by Bertram Gayton
- Fiction
- 2015
- Autor: Bertram Gayton
Gran'pa is ninety-five, possessed of £100,000, a fertile imagination, and a good physique. He sees in the papers accounts of the theory of rejuvenation by means of gland-grafting. Nothing will satisfy him but that the experiment should be made upon himself. He acquires a gorilla, a hefty murderous brute, and the operation is performed with success. That is only the beginning. He next determines to dig out an old love, and make her young, too; and Sally, a dear old lady of seventy, arrives upon the scene. Inspired to philanthropy by the thrill of regained youth, Gran'pa decides to take a...
Number of pages: ~ 177 pages
by Percival Pollard
- Fiction
- 2012
- Autor: Percival Pollard
Orson Wayne lowered as if a mask, an ironic smile worn on his lips. You want sincerity, he said, well, then I'll be sincere. Sincerity creates wrinkles, but it is a privilege for our friends to make us old by our time. Sincerely, Luke, I'm very, very tired....
Number of pages: ~ 66 pages
by Mack Reynolds
- Fiction
- 1961
- Autor: Mack Reynolds
State Security Agent, Colonel Ilya Simonov, was sent to Prague to the Moskvich car dealership. Recently, a wind of change has been blowing from Prague. It's horrible! The Soviet government intends to end it!...
Number of pages: ~ 22 pages
by Frank Belknap Long
- Fiction
- 1954
- Autor: Frank Belknap Long
Man from Time is a short science fiction novel written in 1954 for the magazine Fantastic Universe. The method by which one person could be precisely defined in the vastness of Eternity was the problem that the universal Frank Belknap Long dealt with in this story. And, as all minds of great discernment know, this would be a simple human quality that he would find most effective even in solving Space-time. "In the depths of the future, he found the answer to the eternal problem of man." It's nice to publish this new, high-quality and affordable edition of this timeless story....
Number of pages: ~ 14 pages
by Terry Carr
"Horng sat opposite the tiny, fragile creature who held a microphone, its wires attached to an interpreting machine. He blinked his huge eyes slowly, his stiff mouth fumblingly forming words of a language his race had not used for thirty thousand years. 'Kor was . . . is . . . God . . . Knowledge.' He had tried to convey this to the small creatures who had invaded his world, but they did not heed. Their ill-equipped brains were trying futilely to comprehend the ancient race memory of his people."...
Number of pages: ~ 61 pages
by Mack Reynolds
- Fiction
- 1962
- Autor: Mack Reynolds
Each status quo-caste society in history has left two roads open to rise above your caste: Priest and Warrior. But in the society of television and tranquilizers - the Warrior takes on a new strange meaning ......
Number of pages: ~ 45 pages
by Green Peyton
- Fiction
- 1929
- Autor: Green Peyton
My first sensation was a sudden and severe cooling - the cold that pierced my body and swallowed it like a charge of electricity. For a moment, I was not aware of anything else. Then I realized that I was drowning in cold water and instinctively struggling with the need to suffocate and breathe fresh air. I kicked weakly and frantically. I opened my eyes and squeezed them when the bright green water stung them. Then I froze for a moment, as if suspended above the depths, and began to rise. It seemed a few hours before I again went up to the open air and, fortunately, drank it deep into my...
Number of pages: ~ 24 pages
by Sewell Peaslee Wright
- Fiction
- 1933
- Autor: Sewell Peaslee Wright
Science Fiction 1930s. Rockets, a planet inhabited by bloodthirsty giant spiders (and intelligent ones too), atomic pistols and disintegrator rays. How interesting!...
Number of pages: ~ 22 pages
by James McKimmey
- Fiction
- 1953
- Autor: James McKimmey
The climate was perfect, the sky was always blue, and, most importantly, no one was supposed to work. What more could you want?...
Number of pages: ~ 11 pages
by Donald A. Wandrei
- Fiction
- 1932
- Autor: Donald A. Wandrei
It was in the thirty-fourth century that the dark star began its famous conquest, which has no analogues in the stellar annals. Phobar, an astronomer, discovered this. He swept the skies with one of the recently invented multipurpose comet hunters of Sussendorf, when something caught his eye - a new star with huge brilliance in the foreground of the constellation Hercules....
Number of pages: ~ 18 pages
by James McKimmey
- Fiction
- 2009
- Autor: James McKimmey
“Why don't you find yourself a pretty American,” his father often repeated. But George was on Venus ... and he loved the pale green skin ... and spherical heads, and most of all George loved Gistla....
Number of pages: ~ 14 pages
by Harry Stephen Keeler
- Fiction
- 1915
- Autor: Harry Stephen Keeler
In 1921, John Jones put in the bank one dollar at 3% per annum and bequeathed this contribution to his fortieth descendant. After a thousand years, this contribution has reached unprecedented proportions....
Number of pages: ~ 12 pages