The planet was called Pyrrus...a strange place where all the beasts, plants and natural elements were designed for one specific purpose: to destroy man. The settlers there were supermen...twice as strong as ordinary men and with milli-second reflexes. They had to be. For their business was murder... It was up to Jason dinAlt, interplanetary gambler, to discover why Pyrrus had become so hostile during man's brief habitation...
When dinosaurs ruled the Earth... In this brilliant, acclaimed novel they still do. The cosmic catastrophe that ended the Age of the Dinosaurs 65 million years ago in the world we know never happened. The evolution of the great reptiles continued, climaxing with the Yilanè, the most intelligent and advanced race on Earth. But when the onset of a new Ice Age forces them to cross the ocean to explore and colonize a vast, strange continent, they clash violently with a savage breed of mammal that walk erect, hunt and use crude stone tools - and weapons... West of Eden is Harry Harrison's greatest feat of imaginative story-telling . This epic tale of the titanic clash of two vastly different cultures sweeps the read along on a hurricane-force ride of total excitement. Full of wonder, an incredible novel... West of Eden is perhaps the most fully realized, most real fantasy experience ever written. It is truly an epic - Starlog An epic science fantasy in the tradition of The Clan of the Cave Bear ...Great escape reading - Playboy Brilliant...a hell of a gripping story - Philip José Farmer Fascinating...it could so easily have happened - Patrick Moore The Blockbuster of the season - Punch Cover Illustration: Gino D'Achille
Depicts the final, decisive battle between humanity and the intelligent descendants of dinosaurs that began in "West of Eden" and "Winter in Eden."
Tony Hawkin wasn't really made for the FBI. He rarely hit what he aimed at, forgot his own code name, and had a tendency to panic at the slightest hint of trouble. Now he's gotten himself handcuffed to an attache case with two million dollars inside, and stuffed aboard a hijacked DC-10, bound for Scotland, where he's being chased through the countryside by the hijackers, Scots patriots, a crazy Cuban colonel and half the police force. All of them want only two things--the money and Tony's head in a noose. Once again Special Agent Tony Hawkin must rely on his own brand of expertise to outwit and confound a nefarious array of foes. Tony's plan is simple: lead them all back to London, like the Pied Piper of Hamelin, and deposit them at the gates of Scotland Yard. There is just one small problem; London is five hundred miles away, and Tony has no idea which way that is... At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
This book is a fast-moving retelling of Homer's epic tales of Greek gods and heroes.
The remarkable true story behind Britain's only war crimes trial
In the year 2000 a young boy accompanies his father on a mission to tow a chain of icebergs to California which is suffering from a severe drought.
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 / Robert Silverberg -- Ten years ago ... / Max Beerbohm -- Parthen / R.A. Lafferty -- The man who collected the first of September 1973 / Tor Åge Bringsvaerd ; translated by Oddrun Grønvik -- Captain Nemo's last adventure / Josef Nesvadba : translated by Iris Urwin -- La befana / Gene Wolfe.
This collection features the first three adventures of DiGriz, a master criminal turned reluctant hero. In the first story, he is caught during a heist and recruited into the Special Corps, where mundane desk work leads him to uncover a secret battleship project. As he investigates, he finds himself in a personal conflict with the alluring Angelina, who is plotting a coup on a feudal world. Torn between duty and love, DiGriz must decide whether to betray her or join forces. In the second tale, DiGriz and Angelina are married and expecting twins while the planet Cliaand wages war across the stars. Tasked with undermining the planet's tyrannical leader, Kraj, DiGriz embarks on a guerrilla campaign, aided by the Amazons, a group of freedom fighters. Angelina's arrival adds both support and tension as she helps him navigate the chaos of war. The final story sees a villain traveling back in time to alter history and eliminate DiGriz's allies, including Angelina. Armed with a time-travel device, DiGriz ventures to 1984 America and Napoleonic France, where he must thwart the villain's plans and protect the timeline. Each adventure showcases DiGriz's wit, charm, and resourcefulness in a universe filled with danger and intrigue.
