Classic science fiction

Blast off to adventure in this golden age space opera story by Legendary Ray Bradbury!

After what seemed most of an eternity he woke up in a hospital not knowing who he was or how he got there.

Somewhere on that asteroid of sin lurked the crime king of the Universe.

We is an earth shattering dystopian novel that ruffled the feathers of the ruling elite of Russia when it was smuggled out of the country and published in English in 1924.

Collected here in this massive 100 story anthology e-book are more than 300,000 words of world-class science fiction, fantasy, and horror by some of the greatest writers the field has ever known.

Sarnac may have become a successful scientist, a leading light in the research of chemical reactions of cells, but he would never forget the dream.

Powerful and poignant, a masterpiece.

'The Moon Maid' was without a doubt Edgar Rice Burroughs' best book.

This is the fantasy anthology you've been looking for.

Barnstaple, a burnt out journalist, decides to go on holiday and leave the rat race behind.

His followers called him Mahasamatman and said he was a god.

The Mysterious Island tells the exciting story of five Americans stranded on an uncharted island in the South Pacific.

There was an old Simorgyan legend, Fafhrd had insisted, according to which on the seventh day of the seventh moon of the seventh year of the Sevens-Cycle the king of the sea journeyed to the other end of the earth, leaving his opalescently beautiful green wives and faintly silver-scaled slim concubines free to find them lovers if they could .

"e;Finally, something you all know about-this epidemic of what we've called convulsive accidents.

Three things warned the wizard's apprentice that something was wrong: first the deep-trodden prints of iron-shod hooves along the forest path-he sensed them through his boots before stooping to feel them out in the dark; next, the eerie drone of a bee unnaturally abroad by night; and finally, a faint aromatic odor of burning.

This is the story of a beautiful woman.

"e;I, the Mind Spider as you name me-the deathless one, the eternally exiled, the eternally imprisoned-or so his overconfident enemies suppose-coming in.

It all started with the green kitten.

The fog-finger touched the taut arm.

"e;You forget, baroness, the runic rhymes of the Prussian Nostradamus,"e; said Dr.

Jamie Bingham Walsh should have been known as Schizo Jimmie.

Once upon a time in Lankhmar, City of the Black Toga, in the world of Nehwon, two years after the Year of the Feathered Death, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser parted their ways.

An archaeologist discovers the remains of an intelligent species, here on Earth.

In the Plaza of Dark Delights, which lies seven blocks south of the Marsh Gate and extends from the Fountain of Dark Abundance to the Shrine of the Black Virgin, the shop-lights glinted upward no more brightly than the stars glinted down.

Fritz Leiber was a giant in the genre field.

Time traveling, which is not quite the good clean boyish fun it's cracked up to be, started for me when this woman with the sigil on her forehead looked in on me from the open doorway of the hotel bedroom where I'd hidden myself and the bottles and asked me, "e;Look, Buster, do you want to live?

After rescue, revenge was uppermost in Chet Barfield's mind; the hideous, bestial Agvars had to be taught a lesson they'd never forget.

Gourmets all agree that nothing can beat oysters on the half-shell-not even the armed might of the Terran Confederation!

There wasn't a woman left on earth.

The creatures on the little planet were real bafflers.

The Arrow lanced down out of the night like a spear of flame, vengeful and deadly.

They came home from a strange journey.

What is more frightening than the fear of the unknown?

Progress is relative; Senator O'Noonan's idea of it was not particularly scientific.

Shure and begorra, it was a great day for the Earth!

It was, Kirk thought, like standing in a gully, watching a boulder teeter precariously above you.

Old Thaddeus McIlvaine discovered a dark star and took it for his own.

The world of the new race was peaceful, comfortable, lovely-and completely static.

It was getting so a person couldn't sleep nights anymore.

Sextus Rollo Forsyte had his trouble with the bottle, but nothing out of a bottle ever produced such a hotel as the Mahoney-Plaza: only 260 rooms .

A young man and a young woman alone on the first over-the-moon ship.

Once upon a time life was perfection.

The barn turned out to be a spaceship in disguise, and that was only the beginning.

The little house pet from Venus didn't like New York, so New York had to change.

It was a race between the tortoise and the hare.

Worlds of If was a three time winner of the Hugo Award for best science fiction magazine.

Strumming a harp while floating on a white cloud might be Paradise for some people, but it would bore others stiff.

Benson did his best to keep his colony from going native, but what can you do when the Natives have a rare human intelligence and know all about the facts of life?

For all his perfection and magnificence he was but a baby with a new found freedom in a strange and baffling world .

This was a world where minding your manners was more than just a full-time job-it was murder!