Научная фантастика
Различные книги в жанре Научная фантастикаAccount Settled
When financier Emerson Drew's hired killer pushes scientist-inventor Rajek Quinton down an abandoned mineshaft, Drew and his conspirators believe that the way's clear to exploit Quinton's amazing new invention, which will make them millions. But he reckons without Larry Clark of the C.I.D.–plus Quinton’s uncanny scientific genius. The police detective, aided by Drew's secretary Joyce Sutton, forges a chain of evidence to send Drew and his cohorts to their doom. But who is Joyce Sutton, really? And what about Quinton himself: did he actually die in the deep, mud-filled pit shaft, or has he somehow survived to exact a horrible vengeance on those who exploited him? A thrill-a-minute mystery, capped by an astonishing denouement!
The Hemingway Kittens and Other Feline Fancies and Fantasies
Here are eight wonderful stories and two evocative poems for cat-people of all ages, including «The Hemingway Kittens,» «Cat in the Box,» «…And Mongo Was His Name-O,» «The Cat Tracker Lady of Asad Alley,» «The Cat with the Tulip Face,» «A Little Pinch Is All You Need,» «Hunger,» «White Comma,» «No Heaven Will Not Ever Heaven Be…,» and «Universes.» As Robert Reginald says in his Introduction: «This is a woman of enormous talent, whose fiction is utterly without compare among modern American masters. She sees things that no one else sees, she finds connections that no one else has ever imagined, and she makes her prose sing and vibrate with a barely constrained but firmly disciplined power, with immense feeling, with great sympathy for the all-too-human characters who people her literary worlds.» And, we should add, she has an understanding for cats that will be recognized by every reader who's ever taken in a stray, starving kitten scratching at his or her door. Great feline fancies and fantasies!
Seeking Valhalla
The time: 1945. The place: Germany during the final days of the Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler. When Major John Carter and Sergeant Carson Napier discover a barracks at the Dachau concentration camp full of young, beautiful women being prepared as pagan sacrifices to the Norse god Odin, they embark upon a quest to defeat the German «priest» who's determined to reverse the course of the war–even at this late date. The key is finding Valhalla, the near-mythical green valley in the Arctic where Yggdrasil, the world tree, emerges from the hollow Earth; its fruit, when consumed, is said to grant the eater his greatest wish. With the help of an Irish women, Aoife, an enigmatic «occult science officer,» and several others, Carter pursues the Nazi SS officer to the frozen North, where the final battle must take place. Can the forces of evil be overcome? A rousing science fiction novel in the old style!
The Best of Both Worlds and Other Ambiguous Tales
In the longest story in this collection, an eleven-year-old girl has a strange adventure in an overgrown garden, and probably saves the world from a fate worse than any conventional apocalypse. Her parents would undoubtedly think that she’s been dreaming if she attempted to explain what had happened, but that’s what parents do, because they think it’s what they ought to do. The other stories all describe similarly equivocal victories, which sometimes don’t appear to the other characters in the stories to be victories at all—but they are: every last one of them. You just have to look at them the right way—and it really is worth doing that? After all, who among us really wants to get stuck in the way things want to seem? Eight scintillating stories of science fiction by a master of the genre!
