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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 |
The political situation in the 21st century was coming to the boil: one man, a scientist, held what might be the important key to ultimate power in the struggle between the three blocs: West-world, Sov-world, and Common Europe. The scientist, Auguste Bazaine, disappears, and each bloc accuses the other of kidnapping. There was only one way to settle the difference! So nine men were chosen to fight to the death in a trial by combat organised by the World Court. The winner will put his country on...
| Автор | Mack Reynolds |
Jeffrey Collins’s fate was sealed when he stopped his car to help a man who appeared to be an injured motorcyclist. When the injured man vanished before his eyes, Collins turned to a scientist, Dr. Whittaker, to make sense of the mystery. But when Whittaker was found dead, a victim of poisoning, Collins was accused of his murder. The evidence against him was damning. Where had he been during the period when Dr. Whittaker had died? Had he not quarrelled with him, and had they not both stood to...
| Автор | John Russell Fearn |
Acclaimed author and scholar Brian Stableford turns his penetrating mind to matters of science fiction, fantasy, and horror in this collection of essays. He covers such diverse topics as: SLAVES OF THE DEATH SPIDERS: Colin Wilson and Existentialist Science Fiction<BR> IS THERE NO BALM IN GILEAD?: The Woeful Prophecies of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale<BR> A FEW MORE CROCODILE TEARS?: Gwyneth Jones<BR> THE ADVENTURES OF LORD HORROR: Across the Media...
| Автор | Brian Stableford |
CRIME TRAVEL features time-travel mysteries by a terrific lineup of authors.Features an introduction by Donna Andrews.<P> Included are:<P> James Blakey<BR> Melissa H. Blaine<BR> Michael Bracken<BR> Anna Castle<BR> Brendan DuBois<BR> David Dean<BR> John M. Floyd<BR> Barb Goffman<BR> Heidi Hunter<BR> Eleanor Cawood Jones<BR> Adam Meyer<BR> Barbara Monajem<BR> Korina Moss<BR> Art Taylor<BR>...
| Автор | Michael Bracken |
In the far future Earth is dying. Society has reverted to a more primitive life, much like the Middle Ages. Two men, Matthew and his brother John, who calls himself «Firefly,» set out to find the time traveller, the one person who can give purpose to their existence, the one individual who can still access past technology. The Firefly, he who lights his own way, seeks the age of Man's greatness, the time when the human race once owned the stars, when great cities stood in places that have...
| Автор | Brian Stableford |
NOT WITH A BANG!<P> When the bombs fell and Western civilization ended, the residents of Hickory Hollow, Texas, scarcely noticed the difference. They were already used to fending for themselves – growing their own food, helping their neighbors survive, keeping their rural life going, much as before.<P> But when the Ungers – a band of renegade thieves, murderers, and ne'er-do-wells – began raiding the nearby plots, looting and killing everyone in sight, it was time to take...
| Автор | Ardath Mayhar |
Manuel is a small boy gifted with mental powers that just might be the next step in human evolution. And now, Special Security, the secret arm of the government of what had once been the United States of America, wants Manny and the secrets his brain contains.<P> Yet Manny has allies of his own: his mother, Maria, a computer wizard able to crack top security codes. Silas Swallow, a billionaire determined to beat the government and everyone else in the race to find a faster than light...
| Автор | James B. Johnson |
Three scientists proposed to construct a synthetic man, endowed with some five times the intelligence of the ordinary human being. This creature matures quickly, and eventually there steps into being a synthetic man – «The Intelligence Gigantic.» His intellectuality and his occult powers are impressive, but are backed by no humanity, no thought of the happiness of mankind. He has the desire and the power to control the whole world of humanity and to operate the life of the world on principles of...
| Автор | John Russell Fearn |
Morris should have functioned perfectly in the rigid totalitarian society of the future where every thought, evey word, every action was controlled by the superstate. A state where everyone was watched night and day by the Great Eye of the internal security forces, <P> It was a strange, in many ways inhuman world, but the rewards were great for those who belonged to the right caste. <P> Morris belonged to the master class which ruled the entire world by brain power or brutality...
| Автор | Mack Reynolds |
In this sequel to John Russell Fearn’s classic Liners of Time, Time Liner Pilot Sandford Lee continues his battle against Elnek Jelfel, the Jovian wizard of science intent on galactic domination. Zagribud carries out their contests against an interstellar canvas, with Jelfel using his scientific powers to ultimately take possession of the Earth and carry out mass vivisection on humanity.<P> This is the first unabridged book edition of a classic pre-war serial from the pages of Amazing...
| Автор | John Russell Fearn |
It should be a routine mission for Space Academy Cadets Raymond Hunt and Longwood Jan. Fly their System Guard scout ship to an asteroid called the Nugget, pick up Doctor Eignbergen and his newest invention from his isolated lab, and ferry him back to Earth-what could go wrong? When Doctor Eignbergen shows Hunt and Jan what he and his assistant have been working on for the past ten years, they can hardly believe it: a time machine! Along with rescued space prospector Bernadette Garley, Hunt and...
| Автор | Mel Gilden |
The team from Earth had the task of raising backward planets to the home world's high level. The situation on Rigel was this: <P> "The most advanced culture on Rigel's first planet is to be compared to the Italian cities during Europe's feudalistic yeas. The most advanced of the second planet is comparable to the Aztecs at the time of the Spanish conquest." <P> "These planets are in your control to the extent that no small group has ever dominated...
| Автор | Mack Reynolds |
The odds were right for victory. The problem with computer warfare is that the computer is always logical while the human enemy is not – or doesn't have to be. And that's what the Betastani enemy were doing—nothing that the Alphaland computers said they would.<P> Those treacherous foemen were avoiding logic and using such unheard-of devices as surprise and sabotage, treason and trickery. They even had Alphaland's Deputy of Information believing Betastani propaganda without...
| Автор | Mack Reynolds |