Solar Magnet is a short science fiction novel written in 1931 for Amazing Stories. This is another episode of Dr. Bird’s long scientific duel with his sworn enemy Saranoff. It’s nice to publish this new, high-quality and affordable edition of this timeless story....
When Ed Loyce heads to work at his TV repair shop, he is startled to find the dead body of a complete stranger hanging from a lamp post outside. But when he calls attention to the morbid display, the strange reactions of his friends and neighbours bring him to a disturbing realization....
It seemed appropriate and appropriate that the greatest of all jumps into space should begin from the Roosevelt field, where so many great flights began and ended. Pilots whose names sounded - for space - around the world, landed here and were received by New York with all the splendor of visiting kings. The pilots went here to the lands of the kings, which they received when their journeys ended. Of course, Lucian Jeter and Theme Ayer were disappointed that Franz Kress defeated them in the race to be the first in the stratosphere above fifty-five thousand feet. There was a chance that Cress...
Whom to send to repair the failed old lighthouse? Of course him, the best repairman of hyperspace beacons. Imagine his surprise when, arriving at the place, he saw that the lizard-like aborigines not only climbed into the lighthouse, but also built a temple in it, because of which there is a small religious war. I had to take the form of a lizard and urgently save the situation....
In a language translation, you can get a literally accurate literal translation ... but completely miss the point. And in space translation ... the effect may be the same!...
Mattup had killed a man, so it was logical he should be punished. It was Danny who came up with the idea of leaving him with the prophecy - Goodbye, Dead Man!...
A thin spot appeared on the visor plate and grew with an ominous and frightening speed. Flashes of flame began to play around the rocket ship, explosions fired from side to side as it spun and turned into a crazy attempt to escape. Rogue Rogan, his evil lips were clenched, his sparkling evil eyes narrowed, his heart was pounding, he knew that was all. It was a day of retribution, which he had been afraid for so long ......
The book is based on the prediction of nuclear weapons more destructive and uncontrolled than the world has ever seen. It first appeared in serialized form with a different ending, as "The Prophetic Trilogy", consisting of three books: "The Trap to Catch the Sun", "The Last War in the World" and "The Released World". A common theme of Wells' work, as in his Book of Foreboding, 1901. Foreboding is the story of man's mastery of power and energy through technological advances, seen as a determining factor in human progress. The novel begins: "The history of mankind is the story of the attainment...
Here he is again, the irrepressible Septimus Spink, in a story as noisy as an old giant juggling stars and planets in his huge golden hands, and laughing joyfully like one tiny world - our own - spinning from it into caves, immeasurable for people . Thanks to specifications made to scale, Joe Archibald, whose versatility with a needle never ceases to amaze us, managed to angrily achieve a rare triumph in space and time, as well as a back halo in a magnificent solar burst of imperishable glory....
When a super robot named Snookums learns how to create its own superbombs, it becomes obvious that the Earth is by no means the safest place for it. Therefore, Dr. Fitzhugh, his designer, and Leda Crannon, a child psychologist acting as the Snookums nanny, agree to organize Operation Brain, a plan to transport the robot to a distant planet. Mike Angel - MR R. Gabriel, Power Design - designed a propulsion system that would deliver the Branchell spaceship to its secret destination along with its unusual cargo. And, as a reserve officer in the Space Patrol, Mike is the logical replacement for...
It can be a little difficult to sell the whole city and make it unnoticed, either to distribute it freely, or in the more ordinary sense of sale. People do not quite believe it....
Shanghai had changed. We sensed that the moment we came ashore. Extraterritoriality was long gone; we had known that, of course. The days of exploitation, of clubs where Chinese and Burmese and Indian servants waited on Britons and Americans were passed. Pan-Asia had seen to that. This was 1965. The white man's burden in the east had been upon brown and yellow shoulders for over sixteen years now, and the Indians and Burmese and Indonesians were ruling themselves, after their fling at communism in the fifties....
In the future, theoretically, the vanishing point is at infinity, and therefore unattainable. But the reality is different; extinction occurs much earlier than theory suggests ......
Maud was lying in a long chair on the lawn after lunch the following afternoon, defending Christian Science from the gibes (which were keen) of the mockers, who were many. She had an ally, it is true, in the person of Alice Yardly, who, in her big hat and white dress, with a blue sash, looked like a doubtful Romney, and was smiling, literally with all her might. The more the mockers mocked, the kinder grew her smile, and the more voluble her explanations. Maud, for her part, would sooner have done battle alone, for all that Alice as an ally did was, with great precision and copious...