The Science-Fantasy Megapack
Here are twenty-five stories of fantasy and science fiction selected from the pages of Wildside Press's Fantasy Adventure anthology series, selected by its editor, Philip Harbottle. Throughout its run of thirteen issues FA presented both original stories and classic reprints by veteran British SF and fantasy writers, including Sydney J. Bounds, John Russell Fearn, John Glasby, Philip E. High, and E. C. Tubb. They were soon joined by newer writers, most notably Eric Brown, and the series became a modern showcase for the best of British science fiction and fantasy writing. <P> Included are:<P> INTRODUCTION by Philip Harbottle<BR> THE CALL OF THE GRAVE by Brian Ball<BR> THE WARLORD OF KUL SATU by Brian Ball<BR> THE BROKEN SEQUENCE by Antonio Bellomi<BR> FINAL CONTACT by Sydney J. Bounds<BR> SUNSKIMMER by Sydney J. Bounds <BR> A TIME FOR CONTACT, by Sydney J. Bounds<BR> WRITER FOR HIRE by Sydney J. Bounds writing as David Somers<BR> THE TAPESTRY OF TIME by Eric Brown<BR> UNCERTAIN WORLD by Eric Brown<BR> I'LL KISS YOU GOODNIGHT by Frederick H. Christian<BR> ASSASSIN by Andrew Darlington<BR> PRISONER OF TIME by John Russell Fearn<BR> THE HOUSE ON THE MOORS, by John Glasby<BR> THE MARTIAN ENIGMA by John Glasby<BR> NIGHTFALL ON RONAN by John Glasby writing as A. J. Merak<BR> THE DRAINPIPE by Philip E. High<BR> THE GUNMAN by Philip E. High<BR> THE WISHING STONE by Philip E. High<BR> SOMETHING IN THE AIR by Gordon Landsborough<BR> THE DILETTANTES by E. C. Tubb<BR> EMERGENCY EXIT by E. C. Tubb<BR> THE GREATER IDEAL by E. C. Tubb<BR> YOU GO, by E. C. Tubb<BR> SEA CHANGE by Peter Oldale<BR> BRIDES FOR MARS by Eric C. Williams <P> And don't forget to search this ebook store for «Wildside Megapack» to see more entries in this great series, covering science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery, westerns – and much, much more!
The Doll Story MEGAPACK ®
Dolls of all kinds have been loved by children and adults alike from the dawn of time. It's not surprising, then, that writers through the ages have been inspired to create fictional accounts that have thrilled the fans and readers of each new generation. THE DOLL MEGAPACK includes 25 stories, 6 poems, and a play. <P> Included are: <P> "Nutcracker and the King of Mice," by E. T. A. Hoffmann<BR> "The Dead Doll" (poem), by Margaret Vandergrift<BR> "The Doll," by Edmund Glasby<BR> "The Doll's Ghost," by F. Marion Crawford<BR> "Dame Crump" (poem), by Richard Hunter<BR> "A Little Princess," by Frances Hodgson Burnett<BR> "The Wooden Doll and the Wax Doll" (poem), by Jane and Ann Taylor<BR> "The Doll," by Vernon Lee<BR> "Smothered Dolls; or, The Girl Who Could Never Be Good," by A. R. Morlan<BR> "The Doll's Wedding," by Aunt Fanny<BR> "Two Poems" (poems), by L. Frank Baum<BR> Hex," by Larry M. Harris<BR> "Dolly and I: A Story for Little Folks," by Oliver Optic<BR> "The Dybbuk Dolls," by Jack Dann<BR> "I Found My Poor Little Doll" (poem), by Charles Kingsley<BR> "Lukundoo," by Edward Lucas White<BR> "The Doll and Her Friends; or, Memoirs of the Lady Seraphina," by Julia Maitland<BR> "Robina's Doll," by Mary R. S. Andrews<BR> "The Doll of the White Devils," by Mary T. Van Denburgh<BR> "The Rival Dolls" (play), by F. Anstey<BR> "Doll," by Don Webb<BR> "The Dolls' Journey from Minnesota to Maine," by Louisa May Alcott<BR> "Ryna's Dolls," by Robert Reginald<BR> "Mrs. Corter Makes Up Her Mind," by August W. Derleth<BR> "Raggedy Ann Stories," by Johnny Gruelle<BR> "The Man Who Wasn't Nice to Pumpkin Head Dolls," by Darrell Schweitzer<BR> "The Wax Doll," by Anonymous<BR> "Tiny Doll-Face," by Marilyn «Mattie» Brahen<BR> "Racketty-Packetty House," by Frances Hodgson Burnett<BR> "The Doll," by Barry Pain<BR> "Dolly Putin," by Robert Reginald <P> And don't forget to search this ebook store for «Wildside Megapack» to see more great entries in this series, covering science fiction, fantasy, mystery, westerns, animal stories – and much, much more!
