Collecting:Five Weeks in a Balloon,Around the World in Eighty Days,A Journey to the Center of the Earth,From the Earth to the Moon,Round the Moon,Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,The Mysterious Island.This omnibus offers a unique compilation of seven of Vernes Voyages, stories in which he extrapolated developing technology and invention into marvellous fiction.This volume offers readers a generous introduction to Jules Verne, whose books are as alive today as they were for readers new to the ideas expressed in them during his time.This edition of the text is exquisitely bound in bonded-leather, with distinctive gilt edging and an attractive silk-ribbon bookmark. Decorative, durable, and collectable, these books offer hours of pleasure to readers young and old and are an indispensable cornerstone for any home library.

    The world's greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes, along with his friend Professor Challenger embark on one of their most dangerous adventures to date... to discover the nature and intent of their extra-terrestrial attackers.

    Ranging from the 20th Century to the 31st, these interconnected stories trace Man's expansion and colonization throughout the galaxy...Becalmed in hellHowie's spaceship had a malfunction...but it might be only psychosomatic!Wait it outHe was trapped on Pluto...and all his assets were frozen!The borderland of SolForward possessed the ultimate weapon...but no one would ever see it!The jigsaw manThe organ banks want you...now!Cloak of anarchyThey were free to be anything but violent...but that wasn't enough!-- plus eight other great stories in Niven's spectacular cycle of the future...and, special for this volume, a complete Niven bibliography and a detailed chronology of all his Known Space stories!Timeline for Known SpaceMy Universe and Welcome To It!Coldest Place, TheBecalmed in HellWait it OutEye of an OctopusHow the Heroes DieThe Jigsaw ManAt the Bottom of a HoleThe DeceiversCloak of AnarchyWarriors, TheThe Borderland of SolThere is a TideSafe at Any SpeedAfterthoughtsBibliography: The Worlds of Larry Niven

    The collection contains some of Ellison's best stories from earlier collections and is judged by some to be his most consistently high quality collection of short fiction. The theme of the collection can be loosely defined as God, or Gods. Sometimes they're dead or dying, some of them are as brand-new as today's technology. Unlike some of Ellison's collections, the introductory notes to each story can be as short as a phrase and rarely run more than a sentence or two. One story took a Locus Poll Award, the two final ones both garnered Hugo Awards and Locus Poll awards, and the final one also received a Jupiter Award from the Instructors of Science Fiction in Higher Education (discontinued in 1979). When the collection was published in Britain, it won the 1979 British Science Fiction Award for Short Fiction.His stories will rivet you to the floor and change your heartbeat...as unforgettable a chamber of horror, fantasy and reality as you'll ever experience.-Gallery "Brutally and flamboyantly shocking, frequently brilliant, and always irresistibly mesmerizing."-Richmond Times-Dispatch

