Mankind was being assailed by a disease that made the Bubonic Plague seem insignificant. People were dying by the thousands, especially in America and in England. They would choke, strangle to death, and then, horribly, burst apart as if blown up by gas! And the horror had been unwittingly caused by one man, Doctor Blair, who had, ironically, tried to invent something that would benefit mankind by eliminating all disease! Instead, the results of ...
Ginn Hollis was fourteen when her father's mysterious death left her alone on the planet Kelmer. She's grown up since then. Kelmer is a harsh world, an old world: its people are ancient, its civilization long fallen and dimly dreaming under a brown dwarf sun the natives call the Ember Star. But now, long dormant forces are beginning to stir on Kelmer, forces that could destroy the planet forever…or bring it back to life. One being stan ...
"The object arrived without warning, tearing a spiral path of devastation across the rural landscape. After the explotion, searchers sifted through the immense pile of debris … to discover a fantastically instrumented capsule, and a strangely human pilot, stone dead. <P> Bowden Karvel's theory, that the capsule's port of origin lay in the distant future, seemed a plausible explanation. But while investigating, the capsule ...
The fifth volume in the Science Fiction Megapack series collects 25 tales of high adventure through other worlds and times, including 5 Hugo and Nebula Award-winners and nominees. Featured this time are: <P> AGAPE AMONG THE ROBOTS, by Allen Steele<BR> THE STARSHIP MECHANIC, by Jay Lake and Ken Scholes<BR> PEACEMAKER, by Gardner Dozois<BR> OR ALL THE SEAS WITH OYSTERS, by Avram Davidson<BR> GRANDMA, by Carol Em ...
Monument is a science fiction novel about destructive tourism – a serious subject, but as usual with Biggle, handled in a lighter vein, and at times frankly humorous. A classic science fiction novel from the author of ALL THE COLORS OF DARKNESS. ...
In his Foreword, Rich Horton says: «First rate stories…»Time Considered as a Series of Thermite Burns in No Particular Order" is a clever and very funny time travel romp; «The Beancounter's Cat» is set in a far future with Clarkean science sufficiently advanced to appear magical; «Walls of Flesh, Bars of Bone» (with Barbara Lamar) is another look at the mystery of human destiny; «Under the Moons of Venus» is a remarkable, evocative homage t ...
A spacefaring horde of carnivorous crab-like aliens known as the Knackers is advancing toward the human core worlds, decimating outlying systems as they go. When the invaders approach Eden, one of the most beautiful and populous planets in the Human Federation, it is up to SpaceForce to make a stand. In the skies over Eden, the battle rages—and one war-weary fighter, Major Simon Roy, falls to ground in his wounded ship. There he takes re ...
This volume collections 10 young adult science fiction novels: 7 in the Tom Corbett, Space Cadet series, plus Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet, by Blake Savage; Star Born, by Andre Norton; and The Secret of the Ninth Planet, by Donald A. Wollheim.<P> And don't forget to search this ebook store for more entries in the Megapack series, covering science fiction, fantasy, mystery, adventure, ghost stories, and much, much more! ...
This volume collects four classic SF tales from the pulp era! <P> THE RULE OF THE BRAINS… <P> After many years spent in wars and struggle, mankind had achieved a perfect civilization. But this Utopia was going directly against the adaptive strain Nature had developed. <P> In earlier times, the human body had been keyed to respond to every emergency. Now it was trying to find a new form of excitation in order to maintain i ...
