Science fiction: apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic

Joe Kenmore heard the airlock close with a sickening wheeze and then a clank.

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It was a week before the Lhari ship went into warp-drive, and all that time young Bart Steele had stayed in his cabin.

Living in a kill or be killed world, they were two desperate scavengers in a no-man's land of radiation and death.

A 23rd century "e;time thief"e; uses a time machine to steal the Holy Grail from King Arthur's knights, but not everything goes according to plan.

A plantation owner on an alien world tracks the strange animal Cytha and gets a lesson in xeno-ecology.

The discovery of a second satellite leads to an Earth-men war on frog-vampires for the emancipation of the human cows of Earth's second satellite.

"e;I'm just looking at the Moon,"e; she said listlessly.

Two men receive a lot more than meal and a bed when they visit a tavern in the Black Forest, in this spooky story by Fantasy master Robert E.

Klaus took a look at them, leaning over Hendricks' broad shoulder.

An interstellar revolution is brewing, and young Tony finds himself in the middle of it, questioning who his friends are, and who are his foes.

The gun was huge.

From the lamppost something was hanging.

"e;It has taken thousands of generations to achieve,"e; the A-class leady concluded.

Stark terror ruled the Inner-Flight ship on that last Mars-Terra run.

He held the skull in his hands, turning it over.

"e;Technically, it could be done.

"e;We are a very old race,"e; the wub said.

Eleven o'clock came.

There it was in a nutshell.

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Collected here are six fantastic science fiction stories by R.

Dixon Wells, a fashionable playboy, is always late.

'Thuvia, Maid of Mars' is the fourth novel in Edgar Rice Burroughs' amazing Barsoom series.

'The Chessmen of Mars' is the fifth novel in Edgar Rice Burroughs' amazing Barsoom series.

The balloon seemed scarcely to move, though it was slowly sinking toward the ocean of white clouds which hung between it and the earth.

What will the final evolution be, and will we recognize it when it arrives?

Two centuries from now, the western hemisphere has severed contact with the rest of the world, which has exhausted itself in war and descended into barbarism.

Here is a modern tale of an inner-directed sorcerer and an outer-directed sorcerer's apprentice.

The famous scientific trio of Arcot, Wade and Morey, challenged by the most ruthless aliens in all the universes, blasted off on an intergalactic search for defenses against the invaders of Earth and all her allies.

Keith Laumer was well-known for his science fiction action and adventure stories.

Gods of Mars is the second novel in Edgar Rice Burroughs' amazing Barsoom series.

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An astronomer and an industrialist attempt to assist aliens from a dying race whose spaceship has crashed, while their sons prepare two strange animals for the circus.

Terra is in a perpetual stalemate of a war with Proxima Centauri because the old and corrupt Centaurian Empire will not let the humans grow out of their current empire.

In the frozen wastes at the bottom of the world two explorers find a strange pool of white fire-and have a strange adventure.

On a human colony around another star, there are two other sentient hominids: reptiles, and amphibians.

An army doctor at a garrison on Earth is puzzled by a case of a soldier who returns from the asteroid Y-3, and claims that he's a plant.

At the advent of the modern space age an enterprising company has set up a mining endeavor on an out-world.

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Mankind finds itself in a fight for its very survival when invaders from Mars land on Earth.

Mercury is a lush, hot world.

Decrypting a 500 year-old document from a distant planet is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Collected here are five fantastic stories by Algis Budrys, Frank Herbert, Robert Sheckley, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Commander Greylorn must find a lost colony and beg it to come to Earths aid.

The first book of the Barsoom series introduces the reader to John Carter, a Confederate veteran of the American Civil War, who is mysteriously transported to Mars, where he finds that he has great strength and superhuman agility.

Abby tiene 13 años y está deseando ver cómo la luna se vuelve púrpura, sin saber que las bacterias de un cometa que está a punto de pasar matarán a los adolescentes y los adultos.

A chilling yet redemptive post-apocalyptic debut that examines community, motherhood, faith, and the importance of telling one's own story.

Lets face it: zombies are hot, and baby, theyre getting hotter.

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