    This brilliant collection, often cited as the first of its kind, explores fundamental questions about ourselves and our treatment of the universe (and other beings) around us and ultimately what it means to be human.Contents: * Cordwainer Smith: The Shaper of Myths (1975) • essay by John J. Pierce [as by J. J. Pierce] * The Instrumentality of Mankind (timeline) (1975) • essay by John J. Pierce * Scanners Live in Vain [The Instrumentality of Mankind] (1950) / novelette by Cordwainer Smith: meet Martel, a human altered to be part machine-a scanner-to be able withstand the trauma space travel has on the body. Despite the stigma placed on him and his kind, he is able to regrasp his humanity to save another; Fantasy Book #6 ’50 * The Lady Who Sailed The Soul [The Instrumentality of Mankind] (1960) / novelette by Cordwainer Smith, Genevieve Linebarger; Galaxy Apr ’60 * The Game of Rat and Dragon [The Instrumentality of Mankind] (1955) / short story by Cordwainer Smith; Galaxy Oct ’55 * The Burning of the Brain [The Instrumentality of Mankind] (1958) / short story by Cordwainer Smith; If Oct ’58 * Golden the Ship Was - Oh! Oh! Oh! [The Instrumentality of Mankind] (1959) / short story by Cordwainer Smith, Genevieve Linebarger; Amazing Apr ’59 * The Crime and the Glory of Commander Suzdal [The Instrumentality of Mankind] (1964) / short story by Cordwainer Smith; Amazing May ’64 * The Dead Lady of Clown Town [The Instrumentality of Mankind] (1964) / novella by Cordwainer Smith: get to know the underpeople-animals genetically altered to exist in human form, to better serve their human owners-and meet D'Joan, a dog-woman who will make readers question who is more human: the animals who simply want to be recognized as having the same right to life, or the people who created them to be inferior; Galaxy Aug ’64 * Under Old Earth [The Instrumentality of Mankind] (1966) / novelette by Cordwainer Smith; Galaxy Feb ’66 * Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons [The Instrumentality of Mankind] (1961) / novelette by Cordwainer Smith; Galaxy Jun ’61 * Alpha Ralpha Boulevard [The Instrumentality of Mankind] (1961) / novelette by Cordwainer Smith; Galaxy Jun ’61 * The Ballad of Lost C'mell [The Instrumentality of Mankind] (1962) / novelette by Cordwainer Smith: the notion of love being the most important equalizer there is, is put into action when an underperson, C'mell, falls in love with Lord Jestocost. Who is to say her love for him is not as valid as any true-born human? She might be of cat descent, but she is all woman!; Galaxy Oct ’62 * A Planet Named Shayol [The Instrumentality of Mankind] (1961) / novelette by Cordwainer Smith: it is an underperson of bull descent, and beings so mutilated and deformed from their original human condition to be now considered demons of a hellish land, who retain and display the most humanity when Mankind commits the most inhumane action of all; Galaxy Oct ’61aka: Paul M. A. Linebarger, Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, Paul Linebarger, Felix C. Forrest, Carmichael Smith, Kordvejner Smit..

    With architectural designs of the Enterprise, headquarters, detailed drawings of the weapons and equipment, official patterns for men's and women's uniforms, maps of orbit patterns and so much more, all your practical questions will finally be answered.

    Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien inevitable.Now, in The Wind's Twelve Quarters, seventeen of her favorite stories reaffirm Ursula Le Guin as one of America's outstanding writers.CONTENTS:ForewordSemley's NecklaceApril in ParisThe MastersDarkness BoxThe Word of UnbindingThe Rule of NamesWinter's KingThe Good TripNine LivesThingsA Trip to the HeadVaster than Empires and More SlowThe Stars BelowThe Field of VisionDirection of the RoadThe Ones Who Walk Away from OmelasThe Day Before the Revolution

    For Weer's imagination has the power to obliterate time and reshape reality, transcending even death itself.

    Joseph Malik, editor of a radical magazine, had snooped into rumors about an ancient secret society that was still alive and kicking. Now his offices have been bombed, he's missing, and the case has landed in the lap of a tough, cynical, streetwise New York detective. Saul Goodman knows he's stumbled onto something big—but even he can't guess how far into the pinnacles of power this conspiracy of evil has penetrated.Filled with sex and violence—in and out of time and space—the three books of The Illuminatus! Trilogy are only partly works of the imagination. They tackle all the cover-ups of our time—from who really shot the Kennedys to why there's a pyramid on a one-dollar bill—and suggest a mind-blowing truth.

