Leigh Brackett may be best known for her screenplay for «The Empire Strikes Back,» but her lush tales of interplanetary adventures were thrilling readers long before «Star Wars.» Collected here are the short novel «Black Amazon of Mars» (the final magazine appearance of her hero, Eric John Stark), as well as «A World Is Born» and «Child of the Sun.» ...
This volume in the Megapack series assembles classic Martian science fiction, including the first 5 volumes of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoom saga (A Princess of Mars, The Gods of Mars, Warlord of Mars, Thuvia, Maid of Mars, and The Chessmen of Mars), plus six more Martian novels and storiesby other great writers. More than 1,300 pages of classic science fiction in all!<P> Complete contents:<P> A Princess of Mars, ...
This volume assembles 25 novels and short stories by Murray Leinster, published between 1919 and 1963, plus a biographical introduction and a selected bibliography. Contents:<P> MURRAY LEINSTER: A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY<BR> THE ALIENS<BR> A THOUSAND DEGREES BELOW ZERO<BR> THE MAD PLANET<BR> THE GALLERY GODS<BR> THE RED DUST<BR> NERVE<BR> MORALE: A STORY OF THE WAR OF 1941-43<BR> THE F ...
A great cataclysm shakes the world, and much of Great Britain sinks beneath the ocean during a terrifying windstorm that has already flattened most of mankind’s dwellings. Martin Webster and his wife, Helen, manage to survive that first horrible night, but become separated as waves of salt water come surging into the English countryside. Webster, believing his wife drowned, moves into an old railway tunnel, which provides some shelter from the e ...
NO ONE writes science fiction, fantasy, or horror like A. R. Morlan. Her unique characters–her unusual perspective–her enormous imagination–all of these traits combine to produce absolutely «different» views of the past, present, and future. The eight novellas and short stories in this new collection highlight some of the best of her recent explorations of the near-future: «The Best Years of Our Lives,» «Contingencies and Penti-Lope-Lope» (with ...
A laboratory accident suddenly sends four modern-day humans backwards in time, their individual organic bodies almost untouched by the phenomenon, while the physical world around them gradually retreats through the ages. Onward and onward they careen through the past, until they appear in the vividly green Carboniferous Age, filled with overwhelmingly excessive vegetation, festering swamps, and fetid lagoons. The accumulation of rotted vegetatio ...
In Annex 10 in the Adirondack Mountains in New York, the scientists under the leadership of astronomer Dr. Gray can hardly believe the things their instruments are telling them; but, because their equipment is absolutely reliable, they HAVE to believe, and on that ill-fated June 30th, they begin to see the chaos will affect mankind. The Earth is growing steadily hotter. Temperatures rocket as the sun shines through the night and the world is plu ...
The third volume in the Science Fiction MEGAPACK® series collection 26 tales of high adventure through other worlds and times, including a complete novel by H. Beam Piper! Included in this volume are:<P> "The Man Who Made Friends with Electricity," by Fritz Leiber<BR> "Time Bum," by C.M. Kornbluth<BR> "The Human Equations," by Dave Creek<BR> "The Gun," by Philip K. Dick<BR> "Not Stupid ...
A Stranger in Paradise, by Edward M. Lerner, collects five of the bestselling author's science fiction stories: The Night of the RFIDs, Two kinds of People, Better the Devil You Know, Small Business, and A Stranger in Paradise. ...
