These days they talk a lot about secret weapons. If this is not a new wrinkle in nuclear fission, it is a weapon to shoot at corners and winding stairs. Or maybe a good new strain of bacteria is guaranteed to give you radioactive dandruff. Our own suggestion is to send some of our commercials to Russia and bring the enemy to death....
Contacts between different civilizations are extremely complex and dangerous. Many researchers have paid with their lives. But why is it so difficult to find mutual understanding?...
The Stokes Harding couple are creative personalities: Eric is a writer of “chilling romantic stories,” and Nada is a poetess. They were disgusted by civilization, progress and synthetic products, they liked the primitive nature, which, however, was no longer left on Earth. And they go for new sensations to Venus - to where this primitive nature is abundant! .....
Brett spent his whole life in the small town of Casperton. And then one day he decided to look at the world outside the city. The journey led to amazing discoveries....
Jardeen, the companion of Vesta, was the key. Jardine was large and powerful, with a space fleet not surpassed in any other world. A large group of now neutral worlds would follow Jardine’s example, and Jardine’s alliance with the People’s worlds of Verdam would mean a quick end for the Terran Republic. But, if Jardine can be persuaded to enter into an alliance with the Terran Republic, the spreading, clutching hands of the octopus Verdam’s hands will begin to die ......
Hilary Grendon sent her shabby, time-worn space pilot, Vagabond, to the smiling Earth, which quickly rose to greet her. Only the instinctive lightness of long practice prevented the blow, his hands were trembling so much on the control panel. Again the house is an old familiar Earth! He could hardly believe it! Perhaps it was only a dream, and he woke up among Saturn's inhuman sparkling cylinders, shuddering and crawling from their icy gaze....
For at least five centuries, the galactic empire has not known major shocks. The daily routine and ceremonial duties “eat up” almost the entire time of the ruler, Paul XVII. Key ministers and other high-ranking courtiers in conversations with the emperor intrigue in black language and talk about conspiracies that threaten the crown. Psi-mediums of almost all inhabited worlds prophesy of impending big and terrible changes. And the students of the capital’s largest university in the empire unexpectedly and do not know why they are organizing a major rebellion ......
A robot policeman is sent to the provincial town of Nainport during a spaceport for field trials. In established provincial relations, its appearance does not cause much enthusiasm, moreover, the instructions for its operation on a thousand-plus pages are not easy to master. And now a car worth $ 120 thousand began sweeping floors, cleaning cameras, filing papers, until someone suddenly needed to go to the accident. For lack of a better sent robot ... Now, in the town of Nainport, crime is over....
Lieutenant Mathers resigned and took the post of deputy director of the over-corporation for the production of rocket fuel. At first, this corporation became a monopolist in the fuel market, and then tripled the price of its products. Based on this story, the novel “The Galactic Order of Valor” was subsequently written....
The book was written by creators of the phenomenal bestseller The 48 Laws of Power, a mesmerizing handbook on seduction: the most subtle and effective form of power. At the time, when seduction become a form of art, it changed our world by having an indirect and subtle form of power capable to topple empires, win elections and enslave great minds. Immerse yourself in the twenty-four maneuvers and strategies of the seductive process - the ritual form of attracting people. The book will learn you on how to: "Choose the Right Victim," "Appear to Be an Object of Desire," and "Confuse Desire...
The famous American writer, journalist and folklore researcher Alvin Schwartz collected in his book the most striking subjects that become fundamental for the modern genre of horror and an anthology of the horror genre....
Pygmalion is the one of the most famous play of Bernard Shaw, written in 1912. The original wit and democratic spirit of the play reflects deep and acute social problems, that become popular in many countries and it's still quite recognizable play....
Voltaire s razor-sharp satire on philosophical optimism, Candide , is coupled here with another of the author s most celebrated works, Zadig . Both challenge the moral and philosophical orthodoxies of the day with humour and sly wit, whilst parodying the clichéd formulas of so many contemporary novels. Candide traces the fortunes of its titular character, a staunch optimist who eventually becomes disillusioned by a series of hardships and misfortunes. Zadig likewise follows its main character Zadig, a Babylonian philosopher, as he is subjected to the whims...
