Armageddon is announced... SHAPE Brussels 4 August 1985 Warsaw Pact Attacks Allied Command Europe STOP First light undercover and parachute operations followed by massive armoured assault along entire front STOP Heavy fighting in Central Europe STOP Allies under severe pressure STOP Soviets claim
In the vast multiverse of the future, genetic engineering has created four human and superhuman breeds. The trumen - perfected human beings who are bright and beautiful, without defects or diseases. The mumen - specialised mutants reshaped for war or space or life on other worlds. The stargods -
The Alien (1968, vt The Groundstar Conspiracy 1972), filmed as The Groundstar Conspiracy (1972), about a hospital patient who claims amnesia and may be an Alien (but in the film proves not to be), evokes fairly palely Algis Budrys's seminal Who (1958).
When the two star-faring races from which they are descended enter into war against each other, the two species who share the planet Avalon--one of humans, the other of winged creatures--must make enemies of friends.
Contents: Introduction - Harry Harrison Roller ball murder - William Harrison Mason's life - Kingsley Amis Welcome to the standard nightmare - Robert Sheckley Serpent burning on an altar - Brian W. Aldiss We are very happy here - Joe W. Haldeman The birds - Thomas M. Disch The wind and the rain -
Harry Harrison's startling visions of the future reveal not only his abilities as a storyteller but also his deep concern for Man and his place in the cosmos. The Streets of Ashkelon is a poignant and terrifying look at an alien race which believes everything it is told - and at the horrific
Introduction: The second nova / Isaac Asimov A Martian odyssey Valley of dreams The adaptive ultimate Parasite planet Pygmalion's spectacles Shifting seas The worlds of if The mad moon Redemption cairn The ideal The lotus eaters Proteus island Afterword : Stanley G. Weinbaum : a personal
He came from out of the mists of the wasteland to walk the desolate streets of a city crumbling into decay. It was not a place he knew. He had never been there before and the people he met were strangers to him. Yet their names and faces were puzzlingly familiar – as if he had known them long ago…
Crete - the dread island of wizardry where the power of Minos was guarded by three walls. The land where every nine years the Minoan games decided the fate of Crete's famed ruler. Where the winner stood to gain the hand of Ariadne, the treasure of Knossos - and command of the formidable Dark One's
