HARD TIMES That’s what leads Manson Everard to answer an ad offering “high pay and foreign travel for men and women with military experience.” But compared to where – and when – he’s going, “hard times” in the 20th-century U.S.A. are easy!
9 • Time Patrol • [Time Patrol • 1] • (1955) • novelette by Poul Anderson 65 • Brave to Be a King • [Time Patrol • 2] • (1959) • novelette by Poul Anderson 125 • Gibraltar Falls • [Time Patrol • 3] • (1975) • shortstory by Poul Anderson 141 • The Only Game in Town • [Time Patrol • 4] • (1960) • novelette by Poul Anderson 187 • Delenda Est • [Time Patrol • 5] • (1955) • novelette by Poul Anderson
A spaceship captain determined to gather a cupful of the sun. . .a nubile young witch who yearns to taste human love. . .an expedition that hunts dinosaurs across the fragile and dangerous chasm of time. . . These strange and wonderful tales of beauty and terror will transport you from the begininng of time to the outermost limits of the future. Selected from his best-selling collections "The Golden Apples Of The Sun" and "R Is For Rocket," here are thirty-two superb stories from one of the master fantastics of our age--the inimitable Ray Bradbury.
CONTENTS 1 • The Fog Horn • (1951) • short story by Ray Bradbury 10 • The April Witch • [The Elliott Family] • (1952) • short story by Ray Bradbury 21 • The Wilderness • [The Martian Chronicles] • (1952) • short story by Ray Bradbury 31 • The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl • non-genre • (1948) • short story by Ray Bradbury 43 • The Flying Machine • (1953) • short story by Ray Bradbury 49 • The Murderer • (1953) • short story by Ray Bradbury 58 • The Golden Kite, the Silver Wind • (1953) • short story by Ray Bradbury 63 • I See You Never • non-genre • (1947) • short story by Ray Bradbury 67 • Embroidery • (1951) • short story by Ray Bradbury 71 • The Big Black and White Game • (1945) • short story by Ray Bradbury 83 • The Great Wide World Over There • (1952) • short story by Ray Bradbury 96 • Powerhouse • (1948) • short story by Ray Bradbury 106 • En la Noche • (1952) • short story by Ray Bradbury 111 • Sun and Shadow • non-genre • (1953) • short story by Ray Bradbury 119 • The Meadow • (1953) • short story by Ray Bradbury 135 • The Garbage Collector • (1953) • short story by Ray Bradbury 141 • The Great Fire • [Green Town] • (1949) • short story by Ray Bradbury 148 • The Golden Apples of the Sun • (1953) • short story by Ray Bradbury 157 • R Is for Rocket • (1943) • short story by Ray Bradbury 174 • The End of the Beginning • (1956) • short story by Ray Bradbury 180 • The Rocket • (1950) • short story by Ray Bradbury 191 • The Rocket Man • (1951) • short story by Ray Bradbury 203 • A Sound of Thunder • (1952) • short story by Ray Bradbury 216 • The Long Rain • (1950) • short story by Ray Bradbury 231 • The Exiles • (1949) • short story by Ray Bradbury 246 • Here There Be Tygers • (1951) • short story by Ray Bradbury 260 • The Strawberry Window • (1955) • short story by Ray Bradbury 269 • The Dragon • (1955) • short story by Ray Bradbury 273 • Frost and Fire • (1946) • novella by Ray Bradbury 316 • Uncle Einar • [The Elliott Family] • (1947) • short story by Ray Bradbury 324 • The Time Machine • [Dandelion Wine] • (1955) • short story by Ray Bradbury 332 • The Sound of Summer Running • [Dandelion Wine] • (1956) • short story by Ray Bradbury
Jack Vance is one of the most remarkable talents to ever grace the world of science fiction. His unique, stylish voice has been beloved by generations of readers. One of his enduring classics is his 1964 novel, The Dying Earth, and its sequels--a fascinating, baroque tale set on a far-future Earth, under a giant red sun that is soon to go out forever.
