Montague Rhodes James (1862 – 1936), who wrote as M. R. James, was an English medieval scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905–1918), and of Eton College (1918–1936). He is best remembered for his ghost stories, which are regarded as among the best in the genre. James redefined the ghost story for the new century by abandoning many of the formal Gothic cliches of his predecessors and using more realistic contemporary settings ...
Hours of great reading await, with tales from some of the 20th century's most renowned science fiction authors, Here are 25 science fiction stories (plus a bonus short-short): <P> UNKNOWN THINGS, by Reginald Bretnor<BR> CAPTIVES OF THE FLAME, by Samuel R. Delany<BR> EXPEDITER, by Mack Reynolds<BR> ONE-SHOT, by James Blish<BR> SHIPWRECK IN THE SKY, by Eando Binder<BR> ZEN, by Jerome Bixby<BR> ...
Revival on the banks of the River was not limited to white Anglo Saxons. This tale reinterprets the Riverworld resurrection through the eyes of a tribe of primitive people, whose beliefs and superstitions blend marvelously with what has happened to them. This tale was singled out by Science Fiction Chronicle for praise as a worthwhile addition to the Riverworld canon. This story, like «The Merry Men of Riverworld,» was written with Philip Jose F ...
Set in an alternative reality where «All the President's men» do not get caught at Watergate, this «shockingly believable» novel presents the frightening scenario of what could happen if a powerful but paranoid American chief executive goes out of control. <P> "—The dirty tricks have just begun; rape, murder, plot and counterplot…are nothing to this imperial President…" –Publishers Weekly. <p> "[T]he authors have b ...
In the year 4004 AD, the entire universe of habitable worlds has been filled with human beings, thanks to an ancient teleport network and unlimited growth. Humans live on more than a hundred quadrillion terraformed planets, all woven into a bureaucratic and restrictive Empire. VALENCIES tracks a frustrated group of libertarian anarchists on the marginal planet Victoria. Kael, son of three gay doctors, and Theri, daughter of a man and woman bound ...
THE H. BEAM PIPER MEGAPACK collects 33 novels, novellas, and short stories by H. Beam Piper, including such classics as LITTLE FUZZY, SPACE VIKING, and «He Walked Around the Horses.» <P> Complete contents: <P> INTRODUCTION: MEET H. BEAM PIPER<BR> TIME AND TIME AGAIN (1947)<BR> HE WALKED AROUND THE HORSES (1948)<BR> POLICE OPERATION (1948)<BR> THE MERCENARIES (1950)<BR> LAST ENEMY (1950)<BR&g ...
Trapped in the Warsaw ghetto in 1942, teenager Rachel Zilber escapes the horror by writing about the adventures of Zap-Gun Jack and Princess Anya of Mars. When her parents are captured by the Nazis, Rachel's transported into her make-believe world, but the danger is far from over. Together with Katie, a girl from the future, Rachel joins Jack and a rag-tag band of misfits to fight the evil Lord Ares III of Mars and restore Princess Anya to ...
"The Sixth Science Fiction Megapack" presents 25 more mind-bending excursions through time and space, with great stories by such authors as Arthur C. Clarke, Nancy Kress, Lawrence Watt-Evans, George Zebrowski, Philip K. Dick, and many more! Included are:<P> OUT OF ALL THEM BRIGHT STARS, by Nancy Kress<BR> THE HANGING STRANGER, by Philip K. Dick<BR> WALKING JOHN AND BIRD, by Neal Asher<BR> THE SYMPHONIC ABDUCTION, ...
To the peoples of Earth, it had seemed the perfect marriage when Violet Ray Brant–better known as The Golden Amazon–and Abna of Atlantis were wed in Westminster Abbey. But it was nothing of the kind, and before long Abna found himself betrayed and marooned on a satellite of Jupiter, while the Amazon's spaceship had been sent hurtling far beyond the solar system in reprisal. Taking advantage of the absence of Earth's greatest protectors ...
