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Moving to Chincoteague has been hard for Alison Grossbard and her younger brother Arnold. When Dad lost his job as a reporter in Baltimore after speaking out against the High Ones – big, blue starfish from space that now rule the Earth – he was lucky to get a job at the local fusion plant. Sure, the High Ones brought wonderful technology – tri-vees and interplanetary travel and nuclear fusion – but the High Ones and their human flunkeys punish anyone who questions their rule, including teenagers...
| Автор | Martin Berman-Gorvine |
In 2050 A.D., the Earth spaceship Tycho lands on the eighth moon of Saturn, nine hundred million miles from the sun. Hugh Benning, a mineraologist, and his men explore the deserted world. When they come to a natural cave, the men begin to stagger and fall. Benning disappears into the mouth of the cave. <P> The pilots gather up the limp forms of Benning's men and return them to Earth. The team isn't dead – but isn't quite alive. Are they in a state of suspended animation?...
| Автор | Eando Binder |
Welcome to the first Sime~Gen Anthology written by the fans. This Anthology is a compilation of stories and poetry written by people who have been influenced by the published works of Jacqueline Lichtenberg and Jean Lorrah, in such a powerful way that they felt compelled to explore this universe in their own writing. Here are:<P> Forewords, by Jacqueline Lichtenberg and Jean Lorrah<BR> "Moonlight Sonata," by Mary Lou Mendum<BR> "A Mother’s Choice," by Donna...
| Автор | Jean Lorrah |
"It came to Earth very quietly one evening from an alien planet. It was a mind, a free mind separated from any brain. A galactic mind that had taken one million years of superscience to create. <P> Dr. Thule Hillory of Serendipity Labs was the only Earthman able to feel the alien presence. Through his PSI experiments, he had already discovered the phenomenon of Psychokinesis. <P> But now time was running out, and Hillory must work night and day if there's to be any...
| Автор | Eando Binder |
A relentless thrill ride. . . Break out the popcorn, you're in for a real treat. –Harry Shannon, author of Dead and Gone Texas? Toast. Battered by five cataclysmic hurricanes in three weeks, the Texas Gulf Coast and half of the Lone Star State is reeling from the worst devastation in history. Thousands are dead or dying–but the worst is only beginning. Amid the wreckage, something unimaginable is happening: a deadly virus has broken out, returning the dead to life–with an insatiable...
| Автор | Joe Mckinney |
It's Zombies vs. the KKK in Allied Zombies for Peace. This novel discloses the explosive 42-minutes that transpired during the 1968 Veteran's Day Parade in Columbus, OH. Sparks fly when the Allied Zombies for Peace, a civic organization with sights on undead enfranchisement come to blows with the KKK, their long-time rival. Meanwhile with amped up tension between marching Vietnam War Veterans and members of an anti-war movement known as the New Revolutionaries for Peace and Love, also...
| Автор | Craig Nybo |
In the Lovecraftian universe there exists many terrible and horrifying things, from extraterrestrial gods and ancient secrets to zealous cults, supernatural beasts and beyond. Part of our «Fantasy and Horror Classics» imprint, this book contains a collection of Lovecraft's best horror short stories from the 'Cthulhu Mythos'. The stories include: “The Nameless City”, «The Unnamable», “The Call of Cthulhu”, “The Dunwich Horror”, “The Whisperer in the Darkness”, “Out of the Aeons”,...
| Автор | George Henry Weiss |
Ian Lane is fifty-seven years old and he thinks his country is about to be invaded by force of arms and have its lifestyle and culture changed forever. So he leaves his executive corporate position and decides to rely on his suddenly budding career as a novelist to support himself, his wife and ten-year-old daughter. They set out on a long dreamed of caravan trip around Australia while the country's northern neighbours become more and more determined that Australia should join the...
| Автор | Gary Blinco |
This 253 page E-Book of 95,000 words is the fourth 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 Forces.<br>Titles in...
| Автор | Darryl D. Wright |
Time marches on… Santas and Elves come and go at the North Pole complex. For some the reasons they choose to leave are personal, for others it's a dismissal. Santa's annual Mission must never fail despite how each passing year adds complexity amidst a world plagued by endless wars and upheavals. The denizens of the North are not secluded from the human world's problems. The complex is not the utopia that some want it to be. Santa and Elves must come to terms with the...
| Автор | Jordan David |
Dr. Jaguar Addams knows about fear. On a satellite prison called Planetoid Three, she establishes a telepathic link to her subjects. She confronts their demons. And makes them her own . . . They were known as the Killing Times, when serial murder reached epidemic proportions. Victims of hard-edged crime demanded hard-wired punishment, and the new prisons were born. Now one determined woman, a survivor of that dark age, tries to rehabilitate killers by tapping into the source of their obsessions:...
