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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 |
The invasion began with meteor strikes in Kansas. When the investigating team disappears, it signals the start of an alien invasion of Earth. At first, a number of humans are enslaved and forced to build a rocket aimed at the stars. Then comes the Crimson Plague, which sweeps across the world, ravaging civilization. Among the few who escape is astrophysicist Curt Temple, whose girlfriend, Lee Mason, is among the enslaved. Curt must pit his slim knowledge against the most perfect intelligence in...
| Автор | Joseph J. Millard |
The Timelines Keep Trying to Realign! Our neighboring timeline also had its 20th-century warfare. But Act II of their Last Great War, 1939-1945, lined up somewhat differently, with Russia, India, Spain, and Japan versus England, France, Germany, and the Reformed States of America. Now, in the decade following the War, the small university town of Hodag Crossing in the state of Minnemagantic, along with the rest of the world, is hunting down deathguards – the war criminals of Stalin's...
| Автор | Phyllis Ann Karr |
In a galactic culture that extends from quasi-Utopian worlds like New Alexandria to vermin-infested slums like Old Earth, starship pilots have become the great romantic heroes of the day. When Star-Pilot Grainger is rescued from a shipwreck, he finds himself pressed into reluctant service to fly the Hooded Swan, the prototype of a new kind of interstellar ship. He's also picked up an alien parasite that's determined to share his brain. Under these dire circumstances, can Grainger...
| Автор | Brian M. Stableford |
It was an alien world of infinite peace…or was it? <P> He awoke as from some misty, prolonged, vaguely disturbing dream, yet somehow he knew that what had happened and what was happening had a strange reality. It was not the kind of reality his disciplined mind would have accepted in the past, though his consciousness rejected the concept of present and past. This reality seemed to exist outside thought and apart from emotion. <P> There was the lingering physical sensation of...
| Автор | Dave Van Arnam |
When Pete Mason's father is badly hurt in a space mining accident, eighteen-year-old Pete suspects that the injury was no accident – that it was caused by his family's rivals, Rachel Barry and her children. Even so, when Pete receives an urgent call for help from Jane, Rachel's oldest daughter, he risks his life to save her, only to find that Jane's uncle has taken advantage of the opportunity to jump Pete's new mining claim. Pete is furious; he refuses to listen to...
| Автор | Lester Del Rey |
Mark and Jimmy are “astrological twins” born on the same day, but they have completely opposed personalities. Even so, when they met at university in the 1980s they formed a close friendship, which even survived a crisis point when the reckless Jimmy, having persuaded the sober Mark to sit with him and look after him while he experiments with LSD, accidentally slashed his friend’s face with a scalpel. While Mark settled down to teach history at his old school, Jimmy took his biochemical...
| Автор | Brian Stableford |
Nick Hansley and his young wife and father-in-law soon find that The Cedars, the isolated country house Ena has inherited, has more than just a sinister appearance – it radiates a positively evil aura.<P> Soon after moving in, they are visited by a strange figure of a man – Dr. Lexton, their nearest neighbour, who tries to persuade them to sell the house to him. But who is Dr. Lexton, and what was the nature of the secret experiment that Ena.'’s deceased uncle, entomologist Cyrus...
| Автор | John Russell Fearn |
Survival to Jonnath Gri was merely a word droning incessantly in the ancient rites from mother Earth. His parents had been slaughtered by the Star Guards; his fiancee had been abducted; and now Jonath would be forced to fight in the blood-soaked arena for the amusement of the citizens of the Ten Star Complex. Weaponless and naked, he would battle the most treacherous and deadly animals found on 50 worlds…and the most advanced weaponry ever developed. Yet he had one last hope his captors never...
| Автор | Dave Van Arnam |
David Wright O’Brien’s “Trapped on Titan” first appeared the June 1940 issue of Amazing Stories magazine. This action-adventure tale takes place on the largest moon in the Saturn planetary system, Titan, deserted by Earthmen for the past five centuries and declared off-limits. Yet two pilots are forced to land there in their crippled spaceship and encounter a lovely woman, both fascinating and terrifying. Where did she come from? How has she survived the extremely hostile natives? <P>Also...
| Автор | David Wright O'Brien |
Acclaimed science fiction author George Zebrowski conducts interviews with four Grand Masters of Science Fiction: Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, and James Gunn. These conversations cover a wide variety of topics, from writing and science fiction to science and the future. One of the not-to-be-missed books for anyone interested in the history of science fiction and the authors who shaped the field.
| Автор | Рэй Брэдбери |
John Kirk of Ares – a hero very much in the tradition of Edgar Rice Burroughs' interplanetary romances – returns in the third book in the series! <P> PRAISE FOR BOOK 1: «It’s been nearly a century since Edgar Rice Burroughs first enchanted readers with his tales of John Carter and Dejah Thoris on the planet Barsoom. Since then, generations of writers have tried to recapture Burroughs' magic: from Otis Adelbert Kline and Robert E. Howard to Leigh Brackett, Lin Carter, Andre...
| Автор | Gary Lovisi |
Weirdbook returns with another jam-packed issue full of great fantasy and horror tales by current and upcoming masters of the genre. Included this time are:<p> • The Demon in the Doughnut Shop, by Bret McCormick<br> • A Kiss for the Mirrorman, by Adrian Cole<br> • Mukden, by Sean Patrick Hazlett<br> • In the Gallery, by J. Michael Major<br> • Excavation, by Franklyn Searight<br> • Bunnies of the Apocalypse, by Gregg Chamberlain<br> • Zhar’s Outré...
| Автор | Adrian Cole |