Научная Фантастика
33144 кн.
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 |
The murder of UN observer Carl Neal on a lonely outpost of the Asteroid Belt would seem to be only a small human tragedy, and yet it opens up vistas both of millennia of time and of unimaginable distances. Inspector Tom Dooley, Chief of Security of the American Sector of the Belt, together with his faithful «Watson,» Ralph Phelps, must sift through the many clues to unravel the mystery of Neal's death–and then keep the aliens from interfering. A first-rate science fiction adventure combined...
| Автор | Arthur Jean Cox |
"The object arrived without warning, tearing a spiral path of devastation across the rural landscape. After the explotion, searchers sifted through the immense pile of debris … to discover a fantastically instrumented capsule, and a strangely human pilot, stone dead. <P> Bowden Karvel's theory, that the capsule's port of origin lay in the distant future, seemed a plausible explanation. But while investigating, the capsule was accidentally dispatched again through time …...
| Автор | Lloyd Biggle jr. |
Vret McClintock, a young channel in training at the world-famous Rialite First Year Camp, overhears the sultry female voice of Ilin Sumz, is stricken with love, and decides to pursue her. He discovers that Ilin is running the illicit historical fantasies board on the campus mainframe computer. Vret must then risk his future career to extricate his love from her web of dirty secrets, before they can ruin the lives of other students and teachers–or themselves!
| Автор | Jacqueline Lichtenberg |
Leif Svensen's neighbor, come to warn him that the farmers were going to take violent action against his dog for killing their livestock, mentioned that he'd seen an angel the night before. «Big blonde woman on a white horse, singing loud enough to raise the dead, about a hundred feet up in the air.» <P> Then, on his way to find his madcap twin, Leif met a stranger who knew his name and who spoke of «the Fimbulwinter already upon us.» Fimbulwinter! The dreadful winter that in...
| Автор | Lester Del Rey |
Randle Manton has brought the Earth back from the brink of nuclear disaster, painstakingly rebuilding a nearly destroyed civilization, even reaching out to space. But now he's told that the clouds covering the world will soon unleash upon the reeling planet yet another disaster: a great flood that will cover most of the Earth's surface. Despite his wealth, despite his great power, Manton knows that he'll only be able to save a fraction of humanity. Can mankind rebuild and survive...
| Автор | John Russell Fearn |
The Shoggoths attack: «They had been so horrible before that I dare not say that they were any MORE horrible when they came again.... They were still unspeakable, still unthinkable–but whether I could speak or think of them or not, they were HERE.» Auguste Dupin is one of the few persons who can identify the rare Cthulhu Encryption etched in the flesh of a dying woman. The Comte de Saint-Germain owns a companion cryptogram that he believes is the key to finding a fabulous treasure buried by the...
| Автор | Brian Stableford |
Here are thirteen stories, three haiku, and a conventional poem, all involving cats. A few, like «The Cats of Ulthar,» by H. P. Lovecraft, and «Kreativity for Kats,» by Fritz Leiber, are well-known classics; others, like «Creeper Shadows,» by Fred Chappell are freshly written and came meowing to us in search of a home. This volume in this series is devoted mostly to fantasy stories—a deal with the Devil, a re-incarnation, and a long tale of Medieval magic, even a dragon—along with a couple of...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
A time traveler voyates half a million years into the future in an attempt to find two previous explorers who have failed to return. What he finds is a world as completely different from ours, as ours is different from when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. He encounters several new intelligent peoples whom he names: «The Amphibians,» «The Killers,» and «The Dwellers.»<P> THE AMPHIBIANS tied for 7th on the Arkham Survey of «Basic Science Fiction Titles» in 1949. It ranked 28th on the 1952...
| Автор | S. Fowler Wright |
Catastrophe had visited Earth and left it completely destroyed. But mankind had already bridged the galactic gap, and on the planets of the Centaurus system the discovery of the Memory Bank had brought man to the brink of immortality. The custodian of the Bank and ruler of the Centauran council was the most beautiful woman of the Centauran world, thousand-year-old Marian.<P> Lieutenant-Commander Merck was a non-depositor. He had an intuitive feeling of the danger of the Memory Bank: that...
| Автор | Wallace West |
Dreams of lasting peace are shattered by one momentous discovery. One of the members of an international team of scientists stationed on the moon has found an alien spacecraft – with all its incredible technology and weaponry intact. The discovery shatters the illusion of peace on Earth, as each nation joins the mad scramble to learn the terrible secrets entombed by alien visitors eons before. <P>Only one thing prevents total war – Werner Brecht, the discoverer of the vehicle, is the only...
| Автор | Mack Reynolds |
BEFORE EARTH CAME launches a new series collecting the early pioneering pulp magazine novelettes of John Russell Fearn, with the first-ever reprinting of «Before Earth Came» and «Subconscious.»<P> Both stories abound with unbridled imagination and a sense of wonder, examples of the pioneering stories being written in SF more than 80 years ago.<P> In «Before Earth Came,» Fearn’s storyline of how alien scientists, facing the imminent utter destruction of their planet, seek to...
| Автор | John Russell Fearn |
Kirk Markham returns to his home town of Leeds in 1999 after three years at university «down south.» In order to support himself while he tries to find a respectable career, he gets a job in a call center, which proves more challenging than he had anticipated, both professionally and socially. There he meets and falls in love with goth-girl Sheena, who is not like other girls, to put it mildly. Her uniqueness only makes her more attractive to him, and he makes every possible effort to live up to...
| Автор | Brian Stableford |
In a galactic culture that extends from quasi-utopian worlds like New Alexandria to the vermin-infested slums of Old Earth, the Star-Pilots are the great heroes of the day, and Grainger has become a legend in his own time. Pharos is paradise–or so it appears. But the champions of commerce want to package and sell the planet, and the conservationists want to stop them. Grainger's employer, Titus Charlot, is enlisted to negotiate a settlement, but the game is rigged. Charlot needs the...
| Автор | Brian Stableford |
Alexander Heflin, Imperator of North American, had his hands full: a war was brewing that could destroy the Imperium. Seeking to protect his wife, Lani, from their increasingly powerful enemies, Alex called on the one person he could trust: ex-war hero Rod Garvin.<P> Babysitting an Imperatrix seemed too easy a job for an adventurer of Garvin's caliber. After all, it kept him on Mars, while the action was happening on Earth.<P> Little did he know that Alex was embarking upon a...
| Автор | E. Hoffmann Price |