    L. Moore '75 essay by Lester del Rey Shambleau [Northwest Smith] '33 novelette by C. L. Moore Black Thirst [Northwest Smith] '34 novelette by C. L. Moore The Bright Illusion '34 story by C. L. Moore Black God's Kiss [Jirel of Joiry] '34 novelette by C. L. Moore Tryst in Time '36 novelette by C. L. Moore Greater Than Gods '39 novelette by C. L. Moore Fruit of Knowledge '40 novelette by C. L. Moore No Woman Born '44 novelette by C. L. Moore Daemon '46 story by C. L. Moore Vintage Season '46 novella by Henry Kuttner & C. L. Moore Afterword--Footnote to Shambleau & Others '75 essay by C. L. Moore

    Ain [nominated, 1969 Nebula Award]AmberjackThrough a Lass DarklyThe Girl Who Was Plugged In [winner, 1974 Hugo Award. Nominated, 1973 Nebula Award. 1974 Locus Poll Award, Best Short Fiction (Place: 4)]The Night-Blooming SaurianThe Women Men Don't See [1974 Locus Poll Award, Best Short Fiction (Place: 18)]FaultLove Is the Plan the Plan Is Death [1973 Nebula Award. Nominated, 1974 Hugo Award. 1974 Locus Poll Award, Best Short Fiction (Place: 3)]On the Last Afternoon

    In “Mimsy Were the Borogoves”–the inspiration for New Line Cinema’s major motion picture The Last Mimzy–a boy finds a discarded box containing a treasure trove of curious objects. When he and his sister begin to play with these trinkets–including a crystal cube that magnifies the unimaginable and a strange doll with removable organs that don’t quite correspond to those of the human body–their parents grow concerned. And they should be. For the items are changing the way the children think and perceive the world around them–for better or worse. Ray Bradbury called Henry Kuttner “a man who shaped science fiction and fantasy in its most important years.” Marion Zimmer Bradley and Roger Zelazny said he was a major inspiration. Kuttner was a writer’s writer whose visionary works anticipated our own computer-controlled, machine-made world. At the time of his death at forty-two in 1958, he had created as many as 170 stories under more than a dozen pseudonyms–sometimes writing entire issues of science fiction magazines–in close collaboration with his wife, C. L. Moore. This definitive collection will be a revelation to those who wish to discover or rediscover Henry Kuttner, a true master of the universe.

    Introduction by Lester del Rey.Contents:The Tunnel under the World (1955)Punch (1961)Three Portraits and a Prayer (1962)Day Million (1966)Happy Birthday, Dear Jesus (1956)We Never Mention Aunt Nora (1958)Father of the Stars (1964)The Day the Martians Came (1967)The Midas Plague (1954)The Snowmen (1959)How to Count on Your Fingers (1956) essayGrandy Devil (1955)Speed Trap (1967)The Richest Man in Levittown (1959)The Day the Icicle Works Closed (1960)The Hated (1958)The Martian in the Attic (1960)The Census Takers (1956)The Children of Night (1964)

    McCoy's Sick Bay, from the Crew's Quarters to the Shuttlecraft Hangar, from the Photon Torpedo Bank to the Science Labs of Mr. Spock - every foot of every level of the Enterprise laid out to scale in exact detail!

    It also includes a six-page introduction by Simak, and a three-page bibliography of his science fiction books. The book is edited by Angus Wells.Contents:1. A Death in the House2. Day of Truce 3. Final Gentleman4. Madness from Mars5. Shotgun Cure6. Small Deer7. Sunspot Purge8. The Autumn Land9. The Sitters10. The Thing in the Stone

    24 stories, by the Master...

    

    apparently by the poker from his fireplace rack, and his mummified body is trapped inside the active temporal field of his new interstellar drive sitting in the middle of his living room. Hugo Award Nominee

    But it was imagination based firmly on possible realities. Long before there were spaceships, flying saucers, robots and lasers, science-fiction art was depicting them magnificently.

    How do twenty-first century humans react when they confront comparable intelligence residing in "their" solar system? A human biologist discovers that she is not free from human parochialism.Author/Psychiatrist Jean Bolen has called this book "a perfect metaphor of Jungian individuation." The story of inter-species contact plays against a backdrop of Earth trying unsuccessfully to move to a steady state economy.

    Grainger is rescued after surviving years in his wrecked spacecraft on a desolute world. The price of his rescue is indentured servitude as the pilot of an new type of craft called the Hooded Swan.

