The time machine was a menace to civilization. It had to be destroyed! But how can the future destroy part of the past without altering the basis of the future? ...
The opportunity to swap bodies with those outworld aliens and to see the other planet as its natives saw it was too good to pass up. It would be a unique experience…the chance of a lifetime! ...
"Nightwings" is a science fiction novella by American wrier Robert Silverberg. It won the Hugo Award for Best Novella in 1969 and was also nominated for the Nebula Award in 1968. It won the Prix Apollo Award in 1976.<P> In a decadent and caste-based future, humanity is divided into guilds, each having a specific job to do. The members of some guilds appear to have undergone genetic engineering, for instance, the Fliers' ability ...
This modern classic of science fiction—first published in 1996—has been reprinted more than 15 more times since its original appearance, including in a Year's Best volume.<P> * * * *<P> It was her first, his seventh. She was 32, he was 363: the good old April/September number. They honeymooned in Venice, Nairobi, the Malaysia Pleasure Dome, and one of the posh L-5 resorts, a shimmering glassy sphere with round-the-clock sunlig ...
This volume collects 20 tales by Ronald Anthony Cross, author of the Eternal Guardians series. Included are:<P> THE BIRDS ARE FREE<BR> THE FOREVER SUMMER<BR> A CITIZEN OF 3V<BR> MOON MADNESS<BR> HOTEL MIND SLAVES<BR> SHIVA SHIVA<BR> THE INITIATE<BR> THE FOOL<BR> THE COUNTRY STORE<BR> HERMES AND THE MAGIC HELMET<BR> TWO PLOTTING PODS<BR> THE FRONT PAGE<BR> ...
In the 21st Century the face of war had changed. Atomic weapons – out! Bazookas and rockets—nyet! Machine guns—maybe. The newest secret weapon—gliders! East and West had managed an uneasy truce in the arms race by banning ail weapons developed before 1900—and restricting wars to local disputes between corporations or companies and unions. It was a crazy way of doing things, but it worked—until an ambitious Major upset the apple cart, and threw t ...
David Wright O’Brien’s “Trapped on Titan” first appeared the June 1940 issue of Amazing Stories magazine. This action-adventure tale takes place on the largest moon in the Saturn planetary system, Titan, deserted by Earthmen for the past five centuries and declared off-limits. Yet two pilots are forced to land there in their crippled spaceship and encounter a lovely woman, both fascinating and terrifying. Where did she come from? How has she sur ...
What do these things have in common? A secretary at a company goes to ask for reimbursement for a cab ride, and is told she has been overpaying into her pension and is given almost 6 months' salary. A guy goes to rob a bank, and is given more than 20 times the amount he was asking for. A boy goes to Tiffany's to buy his mother a birthday present, and is sold a $7000 necklace for $1… ...
