SLAVE AND SLAVER! Condemned to death, the barbarian hero Valzar was thrown into the sea, along with his bond-slave Lynor. The peace of the slavemasters had returned to the lands of the north…or so it seemed. But the slavemasters reckoned not the gods of chance, those frivolous supernatural beings who delight in fouling the plans of men. And more important, they reckoned not the magic of the ancient science that still existed in the Forbidden Tem ...
"The Second Time Travel Megapack" collects 23 more tales of travel through time, by great modern and classic authors. Included are:<p> SEEMS LIKE OLD TIMES, by Robert J. Sawyer<BR> THE BUSINESS, AS USUAL, by Mack Reynolds<BR> THROUGH TIME AND SPACE WITH FERDINAND FEGHOOT: 18, by Grendel Briarton<BR> TIME WELL SPENT, by George Zebrowski<BR> THE DAY TIME STOPPED MOVING, by Bradner Buckner<BR> SAVING J ...
A corrupt Congress rules a drugged-out America, land of slums and malls. But in the underground, a few violent young malcontents will stop at nothing to smash the system…and bring back the Constitution and the President. JOHNNY ZED is their leader…a brilliant strategist and political theorist, always heard but never seen. SHELLY TRACER is his pawn – and his ultimate weapon…a warrior in a world of glitterfolk, oxygen addicts, and genetically modi ...
The «Golden Age of Science Fiction» Megapacks are designed to introduce readers to classic science fiction writers of the 1940s-1960s who might otherwise be forgotten. Charles L. Fontenay (1917-2007) is one such unjustly forgotten author. Included here are seven short stories plus one novel, published between, representing some of his best work. Included are:<P> DISQUALIFIED<BR> ATOM DRIVE <BR> SERVICE WITH A SMILE<BR> ...
The «Golden Age of Science Fiction» Megapacks are designed to introduce readers to classic science fiction writers of the 1940s-1960s who might otherwise be forgotten. Horace B. Fyfe (1918-1997) is one such unjustly forgotten author. Included here are 16 science fiction stories plus one novel, published between, representing some of his best work:<P> D-99 (novel)<BR> LET THERE BE LIGHT<BR> MANNERS OF THE AGE<BR> LUNA ...
For catmen Hangman and Slash, prowling the burned-out urban Sprawl is the ideal life. These genetically modified people live to rip off hot cargoes from rival animen. It's a fine life of thief vs. thief…cat vs. dog…<P> Fine, that is, until Slash scores a take that's a little too hot: the PED spy-eye, a top-secret sense-recorder implant that turns the human brain into a perfect playback machine. Any brain, living or dead…<P> ...
Theodore Rose Cogswell (1918 – 1987) was an American science fiction author. His first published story, «The Spectre General» in the magazine ASTOUNDING (June 1952), was a humorous tale in which a long-forgotten maintenance brigade of the Imperial Space Marines holds the promise of reinvigorating a declining Galactic empire. It's a classic and was selected by the Science Fiction Writers of America as one of the greatest SF stories of all ti ...
It's a crooked road to world peace…but it works. Warfare between nations has been banned. Taking its place are the Corporate Wars – full-scale battles between mercenary armies hired by large corporations, ostensibly to settle trade disputes.<P> But the wars are also free entertainment for the masses. In a world where most jobs have been taken over by automation, free tranquilizers have to be issued to the vast lower class to keep the ...
L-5, a point in the Earth-Moon System where orbits are forever and the new age of Freedom and Plenty can begin. Now, they're trying to kill the man in charge of the first L-5 colony, and Private Eye Rex Bader is the man who will have to find and stop them. But who are the killers? Only time – and blood – will tell! ...
