |