Bellamy's fantastic utopian novels made a great contribution to the theory of American socialism. In his main work, “After a Hundred Years,” the author described the social system that had come to him. The hero of the book, under the influence of hypnosis, fell asleep in a lethargic dream in 1887, and woke up already in 2000 and was surprised to find that over the past 113 years, a society of universal equality had emerged in the process of peaceful evolution in America. All implements of production are nationalized, the people represent the “industrial army of labor”, competition, business,...
Three friends built a time machine, set off on it in the distant past, 150 thousand years ago, and founded the state of Mastodonia there. Will they be able to achieve political recognition of Mastodonia in our time, because no one believes in the existence of such a country?...
Is Spirit and Flesh the same thing? Or are these separate entities, dependent and at the same time independent of each other? Perhaps some great Cosmic Law holds this secret. But the only Universal Element on which we can depend, apparently, is the Happy Event. A twisted moment in the Cosmos - and two ego are separated from their bodies and lost in a lonely abyss....
A young Englishman, along with a classmate - a young man of a mysterious nationality - make an escape from school and go to Africa. Along the way, it turns out that this African is the crown prince of one of the most mysterious kingdoms of the Black continent, where the white man’s foot has not yet stepped. And the Great White Queen rules this state. Not having time to land on the African coast, friends fall into a trap set up by the worst enemy of the royal dynasty of the unknown country of Mo. Innumerable adventures have to go through them on the way to the lost world, but even there...
Millions of millions of creatures living on planet Earth are slowing and falling. What is the reason? The sense of time disappears ... What awaits our world?...
In this short story, the author confronts the characters with one of the oldest questions that interest humanity - what is the soul? And like hundreds of times before, history is trying to find a new answer...
In a world where most people sleep and dream about life, only a few, such as Nelson, really walk the earth, hide from guards and tracking robots, only they really live and try to achieve their goal. But the problem is completely different. Nelson is a rebel by nature, and this rebellion cannot lead to anything good ......
This is perhaps one of the most powerful stories in modern social philosophy - a small fairy tale, from which frost runs over the skin. An unusual situation, an unpredictable plot - a fascinating story awaits you!...
The Blue Germ concentrates on what will bring immortality to society and the individual, but does not focus on science as the basis. Its main qualities are in symbols and tones, and not in conceptualization. He makes interesting and insightful observations and voices a truly unique (for his era) assumption that could become a stepping stone to the medical provision of immortality....
The Star of the World was an unpredictable variable. Sometimes it was flaming, sparkling and hot. In other cases, it was strangely dim, radiating a little heat to its many planets. Gresth Gkae, Miran leader, was looking for the best star his people could migrate to. This star must be stable, reliable, with a good planetary system. And in his astronomical search, he found Sol. With hundreds of ships, each of which is larger than entire Earth cosmodromes, and moving faster than the speed of light, Mirans intended to move to the solar regions and seize power. And there was nothing on Earth that...
PLANET STRAPPERS started as The Bunch, a group of space students sitting in the back room of a store in Jarviston, Minnesota. They needed the riches of the earth, and they asked, selected and built what they wanted in order to achieve their goal. PLANET STRAPPERS got what they wanted - the beginning of the path to the stars - but none of those born and raised on Earth could imagine that they would be waiting there!...
The entire United Nations fleet has been trapped in an incredible trap for alien invaders who have flown to land from distant Craneborg. Thorne, the only nearby military officer, discovers that the invaders possess outstanding science. Murray Lenster’s invasion is a short and very quick story, but it will give you an hour of pure pleasure!...
What if an alien with exceptional physical abilities attacks the Earth and leaves only death and destruction in its path? You use biological modification to create an improved human being able to compare with an alien in power and speed. But is the result still human? The solution to this problem is hidden in the novel by Randall Garrett "Anything you can do ..."...