The Ray Cummings MEGAPACK ®: 25 Golden Age Science Fiction and Mystery Tales
To anyone interested in the roots of modern science fiction, the name of Ray Cummings should be well known. He wrote science fiction and fantasy before the name «science fiction» had been coined, publishing fantastic yarns in Argosy, Munsey's Magazine, and other mainstream pulp magazines. Of course, as soon as the science fiction pulps debuted, he moved to them, where his work received a hearty welcome from fans. Cummings publishing more than 750 novels and short stories over his long career, producing work in many genres, including the mystery field (see «Atom Boy» in this Megapack for one prime example). We are pleased to showcase 25 of his tales, ranging from science fiction to fantasy to mystery…more than 1,500 pages of great reading! <P> Included are: <P> THE GIRL IN THE GOLDEN ATOM (1919-1920)<BR> THE GIRL IN THE GOLDEN ATOM, PART 2<BR> THE SILVER VEIL (1921)<BR> THE FIRE PEOPLE (1922)<BR> TWO PROPOSALS (1923)<BR> JETTA OF THE LOWLANDS (1930)<BR> THE WHITE INVADERS (1931)<BR> REQUIEM FOR A SMALL PLANET (1958)<BR> BRIGANDS OF THE MOON (1931)<BR> WANDL THE INVADER (1932)<BR> TARRANO THE CONQUEROR (1930)<BR> PHANTOMS OF REALITY (1930)<BR> DR. FEATHER IN «A SHOT IN THE DARK» (1936)<BR> DR. FEATHER IN «MURDER IN THE FOG» (1937)<BR> DR. FEATHER IN «THE DEAD MAN LAUGHS» (1938)<BR> DR. FEATHER IN «CLUE IN CRIMSON» (1943)<BR> THE WORLD BEYOND (1938)<BR> GADGET GIRL (1944)<BR> PRECIPICE (1945)<BR> PHOTOGRAPH OF DEATH (1945)<BR> STAMP OF DOOM (1946)<BR> THE SCALPEL OF DOOM (1947)<BR> ATOM BOY (1947)<BR> THE LIFTED VEIL (1947)<BR> BEYOND THE VANISHING POINT (1958)<BR> THE GIRL FROM INFINITE SMALLNESS (1940)<BR> PLANET STORIES' FEATURE FLASH: MEET RAY CUMMINGS <P> And don't forget to search this ebook store for «Wildside Megapack» to see more entries in the series, covering science fiction, fantasy, horror, mysteries, westerns – and much, much more!
The Plurality of Worlds
In an alternate history of 1572, five intrepid British adventurers venture into the ether to seek out new life and new civilizations. They discover a galaxy-wide invertebrate empire, including the insect-like inhabitants of the moon. But the empire is under attack from enemies both without and within–and so is the planet Earth!–and the five men must find a way to thwart the Selenites and save our world from an insect tyranny. Grand space opera in the unique Stablefordian style!
Sexual Chemistry and Other Tales of the Biotech Revolution
This collection brings together the ten earliest stories in Brian Stableford’s series of «Tales of the Biotech Revolution,» all written in the 1980s, except for one anomalous example from the 1960s. The dates in some of the stories, located a comfortable distance in the future when the stories were written, have now long past, revealing certain anomalies of early expectation; but they have been left unaltered, as nostalgic samples of yesterday’s long-dead and perhaps much-lamented tomorrows. The collection begins and ends, as is surely only appropriate, with flamboyant utopian fantasies boldly asserting the perfectibility of humankind and the world of which the species has custody. Great science-fiction reading by a master of the form!