This is a classic science fiction novel by Harry Harrison and a follow up to his hugely successful Deathworld. This sequel continues the story of professional gambler Jason dinAlt on a harsh world of primitive violence. The planet's ailing technology is jealously guarded by a series of brotherhoods and to survive, dinAlt has to use all his cunning to get the better of them. This work is part of our Vintage Sci-Fi Classics Series, a series in which we are republishing some of the best stories in the genre by some of its most acclaimed authors, such as Isaac Asimov, Marion Zimmer Bradley, and Robert Sheckley. Each publication is complete with a short introduction to the history of science fiction.
The Decade anthologies present the eighty-year history of science fiction in the most relevant way - by collecting the stories which have gone to make it up. Each volume, complete in itself, takes from a single decade the tales which are best, not only as history, but as entertainment.
What if Homo Sapiens was just a rather special breed of galactic wild rabbit? Or a high class form of goldfish- Homo-Piscis? What if he were spiritually inferior to a resurrected version of Neanderthal Man-who can even beat him at American football? Apeman, Spaceman is a collection of anthropological SF stories which all pose the question: what is man's place in the universe? To someone, somewhere, we are inferior, perhaps even unnoticeable, and yet here we are teaching dolphins cheap tricks. But one day ...
In this adventure, seasoned former galactic thief Jim diGriz, now aligned with law and justice alongside his new wife, the former assassin Angelina, faces an almost impossible task as a member of the Corps. He must disrupt the winning streak of the expansionist planet Cliaand, which is rapidly conquering more worlds and expanding its empire.
Beginning with The Five Keys of raising a daughter or son, this book accompanies Dad on the journey from his child's infancy straight through the toddler and teenage years and into college.
In "Deathworld 3," our hero Jason dinAlt has uncovered the secret of the warlike planet of the Pyrrans, with its aggressive flora and fauna. However, his plans to transform Pyrrus into a peaceful world are doomed to fail due to the presence of thousands of belligerent Pyrrans, who cannot overcome their intense aversion to the native life. Jason devises a plan to take these unruly fighters to a new, harsh planet where they might have a better chance of survival and building a civilization. This new world, Prosperity, is even more savage than the Pyrrans, presenting its own challenges. Midway through the cunning campaign to tame the backward nomads of Prosperity, the Pyrrans abruptly return to their old planet upon receiving distress signals. Upon arrival, they find Pyrrus reduced to a smoking ruin. Back on Prosperity, Jason, who had remained behind, ultimately wins the battle through cleverness, but he finds himself trapped in a steel demon cage high above the marble town square.
Contents of The Best of Harry Harrison 1) The Streets of Ashkelon 2) Capt. Honario Harpplayer, R.N. 3) Rescue Operation 4) At Last, the True Story of Frankenstein 5) I Always Do What Teddy Says 6) Portrait of the Artist 7) Not Me, Not Amos Cabot! 8) Mute Milton 9) A Criminal Act 10) Waiting Place 11) If 12) I Have My Vigil 13) From Fanaticism, or For Reward 14) By the Falls 15) The Ever-Branching Tree 16) Brave Newer World 17) Roommates 18) The Mothballed Spaceship 19) An Honest Days Work 20) Space Rats of the C.C.C.
865 A.D. Warring kings rule over the British Isles, but the Church rules over the kings, threatening all who oppose them with damnation. Only the dreaded Vikings of Scandinavia do not fear the priests.Shef, the bastard son of a Norse raider and a captive English lady, is torn by divided loyalties and driven by strange visions that seem to come from Odin himself. A smith and warrior, he alone dares to imagine new weapons and tactics with which to carve out a kingdom--and launch an all-out war between.... The Hammer and the Cross.
In the vastness of space, the crimes just get bigger and Slippery Jim diGriz, the Stainless Steel Rat, is the biggest criminal of them all. He can con humans, aliens and any number of robots time after time. Jim is so slippery that all the inter-galactic cops can do is make him one of their own
Someone was tampering with time, altering the past to eliminate the present, fading people out of existence into a timeless limbo. One of the victims was Angelina, the lovely, lethal wife of James Bolivar diGriz - better known as the Stainless Steel Rat. That put Slippery Jim on the trail of the villains, a trail that went back to 1984 and an ancient nation called the United States of America. The Stainless Steel Rat was determined to rescue his wife. And before he was through he'd thrown dozens of centuries of time in both directions. But then he didn't have much choice: to save Angenlina he had to save the world. Again.
