Научная фантастика
Различные книги в жанре Научная фантастикаA Strangled Cry of Fear
Jaguar is sent back to Planetoid One, her first Planetoid assignment, to investigate a prisoner convicted of killing Supervisor Diane Lasher, once her friend. As she walks the corridors of her own past, Jaguar is haunted by ghosts who might or might not be real, and plagued by attempts to kill her before she gets to the truth. Alex takes extreme measures to make sure he's there to protect her, before she becomes one more victim of the strangler whose life is in her hands.
The Robert Sheckley Megapack
The Robert Sheckley Megapack presents 14 short stories and 1 novel by the author Neil Gaiman called «probably the best short-story writer during the '50s to the mid-1960s working in any field.» Here are tales of adventure in strange futures, full of the wry wit and piercing characterizations that made Sheckley one of the great writers working in science fiction! <P> "Robert Sheckley: the best short-story writer the field has produced." – Alan Dean Foster <P> "I had no idea the competition was so terrifyingly good." – Douglas Adams <P> Included in this volume are: <P> WATCHBIRD<BR> THE STATUS CIVILIZATION<BR> ASK A FOOLISH QUESTION<BR> COST OF LIVING<BR> BAD MEDICINE<BR> DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY<BR> WARRIOR RACE<BR> THE HOUR OF BATTLE<BR> KEEP YOUR SHAPE<BR> WARM<BR> DEATH WISH<BR> BESIDE STILL WATERS<BR> FOREVER<BR> THE LEECH<BR> ONE MAN'S POISON <P> And don't forget to search this ebook store for «Wildside Megapack» to see many more entries in this series, covering science fiction, fantasy, mysteries, westerns, classics, and much, much more!
The Mack Reynolds Megapack
Mack Reynolds was a frequent and prolific contributor to the science fiction magazines from the 1950s through the 1980s. This volume collects 23 choice tales, ranging from space opera to social science fiction – nearly a thousand pages vintage work from a master storyteller! <P> Included are: <P> HAPPY ENDING<BR> ULTIMA THULE<BR> GUN FOR HIRE<BR> ADAPTATION<BR> STOWAWAY<BR> MEDAL OF HONOR<BR> I'M A STRANGER HERE MYSELF<BR> STATUS QUO<BR> UNBORN TOMORROW<BR> SUMMIT<BR> FREEDOM<BR> DOGFIGHT – 1973<BR> THE COMMON MAN<BR> COMBAT<BR> REVOLUTION<BR> BLACK MAN'S BURDEN<BR> SUBVERSIVE<BR> OFF COURSE<BR> POTENTIAL ENEMY<BR> BORDER, BREED NOR BIRTH<BR> FRIGID FRACAS<BR> EXPEDITER<BR> MERCENARY<P> And don't forget to search this ebook store for «Wildside Megapack» to see many more entries in this series, covering science fiction, fantasy, mysteries, westerns, and much, much more!
The Cosmic Crusaders: The Golden Amazon Saga, Book Eight
The unfolding story of the Golden Amazon enters a new phase when she renounces all ties with the Earth, the planet of her birth. Together with her husband Abna, former Lord of Jupiter, and their daughter Viona, she sets off in the Ultra on an exploratory journey to the stars. Their first mission takes them to the strange worlds of the two suns, Alpha and Proxima Centauri. Here the Amazon encounters Mizanu, the embodiment of evil, and her most deadly foe yet–for the creature is nothing less than a planet-sized, hypertrophied brain! Not even Abna, the master of metaphysics, can withstand its baleful, crushing mental power. Mizanu threatens to reach out beyond the Alpha-Proxima Centauri system to engulf the Earth and all the other inhabited planets of the universe–unless the Golden Amazon can destroy it first! The eighth exciting adventure in this ongoing saga!
The Central Intelligence: The Golden Amazon Saga, Book Seven
The Golden Amazon’s arch-enemy, Sefner Quorne, discovers that all mental gifts, such as memory and creativity, are not inherent in human brains and mental make-up, but are something that is broadcast throughout the universe by a Central Intelligence, and then interpreted individually by the recipient! Quorne invents a device to block such thoughts selectively from reaching the Earth, thereby reducing the population to imbeciles–with the Amazon and Abna also being affected. The ambitious scientist then embarks on the most audacious voyage ever to be undertaken by man when, at the surprising suggestion of his wife Viona–daughter of the Amazon–he travels to the very center of the universe in order to seize the secrets to all knowledge from the Central Intelligence itself! Can Quorne be thwarted before he becomes the most powerful being in the cosmos? Another astounding adventure in the unfolding saga of the Golden Amazon!
