Научная фантастика
Различные книги в жанре Научная фантастикаGuilty as Charged: Fantastic Crime Stories
In some parts of the world, self-confessed murderer Leonard Graham would have been executed, or even given life imprisonment for his monstrous crime. At his trial, he had confirmed to the court that he'd only met the man he'd shot a few hours before. Prior to that one meeting, he'd never seen him before in his life. The accused had offered no reason for his apparently unprovoked and savage attack, shooting his victim repeatedly at point-blank range. He was sentenced to five years in a psychiatric ward. But Graham DID have a reason for his actions–a weird secret that he'd deliberately kept to himself, choosing instead to plead…GUILTY AS CHARGED! Seven gripping tales of murder, crime, and the fantastic!
World Out of Step
The Cosmic Crusaders find themselves on a truly strange world–a misfit planet that seems mysteriously cursed. Instead of evolving naturally from birth to death, it's a world out of step with the universe, leaping ahead into the future at unexpected moments. With each 50-year «step,» much of the population dies, and the young replace them as middle-aged individuals. The Crusaders are suspicious that the adviser to the planet ruler is actually an alien from another world, and is causing the constant time dislocations for nefarious purposes. But when he traps the Golden Amazon and her three companions, sending their spaceship crashing onto a neighboring world dominated by huge, dinosaur-like creatures, the Crusaders appear to have met their match.
Another stirring sci-fi adventure by a master storyteller!
Invasion: Earth vs. the Aliens
When the first Martian capsule lands, Alex Smith is drawn to the scene out of curiosity and wonder. But soon he must flee, when the great alien striders begin devastating the countryside and harvesting the living bodies of men and women to drain their blood. Smith wanders south, being drafted into the Army, witnessing major battles between the Martians and the American troops, and following the trail of destruction all the way to San Francisco. There he finds a city deserted of human life. Mankind seems doomed, unless… A grand science-fiction adventure, inspired by H. G. Wells's War of the Worlds. War of Two Worlds, Book One.
Alien Abduction: The Wiltshire Revelations
When Steve, a hapless school teacher, consults a hypnotherapist to solve his personal problems, he «remembers» being abducted by aliens. When he starts attending sessions of Alien Abductees Anonymous (AlAbAn), he sees a pattern in the stories being told, and thinks his own experiences might provide a key. While his love life continues to deteriorate, Steve must grapple with questions of where the aliens might originate, and what their activities portend for the future of the human race. A remarkably original science-fiction comedy.
Дочь леса
Столкновение с иной, почти не представимой людьми, формой разума едва не закончилось катастрофой. Люди не могли даже предположить, что инопланетный лес, который они начали безжалостно вырубать ради ценной древесины, разумен. А ведь Лес долго пытался найти взаимопонимание с незваными гостями. Он даже вырастил человеческую девочку, и ее удочерили местные колонисты, так и не поняв, что она часть Леса, а не человек. Поймут ли люди и Лес друга друга? Или начнется никому не нужная война?
Rolltown
In Rolltown, Mack Reynolds turns his productive imagination towards the growing phenomenon of mobile living in America. Taking us decades into the future, he tells the story of a world where people have taken to the road en masse, in huge mobile «towns» composed of hundreds or even thousands of inhabitants, attempting to deal with a hostile and over-organized world.
Towers of Utopia
The enemy has no face. It does not show on the scanners. It avoids the world's most sophisticated surveillance system. But it leaves a wake of profitless crime and motiveless murder…and puts the future of mankind's paradise-on-earth in peril!
Commune 2000 AD
It was the future perfect, the greatest society in human history, with peace and plenty, and total sexual freedom. Utopia paid you the Universal Guaranteed Income, whether you worked or not. Yet something was wrong it was a fractured Utopia.<P> By the thousands, the disenchanted fled the cities to join tiny, mobile towns that sprang up wildly. It was called The Commune Phenomenon. Super leaders of the super future challenged Swain to locate the worm of discontent. Strange, because Swain himself felt gnawed by corruption, distracted by lust, troubled by danger…
Nine Bar Blues
The stories collected in Nine Bar Blues weave emotion, spirit, and music, captivating readers with newfound alchemy and the murmurs of dark gods. Rooted in rhythm, threaded with magic, these tales encompass worlds that begin in river bottoms, pass through spectral gates, and end in distant uncharted worlds. These stories describe the pain that often accompanies the confines of sanctuary and the joy that is inextricably bound to the troubles of hard living. Nine Bar Blues sings a multiverse of fully realized worlds that readers will remember for ages to come and cherish from page to heart thumping, foot-stomping page.
Sleeping Booty
What do you do when life hands you lemons? Make lemonade! What do you do when life hands you death…?