Slippery Jim diGriz, also known as the Stainless Steel Rat, must save Earth from loathsome, mind-sucking aliens.
The wild, galaxy-hopping adventures of brash young scientists Jerry Courtenay and Chuck van Chider are at the core of this classic space opera. When the two college students develop a faster-than-light space drive in their homemade workshed, they decide to sneak it aboard their football team's airplane as a prank. The boyish plan backfires, however, and the boys find themselves, along with their crush Sally and the seemingly loveable school caretaker, Old John, hurtling through the solar system towards Titan—an icy moon of Saturn inhabited by hideous ice creatures. Titan and the 20th century are only square one as the foursome becomes embroiled in a vast, intergalactic, century-jumping battle.
This book presents the whole span of the Bible in an updated visual form of storytelling.
Contents: Introduction • Doctor Zombie and His Furry Little Friends • Conquest • Gehenna • A Meeting With Medusa • The Genius • Angouleme • If "Hair" Were Revived in 2016 • Statistician's Day • The Science Fiction Horror Movie Pocket Computer • The Hunter at His Ease • The Cohen Dog Exclusion Act • Gantlet • Fisherman • Report • The Ideal Police State • The Pagan Rabbi • An Uneven Evening • Ornithanthropus • No Direction Home • Afterword: A Day in the Life-Style of...
An Anthology on the Themes of Sacrifice and Redemption
Four major science fiction writers stretch their creative muscles on the theme of 'Sacrifice' and 'Redemption' and produce one of the most fascinating, startling and readable SF anthologies ever published. Brian Aldiss studies the implications of an extended lifespan - a blessing or a curse? In Poul Anderson's High Treason a space fleet commander commits treason to avoid war with another race and his Dipteroid studies the moral dilemma posed by a race for whom cannibalism is a biological necessity. James Blish asks the question: what happens when an irresponsible dropout gains control of the ultimate weapon? Harry Harrison rounds off the anthology with an SF variation on the castaway theme and a disturbing vision of the future where organ transplants are part of everyday life.
New Statesman, 13th February 1970, p.226. Review by Jonathan Raban. "...a tricky piece of soc sci fi from the anthropology department...it's written in the stiff journeyman prose that characterises too much of the science fiction I've encountered; an engaging drama of ideas without sufficient verbal solidity to make it a good novel."
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This time the Special Corps has given the Rat a daring assignment: liberate a backward tourist planet from the clutches of an aging dictator. With his lovely but lethal wife Angelina and his two stalwart sons, James and Bolivar, diGriz pits ballots against bullets in the fight for freedom. He's vowed to restore truth, justice, and democracy to the world of Paraiso-Aqui, if he has to lie, cheat, and steal to do it.
The hysterical military SF satire from the creator of the Stainless Steel Rat - one of the funniest science fiction books ever written.
The Decade anthologies present the eighty-year history of science fiction in the most relevant way - by collecting the stories which have gone to make it up. Each volume, complete in itself, takes from a single decade the tales which are best, not only as history, but as entertainment.
Slippery Jim is back in one mega volume of his greatest ever adventures!.
Jim was left in the custody of the League Navy, this story opens with him escaping from his prison cell on the League base on Steren-Gwandra, where he is awaiting deportation back to his home world. He has discovered that Bibs, a crew girl from Captain Garth's ship, is also a prisoner. Jim holds Garth responsible for the Bishop's death, and plans to hunt him down, with Bibs' help. Garth is really the crazed Captain Zennor, head of an army which continually defies League peace treaties, and now plans to invade and conquer the planet Chojecki. The people of Chojecki are pacifists, having no armies and no police. But Garth's generals decide to attack anyway, since there are no medals for "generals who bring back the troops intact." Jim must save the people of Chojecki before he can face Garth.
Assembled here are 13 of Harrison's best, spanning time and space from the England of old to empires millennia from now. Among the stories included are "The Golden Years of the Stainless Steel Rat," in which the cops have finally caught up with an aging Slippery Jim diGriz; "Roomates," the original basis for the movie Soylent Green; and twelve more galaxy-spanning classics!From the bestselling West of Eden trilogy to Bill, The Galactic Hero and its sequels, from the Deathworldseries to the Stainless Steel Ratbooks, Harry Harrison's career is a series of landmarks. Stainless Steel Visionsis another: his first major collection of short fiction.
