If my friend, an engineer, had not told me that the pipe was dangerous, I would not have bought a ticket on that fateful night, and the world would never have known the history of the Golden Cave and the City of the Dead. Therefore, according to the generally accepted custom, when I first presented my report as the sole survivor of the disaster under discussion at the International Committee for the Study of Natural Disasters, I am now ready to present this story to the whole world. Naturally, I know about many wild tales and rumors that have been circulating since the accident, but I must...
Lawton enjoyed a good fight. He stood happily exchanging blows with Slashway Tommy, his body with thin skin glistened with sweat. He chose to slowly develop pugnacity out of himself in order to enjoy her until she faded....
It is completely not obvious - at first glance - that the presence of two completely good, usable hands can become a real obstacle for a person ... "To be, or not to be – that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms ..." Hamlet, Act III, Scene I...
There was no doubt that he was a fake Swami. He seemed to be a true prophet, but what is the difference between a dictator and a true prophet? So he was ......
A married couple waiting for their first child, as a result of an incredibly profitable exchange, receives a large and comfortable house to replace their old trailer. Ted, the head of the family, suspecting a trick from the former owners, is completely right....
Dr. Calhoun and his pet Tormal Murgatroyd work at the Interstellar Medical Service, conducting regular public health checks on vast colonial planets. When they reach Talien Three, they are met by the Parasov missile attack, a mutated human form that quickly replaces the "normals." Normal people think this is a pandemic of demonic possession, but Calhoun has his doubts. If he may not become a Para or be killed by them, he simply can understand it....
Jupiter's Red Hell is a short science fiction novel written in 1931 for the popular science fiction magazine Amazing Stories. What is the secret of the famous "red spot" of Jupiter? Soon, two fighting earthlings, caught by the “chimney sweeps”, as well as their missing comrades, are discovered....
It took a long time for people to admit that our small piece of meteor debris was not the exact and absolute center of the universe. It really is, right? The astronaut may not need so much time to learn ......
The Forgotten Planet is a science fiction novel by the American writer Murray Lenster. The novel was released in 1954 by the publishing house Gnome Press with a circulation of 5,000 copies. The novel is a continuation of three stories: Crazy Planet and Red Dust, both of which first appeared in Argosy Magazine in 1920 and 1921, and Planet of Nightmares, which was published in Science Fiction Plus in 1953. The novel was created by combining three interconnected novels published previously in periodicals....
He was one of the first astronauts to leave the earth, and what he discovered surprised even him. "Another world." Small and too dark to see from the ground - but large enough to capture his spaceship. Big enough to be trapped ......
Out of nowhere, these gloomy, cold, dressed in black people came to kidnap three earthly people and carry them to a strange and terrible world where a person can be a giant of his own will....