This omnibus volume comprised all four books in the series The Dying Earth The Eyes of the Overworld Cugel's Saga Rialto the Marvellous
THE COMPLETE ROBOT is the definitive anthology of Asimov's stunning visions of a robotic future…
In these stories, Isaac Asimov creates the Three Laws of Robotics and ushers in the Robot Age: when Earth is ruled by master-machines and when robots are more human than mankind. Contents
9 • Introduction (The Complete Robot) • (1982) • essay by Isaac Asimov 15 • A Boy's Best Friend • (1975) • short story by Isaac Asimov 19 • Sally • (1953) • short story by Isaac Asimov 41 • Someday • (1956) • short story by Isaac Asimov 55 • Point of View • [Multivac] • (1975) • short story by Isaac Asimov 59 • Think! • (1977) • short story by Isaac Asimov 70 • True Love • (1977) • short story by Isaac Asimov 77 • Robot AL-76 Goes Astray • (1942) • short story by Isaac Asimov 93 • Victory Unintentional • (1942) • short story by Isaac Asimov 117 • Stranger in Paradise • (1974) • novelette by Isaac Asimov 151 • Light Verse • (1973) • short story by Isaac Asimov 157 • Segregationist • (1967) • short story by Isaac Asimov 164 • Robbie • (1940) • short story by Isaac Asimov (variant of Strange Playfellow) 191 • Let's Get Together • (1957) • short story by Isaac Asimov 211 • Mirror Image • [Elijah Bailey / R. Daneel Olivaw] • (1972) • short story by Isaac Asimov 231 • The Tercentenary Incident • (1976) • short story by Isaac Asimov 253 • First Law • [Mike Donovan] • (1956) • short story by Isaac Asimov 257 • Runaround • [Mike Donovan] • (1942) • novelette by Isaac Asimov 280 • Reason • [Mike Donovan] • (1941) • short story by Isaac Asimov 302 • Catch That Rabbit • [Mike Donovan] • (1944) • short story by Isaac Asimov 329 • Liar! • [Susan Calvin] • (1941) • short story by Isaac Asimov 350 • Satisfaction Guaranteed • [Susan Calvin] • (1951) • short story by Isaac Asimov 368 • Lenny • [Susan Calvin] • (1958) • short story by Isaac Asimov 385 • Galley Slave • [Susan Calvin] • (1957) • novelette by Isaac Asimov 427 • Little Lost Robot • [Susan Calvin] • (1947) • novelette by Isaac Asimov 459 • Risk • [Susan Calvin] • (1955) • novelette by Isaac Asimov 490 • Escape! • [Susan Calvin] • (1945) • short story by Isaac Asimov 518 • Evidence • [Susan Calvin] • (1946) • novelette by Isaac Asimov 546 • The Evitable Conflict • [Susan Calvin] • (1950) • novelette by Isaac Asimov 575 • Feminine Intuition • [Susan Calvin] • (1969) • novelette by Isaac Asimov 605 • ... That Thou Art Mindful of Him • (1974) • novelette by Isaac Asimov (variant of —That Thou Art Mindful of Him!) 635 • The Bicentennial Man • (1976) • novelette by Isaac Asimov 683 • A Last Word • (1982) • essay by Isaac Asimov
THE COMPLETE ROBOT is the ultimate collection of timeless, amazing and amusing robot stories from the greatest science fiction writer of all time, offering golden insights into robot thought processes. Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics were programmed into real computers thirty years ago at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - with surprising results. Readers of today still have many surprises in store...
Isaac Asimov's I, Robot launches readers on an adventure into a not-so-distant future where man and machine , struggle to redefinelife, love, and consciousness—and where the stakes are nothing less than survival. Filled with unforgettable characters, mind-bending speculation, and nonstop action, I, Robot is a powerful reading experience from one of the master storytellers of our time.
I, ROBOT
They mustn't harm a human being, they must obey human orders, and they must protect their own existence...but only so long as that doesn't violate rules one and two. With these Three Laws of Robotics, humanity embarked on perhaps its greatest adventure: the invention of the first positronic man. It was a bold new era of evolution that would open up enormous possibilities—and unforeseen risks. For the scientists who invented the earliest robots weren't content that their creations should ' remain programmed helpers, companions, and semisentient worker-machines. And soon the robots themselves; aware of their own intelligence, power, and humanity, aren't either.
As humans and robots struggle to survive together—and sometimes against each other—on earth and in space, the future of both hangs in the balance. Human men and women confront robots gone mad, telepathic robots, robot politicians, and vast robotic intelligences that may already secretly control the world. And both are asking the same questions: What is human? And is humanity obsolete?
In l, Robot Isaac Asimov changes forever our perception of robots, and human beings and updates the timeless myth of man's dream to play god. with all its rewards—and terrors. --front flap
Electronics engineer Dan Davis has finally made the invention of a lifetime: a household robot with extraordinary abilities, destined to dramatically change the landscape of everyday routine. Then, Dan was tricked by an unscrupulous greedy business partner and a greedier fiancee into spending thirty years in suspended animation, the long sleep, just when he was on the verge of a success beyond his wildest dreams.
They never imagine that the future time in which Dan, a modern-day and future-time, Rip Van Winkle, will awaken has mastered time travel, giving him a way to get back to them, and at them, and get his revenge!.
He can make you see things that have never been seen by human eyes.... feel things that no flesh-and-blood creature has ever felt. He can create visions so compelling that they literally seem to dance before your eyes. He can push you back to the beginnings of time and then suddenly, without warning, thrust you forward t the outmost limits of the future. He can make you so much a part of his strange worlds that you literally scream to get out.
Seventeen breathtaking stories by the master of the weird and wonderful, including the space-age classic, FROST AND FIRE.
Here in one monumental volume are all 21 of the stories, novellas and novels making up Heinlein's famous Future History—the rich, imaginative architecture of Man's destiny that many consider his greatest and most prophetic work.* Introduction - Damon Knight* Life-Line* The Roads Must Roll* Blowups Happen* The Man Who Sold the Moon* Delilah and the Space-Rigger* Space Jockey* Requiem* The Long Watch* Gentleman, Be Seated* The Black Pits of Luna* "It's Great to Be Back!"* "—We Also Walk Dogs"* Searchlight* Ordeal in Space* The Green Hills of Earth* Logic of Empire* The Menace from Earth* "If This Goes On—"* Coventry* Misfit* Methuselah's Children
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