The Decade anthologies present the eighty-year history of science fiction in the most relevant way - by collecting the stories which have gone to make it up. Each volume, complete in itself, takes from a single decade the tales which are best, not only as history, but as entertainment. Contents : Grandpa / James H. Schmitz The snowball effect / Katherine Maclean The edge of the sea / Algis Budrys Scanners live in vain / Cordwainer Smith The pedestrian / Ray Bradbury The last day / Richard Matheson The holes around Mars / Jerome Bixby The star / Arthur C. Clarke Two-handed engine / Henry Kuttner The large ant / Howard Fast Early model / Robert Sheckley Sail on! Sail on! / Philip José Farmer
Collected here are twelve of Harrison's best, including "Space Rats of the CCC," probably the greatest space opera ever written, slightly tongue-in-cheek; "At Last, the True Story of Frankenstein," in which our favorite monster gets new life - but whose life is it?; "Bill, The Galactic Hero's Happy Holiday," in which our favorite drunkard enlistee is kidnapped by the evil Chingers and hypnotized into believing he's a general; and nine more classics ranging across time and space! 1 I Always Do What Teddy Says 2 Space Rats of the CCC 3 Down to Earth 4 A Criminal Act 5 Famous First Words 6 The Pad - A Story of the Day after the Day after Tomorrow 7 If 8 Mute Milton 9 Simulated Trainer 10 At Last, the True Story of Frankenstein 11 The Robot Who Wanted to Know 12 Bill the Galactic Hero's Happy Holiday
The planet's population has exploded. The 35 million inhabitants of New York City run their TVs off pedal power, riot for water, trample for lentil 'steaks', and sweat beneath a sweltering sun. Amid it all, a city cop tries to catch a gangster's killer and vie for the affection of a dangerous woman... Offering a disturbing vision of the future and a groundbreaking exploration of the dangers of overpopulation, Harry Harrison's Make Room! Make Room! is a keystone work of science fiction -- and the basis of the cult film Soylent Green.
Renowned for his prolific contributions to science fiction, Harry Harrison is celebrated for his exceptional storytelling skills and imaginative worlds. His works often blend adventure with thought-provoking themes, showcasing his ability to engage readers with compelling narratives and innovative concepts. Harrison's legacy in the genre is marked by a unique blend of humor, action, and social commentary, making him a standout figure among science fiction authors.
Ebery bit as stunning as West of Eden, Winter in Eden continues the incredible story of an alternate world much like the Paleolithic Stone Age. A monumental epic of passion, courage and triumph, it is supported by national radio and print advertising.
Cover illustration by Jim Burns. Illustrated by various hands in full color.
Homeworld is heaven on earth if you don't ask questions... Homeworld is stable at last, hundreds of years after the collapse of the 20th Century economy. For the millions of proles, life is still a grim ordeal, but for the lucky few, like Engineer Jan Kulozik, there is every kind of luxury. Except one. On Homeworld, where everything and everyone is monitored by the faceless power of the government, there is no freedom. Jan Kulozik knew nothing of the Resistance; he probably didn't want to. But suddenly, he is part of it. And running for his life...
On November 8, 1861, a U.S. navy warship stopped a British packet and seized two Confederate emissaries on their way to England to seek backing for their cause. England responded with rage, calling for a war of vengeance. The looming crisis was defused by the peace-minded Prince Albert. But imagine how Albert's absence during this critical moment might have changed everything. For lacking Albert's calm voice of reason, Britain now seizes the opportunity to attack and conquer a crippled, war-torn America.Ulysses S. Grant is poised for an attack that could smash open the South's defenses. In Washington, Abraham Lincoln sees a first glimmer of hope that this bloody war might soon end. But then disaster strikes: English troops have invaded from Canada. With most of the Northern troops withdrawn to fight the new enemy, General William Tecumseh Sherman and his weakened army stand alone against the Confederates. Can a divided, bloodied America defeat England, or will the United States cease to exist for all time?
