22 Tales of of the fantastic – science fiction, fantasy, fantastika, slipstream – by one of the most acclaimed modern masters of the genre! Includes a bonus interview with the author. Included are:<P> LIFE IN THE CARBYNE AGE<BR> GALAXY OF MIRRORS<BR> SPECTER-BOMBING THE BEER GOGGLES<BR> LIFE IN THE ANTHROPOCENE<BR> LITTLE WORKER<BR> FRACTAL PAISLEYS<BR> THE MILL<BR> THE GRANGE<BR> PH ...
Milton A. Rothman was best known to generations of science-fiction readers for a single classic story written at age 19: «Heavy Planet,» published under the byline of «Lee Gregor» in 'Astounding Science Fiction' in 1939 at the beginning of the Golden Age and kept in print for decades in the classic anthology 'Adventures in Time and Space'.<P> He was also a pioneer of early fandom, a founder of the Philadelphia Science ...
Utopia. A community or society possessing highly desirable or nearly perfect qualities. It may be a dream, but it's a dream that has inspired writers for thousands of years. Plato's «Republic» may be the very first utopia presented to a mass audience, but Thomas More coined the term with his 1516 book Utopia (included here), which describes a fictional island society in the Atlantic Ocean. The term (and its antonym, dystopia) quickly e ...
Anna Bowman Dodd's 1897 science fiction book – presented as a series of letters from a Swedish nobleman while visiting a socialist republic in America in 2050 – offers a glimpse of a future New York where socialists have eliminated religion, distinctions between the sexes, and mechanized all labor. Amazingly inventive, with intercontinental travel by balloons and pneumatic tubes, as well as many other inventions, this dystopian, anti-social ...
The invasion began with meteor strikes in Kansas. When the investigating team disappears, it signals the start of an alien invasion of Earth. At first, a number of humans are enslaved and forced to build a rocket aimed at the stars. Then comes the Crimson Plague, which sweeps across the world, ravaging civilization. Among the few who escape is astrophysicist Curt Temple, whose girlfriend, Lee Mason, is among the enslaved. Curt must pit his slim ...
BEFORE EARTH CAME launches a new series collecting the early pioneering pulp magazine novelettes of John Russell Fearn, with the first-ever reprinting of «Before Earth Came» and «Subconscious.»<P> Both stories abound with unbridled imagination and a sense of wonder, examples of the pioneering stories being written in SF more than 80 years ago.<P> In «Before Earth Came,» Fearn’s storyline of how alien scientists, facing the imminent ...
Linc Hosier is sitting in a packed football stadium when the Flying Eyes appear and cast their hypnotic power over half the crowd. Thousand of people suddenly begin marching, zombie-like, into the woods, where they vanish into a black pit. <P> After that, Linc uses every resource of the Space Research Lab and the National Guard to destroy the Eyes. But nothing stops them. In desperation, Linc decides to capture an Eye. When he finally ma ...
"The Mad Scientist Megapack" assembles 23 tales of Scientists, their Creatures, and Experiments both Diabolical and Dangerous! Included are:<P> MYSHKIN, by David V. Reed<BR> A LIGHT THAT SHAMED THE SUN, by C. J. Henderson<BR> INCOMPLETE DATA, by H.B. Fyfe<BR> THE CORPSE ON THE GRATING, by Hugh B. Cave<BR> COSMIC TELETYPE, by Carl Jacobi<BR> MONSTER KIDNAPS GIRL AT MAD SCIENTIST'S COMMAND!, by L ...
THE SENTINEL STARS – a novel of our world as the Bureau of Internal Revenue would run it! <P> Rigid, locked, enslaved – this is our Earth in 2200. East and West have merged at last, so there are no more wars, no more political differences. Citizens everywhere can concentrate on important things, like working off their tax debts. If you are capable and industrious, you may be able to make freeman status for the last few years of your life ...
