Science fiction: apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic

It's well established now that the way you put a question often determines not only the answer you'll get, but the type of answer possible.

In the distant future a man from the twentieth century wakes to find himself in an almost incomprehensible world.

She came off the Androids, Inc.

I was fourteen then.

Poor Henry was an unhappy husband whose wife had a habit of using bad cliches.

It was a strange and bitter Earth over which the Chancellor ruled-a strange and deformed world.

Elected a god, Zen the Omnipotent longed for supernatural powers-for he was also Zen the All-Put-Upon, a galactic sucker!

Mercury is a lush, hot world.

Civilizations must make sense somehow.

Set on a Mars that never was.

To translate writings, you need a key to the code-and if the last writer of Martian died forty thousand years before the first writer of Earth was born .

In a post-apocalyptic experiment scientists have an intriguing plan, in the first installment of H.

They are the aliens among us-and their ways and wonders are stranger than extraterrestrials!

This is not a story about the Dero!

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

Brion Brandd was chosen for the mission because he was the very best of the best.

"e;NOW WHAT the hell's the matter with me?

Giving Certain Powers the business for a change would be a joy-but it must not backfire-and here at last was the perfect recoilless diddle!

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

Flunking a physical was the greatest worry a space pilot had.

She'd paid good money to see the inevitable .

He came to her handsome and youthful in appearance.

"e;They"e; worried about the impression she'd make.

'The Green Odyssey' is an uproarious, hell-bent adventure story, combining fantasy, imagination and science, with a liberal dash of humor.

Science fiction, in collaboration with the idea-men and technicians of Hollywood, has been responsible for many horrors, dating back to "e;The Cabinet of Dr.

Score one or one million was not enough for the human race.

The domination of the minds of tractable Man is not new.

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.

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

He was a scientist spurned by the scientific establishment.

Collected in one omnibus edition are three of Andre Norton's best known works: 'The Time Traders,' 'The Defiant Agents,' and 'Key Out of Time.

Pioneers have always resented their wanderlust, hated their hardships.

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

It was almost dark when he awoke, and lay on the bed, motionless and trembling, his heart sinking in the knowledge that he should never have slept.

Snaddra had but one choice in its fight to afford to live belowground- underhandedly pretend theirs was an aboveboard society!

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

Septimus Spink didn't need to read Jules Verne's "e;Journey to the Center of the Earth.

You do not always have to go looking for a guardian angel.

Was this ill-fated expedition the end of a proud, old race-or the beginning of a new one?

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

'Deathworld' is perhaps Harry Harrison's best known novel and is certainly the book that put him on the map.

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

Turnabout may not always be fair play in the gulfs between the stars.

To live different and exciting lives, all I had to do was sign here-and give up my own life!

The Dome of Eyes made it almost impossible for Terrans to reach the world of Tepokt.

A ray of fire, green, mysterious, stabs through the night to Dan on his ship.

Old Mr.

When the hour of balance comes, mankind may no longer be the dominant race.