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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 |
Western society is split up into nine castes, from Lower-Lower to Mid-Lower all the way up to the privileged Upper-Upper. Mauser himself was born a Mid-Lower. Ambitious, he had chosen one of the few professions, Category Military, where upward mobility was still a reasonable possibility. <P> To prevent any chance of a ruinous war between the West and the Sov-world, the Universal Disarmament Pact had restricted all militaries to pre-1900 technology. Gradually, powerful corporations began...
| Автор | Mack Reynolds |
New Arizona a lush, virgin planet teeming with rich vegetation and a vast hoard of mineral wealth. A company had been formed to colonise and exploit it, and the spaceship Titov set out with the Board of Directors and two thousand colonists. And shortly after the trip had begun, the trouble started.<P> The Board of Directors was only interested in the vast profits that could be made by stripping the planet of its natural resources which could be sold to the highest bidder. Not for them the...
| Автор | Mack Reynolds |
A new collection of six tales of dark fantasy by a master storyteller. What happens when an occult scholar obtains an ancient grimoire and uses it to summon up the Devil? … Three tramps find a metal vessel akin to Aladdin’s Lamp and release a Jinn who grants them a wish they might come to regret… The excavation of an ancient dolman releases an imprisoned evil… Could anyone trust the proprietor of the strange little shop who claimed to be a dealer in dreams? … The mission of mercy that caused a...
| Автор | E.C. Tubb |
The second in the classic series featuring Chief Inspector Damiot of the Paris police!<P> STARLIGHT, CHAMPAGNE AND MURDER<P> A sweet-scented breeze greets Chief Inspector Damiot's arrival on the sunny Cote d'Azur…and so does trouble. His secret mission is to assist the local prefecture in recovering a stolen Cezanne. His private plan is to sip his favorite whiskey and search for the perfect bouillabaisse. But more than a painting is missing: a promising young artist has...
| Автор | Vincent McConnor |
The Human-Knacker War Continues!<P> Humanity continues to resist the onslaught of the Knackers, carnivorous crab-like aliens whose nomadic fleet is sweeping through inhabited star systems, decimating the populations of entire worlds. At the edge of known space, a solitary SpaceForce destroyer searches desperately for a stranded alien vessel full of human captives. Commanding the Goliath is Captain Taramay Dent, a decorated war hero battling her own demons as she fights against humanity’s...
| Автор | Mark E. Burgess |
Rod Garvin just made too many waves for the Thought Control Board that controlled the 21st century. Throwing him in an insane asylum didn't restrain him. Nor, when that didn't work, did sentencing him to a suicide job on Mars. Garvin was bright, driven, and stubborn. The only thing Thought Control could was was get rid of him – quietly and permanently. And that was fine with Garvin…since it meant he could make his dreamed-of voyage into deep space. But when his exploration ship...
| Автор | E. Hoffmann Price |
John Kirk of Ares – a hero very much in the tradition of Edgar Rice Burroughs' interplanetary romances – returns in the second 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 |
Something is rotten in tomorrow's computer world. The time: the not-too-distant future. Physical work is done by robot devices. Men and women are endowed at birth with a sum of credit called Inalienable Basic. Everyone operates with a Universal Credit Card—which is also identification, police record, medical record, and many other things. Every detail of life in the United States of the Americas is stored in the International Data Center, located in Denver. <P> Paul Kosloff, a...
| Автор | Mack Reynolds |
There is only one way to reach Iola, where an interstellar distress signal had originated. For Iola belongs to a small group of stars cut off from the rest of the galaxy by the close presence of an all-enveloping black hole. The only way to reach Iola is through that timeless-spaceless cosmic warm.<P> Klaus Heller answered that call. He leapt, clad in a special self-sustaining spacesuit, through the black hole.<P> He returned to the world intact, silent, and secretive. And was...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
In the 21st Century the face of war had changed. Atomic weapons – out! Bazookas and rockets—nyet! Machine guns—maybe. The newest secret weapon—gliders! East and West had managed an uneasy truce in the arms race by banning ail weapons developed before 1900—and restricting wars to local disputes between corporations or companies and unions. It was a crazy way of doing things, but it worked—until an ambitious Major upset the apple cart, and threw the world's peace into deadly peril! <P>...
| Автор | Mack Reynolds |
Colonized and left to its own devices, the planet on which Lehnik the horsemaster lives has, over a thousand years, reached a medieval level. Sent with an orphaned child to the hold of the Sisters of Silence, the soldier learns that their order exists to guard the very sophisticated – and perilous – weapons left to them by their Terran ancestors.<P> When Garrouche invades Trans-Kell, after its ruler has overcome the Order in his own country and stolen its weapons, Lehnik joins the Order...
| Автор | Ardath Mayhar |
An anthology of Australian Speculative Fiction, BAGGAGE presents some of the finest new work by Aussie writers, including Jack Dann, Monica Carroll, K. J. Bishop, Kaaron Warren, and many more. Included:<P> VISION SPLENDID, by K. J. Bishop<BR> TELESCOPE, by Jack Dann<BR> HIVE OF GLASS, by Kaaron Warren<BR> KUNMANARA–SOMEBODY SOMEBODY, by Yaritji Green<BR> MANIFEST DESTINY, by Janeen Webb<BR> ALBERT & VICTORIA/SLOW DREAMS, by Lucy Sussex<BR> ...
| Автор | Jack Dann |