Our civilization predates that of Earth's by millions of years. We gave of our far-advanced knowledge and science freely, so that Earth would be a better place. We asked nothing in return, but we were rewarded by having forced upon us foreign ideas of government, religion, and behavior. Our protests have been silenced by an armed-police and punitive system we've never before needed. Someday you will awaken to this injustice. On that day in your life, you have my sympathy and pity!...
The ruthless Dictator of Mekin has already subjugated twenty-two helpless planets. Now he wants Kandar's unconditional surrender - or he will blast it out of existence!...
Anderson as a science fiction writer is primarily concerned with scientific problems. These are flights into space, and anthropology, and ethics, not to mention physics, which is somehow present in all the science fiction works of the writer. Often Anderson draws his ideas from a story that, to his credit, he knows professionally deeply. Anderson's work is especially characterized by a fascination with myths and traditions of various peoples, and primarily Scandinavian. The list of awards received by Anderson speaks of the artistic level of the works of all these genres: he was awarded the...
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A short story that takes place in the Venus Colonization. Man has been asked to create a new colony on the planet "next door" to earth and a new adventure is about to begin....
The story is described as a "space mage duel". It involves two witch doctors who instigate ghosts and demons against each other and may seem like a fantasy. But Norton bases the magic of magicians on the use of mildly hallucinogenic drugs, psychological manipulations and hidden telepathy, which put history into the realm of science fiction....
