Smith was a writer of science fiction stories. Now, incredibly, he was witnessing the real thing. Travelling silently at immense speed, its mirrored metal sides flashing in the sun, the saucer swooped in for a landing on Earht. Then, as Smith watched, another saucer appeared in the sky – and the dogfight began! The saucers – aliens from beyond known space – were battling for control of the Earth. Something had to be done, even if Smith had no id ...
The 50th Century men crowded around the gleaming case in which a young man lay sleeping. Suddenly, a terrifying mechanism began to revolve, tremble… Vials of liquid frother, crimsoned, gathered in a hypodermic that jabbed itself into the sleaper's chest. The case shattered; the body stirred… The ultimate miracle had occurred – as eyes of the 50th Century looked into those of the 20th! But Homer Ellory, alienated young scientist, didn't ...
The men and women of an underground world hold the key to Earth's survival. The beastly Martians have decided to wage an «old-fashioned» ground war with only one objective in mind – to wipe humanity from the planet. But then Evan Paige receives an unbelievable radio message from the renowned scientist Dr. Aronson – a message from the center of the Earth, telling of a super-scientific race of Albinos who hold the key to save all mankind! &l ...
The scene is Earth in the near future. The scientific force of the Dictator Syndicate, controlled by five men, has reduced whole segments of the population to mindless robots. Humanitarian dissenters are driven mad…then swiftly murdered. As civilization's end rushes closer, one lone man opposes the forces of darkness…only he can nullify the powerful invention of the evil five! <P> A classic of science fiction by the author of ADAM L ...
Anton York is a man of tomorrow. He has discovered the secret of voluntary suspended animation and requires no food or air. He can live where he pleases, when he pleases, for as long as he wants. Somewhere in the dim future ages, this man-made God must die. But how? <P> A classic of science fiction by the author of ADAM LINK, ROBOT! ...
"To anyone fond of the robot story in science fiction, ADAM LINK is of extraordinary interest. The robot-with-emotion has rarely been handled so well." –Isaac Asimov. <P>Adam Link, the first of the robot race, has photoelectric eyes, an iridium-sponge brain, and the soul of a man! An electronic marvel gifted with incredible skills, Adam Link faces a series of challenges that would stagger a mere mortal, culminating in a fierce strugg ...
"The Ninth Science Fiction Megapack" contains 27 more works spanning time and space–including 24 stories, 2 interviews, and «A Science Fiction Alphabet.» Fun stuff indeed! Included are:<P> INTERVIEW: DAN SIMMONS, conducted by Darrell Schweitzer<BR> THE SPIRES OF DENON, by Kristine Kathryn Rusch<BR> AIN'T NOTHIN' BUT A HOUND DOG, by Brenda W. Clough<BR> FOR I AM A JEALOUS PEOPLE! by Lester del Rey<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. Milton Lesser (1928-2008) is one such unjustly forgotten author. Lesser published a 8 science fiction novels (and more than 100 short stories) under many pseudonyms (as well as his own name) in the 1950s. He found fame in the mystery field writing as Stephen Marlowe – and legally ...
Jeffrey Collins’s fate was sealed when he stopped his car to help a man who appeared to be an injured motorcyclist. When the injured man vanished before his eyes, Collins turned to a scientist, Dr. Whittaker, to make sense of the mystery. But when Whittaker was found dead, a victim of poisoning, Collins was accused of his murder. The evidence against him was damning. Where had he been during the period when Dr. Whittaker had died? Had he not qu ...