Machines that murder... Landing on a new planet is a danger every time, and Selm-II is no exception. The specialists didn't like it. There were no cities visible from space, no broadcasts or transmissions on the blank airwaves - yet the wrecked war machines of an advanced technology littered the rich pastures of the deserted planet. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of crumpled and gigantic weapons of war, a graveyard of destruction stretching almost to the lifeless horizon. But the war wasn't over...and they weren't all wrecks! It's an emergency. It's a job for Brion Brand, the mightiest weighlifter in the galaxy. With the brilliant, sensuous Dr. Lea Morees at his side he plunges into the war zone, into the steel jasm of teh PLANET OF NO RETURN!
aka The Planet of the Hippies from HellBill is the perfect starship big, strong and completely brainwashed. He'll also do almost anything to save his neck. Now he's been sent to Barworld, home planet of the finest beverages in the universe. But can Bill survive an entire planet of blondes, booze and bathtubs of champagne?
Gus Washington, a 1970s descendant of the famous traitor George Washington in this alternative history, redeems his family's name by engineering a tunnel from England to the colonies in America.
The army made Bill the galactic hero what he is today - the perfect Starship Trouper, and proud possessor of two right arms and a lockerful of feet suitable for every occasion. Now he's been volunteered to join a suicide-squad run by Captain Cadaver to the well-known hell-hole planet of Eyerack.
Set on planet DIS - a world of death inhabited by crude, barbaric, backward and miserable people, from the author of Lifeboat and Technicolor Time Machine.
Humorous accounts of specially trained and bred pigs and of the Robot Obtrusion Batallion give eleven thousand new space policemen insight into possible assignments.
The Bay City Rollers are a pop band from Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, which experienced massive popularity during the mid 1970s. The British Hit Singles & Albums observed that they were "tartan teen sensations from Edinburgh, the first of many acts heralded as the 'biggest group since the Beatles' and one of the most screamed-at teeny-bopper acts of the 1970s". For a brief, but intense period of "Rollermania", they were worldwide teen idols. The Bay City Rollers sold 120 million records. The band's membership changed many times over the years, but the classic line-up during its heyday included guitarists Eric Faulkner and Stuart John "Woody" Wood, singer Les McKeown, bassist Alan Longmuir, and drummer Derek Longmuir. By 2018 the group comprised guitarist Stuart John Wood (Woody), singer Ian Thomson, bassist Marcus Cordock, keyboardist Gary O'Hagan and drummer Jamie McGrory.
Žijeme v době převážně vizuálních vjemů. Nepřetržitě na nás působí nové situace, které nedovolují více se pozdržet nad těžším textem či delším pojednáním. Názornost a stručnost jsou požadavky, kterým právě Kreslená bible vychází vstříc. [Malý Václav]
De Moordmachine - "The Killing Machine" by Jack VanceDoodsstrijd op Pyrrus - "Deathworld" by Harry HarrisonDe grote uittocht - "The Great Explosion" by Eric Frank Russell
Jim diGriz, die Stahlratte, ist in Aufruhr, als seine Frau Angelina verschwindet. Zusammen mit seinen Söhnen und der Spionin Sybil setzt er alles daran, den Tätern auf die Spur zu kommen. Angelina hat die Machenschaften eines skrupellosen Sektenführers untersucht, was sie in große Gefahr bringt.
Ну конечно, Стальная Крыса не подведет! Тем более, когда богатейший в Галактике человек ради того, чтобы не грабили его банки, предлагает фантастическое по сумме вознаграждение. Ради этого стоит даже временно поменять профессию и сделаться цирковым артистом. Но даже разбогатев и получив редкую для него возможность уединится вместе с семейством, Джим ди Гриз недолго пребывает в покое. С планеты Райский Уголок ему на голову сваливается целая толпа "родственников" и стадо свинобразов впридачу… В книгу входят романы "Стальная Крыса на манеже", "Новые приключения Стальной Крысы", а также рассказы и книга-игра "Теперь ты - Стальная Крыса".
Co kdyby Vikingové dobyli Británii a vytvořili nové náboženství, založené na starých severských božstvech? Epický příběh v knize "Der Pfad des Königs" pokračuje v alternativní verzi doby temna, kdy Shef, nový britský jarl, bojuje za změnu dějin. Kovář, vizionář a válečník Shef povstal z otroctví a stal se králem mocných Vikingů. Na zemi zvítězil v bezpočtu bitev a zapřísáhl se, že svůj lid ochrání a vybuduje neporazitelné loďstvo, tvořené válečnými loděmi vyzbrojenými balistami. Jeho rostoucí království však ohrožuje Evropu – a Shef si vytváří mocné nepřátele.
