Book Preview The walkway brought him to the brink of the office door. Bracing his knees to withstand the sudden cessation of velocity, Alec jumped off. He removed a key from his pocket and inserted it in the lock. He turned his hand. The door opened without resistance. Alec swore and stepped hastily inside. He … Read more
Book Preview Against the inexorable forces of time, will humanity leave any lasting mark? The last man on Earth knew not that he was. Nor would he have cared. He had met very few other humans in his life, and none since his woman coughed herself into silence. How long ago that happened, he did … Read more
Book Preview From the Encyclopaedia Galactica, 11th edition: TOKA: Brackney’s Star III. The sun (NSC 7-190853426) is of type G2, located in Region Deneb, approximately 503 lightyears from Sol… . The third planet appears Earthlike, to a sufficiently superficial observer … There are three small moons, their League names being Uha, Buha, and Huha. As … Read more
Book Preview From theEncyclopedia Galactica , 11th edition: TOKA: Brackneys Star III. The sun (NSC 7-190853426) is of type G2, located in Region Deneb, approximately 503 light-years from Sol… The third planet appears Earthlike, to a sufficiently superficial observer… There are three small moons, their League names being Uha, Buha, and Huha. As is customary … Read more
Book Preview Three women: one is dead; one is alive; One is both and neither, and will never live and never die, being immortal in SUM. On a hill above that valley through which runs the highroad, I await Her passage. I’rost came early this year, and the grasses have paled. Otherwise the slope is … Read more
Book Preview To Greq Bear, Gregory Benford, and David Brin, Killer Bees and COSMIC craftsmen PART ONE To follow knowledge like a sinking star. Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON The story is of a man, a woman, and a world. But ghosts pass through it, and gods. Time does, which … Read more
Book Preview FromPublishers Weekly Hugo and Nebula award winner Anderson (Mother of Kings) incorporates two stories he wrote for the Asimov’s Universe series into this absorbing posthumous novel, a fast-paced space opera that never lets the reader forget that aliens are alien. At a time when nearly immortal humans have colonized the galaxy, various spacefaring … Read more
Book Preview IN THE ANCIENT faith of her people, Amaterasu was the Sun Goddess, from whom flowed the light that gives life. The discoverers of a world far and strange named it for her because they hoped that someday their kind would make it blossom. The explorers that first went there were not human. Nor … Read more
Book Preview IT is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of a wholly just man. His image had been chilling enough in court. Now we were summoned to himself. Dusk took us as we stepped from the flyer, blue-gray around, deepening to black where the mountainside toppled into the valley, overhead still a … Read more
Book Preview When Jim Baen and I were first discussing this book, what should go into it, he suggested that the motif and title be “The Ways of Love.” I felt this was too limited a theme, and we settled on “Explorations.” Each story deals with some aspect of humanity’s future movement into the cosmos, … Read more
Book Preview [19 aug 2001 – proofread and re-released for #bookz – v1] The Danska words barked from the car radio as a jet whine cut across the hum of motor and tires. “Identify yourself!” Jason Philippou cast a look skyward through the bubbletop. He saw a strip of blue between two ragged green walls … Read more
Book Preview The Corridors of Time A thrilling book, but… , March 13, 2001 I will not say a word about story here (there are people who done it before me) but I will say a few comments. First, author often says that past can not be manipulated which I think is not true, and … Read more
Book Preview The critical, decades following World War III were years of chaos and stubborn courage. Looking back across the millennia at the colossal challenge our twentieth century ancestors faced, we must salute the sacrifices they made to restore their shattered world. While mourning the follies of violent ages gone by, we humans can take … Read more
Book Preview The wind came whooping out of eastern darkness, driving a lash of ammonia dust before it. In minutes, Edward Anglesey was blinded. He clawed all four feet into the broken shards which were soil, hunched down and groped for his little smelter. The wind was an idiot bassoon in his skull. Something whipped … Read more
Book Preview The trap had closed at sundown. In the last red light, the rabbit had battered himself against its walls until fear and numbness ached home and he crouched shaken by the flutterings of his own heart. Otherwise there was no motion in him as night and the stars came. But when the moon … Read more
Book Preview The short story and three novellas (short novels) included in Book I of the History of the Psychotechnic League were first published as follows: Marius, Astounding, June 1957; Un-Man, Astounding, January, 1953; The Sensitive Man, Fantastic Universe, November, 1953; The Big Rain, Astounding, October, 1954. Read the full book by downloading it below. … Read more
Book Preview A World Named Cleopatra Poul Anderson, Jack Dann, Michael Orgill, George Zebrowski Produced by Roger Elwood Four days in the life of A WORLD NAMED CLEOPATRA, The Serpent in Eden, by Poul Anderson The first earthpeople to explore Cleopatra make fateful contact with the eerily humanlike race of reptilians who inhabit the planet. … Read more
Book Preview THUNDER AND LIGHTNING. A HEATH ABOUT TO BE BLASTED. Throughout that sullen day, cannon had spoken from time to time between the confronting armies. Otherwise there was no move of war. First Rupert waited for the Yorkshiremen; afterward he waited for morning, aware that meanwhile hunger, and memory of the defeats he had … Read more