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Will Barrent, stripped of memory and accused of a crime, is sent to the brutal planet Omega, a prison for extreme offenders where survival hinges on committing further crimes. With an average life expectancy of just three years, Barrent's journey revolves around his struggle to escape and return to Earth to clear his name. Earth is a stagnant utopia characterized by mutual trust and conformity, maintained by robots that brainwash children in closed classes. While both societies share similar ideologies, they diverge in expression: Omega's citizens worship a malevolent entity known as The Black One, whereas Earth's religion combines the positive aspects of past faiths under the Church of the Spirit of Mankind Incarnate. As Barrent delves deeper into the reasons behind his incarceration, he grapples with a psychological conflict between his new life on Omega and the subconscious programming instilled in him during childhood. This internal struggle manifests through repeated battles and experiences, ultimately revealing the grim fate foretold by a mutant girl on Omega.

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Recueil de nouvelles d'anticipation/science-fiction.On rencontre parfois d'étranges visiteurs. Parfois ils font peur, et parfois ils séduisent. Ils étonnent en tout cas par leur allure, leurs habitudes, ce qu'ils font deviner des mondes d'où ils arrivent, des civilisations d'ailleurs, d'hier, ou de nulle part. Christian Poslaniec en a réunis ici plusieurs, porteurs de mystères et de rêves, et de questions. A travers les histoires de Gérard Klein, de Bill Brown, de Robert Sheckley, de Julia Verlanger ou d'Erik Frank Russell, ou du plus ancien Théophile Gautier, on rit, on s'inquiète, on pousse des portes inattendues.

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These surreal, elegantly witty tales from one of the most esteemed writers of science fiction encompass indignant aliens, stranded space explorers, shapeshifters, a company that manufactures designer planets and a deadly hunting game in far-future New York.

Azzy Elbub, demon, has his sights set on the Millenial Evil Deeds Award, given to the being whose acts do the most toward reshaping the world. But his evil plans go far astray. ...

Announced in a thunderclap out of another day's tedium, hapless New Yorker Tom Carmody learns that he is the winner of the Intergalactic Sweepstake. Accepting with a shrug, he is whipped across the universe to collect his prize. The catch? There's no way home. Enlisting the help of galactic bureaucrats, planetary engineers and a couple of gods, Carmody embarks on a desperate search for Earth, all the while being pursued by a perplexing predatory creature . . . Often cited as an influence on Douglas Adams, Dimension of Miracles is a masterwork of electric humour that offers an oblique examination of human nature amid the vastness of the cosmos.

This is it. Over. Don. Through. FINI. Boom. Kaput: The End of the World and how to Enjoy it. Contents The Last Days of (Parallel?) Earth by Robert Sheckley The Day After the End of the World by Harry Harrison A Very Good Year Roger Zelazny Fire And/or Ice Roger Zelazny Exeunt Omnes Roger Zelazny Sungrab William F. Nolan Where are you now, Erik Scorbic? K. Copeland Shea Bud Ian Watson The Making of Revelation, Part I Philip Jose' Farmer Rebecca Rubinstein's Seventeenth Birthday Simon Gandolfi The Revelation Thomas M. Disch Nirvana is a Nowhere Place Joel Schulman Heir J. A. Lawrence The Kingom of O'Ryan Bob Shaw Just Another End of the World Maxim Jakubowski

Essef, initially published as "Immortality, Delivered" and serialized in Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine as "Time Killers", was later adapted into the 1992 film "Freejack" featuring Emilio Estevez, Mick Jagger, Rene Russo, and Anthony Hopkins.