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The discovery of a falling golden meteor and the race to find it, form the core of this tale. This science fiction blends hard science and scientific speculation with a farcical comedy of manners.
A runaway planet hurtles toward the earth. As it draws near, tidal waves, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions wrack our planet, devastating continents and wiping out millions. A team of scientists race to build a spacecraft to escape the doomed earth. Their greatest threat, they discover, comes not from the skies but from other humans.
Reveals details about the stories written by the creator of Tarzan - Edgar Rice Burroughs. Featured here are the outlines of all of Burroughs's major novels, along with descriptions of how they were each written, and their respective sources of inspiration.
Perhaps best known for editing the popular post-World War II magazines Galaxy Science Fiction and Beyond Fantasy Fiction, Horace L. Gold also wrote comic-book scripts for DC Comics and numerous pulp adventures and science-fiction stories. This collection of seven of these stories captures the timeless emotions evoked by pulp and science fiction for the twenty-first century.
Gathered here for the first time are Miles J. Breuer's first publication, ""The Man with the Strange Head""; his neglected dystopian novel Paradise and Iron (appearing here in book form for the first time); stories such as ""Gostak and the Doshes"" and ""Mechanocracy""; and Breuer's essay ""The Future of Scientifiction,"" one of the early critical statements of the genre.
A collection of tales that have played an integral role in the development of modern dark fantasy.
Abalone, Arizona, is a sleepy southwestern town whose chief concerns are boredom and surviving the Great Depressionuthat is, until the circus of Dr. Lao arrives and immensely and irrevocably changes the lives of everyone drawn to its tents. Dazzling and macabre, literary and philosophical, The Circus of Dr. Lao has been acclaimed as a masterpiece of speculative fiction.
Presents a story of a terrifying, ancient force unleashed in the South Pacific; 'fantasy, romance, adventure; something of mystery, something of the supernatural.'
Stranded on Amtor after his spaceship crashes, astronaut Carson Napier is swept into a world where revolution is ripe. This is the inaugural volume of the last science fiction series imagined and penned by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It features an introduction by novelist F. Paul Wilson.
Explores the world of the atom. This is the story of a young chemist who finds a hidden atomic world within his mother's wedding ring. Under a microscope, he sees within the ring a beautiful young woman sitting before a cave. Enchanted by her, he shrinks himself so that he can join her world.
A brilliant scientist invents the Karburator, a reactor that can create abundant and practically free energy. However, the Karburator's super-efficient energy production also yields a powerful by-product the Absolute, the spiritual essence held within all matter, into the world.
The American explorer and emperor of Pellucidar, David Innes, has been captured by the deadly Korsar pirates. Picking up on the desperate cries for help emanating from Pellucidar, Jason Gridley brings the message to the only person who can help, Tarzan of the Apes. This is the fourth work in the "Pelludicar" series from the creator of "Tarzan".
Led by the American explorer David Innes, the human communities have finally overthrown Pellucidar's slave masters, the dreaded Mahars. The peace, however, is temporary, and the Pellucidarian Empire is faced with a new menace, the deadly Korsar pirates. This is the third work in the "Pelludicar" series from the legendary creator of "Tarzan".
Edgar Rice Burroughs's stunning epic of a world conquered by alien invaders from the moon and of the hero Julian, who champions the earth's struggle for freedom, peace and dignity.
Combining reasoned scientific speculation with philosophical inquiry, this title presents a tale of how humankind can physically and culturally evolve over the next several million years.
After a strange interstellar journey, Maskull, a man from Earth, awakens alone in a desert on the planet Tormance, seared by the suns of the binary star Arcturus. As he journeys northward, guided by a drumbeat, he encounters a world and its inhabitants like no other, where gender is a victory won at dear cost.
In 1897 a Victorian gentleman falls into a sleep from which he cannot be waked. During his two centuries of slumber he becomes the Sleeper, the most well known and powerful person in the world. This book tells the story of London in the twenty-second century and the man who by accident becomes owner and master of the world.
Features some of the notable but little known speculative fiction available, penned by the famed American humorist and writer. The author embarks on an epic journey into a drop of water, and imagines futuristic devices of instantaneous communication such as the "phrenophone" and "telelectroscope."
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