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The Cosmic Crusaders discover a planet whose people are subject to a baleful influence from outer space that sweeps across their world once a month, affecting every man, woman, and child. It stirs the emotions of the sexes against each other: men want only to destroy women, and women men. Only those with higher types of mind can resist the mental attack–the less fortunate are left dead or maimed after the Wave has passed. But when the Crusaders identify and destroy the apparent source of the...
| Автор | John Russell Fearn |
Science fiction author Stanley G. Weinbaum died from cancer at 33 in December 1935. Short though his career was, his scientific imagination, smooth characterizations, and pervasive humor completely revolutionized the field, and profoundly influenced his contemporaries. Among his many imitators was English writer John Russell Fearn. Although his own distinctive work was very popular in the SF magazines of the time, the ambitious Fearn wanted to increase his number of acceptances by writing under...
| Автор | John Russell Fearn |
Sheena is a vampire from Leeds who works in a call center, and has a dark secret that even she doesn't know about. Her boyfriend has to discover it the hard way, alas. Like the other two vampire stories included in the book, both of which feature vampire babies, «Sheena» is a love story, which shares the life-enhancing attributes common to all love stories. Here are ten tales of the fantastic, the horrific, and the gothic, including: «Rose, Crowned with Thorns,» «Rent,» «Tenebrio,» «Behind...
| Автор | Brian Stableford |
Continuing their cosmic crusade among the stars, the Golden Amazon and her three companions discover a planet in another space where intelligent beings are being created, not through normal biological processes, but spontaneously, fully-grown, fashioned from the very chemicals of another planet. The mystery deepens when they discover that the synthetic race (and the planet it inhabits) is evolving backwards! Determined to solve these mysteries, the Crusaders find themselves up against the...
| Автор | John Russell Fearn |
In an alternate history of 1572, five intrepid British adventurers venture into the ether to seek out new life and new civilizations. They discover a galaxy-wide invertebrate empire, including the insect-like inhabitants of the moon. But the empire is under attack from enemies both without and within–and so is the planet Earth!–and the five men must find a way to thwart the Selenites and save our world from an insect tyranny. Grand space opera in the unique Stablefordian style!
| Автор | Brian Stableford |
When Milly Morton, confidential secretary to industrialist Mortimer Bland, deliberately smashes several astronomical plates created by Anton Drew, she does more than express her pique against Bland's Chief Scientist. She also destroys irreplaceable data that might have enabled Drew to convince a skeptical world that it needs to prepare for the coming cosmic disaster. Without proof, no government official takes Drew's theories seriously. And so the world continues on its way, living in...
| Автор | John Russell Fearn |
In «Robbery Without Violence,» gold worth fifty million pounds vanishes overnight from an impregnable bank vault, Chief Inspector Hargraves of Scotland Yard finds himself completely baffled. And when the owner of the bank then dies under mysterious circumstances, Hargraves is again spurred to seek outside help from scientist Sawley Garson, a specialist in solving «impossible» crimes. But can even he explain the inexplicable? Also included in this collection is «Death at the Observatory.» Two...
| Автор | John Russell Fearn |
How did we get here? That's the question that drives each friend, each foe, and every strand of the stories woven together in Born in Syn. From an unusually intelligent infant, to individuals wrongly accused or imprisoned, to insiders who know things they wish they didn't and outsiders determined to bulldoze their way into the action, dozens of small decisions and huge risks pile on top of one another, contributing to the creation of a future that will change everything....
| Автор | Beth Kander |
On the newly-discovered planet of Dorset, a small village of travelers try to establish a community. However, Dorset’s ecology quickly proves more complex than settlers expected. Led by Celly, the sole surviving warrior of the circle, the people grapple with unforeseen threats. Yet the challenge goes deeper than anyone suspects. Celly, whose memory stands as prodigious as his physical skills, remembers things no one else knows. Can the village survive the revelations of...
| Автор | William Huggins |
Fifty years after the Singularity, the world is divided into two populations locked in a cold war: Synthetic Citizens, or Syns, human-computer hybrids with extraordinary enhancements and potentially infinite lifespans; and Originals, the individuals who did not merge their bodies with the machines.But the decades-long battle between Original and Syn is almost at an end, because the Originals are on the verge of extinction. One of the only young Originals left in the world, Ere, knows he might...
| Автор | Beth Kander |
DESERT SWARM After his superior officers are killed in action, Corporal Josiah Key assumes command of the 3rd Battalion, Marine Raiders. In the tiny village of Shabhut, Yemen, while trying to put the blast on ISIS forces, an even deadlier enemy emerges: ancient, unreasoning creatures who tear into both U.S. troops and terrorists without mercy, leaving brutally dismembered corpses in their wake. They are known as the Idmonarchne Brasieri , giant prehistoric spiders roused from millennia-long...
| Автор | Richard Jeffries |
Each note brings her one step closer to the truth. When the cyborg Nebula plays the piano she experiences memories from a time before her creation. These memories—which involve a captive rebel fighter being held on their ship—bring with them complex human feelings and awaken a desire for her to discover her origins. Radian is the long-lost love of the woman from which Nebula was made. He's vowed to avenge his finance's death and rescue her sister from the Gryphonites, a fierce race out...
