After Sunday service, John Orphan meets two villagers. They claim to inspect homes after a night flood. The guy suspects that men are looking for the ghost of Blackbeard and a precious diamond. He had previously heard sounds from the crypt where members of the Mohun family are buried. Water washed a funnel at the burial site. A guy descends through an educated passage and enters a network of caves. He finds an old medallion in which a secret code is hidden......
Ignoring the time, Jack Breton crosses the parallel world to return Kate, a wife who was found raped and strangled in a lonely park nine years earlier. But in another stream of time, Kate marries her double John. And for one husband to remain Jack or John, he must die....
The following manuscript was discovered during a thorough excavation of a site that could lead to artifacts of cultural significance. And they conceded: indeed, the wreckage turned out to be the remains of an ancient spaceship, similar to those described in Sectoral Chronicles IV-VII, but much smaller and more rude in design - obviously, a relic of the days before the expansion. A small metal box was found in the remains of the ship, covered with several layers of resin-impregnated fabric and wax, which was mostly destroyed. The metal itself was highly oxidized, but served to protect the...
The French scientist from 1444, by chance, is carried forward 500 years and ends up in the 20th century, in Paris in 1944. It turns out that the move was not accidental ......
On Earth, a new generation of people has been brought up for life on Mars. Using a substance called daptin, the body of ten-year-old children was rebuilt in accordance with the environmental conditions of life on Mars. And then the day came when the children were brought to Mars, so that they began their life on their new planet ......
This is a short science fiction novel written in 1961 for Analogue Science and Science Fiction. The Committee undoubtedly made a mistake in this story. There was no doubt that Eddie had achieved the long-awaited cancer treatment ... but awarding the Nobel Prize was, nevertheless, a mistake ......
At least one of the factors contributing to the current cycle of science fiction films produced in Hollywood is the irritability of minorities when their citizens are portrayed as villains. Filmmakers are now trying to avoid further boycotts by using space aliens for villains. But suppose some of our extraterrestrial neighbors are also a little touchy?...
Music plays, drums beat, horns blow, flags fly, women dress up and preen, men rejoice, children laugh, everyone dances and sings - in short, everyone is waiting for the rocket to land....
When traveling from England to Canada at night, you can learn about the device of the airships, observe the salvage of the trump crew, survive the storm and get to know the work of the Air Transport Administration, an organization that controls transport, and the whole world with it....
An American air fleet flew over New York and its bay. Suddenly, the movement stopped, and the system froze. Ten flying forts were each vertex of a wide-spaced cone, a horizontal axis, the body of which was spaced back along the squadron of thousands of helicopter planes. The cones are meandering in the ocean off the coast of New York, their points are a fifty-mile arc of disobedience, their bases touch each other, almost touching the ground at their lower edges, and then swirl upward ten thousand feet. From the van to the rear, each junction was five miles in length....
A dual-core beryllium deposit has been discovered on the planet Fomalhaut V. An expedition from Earth flew into reconnaissance and died. Only one person escaped. What happened on the planet? Peter and Sherry must solve this mystery....