    The final ballot voted twenty-four stories the best of all time. Three are presented here. Ben Bova wrote the introduction and presents in Book Three:The Marching Morons (1951) by C.M. Kornbluth...And Then There Were None (1951) by Eric Frank RussellBaby Is Three (1952) by Theodore Sturgeon

    It had its differences; its ice goblins, its curious furry lorrin, its thickening water, and its unearthly tides, but for a young man like Alika-Drove thinking of a vacation by the sea these oddities were the norm.But this vacation was different. Rax was coming into the ascendant and Rax, that cold second sun, was the equivalent of evil, of Satan and of Hell. And as its time drew near everything began to get warped and sinister...until for Alika-Drove it would be either the harsh brutal end of his innocence or the end of his world forever.

    G. Wells to 1975 and J. G. Ballard, subtitled "A Historical--Critical Anthology of Science Fiction.

    The final ballot voted twenty-four stories the best of all time. Three are presented here. Ben Bova wrote the introduction in Book One:Call Me Joe (1957) by Poul AndersonWho Goes There? (1938) by John W. Campbell (as Don A. Stuart)Nerves (1942) by Lester del Rey

    

    

    This play is not only a director's dream of possibilities but also a marvelous chance for actors to dig into their beings and face questions of profound magnitude.Acting script of the full-length play for a cast of 7.Cast Size 7Min. Royalty Rate $100/perfApprox. Run Time 50 min

    

    Tierney is a novel that combines H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, time travel, and the Bible. It brings in elements of the Cthulhu Mythos, and adds a new deity to the fictional pantheon. It was Tierney's first novel.

    Something had to be done. Su-Lin Kelly, the beautiful, wealthy playgirl who headed a global espionage network inherited from her husband, took on the job. Su-Lin–trained in the arts of the ancient East, Oriental fighting and the Kama Sutra–brought a murderous skill and sexual prowess to her work which made her almost unbeatable. But just how was she going to cope with the seemingly unending attacks of the clones...?

    A skilled space pilot, he manages to land his scout craft on the nearest planet. The alien world in which he finds himself is not hostile but has no means of supporting human life. Desperate for intelligent contact, Tansis establishes a telepathic relationship with the extraordinary seal-like creatures who live in the planet's oceans. But just as things seem to be going smoothly, the craft computer warns Tansis that the energy supply is running out and he is forced to take drastic measures to safeguard his own survival ...

    Delightful doomsdays (catastrophes) ; Vacuum-busters (spaceships) ; Beyond the beyond (distant planets) ; Here be monsters (alien life) ; Spires and sewers (future cities) ; Interplanetary pets (girls in science fiction) ; Hands without heads (great machines) ; Men of metal (robots) ; Ideas in action (two sf ideas develop) --The magazine gallery.

    John HarrisonBreak/Bruce BostonOnce More the Dream/A.A. Attanasio Birdseed for Our Feathered Fans/John Clute5 Poems/Mac KingMaladjustment/B.J. BayleyThe Kindly Ones/John SladekThe Return of the Mandarin/Rick GellmanG.I. Sparrow/Gerard E. Giannattasio A Modest Proposal/Bertil MartenssonThe Jewel Thief/Ronald Anthony Cross The Secret of Holman Hunt & The Crude Death Rate/Brian W. AldissMiss Subways/Gwyneth Cravens Lakewood Cemetery/Ruth BermanThe Ghosts of Luna/Ian WatsonRed Sky at Night/Jean Charlotte Liberation/Rona Spalten3 Poems/Alfonso TafoyaInsect Men of Boston/James SallisThe Thalidomide Kid/Jeremy Gilchrist The Man Who Made a Baby/Harvey Jacobs

    An omnibus edition of three 1960s paperback anthologies: Penguin Science Fiction, More Penguin Science Fiction, and Yet More Penguin Science Fiction.

    A. Lafferty - Three Shadows of the WolfFritz Leiber - Catch That Zeppelin! Isaac Asimov - Science: The Bridge of the GodsL. Sprague deCamp - The LampCover by Chesley Bonestell