| Автор | Aubrie Dionne |
Everybody's looking for something. Captain Rose Madigan of the airship The Merry Widow is looking for a paying job for her all-female crew. Gabriella Upstairs, her newest recruit, is looking for a reason to be glad she's on board. And Madam Ruby of the Red House Bordello is looking for the secret laboratory of a missing mad scientist–and is willing to hire the airship. When they find the lab and its single occupant, Atom Loquacious, danger and passion start steaming up....
| Автор | Tonia Brown |
Two weary refugees, two moons and a life-changing fertility festival. Watch out for a whole lot of sensuality. Under normal circumstances, Svana, non-military maintenance crew, and Captain Liam Ringel, a highly respected military instructor, would never have crossed paths. A sudden anomaly, however, thrusts them into deep space where they are rescued by the inhabitants of an exotic and isolated waterworld, Urloon. With no rescue forthcoming, the refugees can choose between adapting to the sea or...
| Автор | Melissa Aires |
In 2026 the Devastation destroyed almost everything; buildings toppled, forests fell, animals died, humanity was nearly wiped out. Only children survived, aged twelve years and under. Those that were not crushed by the falling buildings wandered through dust filled streets finding the others. Bonding together they formed their own clans and watched the world regrow from death to a morphed and mutated form.<br><br>For six years they have lived their new life, fought to survive the new...
| Автор | Krystyna Faroe |
Is it religious science fiction, fantasy, or a new perspective on life? In an unimportant galaxy, orbiting a minor star, there’s a beautiful blue planet. On that planet there is something so dangerous that it is watched over by the guardians of death. Visitors are closely monitored so that no contamination can spread from that little planet to the rest of the universe. But there’s trouble on this little world, as the guardians of death are using their trust and their authority to advance...
| Автор | Andy Garza |
The Essential classic collection of books by science fiction author Edgar Rice Burroughs:<br><br>Table Of Contents<br>At the Earth's Core<br>The Beasts of Tarzan<br>THE CHESSMEN OF MARS<br>THE EFFICIENCY EXPERT<br>THE GODS OF MARS<br>Jungle Tales of Tarzan<br>The Land that Time Forgot<br>THE LOST CONTINENT<br>THE MAD KING<br>THE MONSTER MEN<br>THE MUCKER<br>THE OAKDALE AFFAIR<br>THE OUTLAW OF...
| Автор | Edgar Rice Burroughs |
An action/comedy with astronauts taking off on one journey which turned into many adventures throughout the galaxies<br><br>This is the first book in a series about a wealthy family of the future. The Houstons adventure into space where they take on space pirates and many kinds of aliens. As technology advances, so do their ships until they pilot the most advanced ship in the universe. The risks, thrills and challenges of space exploration are many and diverse — even to the...
| Автор | Darryl D. Wright |
The time is 2183. Fifty-six-year-old Saunders Maxwell is a stubborn old space-farer who has spent his entire life in space. He has captained the Moon-Mars shuttle and led exploration missions beyond Mars. When he came to Mars in his forties he helped discover the water source that made the first American Mars colony possible.<br><br>Later he turned to asteroid mining, captaining a small ship and crew of about a half dozen on repeated trips to the asteroid belt, bringing back minerals...
| Автор | Robert Zimmerman |
This 120 page E-Book of 40,000 words is the fifth book in a series about a wealthy family of the future. <br><br>The Houstons adventure into space where they take on space pirates and many kinds of aliens. As technology advances, so do their ships until they pilot the most advanced ship in the universe. The risks, thrills and challenges of space exploration are many and diverse – even to the point of occasionally having to struggle against Earth Defense...
| Автор | Darryl D. Wright |
The main plot of The Fifth Law revolves around a retirement habitat on an idyllic tropical island where the inhabitants have an average age of 110 years. Global warming and other environmental factors are building to a crisis-level situation at the habitat.<br><br>The story explores human versus robot, robot versus robot, as well as human versus human encounters in various engaging scenarios. For robots to be effective in executing their tasks without harming their human owners, the...
| Автор | Stephen W. Wanpok |
Once upon a time, in a land Down Under, from the depths of the Clan cave, Clan Destine Press issued a challenge to Australian and Kiwi authors to write cliff-hanging, Australian-flavoured, action-packed adventure stories for two protagonists; stories of the What If, What Now, And Then… kind.<br /> <br />This was a catnip call, an irresistible lure, a kid-in-a-candy-store kind of a challenge: what writer wouldn't want to take a crack at that?<br /> <br />To make it...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
Adventure ~ Action<br />Danger ~ Derring-do<br /> <br />Rip-snorting action adventures of the What If… What Next… and, most importantly, the And Then… kind.<br /> <br />A cohort of Australia's best genre fictioneers, and one bold Kiwi, present a fabulous and strange collection of action-packed adventure stories – each featuring two heroes.<br /> <br />The two-volume <i>And Then…</i> anthology features page-turning and genre-bending...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
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 colonies in space. Alex Alexander, the ship’s biologist, together with his staff, must help solve the mysteries of human and alien ecosystems that he encounters light-years from home. <P> Dendra is a stable world, covered by a huge, unchanging forest—except that nothing living can really be...
| Автор | Brian Stableford |