Eine Science-Fiction-Novelle von Harry Harrison, dem Schöpfer der "Stainless Steel Rat."
В недавнем прошлом простой деревенский парень Билл, пройдя через горнило космических битв, становится закаленным в боях межзвездным воином. Не раз и не два заглядывал он смерти в глаза. Но ни жестокие удары судьбы, ни страшные ранения не сумели сломить Билла. Его решительность и природный ум, чувство юмора и изобретательность — качества, благодаря которым он снискал себе славу Героя Галактики, — никогда не изменяют ему. Приключения Билла продолжаются!
Velkolepý závěr úžasného alternativně-historického eposu. V knihách Ať žijí hvězdy a pruhy… a Hvězdy a pruhy v ohrožení Harry Harrison rozvíjí poutavý příběh o válce, která nikdy nebyla, ale ke které mohlo docela dobře dojít: k válce mezi Spojenými státy americkými a Britským impériem v 60. letech 19. století. Byla to válka, jež začala takřka náhodou – neuvážený dopis vedl k nevydařenému pokusu o invazi a sérii brilantních vojenských rozhodnutí, k nimž dospěli rozzlobení Američané, kteří zanechali občanské války mezi sebou, aby se sjednotili proti společnému nepříteli. Smělý pokus Britů o pětovné zahájení války na novém bojišti, v Mexiku, přinutil Američany vytáhnout až za Atlantský oceán. Po porážce v Irsku – na vlastním území – musí britská vláda pomýšlet na nemyslitelné. Británie samotná, největší námořní mocnost na světě, nyní čelí hrozbě ze strany námořnictva své bývalé kolonie. Jedině zázrak – nebo velké vítězství – může zabránit konečnému pokoření… Harrisonovo krajně věrohodné líčení alternativní první světové války, války s ocelovými loděmi, automatickými zbraněmi a zákopy, je mrazivě vzrušující a nesmírně čtivé.
První díl trilogie o planetách smrti. Příběhy Jasona din Alta, dobrodruha a profesionálního hráče.
Od největších hrdinů po nejhorší padouchy… Bible, jak jste ji ještě nečetli! Hrdinové biblických příběhů nebyli dokonalí, ale rozhodně nebyli nudní. Některým dala víra sílu pomáhat lidem a postavit se zlu. Jiní naopak podlehli temné síle. Něco ale stále chybělo… Hlavní hrdina. A Jeho největší bitva. Mezinárodně uznávaní umělci Siku (Soudce Dredd, Manga Bible) a Jeff Anderson (Transformers, kreslená Bible) svými typickými ilustracemi oživují slavné biblické příběhy.
Dank zij een bijzondere overeenkomst met de copyright-holders van twee voortreffelijke Amerkaanse science-fiction-magazines: 'Amazing' en 'Fantastic' kon uit verscheidene jaargangen het beste van het beste geput worden voor deze Zwarte-Beertjes-selectie.
Diesmal hat das Spezialkorps dem Rat einen gewagten Auftrag erteilt - einen rückständigen Touristenplaneten aus den Fängen eines alternden Diktators zu befreien. Mit seiner schönen, aber tödlichen Frau Angelina und seinen beiden tapferen Söhnen, James und Bolivar, stellt sich diGriz im Kampf um die Freiheit dem Wettstreit von Stimmen gegen Kugeln. Er hat geschworen, Wahrheit, Gerechtigkeit und Demokratie in der Welt von Paraiso-Aqui wiederherzustellen, selbst wenn er dafür lügen, betrügen und stehlen muss.
Das unbekannte Flugobjekt, das die Satellitenstationen orten, entpuppt sich als die PE R I K LE S, das Raumschiff der ersten Jupiter-Expedition. Die PE R I K LE S setzt zur Landung an, ohne auf Funkbefehle zu antworten. Sie geht auf dem verkehrsreichen Kennedy-Flughafen von New York nieder. Dr. Sam Bertolli ist zur Stelle, als Commander Rand aus dem Raumschiff taumelt, befallen von einer unbekannten Krankheit. Die PE R I K LE S wird sofort unter Quarantäne gestellt - doch jede Gegenmaßnahme ist erfolglos, denn die Seuche von den Sternen hat bereits auf der Erde Fuß gefaßt. Sie tötet Tausende - Menschen und Tiere. Gegen Zeitnot und Massenhysterie kämpfend, versuchen Sam Bertolli und Nita Mendel, eine junge Patnologin, ein Serum gegen die Seuche zu finden. Als alle Versuche fehlschlagen, unternimmt der junge Arzt einen gewaltsamen Schritt, um den Untergang der Menschheit abzuwenden.
