Short Things is a collection of never-before-published stories based on John W. Campbell’s classic short novel, “Who Goes There?” (filmed as The Thing). Commissioned one by one as stretch goals for the Frozen Hell Kickstarter project (which broke records as one of the most successful science fiction publishing projects in Kickstarter history), this series of stories grew to book size—thanks to contributions by many top writers. Included are new ...
She came off the Androids, Inc., production line in September, 2241. She was five feet, seven inches tall, weighed 135 pounds, had flaxen hair and pale blue eyes. Her built-in batteries were guaranteed for ten years, her tapes were authentic Kirsten Flagstad, and her name was Isolde. ...
An old woman slowly loses the battle to insanity, or perhaps to her own fey nature, after her husband dies while coming home from his monthly shopping trip. But something supernatural may be in play… A classic fantasy! ...
The odds were right for victory. The problem with computer warfare is that the computer is always logical while the human enemy is not – or doesn't have to be. And that's what the Betastani enemy were doing—nothing that the Alphaland computers said they would.<P> Those treacherous foemen were avoiding logic and using such unheard-of devices as surprise and sabotage, treason and trickery. They even had Alphaland's Deputy of ...
This volume is a follow-up to The Plague, Pestilence, and Apocalypse MEGAPACK® (2015) and contains 20 more tales of epic disaster.<P> A MAN SPEKITH, by Richard Wilson<BR> OUR TOWN, by Jerome Bixby<BR> EDDIE FOR SHORT, by Wallace West<BR> THE COURTS OF JAMSHYD, by Robert F. Young<BR> THE GREAT NEBRASKA SEA, by Allan Danzig<BR> SEED OF EMPIRE, by Chester S. Geier<BR> THE BLACK GRIPPE, by Edgar Walla ...
After a plague has killed almost everyone on the planetm a young woman, newly married, is as far as she knows the last person alive. Her radio engineer husband had made her promise to keep going on air every night to sing, hoping that anyone else still alive will hear her and come find her… [Also published as «The Last Woman»] ...
For three years, people on Earth have been subject to the will of the «Passengers»—intangible beings who usurp human bodies temporarily and without warning, and do nothing but play and cause havoc. People being «ridden» are ignored by others, and when they are freed, the experience, by social convention, is ignored by all. When the Passenger leaves the host body, the person is left with no memories of his time being ridden.<P>"Passengers" ...
