Contents: Story-Teller of Many Worlds | foreword by Edmond Hamilton 1. The Jewel of Bas (1944) 2. The Vanishing Venusians (1945) 3. The Veil of Astellar (1944) 4. The Moon that Vanished (1948) 5. Enchantress of Venus (1949) 6. The Woman from Altair (1951) 7. The Last Days of Shandakor (1952) 8.
Opowiadanie SF napisane przez Leigh Brackett - odpowiedzialną za napisanie scenariuszy do filmów: „Rio Bravo”, „Wielki sen”, „Imperium kontratakuje” i wielu innych. Powrót do rozważań o wartościach, wolności, miłości, odwadze, męstwie w obliczu sytuacji postrzeganej, jako beznadziejną. A jednak...
A good story, with very good characterization and flashes of an almost Merrittesque poetry... The story concerns itelf with THE BIG JUMP from this system to another sun - Barnard's Star. The first expedition returned: one man alive, the others missing, and that one man dying of some ghastly sort
Alpha Centauri, the nearest star to the Solar System - only 4.3 light years away. To Kirby and his followers it meant freedom - freedom from the tyranny and repression of Earth's dictatorship. But that freedom would have to be earned - the flight to Alpha Centauri would mean five years jammed in
Karen Haber: THIEVES' CARNIVAL Born to thieves, raised in thievery, Mouse is lean, hungry, and ready to win the annual Race at Thieves' Carnival. But when she draws the ne'er-do-well minstrel Ciaran as her partner, all hope vanishes like smoke -- until, at Ciaran's prodding, the pair actually