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 a ...
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, equipme ...
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 ...
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 Tom Swift Megapack presents the first 25 volumes of the famous series in proper order, with original cover illustrations. Included are:<P> Tom Swift and His Motor-Cycle<BR> Tom Swift and His Motor-Boat<BR> Tom Swift and His Airship<BR> Tom Swift and His Submarine Boat<BR> Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout<BR> Tom Swift and His Wireless Message<BR> Tom Swift among the Diamond Makers<BR> ...
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 conten ...
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 tha ...
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 w ...
They call them the «rat-catchers.» They're the crew of the spaceship Daedalus, which an economically destitute Earth has dispatched on a mission to re-establish contact with its far-flung, long-lost space colonies. Alex Alexander, ship's biologist, must help solve the mysteries of human and alien ecosystems that he encounters light-years from home. The planet Floria initially appears to be one of the few Earth colonies that's actu ...