The Invincible originally appeared as the title story in Lem's collection Niezwyciężony i inne opowiadania ("The Invincible and Other Stories"). A translation into German was published in 1967; an English translation by Wendayne Ackerman, based on the German one, was published in 1973. An interstellar 2nd-class cruiser called Invincible, lands on Regis III, a planet that seems bleakly uninhabited. Invincible, and crew, are there to investigate the loss of sister ship, Condor.While maintaining the highest security measures, the crew begins searching for the lost Condor. Meanwhile, scientists start researching the planet, trying to identify sources of potential danger. During the search for the lost ship unknown structures are discovered, probably forming the equivalent of an Earth city. While a group of explorers scouts out the ruins, the Condor is found three hundred kilometers away (roughly 186 miles away).

    In Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth, Zelazny's rare ability to mix the dream-like, disturbing imagery of fantasy with the real-life hardware of science fiction is on full display. His vivid imagination and fine prose made him one of the most highly acclaimed writers in his field.Contents:· The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth · nv F&SF Mar ’65 · The Keys to December · nv New Worlds Aug ’66 · Devil Car [Sam Nurdock] · ss Galaxy Jun ’65 · A Rose for Ecclesiastes · nv F&SF Nov ’63 · The Monster and the Maiden · vi Galaxy Dec ’64 · Collector’s Fever · vi Galaxy Jun ’64 · This Mortal Mountain · nv If Mar ’67 · This Moment of the Storm · nv F&SF Jun ’66 · The Great Slow Kings · ss Worlds of Tomorrow Dec ’63 · A Museum Piece · ss Fantastic Jun ’63 · Divine Madness · ss Magazine of Horror Sum ’66 · Corrida · ss Anubis v1 #3 ’68 · Love Is an Imaginary Number · ss New Worlds Jan ’66 · The Man Who Loved the Faioli · ss Galaxy Jun ’67 · Lucifer · ss Worlds of Tomorrow Jun ’64

    Le Guin is renowned for her spare, elegant prose, rich characterization, and diverse worlds. "Semley's Necklace" is a short story originally published in the collection The Wind's Twelve Quarters.

    The Machineries of Joy • (1962)The One Who Waits • (1949) Tyrannosaurus Rex • (1962) The Vacation • (1963)The Drummer Boy of Shiloh • (1960)Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms in Your Cellar! • (1962)Almost the End of the World • (1957)Perhaps We Are Going Away • (1962) And the Sailor, Home from the Sea • (1960) El Dia de Muerte • (1947)The Illustrated Woman • (1961)Some Live Like Lazarus • (1960) A Miracle of Rare Device • (1961)And So Died Riabouchinska • (1953)The Beggar on O'Connell Bridge • (1961) Death and the Maiden • (1960)A Flight of Ravens • (1952)The Best of All Possible Worlds • (1960) The Lifework of Juan Diaz • (1963)To the Chicago Abyss • (1963)The Anthem Sprinters • (1963)

    Yet, he was to be terribly disappointed when he finally returned. First he learned that there were no records of any kind of either his birth or childhood on Darkover. And then, after he renounced his Terran allegiance and joined the natives attempting to free Darkover from Earth's control, the Darkovans accused him of being a spy. Someone was betraying them. Had Jeff been conditioned on Earth for Just that purpose? Jeff Kerwin began to wonder just who, and what, he really was.

    They brought mankind into a new age of freedom and leisure. And every robot was completely incpable of harming a human being. So ... why did men hate and fear them?In THE REST OF THE ROBOTS, Isaac Asimov - author of a whole library of science fiction and fact - explores the fascinating future of men and their metal slaves in dramatic detailed stories of high imagination and wonder.This is a pre-ISBN bookPublisher's catalog number R-1783. 511-01783-050

    Short story.

    It was first published in Amazing Stories in May 1964, and is collected in The Rediscovery of Man compendium.

    

    They often have strange powers. Now their ally is the planet owner. Rod McBan is from planet Norstrilia, source of immortality drug Stroon. On Earth, Rod joins C'Mell and Underpeople to bring back freedom. First half of "Norstrilia".

    The story centers on NASA scientist, McDermott, and his ideas to help America win the race.

    Contents:• Author! Author! by Isaac Asimov• The Bargain by Cleve Cartmill• The Hag Séleen by Theodore Sturgeon]• Hell Is Forever by Alfred Bester• The Crest of the Wave by Jane Rice

    C. Tubb Trojan Horse Laugh • (1949) • novelette by John D. MacDonald Some Day We'll Find You • (1942) • novella by Cleve Cartmill

    Semley's world is one surrounded by myths, legends, knights, and castles, battles, and honor, and chivalry -- until the Starlords come. The Starlords, actually humans, make contact by exacting a heavy tax upon all races they encounter in order to fight a grim war at the end of all time.Semley knows none of this however, and she is bitter that her once noble house has fallen into poverty due to the constant offerings of tribute to the Starlords. Then she learns that an ancient heirloom of unsurpassed beauty is in the realm of the enigmatic Gdemiar, the only race to have the slightest meaningful contact with the Starlords.She resolves to reclaim her lost birthright, and her journey will affect her in ways that no one of her race will understand, and exact a price perhaps better left unpaid.

    Selected by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg.Includes:Outward bound by Norman SpinradThe Kragen by Jack VanceThe master key by Poul AndersonThe crime and the glory of commander Suzdal by Cordwainer SmithThe graveyard heart by Roger ZelaznyPurple priestess of the mad moon by Leigh BrackettThe last lonely man by John BrunnerSoldier, ask not by Gordon R. DicksonA man of the renaissance by Wyman GuinThe dowry of Angyar by Ursula K. Le GuinWhen the change-winds blow by Fritz LeiberThe fiend by Frederik PohlThe life hater by Fred SaberhagenNeighbor by Robert SilverbergFour brands of impossible by Norman Kagan

    Something gaseous, billowing, filling the chamber faster and faster, something that caught at his throat and gagged him, made him wretch, brought streaming tears to his eyes.Before his eyes stretched a nightmarish growth of vine and tree, of mushroom-headed stalks, of gyrating tentacles swaying from every branch and limb. He heard a shrill, triumphant chittering.He turned to spring back. A vice closed over his foot and tripped him. He fell, sprawling, his mouth and nostrils filling with stinking mud.He did not remember anything more for a very long time.