Научная фантастика
Различные книги в жанре Научная фантастикаGilgamesh in the Outback
"Gilgamesh in the Outback" is a science fiction novella by American writer Robert Silverberg, a sequel to his novel Gilgamesh the King[ as well as a story in the shared universe series «Heroes in Hell.» It won the Hugo Award for Best Novella in 1987 and was also nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novella in 1986. Real-life writers Robert E. Howard and H. P. Lovecraft feature as characters in the novella.
Our Town
After an atomic bomb blast, a bunch of senior citizens are all that's left of a small town. They shoot down any aircraft thats comes in low enough to be shot, not caring which side it might be from…
Inside Out
It was an old dream come true: a machine that could give a man anything in the world. Or nothing… A
Born with the Dead
"Born with the Dead" is a science fiction novella by Robert Silverberg. It describes a near-future world in which the recently dead can be «rekindled» to a new life, but one in which their personalities and attitudes are radically changed; although they possess their memories from their previous lives, their former concerns no longer appear important to them. The story parallels that of Eurydice and Orpheus in the underworld.
The Faithful
Humans have surgically, genetically, and chemically bio-engineered dogs and apes until they are sentient, then gone ahead and destroyed their society with another world war. The story is told from the point of view of Hungor Beowulf IV, a descendent of the first sentient dog-person. Hungor leads his people in a nomadic lifestyle at first, but finally finds one surviving human, Roger Stren, whose experiments have extended the lifespan of the dog-people to 50+ years – and allowed him to survive the bioengineered plague which has wiped out humanity..
The Great Cold
The world has suffered a terrible calamity, and humans are now subservient to giant barnacles. Only the barnacles themselves are fighting insects on the land… A wild post-apocalyptic tale from the early days of science fiction pulps!
Eight Worlds of C.M. Kornbluth
C.M. Kornbluth was one of the Futurians (with such luminaries as Isaac Asimov, Frederik Pohl, Donald A. Wollheim, etc.) and produced a remarkable body of work until his untimely death at age 35. This volume collects 8 of his classic short stories – the best of his best – plus an introduction and bibliography by Bud Webster.
Included are:
"The Cosmic Expense Account" "The Adventurer" "The Altar at Midnight" "The Marching Morons" "The Little Black Bag" "Theory of Rocketry" "Make Mine Mars" "Time Bum"
Manhunt
He was after a fugitive from justice – but the man he found was…himself! A pulp classic originally published in Thrilling Wonder Stories (Spring 1954).
Tangled Web of Time
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 expertise to Big Pharma, where he eventually ended up as a specialist in ethnomedicine, searching the pharmacopeias of primitive tribes in search of exploitable medicines. Periodically, however, he has popped up again to disturb Mark’s quiet life, always trying to convince him that his latest method of obtaining drug-assisted access to visions of “hyperreality” will finally lead to success. The latest of those attempts, in 2016, promises to be more ambitious than its predecessors, and also far more complicated, involving both Jimmy’s current girl-friend and Mark’s wife in an experiment that threatens to change all their lives, as well as revealing discomfiting truths about the true nature of the universe.