Science fiction: apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic

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

It was late in the afternoon, and we were seated on the veranda of my friend's bungalow in the Begum suburb at Hyderabad.

Here is the story that presented virtual reality to the world.

Sandy's eyes needed only jet propulsion to become flying saucers.

There were two varieties of aliens-blue and bluer-but not as blue as the Earthmen!

Henry Slesar is advertising executive who has rapidly become one of the better known writers in the field.

When he opened the door to the shed that day, and saw the axe suspended in mid-air, he understood what was wrong.

Welcome to the future, an impossible future where by some miracle the workers have managed to get a majority of the stock and are calling the shots.

Rejuvenation for the millions-or rejuvenation for the five hundred lucky ones, the select ones, that can be treated each year?

Science said it could not be, but there it was.

In abandoned cisterns and old wells, in moldy heaps of straw forgotten in the corners of deserted barns, in reedy pools deep in the woods, in fungied hollows of dead trees, in all such secret places apart from man, strange life engenders, drifts in and takes root and form.

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

Phoenix Classics is the reference in classical works.

Come, enjoy a Carl Jacobi field day-backed by his vivid, irresistible imagination and his keen sense of fun.

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

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

When Shan Lante returns to base camp he discovered that it has been burnt to a crisp, leaving him the only living human being on the planet Warlock.

It didn't matter that he had quit.

Readers who remember the Hon.

Set in a dystopian future where America has become a police state, "e;Security"e; shows us just how important our freedoms and rights are.

Drei kurze Geschichten, die mit Perspektiven, Beziehungen, Dystopien und Albträumen spielen.

The Valgolia rule the Galaxy.

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

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.

So long as there are men and women alive, in a livable environment, then a new beginning is possible.

The Solar Queen is a trader ship crewed by Dane Thorson, Tau, and Captain Jellico.

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

There's nothing like exciting fantasy to escape boredom.

After World War III, a torn and devastated world is split between science and magic.

Die Geschichte fügt sich nahtlos an den ersten Teil (kleine Ewigkeit, Verlust der Unschuld) an.

It was the awfullest dream in the world, no doubt about it.

Moving the Mountain is the first book in Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman's well known trilogy.

Take two parts of Beelzebub, two of Israfel, one of Monte Cristo, one of Cyrano, mix violently, season with mystery and you have Mr.

Makzim Kumar ist ein Kundschafter.

Harry Harrison was an American science fiction author, best known for his character the 'Stainless Steel Rat' and for his novel 'Make Room!

Every writer must seek his own Flowery Kingdom in imagination's wide demesne, and if that search can begin and end on Earth his problem has been greatly simplified.

Wilbur Hawkes is missing the last seven months of his life.

Channing wanted a planet.

Andre Norton's science fiction classic depicts the struggles of the last remaining priestess to a powerful-yet-aloof deity.

A sensitive story of a young man who needn't have run.

Conspiracy seems to be as much a part of our times as it was in the times of Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot.

It was a proud day when Dr.

When they touched down on the alien planet Minos, the last thing the crew of the Explorer expected to find was other humans.

Tam returns home to Earth after years of working in space.

They were a charming family and everybody loved them to death-especially Amanda

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

Granthan's mission was the most vital of the war.

Guy Burckhardt wakes up screaming, but can't remember the nightmare that caused his fright.

Unfortunate castaway!

Many writers of science fiction, who have not given the matter much thought, assume that a man of intelligence from one planet would meet a cordial and sympathetic welcome on another world.