Archeology wasn't supposed to get him killed. For two decades, Harry Deacon had served as a skilled and loyal soldier, and it'd cost him his marriage and many dead friends. His new career of digging for artifacts and esoteric knowledge seems safe enough–until he finds an Anasazi tomb in Chaco Canyon that shouldn't be there. Only hours after Harry emails news of his discovery to a fellow archeologist at a conference in Scotland, sh ...
The alien Belatrin are the «Other.» They look like us, they organize their society like ours, yet even the slightest contact with them leads humans to madness. Here are seven encounters from a war in space that leads to a species-changing moment of synthesis and transformation, including the classic, award-winning novella, «The Five Biographies of General Gerrhan.» First-rate space opera in the grand style! ...
In the mid-1960s, British science fiction and fantasy were convulsed by the «New Wave.» This movement emerged from the SF magazines edited by John Carnell. Such brilliant NEW WORLDS and SCIENCE FANTASY writers as J. G. Ballard, Brian W. Aldiss, John Brunner, and Michael Moorcock heralded the rise of this new kind of fantastic fiction. John Boston and Damien Broderick's concluding volume of their critical trilogy examines the history and dev ...
In Paris, on the Avenue des Champs-Elysees, an old man suddenly vanishes without a trace: a new plague has reached France, and will soon grow to terrible proportions. The event is witnessed by a cytologist working at the Aristotle Institute, who is also a Polyplast–the result of an experiment in selective breeding intended to produce pacifists, but which has also had perverse results. As a result of his presence at the crucial event, the Polypla ...
This Megapack collects 20 of Edward Bellamy's novels and short stories – including his classic political science fiction novel, LOOKING BACKWARDS, and its sequel, EQUALITY. Complete contents: <P> LOOKING BACKWARD<BR> EQUALITY<BR> THE BLINDMAN’S WORLD<BR> DR. HEIDENHOFF’S PROCESS<BR> MISS LUDINGTON’S SISTER<BR> AN ECHO OF ANTIETAM<BR> THE DUKE OF STOCKBRIDGE<BR> WITH THE EYES SHUT<B ...
Here are thirteen stories, three haiku, and a conventional poem, all involving cats. A few, like «The Cats of Ulthar,» by H. P. Lovecraft, and «Kreativity for Kats,» by Fritz Leiber, are well-known classics; others, like «Creeper Shadows,» by Fred Chappell are freshly written and came meowing to us in search of a home. This volume in this series is devoted mostly to fantasy stories—a deal with the Devil, a re-incarnation, and a long tale of Me ...
"The Second Randall Garrett Megapack" is the follow-up to «The Randall Garrett Megapack.» Together, these two volumes encompass 42 classic-era science fiction stories by Randall Garrett. [Note that we omit one story–an early magazine version of a novel included in the second volume–as unnecessary.] <P> This volume includes 5 of Randall Garrett's novels (cowritten with Laurence M. Janifer) and 14 short stories, including entries ...
The Philip K. Dick Megapack assembles no less than 15 classic science fiction stories by Philip K. Dick. Included are: <P> INTRODUCTION: PHILIP K. DICK<BR> EXHIBIT PIECE<BR> BEYOND LIES THE WUB<BR> THE DEFENDERS<BR> THE CRYSTAL CRYPT<BR> BEYOND THE DOOR<BR> SECOND VARIETY<BR> THE EYES HAVE IT<BR> THE GUN<BR> THE VARIABLE MAN<BR> TONY AND THE BEETLES<BR> THE HANG ...
Interplanetary journalist Jack Summer discovers that smugglers plan to secret their supply of the deadly drug Zombium aboard an immense movie studio starship, and, with the help of his boss's daughter and a robot photographer, he sets out to get the story. ...