Zirn Left Unguarded, der Jenghik-Palast in Flammen, Jon Westerly Dead - Robert Sheckley East Wind, West Wind - Frank M. Robinson Der sumerische Eid - Philip Jose Farmer Now+n Now-n - Robert Silverberg Zwei Odysseen ins Zentrum - Barry N. Malzberg Dunkelheit - Andre Carneiro Auf dem Rad - Damon Knight Miss Omega Raven - Naomi Mitchison Der Poet im Hologramm in der Mitte der Hauptsendezeit - Ed Bryant Die Alten - James E. Gunn Der dampfbetriebene Junge - John Sladek Ich sage dir, es ist wahr - Poul Anderson Und ich bin an diesen Ort durch verlorene Wege gekommen - James Tiptree Jr. Die Ergot-Show - Brian Aldiss
V údolí, zcela izolovaném ze všech stran, panuje krutý životní řád, ale jeho aztéčtí obyvatelé si na něj po mnohé generace zvykli. Jen mladý Chimal nedokáže potlačit vnitřní nepokoj, který ho nutí postavit se hrozbám kněží a zjistit, jaký svět je za strmými skalami, kam dosud nikdo nepronikl. A keď nakoniec cestu von nájde, zistí, že jeho údolí je takmer rajom v porovnaní s tým, čo nachádza tam, kde tušil slobodu – avšak na návrat je už príliš neskoro…
Ein internationales Team eingespielter Spezialisten - Männer und Frauen - bildet die Besatzung eines Himmelslabors, in dem neuartige Versuche stattfinden sollen, um den drohenden Energiemangel auf der Erde zu beheben, um wie Prometheus, der Held der griechischen Sage den Göttern das Feuer zu stehlen und der Menschheit zu schenken. Die kleine Mannschaft im Orbit hat nicht nur mit technischen Schwierigkeiten zu kämpfen, sondern auch gegen politische Intrigen, militärische Interessen und gegen Gleichgültigkeit und Dummheit. Und plötzlich wird das Labor, das die Menschheit vor der drohenden Energieknappheit retten soll, selbst zur Bedrohung. Wie eine gigantische Atombombe umkreist es die Erde, und mit jeder Umkreisung verliert es an Höhe. Zwar sind die Chancen groß, daß es im Ozean oder in dünnbesiedelten Gegenden niedergeht, aber selbst in dem Fall sind die Folgen unübersehbar.
Er ist der perfekte Sternenkrieger, der beste Mann für diesen Job, den man sich nur vorstellen kann: Er hat zwei rechte Arme - und enorm praktische Hauer über den vorderen Zähnen im Oberkiefer. Sein Name ist Corporal Bill und er gilt als der Held der Galaxis.
Was würde geschehen, wenn man einen Computer mit dem höchstentwickelten Organ auf diesem Planeten verbinden würde: dem menschlichen Gehirn? Marvin Minski, ehemaliger Leiter des Instituts für künstliche Intelligenz am Massachusetts Institute of Technology, und der weltbekannte SF-Autor Harry Harrison schildern in diesem High-Tech-Thriller die phantastischen und atemberaubenden Möglichkeiten einer Technik, die in nächster Zukunft Wirklichkeit wird: Die Turing Option Als Brian Delaney, ein genialer vierundzwanzigjähriger Mathematiker, bei einem Überfall auf sein Labor schwerste Schußverletzungen erleidet, versuchen Wissenschaftler sein Gehirn durch elektronische Implantate zu rekonstruieren - nach einem Programm, das Brian selbst geschrieben hat. Doch die Erinnerungen an die letzten zehn Jahre scheinen endgültig verloren. Heyne 06/5647
Bill, der galaktische Held / Das letzte inkohärente Abenteuer - bk75; Heyne, W; Harrison, Harry; Harris, David; pocket_book; 1997