Daughter of the Amazon: The Golden Amazon Saga, Book Five
Tarnec Brodix, super-mathematician from an external cosmos, accidentally destroys his universe. The destruction begins to spread into our own cosmos in the form of a Dark Tide of Absolute Nothingness, destroying all light and heat. Stars, nebulae, galaxies–all are disappearing before the relentless advance of a mathematical fault in space-time. Unable to save himself, Brodix transfers his knowledge into the one mind in the Earth universe receptive enough to receive it: that of Sefian, the son of Sefner Quorne and Viona, daughter of the Golden Amazon! But how can a mere two-year-old boy save the universe from destruction–particularly when the Earth has been invaded and conquered by an alien race? Classic super-science adventure in the grand manner! The Golden Amazon Saga, Book Five.
Designer Genes
The eleven stories in Designer Genes showcase the latest volume in this intriguing science fiction that explores intriguing future possibilities in biotechnology, ranging from stories of imminent technology reflecting issues that are already controversial, to stories that feature drastically altered worlds. Most of the stories are domestic dramas in which ordinary people are trying to get on with their everyday lives in circumstances that are altering in confusing ways by the year or by the day. Most of them have an element of comedy, because the human predicament is essentially comic, and most of them sound a powerful note of optimism, or at least of hope, because, the world being what it is, biotechnology is the one realistic source of optimism and hope that we have, if we are to come through the present ecocatastrophe relatively unscathed. Great, thought-provoking entertainment by a major SF writer!
World Without Chance: Classic Pulp Science Fiction Stories in the Vein of Stanley G. Weinbaum
SF Author Stanley G. Weinbaum died from cancer at 33, in December 1935. Short though his career was, his scientific imagination, smooth characterization, and humor completely revolutionized the field, and profoundly influenced his contemporaries. Among his many imitators was English writer John Russell Fearn. Although Fearn's own distinctive work was very popular, he wanted to increase his number of acceptances by writing under pseudonyms–Thornton Ayre and Polton Cross–with a change of style imitating Weinbaum! These exciting and highly entertaining pastiches, first published in such magazines as Astounding Stories and Thrilling Wonder Stories, are here collected for the very first time in book form, with fascinating historical background notes. The first of two must-have volumes for collectors, the second being VALLEY OF PRETENDERS. Great adventure reading from the classic period of the SF pulps!
The Amethyst City
The human-occupied planets in the Solar System, Earth and Mars, are suddenly threatened with a space-borne plague that rusts and destroys all metals. If the «disease» continues unchecked, all of civilization is threatened. Behind this insidious menace is Sefner Quorne, the sinister master scientist of Atlantis. Quorne had earlier enslaved the humans on Earth, until he was deposed by the Golden Amazon and Abna, the real Lord of Atlantis. But now, with Abna dead, and the Amazon mortally wounded on one of the moons of Jupiter, nothing can halt Quorne’s plans–until a lone space traveller abruptly intervenes. Viona, a beautiful young woman whose origins are shrouded in mystery, is somehow connected to the mysterious Amethyst City of Saturn…a place that cannot possibly exist! Volume Four in this exciting continuing saga of Earth and space.
Anasazi Exile
Archeology wasn't supposed to get him killed. For two decades, Harry Deacon had served as a skilled and loyal soldier, and it'd cost him his marriage and many dead friends. His new career of digging for artifacts and esoteric knowledge seems safe enough–until he finds an Anasazi tomb in Chaco Canyon that shouldn't be there. Only hours after Harry emails news of his discovery to a fellow archeologist at a conference in Scotland, she and her students are murdered–and Harry and his assistant are attacked by two hired killers. Harry must turn to his old skills as his life becomes a frenzied struggle for survival when more assassins close in. Who was buried in the tomb and where did he come from? What was in the strange container housed in the coffin? As Harry begins to solve the mystery of Chaco Canyon, he learns an astonishing secret: the history of our planet is NOT what we've been taught! A grand science fiction suspense novel.