THE EIGHT BILLION derives its title from O. Henry’s THE FOUR MILLION and Meyer Berger’s THE EIGHT MILLION. The “serried bristling city" of New York does not, of course, contain eight billion people. If it did . . . well, read on. If this is not the overpopulation story to end all overpopulation stories, it will at least give them pause. ...
A «last person on Earth» tale, set after an alien invasion has wiped out humanity… The last resident of Earth sees the lights of a scouting vehicle and prepares to welcome one of the Masters.. ...
To Gurth, the freedom of his race was the aim of his life—and he faces tortures unbearable to bring the Micro-Men into their own—until he finds the very Earth shrinking beneath him! ...
Jeanne of Jupiter and Warren of Earth – each fighting in the service of their respective planets – enemies in deadly opposition, yet lovers of intense devotion! But one must be the victor – and the other must die!<P>Written by Helen Weinbaum, one of the few women to write science fiction for the pulp magazines, here is a classic space opera! ...
Ryan is a member of a tribe of post-apocalyptic primitives. Each night, the tribe chants about how their ancestors were «the putrefiers of the lakes and the rivers; the consumers, the destroyers, the murderers of the living land; the selfish, the obese, the great collectors…» ...
A man survives a terrible plague, with a new Force in his mind which gives him courage and enables him to accomplish things. He's in Minnesota, on a post WW3 earth, with no central governments remaining in any countries… ...
Something is rotten in tomorrow's computer world. The time: the not-too-distant future. Physical work is done by robot devices. Men and women are endowed at birth with a sum of credit called Inalienable Basic. Everyone operates with a Universal Credit Card—which is also identification, police record, medical record, and many other things. Every detail of life in the United States of the Americas is stored in the International Data Center, l ...
New Arizona a lush, virgin planet teeming with rich vegetation and a vast hoard of mineral wealth. A company had been formed to colonise and exploit it, and the spaceship Titov set out with the Board of Directors and two thousand colonists. And shortly after the trip had begun, the trouble started.<P> The Board of Directors was only interested in the vast profits that could be made by stripping the planet of its natural resources which co ...
