Научная фантастика
Различные книги в жанре Научная фантастикаFugitive of Time
Gordon Fryer, a young, unemployed engineer, finds a post as a scientific guinea pig and assistant to an elderly scientist, Dr. Royd. But the result of Royd’s experiment predicts the exact hour and day of Gordon's death–a mere thirteen years hence–with a series of photographs of the future. Fryer makes a deadly enemy of Royd’s butler, Blessington, who targets him with poison-pen letters, but when his campaign culminates in attempted murder, Blessington is imprisoned. Fryer and his new wife and Dr. Royd then collaborate to create several wonders of modern science, including an artificial eye that restores sight to the blind. But can Fryer circumvent his predicted death and escape his supposed destiny–or is Time fixed in an unwavering pattern that no man can ever evade? An intriguing, highly entertaining story of a scientific genius who becomes a true…Fugitive of Time!
A Vision of Hell
The people of the Euchronian Millennium had been reminded of the Underworld that existed beneath the platform on which they had constructed their better, cleaner, safer world–leaving the original surface of Earth a dark, dreary, and forgotten place. That awareness had become a political pawn, which many different people were trying to manipulate in their own interests. In the meantime, the search for more information about what actually existed in the Underworld went on, tentatively and ineptly. The hunter sent to help clarify the situation brought back a sensational prize, and revealed it to the world–but in so doing, he triggered an unexpected and unprecedented reaction, which changed the whole nature of the game, gave the people of Heaven a vision of Hell, and threw the fate of both worlds into the balance. The second novel in the exciting Realms of Tartarus series!
The Face of Heaven
After laboring for thousands of years, the people of Earth, fleeing ecological disaster, have built a new, clean, stable world on a worldwide platform erected over the entire land surface of the Earth. Everything is going well–except for Carl Magner, the man who's been having bad dreams. He shouldn't be having dreams at all, because dreams have been banished from the society of the Euchronian Millennium, but somehow he is, and his dreams are showing him the «Underworld.» The real surface of the Earth, the Underworld that the Euchronian Millennium has left behind, still maintains life, human and otherwise, life that's adapted to a world without sky or sun, still evolving in response to extreme environmental challenges. Dreams are only dreams, but they're a provocation nevertheless, not merely for Carl Magner, but for the whole of Euchronian society. Can Heaven be truly Heaven, if Hell still festers in its entrails? The first book in a stunning SF trilogy, The Realms of Tartarus!
Trekmaster
On the planet Bear Ridge, Thomas Jefferson Shepherd is King, fighting to bring his long-lost colony world to high-tech standards, and claim a place among the Federation of Planets. But Bear Ridge has a feudal society, and TJ must overcome political treachery, revolt, and assassination in his attempt to move his world forward. To rule, TJ had to survive the Trek: climbing and crossing two deadly mountain ridges, and locating and befriending the Webbines, the indigenous intelligent species. Now TJ's son and heir, Michale, is making the Trek to challenge his father for the throne. Can TJ beat the massive odds against him and his planet? Can he win a place for Bear Ridge among the federated worlds? Indeed…can he even survive? A grand SF adventure novel that believably mixes medieval intrigue and swordplay with high technology!
The World Menders
Branoff IV is a planet famous for its aristocratic culture and mistreatment of its indigenous population. When Cedd Farrari and a team of Cultural Survey experts are sent to Branoff IV to help bring about a shift to democratic goverment, the world seems an ideal candidate for political change. But all is not as it seems… A thrilling science fiction novel from the author of All the Colors of Darkness!
Silence is Deadly
Twenty agents of the Galactic Sythesis are missing on the Silent Planet of Kamm – the victims, it seems, of the most powerful death ray the universe has ever known. But how could the primitive technology of the Kammians have produced such a weapon? And why would they unleashed its power against the Sythesis? It's Jan Darzek's mission to find out…
Weird Tales #334
Issue #334 features IN THE CATACOMBS, by Charles L. Harness, plus new stories by Darrell Schweitzer, John Gregory Betancourt, W.C. Morrow, Myke Cole, and Joshua Rupp. Plus poetry and the usual features.
Uezen
Democles and Z’Davaar, the equivalents of God and the Devil, agree to create the first humans and place them on the planet of Eden. The Edeneans subsequently spread their race throughout the galaxy, but, when their most important sun goes nova, the survivors begin falling ill and dying. In order to prevent their total extinction, they build the Arka and head for the nearest wormhole. But on their way there they have to fight Anuk, who has agreed to obey Z’Davaar’s orders and destroy the other Edeneans, in order to have his lover resurrected. Only Lerman Kruger has the strength to oppose him… A philosophical science fiction adventure that spans the entire galaxy!
Aurora: A Child of Two Worlds: A Science Fiction Novel
Who was the mysterious stranger who helped injured Londoners during the Blitz– and then vanished? Who was the beautiful blonde girl who blazed like a supernova on the 1970s psychedelic rock scene for a few weeks–and then vanished? How could an astronaut have reached Mars decades before the first manned expedition to the planet finds her body there? Have all humanity's dreams of a majestic ancient Martian civilization been more than just dreams? Is the future of the human race at stake? In the grand tradition of Arthur C. Clarke, a stunning hard sf novel–the first from internationally known astronomical artist David A. Hardy–that will stretch your imagination in ways you've never experienced before. A science-fictional tour de force, now revised and expanded in a stunning Second Edition!
Triad
There was something strange about Ann Bonney's mission to the unexplored world called Chameleon. Though only women were judged fit for space, Earth's Central Computer had for some reason placed a man among them … an artist who was not docile like other men. For Language Specialist Gia Kennedy, the answer lay in the baffling rituals of the planet's primitive natives – an answer that hovered just out of reach. There, in the heart of an alien wilderness, Gia would defy her culture and discover an ancient truth.