Научная фантастика
Различные книги в жанре Научная фантастикаCrime Travel
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> Cathy Wiley
The Carson Effect
What do these things have in common? A secretary at a company goes to ask for reimbursement for a cab ride, and is told she has been overpaying into her pension and is given almost 6 months' salary. A guy goes to rob a bank, and is given more than 20 times the amount he was asking for. A boy goes to Tiffany's to buy his mother a birthday present, and is sold a $7000 necklace for $1…
The Eight Billion
THE EIGHT BILLION derives its title from O. Henry’s THE FOUR MILLION and Meyer Berger’s THE EIGHT MILLION. The “serried bristling city" of New York does not, of course, contain eight billion people. If it did . . . well, read on. If this is not the overpopulation story to end all overpopulation stories, it will at least give them pause.
The Masters
A «last person on Earth» tale, set after an alien invasion has wiped out humanity… The last resident of Earth sees the lights of a scouting vehicle and prepares to welcome one of the Masters..
The Courts of Jamshyd
Ryan is a member of a tribe of post-apocalyptic primitives. Each night, the tribe chants about how their ancestors were «the putrefiers of the lakes and the rivers; the consumers, the destroyers, the murderers of the living land; the selfish, the obese, the great collectors…»
Infinity's Child
A man survives a terrible plague, with a new Force in his mind which gives him courage and enables him to accomplish things. He's in Minnesota, on a post WW3 earth, with no central governments remaining in any countries…
Computer World
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 language teacher, is rescued from a mysterious assault by a secret agent of the authorities who insists that only he, Kosloff, can prevent the International Data Center from being destroyed—and every living being's data wiped out. Kosloff goes forth…into a maelstrom of plot and counter-plot, murder, treason—and worse!
The Evil Ones
The aliens chose their first contact at random. Did it really matter that it was a lunatic asylum?
Space Pioneer
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 gradual establishment of a pioneer community, of farmlands and villages. The Colonists had given up everything by leaving Earth, and they wanted a new planet where they could work, prosper and establish a new and better way of life. They were determined to thwart the directors by any means they could find. And after landing on New Arizona, someone smashes the radio and sabotages the life-craft.<P> Now the balance is more even—but when a real crisis erupts it seems as if neither side will be alive to win!
Short Things
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 Di Filippo, <br> Mark McLaughlin<br> Alan Dean Foster<br> Darrell Schweitzer<br> Nina Kiriki Hoffman<br> Kristine Kathryn Rusch<br> John Gregory Betancourt<br> Chelsea Quinn Yarbro<br> Kevin J. Anderson<br> Pamela Sargent<br> Allen M. Steele<br> and Allan Cole,<P> Enjoy these sometimes very different takes on the classic monster, the Thing!