Научная фантастика
Различные книги в жанре Научная фантастикаA Variety of Weapons
Ann Lebrick cheerfully accepted an assignment to photograph the ocelots of Miss Estelle Marlow. On arrival at the Marlow estate, Black Tor, where she was to stay for a week, she found herself in a brooding atmosphere of great wealth, guarded isolation from the rest of mankind, and black clouds of suspicion. She became uneasy at Miss Marlow's apparent lack of interest in photographs of her ocelots. She was worried when her fiance telephoned her, imploring her to leave at once. She was literally scared when Justin Marlow, old and heartbroken, revealed to her a secret that had been kept for twenty years. Then a sensitive photographic film was developed, proving murder…
Preferred Risk
PREFERRED RISK first appeared in 1955. It won the Galaxy Magazine / Simon & Schuster contest for 1955's best work of science fiction.<P> The Company, a powerful, efficient, and thoroughly monstrous insurance organization, controlled the entire world. It scientifically regulating every aspect of life: war, epidemics, one-a-day food pills and test-tube sex…all through the use of its patented, terrifying human deep-freeze vault. Claims Adjuster Wills, a great believer in the Company, has second thoughts when he meets beautiful Rena, whose radical father lies frozen in one of the Company's subterranean vaults…
Operation Isis
Rod Garvin, governor of North America and Mars, is supposed to be on vacation, spending time in France with his wife, Flora, and the son he had never met, Felix. But the war leaders of North America have a new assignment for Garvin: find Lani, Imperatrix of North America, and convince her to come out of hiding.<P> Trailed by assassins, Garvin sets out for the Egypt colony, where the incognito Lani is worshipped as the incarnation of Isis. But Rod Garvin is no longer on his own. Son Felix insists on accompanying him on this mission. Can this new father-son team complete their mission – or will guards, assassins, and Lani herself prove their undoing?
The Flying Eyes
Linc Hosier is sitting in a packed football stadium when the Flying Eyes appear and cast their hypnotic power over half the crowd. Thousand of people suddenly begin marching, zombie-like, into the woods, where they vanish into a black pit. <P> After that, Linc uses every resource of the Space Research Lab and the National Guard to destroy the Eyes. But nothing stops them. In desperation, Linc decides to capture an Eye. When he finally manages to communicate with it, he learns that the creatures need radiation to live. And they give him an ultimatum: Earth must explode a series of atom bombs to supply them with radiation…or they will turn the world's population into mindless robots! Given the choice between self-destruction from atomic fallout or annihilation via the sinister Flying Eyes – can Linc find a third path that will save mankind?
Then Beggars Could Ride
For most of his life, Newton McClintok had lived in the Americal flapper era. He might have been an ancient Roman or a Victorian Englishman. He could have lived his life in any time or place he chose – or at least, an almost perfect replica of it. But for Newton McClintok, life in this dream world brought only discontentment. After an unsuccessful suicide attempted, he embarked on a journey through the ages to find his own special Utopia – only to discover that the journey never ends! A classic science fiction novel from the author of The Ecolog and TimeQuest.
The Double Man
Dr. Wayne Durk lived through two miracles. The first was a rescue from space after his craft had been wrecked by a stray meteorite. The second miracle brought him up against a second «Wayne Durk» who had completely taken over his laboratory, his beloved wife, and his family. And, in the meantime, the dread menace of «The Bug» moved in on Earth, threatening the total destruction of all… <P> A thrilling science fiction adventure by the author of SECRET OF THE RED SPOT and NIGHT OF THE SAUCERS!
Enslaveld Brains
In an authoritarian dystopia controlled by scientists, eugenics laws control breeding....and the brains of the dead are reactivated to run machinery! <p> A thrilling science fiction novel by the author of NIGHT OF THE SAUCERS and SECRET OF THE RED SPOT.
Night of the Saucers
It was Earth's darkest hour. Weak, backward, prey to attack, it could only be saved by the Vigilantes. Sci-fi writer Thane Smith and his beautiful, adored wife had the task of discrediting UFO stories. But how can they – after they run up against a playboy-monster who could only have been created by an alien race?
The Mind from Outer Space
"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 chance to halt the invisible menace!"
The Impossible World
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? Can they be revived to shed light on this weird new menace from Saturn's moon? <P> A thrilling science fiction novel from the author of ADAM LINK–ROBOT!