Научная фантастика
Различные книги в жанре Научная фантастикаThe Truth Spinner
Castor Jenkins is a Welshman who tells stories that may (or may not) be true…but no matter how fantastic, no one can prove they never happened! In the tradition of Lord Dunsany's «The Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens» and Arthur C. Clarke's «Tales of the White Hart,» here is a collection of club stories full of wonder and marvels, as only Rhys Hughes could have told them
The Chronocide Mission
His name was Vladislav Kuznetsov, and he had been a twenty-one-year-old student at Mount Harwell College in Mount Harwell, Ohio. On a Friday afternoon, March 24, 2001, he succumbed to a sudden attack of spring fever and cut his classes for a stroll in a public park near the campus. Even after fifty years and several hundred centuries, he remembered it as vividly as though it had happened an hour before. <P> It was a warm, fresh day with a promise of spring–the first really pleasant day of the year after the usual vagaries of a midwest winter. He strolled leisurely through the park, thinking with shameless delight of the stuffy classrooms he was avoiding. Eventually he seated himself on a patch of greening grass with a convenient tree to lean against and enjoyed the soft breeze and the peaceful surroundings while he absently whittled on a twig he had picked up. He felt sleepy. Probably he dozed off. <P> Then came a tremendous jerk, like having a chair pulled from under him at the same instant that a truck hit him, and he almost lost consciousness. He landed with a painful bump and skidded for a short distance along a very rough wood floor. For a moment he sat gazing about him dazedly. He had been abruptly translated from his seat on the ground in a pleasant park on a lovely spring day to a seat on a wood floor in a large, dim room with a thunderstorm raging outside. He had a distinct impression that the two scenes had been linked by an earthquake. He tried hard to focus his thoughts, staring first at a table where a candle burned brightly and then at an animal tied to one of the table's legs by a short leash. It was a hairy pig. He raised his eyes to the room's two small, water-streaked windows and saw nothing beyond but branches swaying in a strong wind…
Young Thongor
Lin Carter's greatest creation, the barbarian swordsman Thongor of Lemuria, returns in his first new book in more than 40 years! «Young Thongor» collects Carter's short stories about Thongor's earliest adventures. Drawing on Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian and Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter of Mars, Lin Carter has created an enduring new character sure to please all who treasure sword & sorcery in the classic vein.
The Time Trap
There are six people in millionaire Nick Clayton's limousine when it leaves a country home to return to London: Clayton himself; his girlfriend, Bernice; Dawlish, his driver; the unhappily married financier Harvey Brand and his wife, Lucy; and the tragic socialite, Betty. But the car never reaches its destination; instead, it drives thirty miles down a country road–and just disappears! And when the travelers suddenly find themselves in an alternate reality, one where time stands still, they begin wondering if they'll ever escape…THE TIME TRAP!
Star Haven
Three days after asking the Captain of the Earth mothership to land his party of colonists on the planet Hyperon, Commander Williams has reason to worry. He's assumed that there'll be records left by the 500 original settlers that'll tell him what's happened to the men and women who were dropped here a decade ago. But there ARE no records–none that make any sense–and the colonists have just vanished, abandoning homes, equipment, and personal belongings. Is the planet inimical to human life? The climate's ideal, there's no animal life to threaten the settlers, and the local vegetation produces edible fruit year-round. But if this world is such a paradise…where are the people? Another great SF adventure by an entertaining storyteller!
War Games
Throughout the centuries that have passed since humans first ventured into interstellar space, they have been at war with the alien Veich. The human race has, in consequence, been fully militarized, its educational system being a form of military training–which includes, among other disciplines, the elimination of fear from the human psyche. Attitudes to the war have, however, been colored by the gradual discovery of relics revealing that it is echoing an earlier interstellar conflict whose antagonists have completely disappeared, victors and vanquished alike. On a neglected continent of an unimportant world, ex-sergeant Remy and other human and Veich deserters have joined forces to form a mercenary company that places its expert skills at the disposal of the dominant indigenes. This refuge from the greater war is, however, disrupted when archeologists on another world discover evidence that there might be significant relics of the earlier war buried in the inhospitable heart of the continent, where barbarian tribes are currently massing for a religious war. Remy has no alternative but to revert to working for his own race, knowing that whatever he enables them to find, or even if they find nothing at all, his own life will be in grave peril, and that nothing will ever be the same again.... Great military SF! Also published as Optiman.
