The Chicago Tribune of June 13, 189- contained this paragraph under the heading: “There is no big broker!” “The friends of Isidor Werner, a young man known in the trade council, are very concerned that he has not been seen for several days. He made his last appearance in a pit of wheat as a tough buyer on Tuesday afternoon. On that day, he left his office at Chamber of Commerce No. 87, and since then no one has seen him, and his whereabouts are unknown....
District leader Howard Morley leaned back in his chair to look at the bay. He lazily looked at the expanse of water between two inexpressive patches of land, then looked back at the skeleton-like spire that protrudes upward from the green hills that he just crossed. He remembered the time when this ruin was a pillar for one of the greatest bridges in the world....
Very nice and short. And I like the way women are portrayed: within the framework of their roles of that time, but at the same time as real people with brains and courage (well, in any case, one of them)....
They put Ramsay’s ship on a hostile planet, hoping that he would die of starvation, so the first thing he did was give most of his money and lose all other gambling. Then he had a fight with the chief of police and joined forces with a half-naked chick of a dream, who seemed to be prone to self-destruction. The stakes were big - a planet or two - but it all worked out......
The fate of a great civilization lay in the hands of Dick Barrow when he brought his brave fellow engineers to a strange and unknown country. None of them knew what lay ahead — what dangers awaited them — or what rewards. But they did not hesitate, because the first question they were asked was: “Are you a brave man?”...
One of the wonderful things in the fallacy is that no matter how insanely someone dislikes this ... he cannot harm him. Therefore, delusion can be a good thing to push the evil warring parties ......
John Venex is a robot in the Venus Experimental series. It was designed to work on the seabed of Venus, but he bought his contract and returned to Earth. And here even among robots there is unemployment. He had to work for three months on a pig farm in New Jersey, until an announcement appeared on the labor exchange: "Venex is required."...
This is a story about a woman - one of those that no man knew and forgot. I do not apologize for her; I do not give her credit. I am writing down just an accurate story about the adventure of my youth, in which she played a part; I leave you the task of judging it....
Conger agreed to kill a stranger whom he had never seen. He was not worried about finding the wrong person. He knew what this man looked like. He could not be mistaken in relation to the personality of his goal - he held a human skull in his hand...
The treacherous continental powers invaded Britain with the help of the technological genius of the treacherous Irishman. The world, or at least the really important parts, is engulfed in war. Oh, and a giant comet is on its way to destroy the Earth ... all this, and not just pieces where white English-speaking people live....
Bron is a descendant of the infamous space pirates, but instead of following in the footsteps of his family, he decides to become an electronic engineer. Unfortunately, every time he tries to get out, something pulls him back. This is a mocking space adventure modeled after Harry Harrison's Stainless Steel Rats....
This small dystopia confirms the status of Robert Sheckley as an unsurpassed master of fantastic ideas, a filigree stylist and a subtle connoisseur of human souls. Two alternative ways of developing society - the planet-prison Omega and the Earth - an oasis of order and stability, in which everything is predetermined for you in advance....
