Chris Foss Livres

Internationally renowned Science Fiction illustrator Chris Foss' first major monograph featuring his incredibly visionary creations which have graced scores of book covers, both genre and otherwise, and influenced movies such as Dune, Star Wars and Aliens among numerous others.

Nine stories: Profession; The Feeling of Power; The Dying Night; I'm in Marsport without Hilda; The Gentle Vultures; All the Troubles of the World; Spell my Name with an S; The Last Question (one of Asimov's most often requested stories); and The Ugly Little Boy (Asimov's own personal favorite).

An assassination is ordered-700 million years ago Bron is a chaos catalyst. He wreaks havoc and destruction as surely as a hurricane wherever he goes. Commando Central has planted an electrode transmitter-receiver deep inside his brain and infiltrated him into the Destroyer Spacefleet to prevent it from gaining absolute mastery of the galaxy. But Bron's own brand of chaos is lethally unpredictable. And when whole planets are annihilated by monster hellburner bombs set on course seven hundred million years ago from distant Andromeda, aimed directly at Bron himself, both sides realise that something more colossal, more threatening and infinitely more powerful is taking a hand in Bron's weird destiny... The Patterns of Chaos is SF in the grand style-a mighty tale of galactic intrigue and destruction.

Contents: · The Dead Past · nv Astounding Apr ’56 · The Foundation of Science Fiction Success · pm F&SF Oct ’54 · Franchise · ss If Aug ’55 · Gimmicks Three [“The Brazen Locked Room”] · ss F&SF Nov ’56 · Kid Stuff · ss Beyond Fantasy Fiction Sep ’53 · The Watery Place · ss Satellite Oct ’56 · Living Space · ss Science Fiction Stories May ’56 · The Message · vi F&SF Feb ’56 · Satisfaction Guaranteed [Susan Calvin (Robot)] · ss Amazing Apr ’51 · Hell-Fire · vi Fantastic Universe May ’56 · The Last Trump · ss Fantastic Universe Jun ’55 · The Fun They Had · ss The Boys and Girls Page Dec 1 ’51; F&SF Feb ’54 · Jokester · ss Infinity Science Fiction Dec ’56 · The Immortal Bard · vi Universe May ’54 · Someday · ss Infinity Science Fiction Aug ’56 · The Author’s Ordeal · pm Science Fiction Quarterly May ’57 · Dreaming Is a Private Thing · ss F&SF Dec ’55

Collins/Jane's Modern Tanks is a compact guide to over 100 modern combat vehicles, including the most recent US, Russian and British tanks, drawing on information from the ultimate military authority, Jane's Information Group. There is also a special section on modern tank warfare.

Buried in the depths of the Pacific Ocean lies one of the greatest secrets of World War Two—a crashed B-29 Bomber that was carrying a third atomic bomb to Japan in 1945. Its deadly cargo, lost in the sea for nearly fifty years, could be Dirk Pitt's only hope of stopping the conspiracy of a group of Japanese nationalist fanatics. They're hell-bent on neutralizing and blackmailing the USA—with nuclear weapons planted strategically in the country's major cities—and only he can stop them...

The discovery of a major source of iridium near the diamond fields of South Africa was a deadly secret. For whoever controlled the supply of that rare metal so essential to strategic weapons development would have world power at his fingertips. But as newcomers gathered in the small mining town, Professor Reutemann, an East German scientist, found out that his 'unripe gold' was no secret-that the dangerous power might all too soon be turned against HIM... "His storytelling has a drive that is compulsive" Scotsman

1893. Victoria règne sur un empire aux dimensions du monde.Le jeune Edward Turnbull, représentant de commerce débutant, fait par hasard la connaissance de la douce Amelia Fitzgibbon. Celle-ci se révèle être l’assistante de Sir William Reynolds, inventeur aussi génial que versatile. Ainsi, à peine celui-ci a-t-il commencé à travailler sur un appareil volant plus lourd que l’air qu’il abandonne ce projet pour un autre encore plus fou : construire une machine à explorer le temps.Devant l’incrédulité d’Edward, Amelia lui propose d'essayer cette merveille. Mais rien ne va se passer comme prévu et les deux jeunes gens vont se retrouver propulsés dans une aventure interplanétaire hors du commun.Roman steampunk avant l’heure, annonçant Les voies d’Anubis de Tim Powers, La Machine à explorer l’Espace rend un hommage brillant et délicieusement irrévérencieux aux chefs-d’œuvre de H. G. Wells.

Damnation Alley: three thousand miles of radioactive wasteland, swept by hurricane winds, blasted by giant firestorms, the domain of mutants and monsters - a lethal wasteland few men dare to cross... Hell Tanner: last of the biker Angels , a survivor of the Big Raid that destroyed most of America. the only man in California with a chance of getting through Damnation Alley to Boston with the plague serum the ravaged city needs to survive... Roger Zelazny has created a gripping, terrifying story of a violent odyssey through a man-made nightmare inferno.

Alternate cover for ISBN10: 0-7221-2410-4 (ISBN13: 978-0-7221-2410-9) Includes the following short stories: - Travel by Wire! - Retreat from Earth - The Awakening - Whacky - Castaway - History Lesson - Hide and Seek - Second Dawn - The Sentinel - The Star - Refugee

These are [at least some of] the ways you can read NOVA: as a fast-action farflung interstellar adventure; as archetypal mystical/mythical allegory (in which the Tarot and the Grail both figure prominently); as modern myth told in the S-F idiom... the reader observes, recollects, or participates in a range of personal experience including violent pain and disfigurement, sensory deprivation and overload, man-machine communion, the drug experience, the creative experience - and inter-personal relationships which include incest and assassination, father-son, leader-follower, human-pet, and lots more!The balance of galactic power in the 31st century revolves around Illyrion, the most precious energy source in the universe. The varied and exotic crew who sign up with Captain Lorq van Ray know their mission is dangerous, and they soon learn that they are involved in a deadly race with the charismatic but vicious leader of an opposing space federation. But they have no idea of Lorq's secret obsession: to gather Illyrion at the source by flying through the very heart of an imploding star.

When CIA agent Chuck Rittersdorf and his psychiatrist wife, Mary, file for divorce, they have no idea that in a few weeks they'll be shooting it out on Alpha III M2, the distant moon ruled by various psychotics liberated from a mental ward. Nor do they suspect that Chuck's new employer, the famous TV comedian Bunny Hentman, will also be there aiming his own laser gun. How things came to such a darkly hilarious pass is the subject of Clans of the Alphane Moon, an astutely shrewd and acerbic tale that blurs all conventional distinctions between sanity and madness.