West of the Sun
After eleven years in space, the Argo landed on the dangerous, unknown planet Lucifer. The crew faced an untamed world of huge, carnivorous birds with wolverine heads and flashing black teeth; furred, ten-foot-tall men; and red-skinned, man-eating pygmies. They fought for mere survival. But their duty was to colonize and populate the planet … with four men and only two women!
The Fourth Science Fiction MEGAPACK ®
The Fourth Science Fiction Megapack selects 25 more modern and classic science fiction stories, by talented authors new and old. Authors in this volume include: Mary A. Turzillo, E.C. Tubb, Murray Leinster, Philip K. Dick, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Jason Andrew, Henry Kuttner, Cynthia Ward, George H. Scithers and John Gregory Betancourt, Milton Lesser, John Russell Fearn, Harry Harrison, Isaac Asimov, Ayn Rand, and many more <P> Complete contents <P> "Zora and the Land Ethic Nomads," by Mary A. Turzillo<BR> "Food for Friendship," by E.C. Tubb<BR> "The Life Work of Professor Muntz," by Murray Leinster<BR> "Tiny and the Monster," by Theodore Sturgeon<BR> "Beyond Lies the Wub," by Philip K. Dick<BR> "Pictures Don’t Lie," by Katherine MacLean<BR> "The Big Trip Up Yonder," by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.<BR> "Storm Warning," by Donald A. Wollheim<BR> "The Application of Discipline," by Jason Andrew<BR> "Tom the Universe," by Larry Hodges<BR> "Wild Seed," by Carmelo Rafala<BR> "Tabula Rasa," by Ray Cluley<BR> "The Eyes of Thar," by Henry Kuttner<BR> "Regenesis," by Cynthia Ward<BR> "Not Omnipotent Enough," by George H. Scithers and John Gregory Betancourt<BR> "Plato’s Bastards," by James C. Stewart<BR> "Pen Pal," by Milton Lesser<BR> "Living Under the Conditions," by James K. Moran<BR> "The Arbiter," by John Russell Fearn<BR> "The Grandmother-Granddaughter Conspiracy," by Marissa Lingen<BR> "Top Secret," by David Grinnell<BR> "Living Under the Conditions," by James K. Moran<BR> "Sense of Obligation," by Harry Harrison<BR> "Angel's Egg," by Edgar Pangborn<BR> "Youth," by Isaac Asimov<BR> "Anthem," by Ayn Rand <P> And don't forget to search this ebook store for more entries in the «Megapack» series – covering Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Mysteries, Westerns, Cthulhu Mythos, and many other subjects.
Habu
Reubin Flood, the most wanted man in the history of the Federation of Planets, is one of the few remaining survivors of «Olde Earthe,» as it's now called. He's also the most dangerous human alive, when he finds himself cornered on an agricultural planet named Snister. Following his wife's murder, Reubin vowed to destroy the company world government; but to do so, he has to find some way of controlling the alternate personality that lurks deep in his subconscious–Habu, a primeval berserker of inhuman proportions, whose only purpose is to kill, maim, and destroy. Every major law enforcement agency in the Galaxy has been hunting «Habu» for centuries, following the massacre of another world's entire population. As the forces gather against Reubin/Habu, each intertwined personality must learn to live with the other if they're both going to survive. A stunning SF adventure, available for the first time in two decades!
Babylon Sisters
Paul Di Filippo is one of Science Fiction's finest short story writers, wild, witty, exuberantly imaginative; <i>Babylon Sisters and Other Posthumans</i> is a generous showcase of his strange, transformative, and powerful hard science fiction visions. <P> The fourteen stories collected here are glimpses into the most fantastic possibilities of human evolution-biological, social, and cultural. From a New York split into warring walled enclaves, to the destiny of our species as a strain of virus, to an Africa made over by nanotech messiahs, to a future Earth protected by half-alien angels, to wars of liberation from what we have always so tragically been: these are only some of the awe-inspiring transitions to be found in Babylon Sisters. Read here of rebellion by books against their librarian, of cosmic destiny remade by stellar lunatics, of disorienting ventures beyond the boundaries of the human; discover here the perverse and terrible dangers of the age of posthumanity.