| Автор | B. A. Chepaitis |
Marauders from Mars War of the Worlds: Battleground Australia sheds fresh, Antipodean light on H.G. Wells' original tale in stories that traverse the southern continent.Home to the planet's longest-surviving mysteries, Australia now plays victim to marauding Martians in this outstanding collection of exciting stories set in the past, present and future. Australian Invasion It is well-known that Wells found vital inspiration for his 1897 novel in the horrific plight of Tasmanian...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
Science fiction loves strangeness. It relishes oddities, even when it piles on fear and dystopian loathing. The technical term for a fascination with the strange and alien is xenophilia, just as the term for a terror of the strange is xenophobia. At its core, then, science fiction is…Xeno Fiction. So science fiction seeks out the strange, roams far from home in space and time, looks with avid eagerness upon the ways of the Others, human or alien. It participates, in brilliantly lighted...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
In an alternate history in which the Plantagenets still rule in England, France, and the New World, and where the science of magic has displaced the magic of science, Lord Darcy is the official representative of King John IV to investigate murders and other bizarre crimes, and Master Sean O Lochlainn his forensic magician sidekick. An Azteque prince is sacrificed at the top of an abandoned Azteque pyramid in New England, his heart torn from his chest in a fashion discarded hundreds of years...
| Автор | Michael Kurland |
"Rothman's novel is filled with scientific discussions on everything from the equipment used to the different types of fusion, like cold or laser, complete with corresponding jargon. But Rothman turns all of it, even a convoluted conspiracy, into a diverting, worthwhile story… Intelligent in its technical details, but also refined and delightfully complex in its storytelling." – Kirkus <P> The world is moving towards alternative energy. Two giant laboratories, one in France,...
| Автор | Tony Rothman |
Island One, the U.S.'s first space colony and symbol of an American Renaissance, is in trouble. Low morale, shoddy workmanship, unexplained malfunctions, and avoidable accidents have become a way of life, and nobody seems to know why. Is in the Russians? Home-grown anti-technologists? Arabs afraid of cheap solar power from Space – or something even more sinister? <P> When the President ordered secret agent Peter Kapitz to find out what was going on, Peter's first discovery is...
| Автор | Mack Reynolds |
Life under a Deathwish policy was fun while it lasted, but for Deathwisher Roy Cox it was far more than that. For him, gaining access to great wealth in exchange for becoming a target for hired killers was a political act: you can buy a lot of media attention with a million pseudobucks, and Roy had a cause worth dying for. <P> Already Roy has survived twice the term of the average Deathwisher, and people are getting interested in what he has to say. That why Worldgov has labeled him a...
| Автор | Mack Reynolds |
Den Milnan, a Tecton Donor, accompanies his cousin, channel Rital Madz, to an experimental Sime Center in the town of Clear Springs, deep in hostile Gen Territory. Rital plans to offer selyn technology to the Gens in trade for selyn, the energy that only Gens can produce.<P> Selyn is the fuel that could power a new revival of civilization, as fossil fuels did for humanity of the 19th and 20th centuries.<P> Den Milnan dreams of turning his horse-and-buggy existence into a world of...
| Автор | Jacqueline Lichtenberg |
A step in an odd direction – a moment of dizziness – and archaeologist Dan Fielding was thrust through an invisible barrier found hundred years into the past. He was still in the Mexican desert – but it was the desert of the 16th century, and Mexico was in the grip of the conquistador Hernando Cortez. <P> Inevitably, Cortez captured Fielding – and learned of the rich territory north of the Rio Grande. The land that would one day become the U.S. would be his next conquest. Unless Fielding...
| Автор | Mack Reynolds |
MUTINY! In the Eternal Emperor’s service it is forbidden to even speak the word. To join an insurgency is a firing-squad offense. So, when the crewmembers of the Flame turn traitor and steal an entire space train of Imperium X – the second most valuable element in the Empire – and threaten to sell it to the Emperor's enemies, the Emperor only has one option . . . to send in his best assassin and dirty trickster: Sten! This thrilling new Sten adventure builds on the classic 8-volume series...
| Автор | Allan Cole |
"To anyone fond of the robot story in science fiction, ADAM LINK is of extraordinary interest. The robot-with-emotion has rarely been handled so well." –Isaac Asimov. <P>Adam Link, the first of the robot race, has photoelectric eyes, an iridium-sponge brain, and the soul of a man! An electronic marvel gifted with incredible skills, Adam Link faces a series of challenges that would stagger a mere mortal, culminating in a fierce struggle to save Earth from destruction at the hands of...
| Автор | Eando Binder |
Short Things is a collection of never-before-published stories based on John W. Campbell’s classic short novel, “Who Goes There?” (filmed as The Thing). Commissioned one by one as stretch goals for the Frozen Hell Kickstarter project (which broke records as one of the most successful science fiction publishing projects in Kickstarter history), this series of stories grew to book size—thanks to contributions by many top writers. Included are new works by:<p> G.D. Falksen<br> Paul...
| Автор | Allan Cole |
Go backward through space-time into prehistory? It seemed fantastic, but the machine – invented by Bob's father in connection with his research on the interrelation of time and gravity – actually existed. Bob and his friend Pete are anxious to be the first to visit the era of the dinosaurs. Overruled, they watch Pete's father, a famous paleontologist, step into the shimmering ring – and disappear into the past. But when he does not return on schedule because the machine jams, Bob and...
| Автор | Lester Del Rey |
Someone has taken the original document of the U.S. Constitution and substituted another. The substitute is identical, just as old, and equally authentic – except it has been signed by Aaron Burr! It contradicts history, but it is real and there for everyone to see! <P> Such a crime calls for out-of-this-world detective work. There must be alternate Americas – and one of them must be an American union that Burr helped shape. With a few impossible coins, the path is indicated…and the...
| Автор | Michael Kurland |