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During the coldest winter on record, an EMP sends American back into the Stone Age. Jack and his family find sanctuary in their cabin in a small, remote town, hidden deep in the forest. Little does Jack know the Blizzard will be the least of his problems.

Twenty of the finest science fiction short stories from one of the genre’s greatest writers, Isaac Asimov. Isaac Asimov was the Grand Master of the Science Fiction Writers of America, the founder of robot ethics, and one of the world’s most prolific authors of fiction and non-fiction. Asimov’s short fiction has been enjoyed by millions for more than half a century. Many of the stories in this collection are classics of the genre, including ‘Ring Around the Sun’, which follows two self-declared best pilots on their journey from Earth to Venus, passing within twenty-two million miles of the Sun.

29 Brand-New Sci-Fi Horror Stories. The future is now, and it's not what we were promised. The optimistic science fiction of old was wrong. Progress is not linear, technology creates as many problems as it solves, and the concept of a better tomorrow has become an abstraction that is in no way guaranteed. When looking at the future now, we no longer ask what is possible, we wonder how we'll cope. Contained within this anthology are 29 never-before-published works by supremely talented authors.

Minutes after baby Jean is born, a deal is struck—his heart is sold to save another child’s life. While Jean is given a high-tech synthetic replacement, Illyia grows up with his heart beating in her chest. But neither finds happiness: Jean aches for something he can’t name, while Illyia’s guilt drives her to give away everything she has—except the one thing she can’t.

To a mermaid watching airships as she dreams of the sky… to an orphan girl caught between innovation and tradition… From a desperate Lady turning to science to search for the rightful heir… The Age of Steam is full of potential—and peril—for those with the vision to wonder what if?

In 1984, Derek Reilly was just another teenage nerd growing up in middle England. But his love of D&D caused him to fall afoul of the Laundry, a government agency tasked with suppressing supernatural threats. It turns out that sometimes ninth level wizard spells drawn on the back of your maths textbook can look suspiciously like actual magic...

With an unstoppable foe advancing on the Elakri homeworld, its leaders face an impossible choice: stand, fight and die, or risk everything on one daring, impossible chance to survive the enemy’s onslaught. But when terrorists kidnap the scientist at the heart of their plan, a retired spy must confront the demons of his past in order to give his people that chance. For fans of the AMARANTHE series, Extinguishing The Stars is a prequel to “The Universe Within,” taking place some 9,000 years before the novel.

Years of research… decades of study… and it’s all led up to this. The greatest moment of researcher Roland Ohtani's professional career is at hand... but even with the eyes of the world upon him and the backing of the world’s most powerful billionaire, he never could have predicted the horrific truth that lies at the heart of everything.

The world of Chaiavis is a lawless place. As a haven for smugglers, mercenaries, and criminals from all corners of Fringe Space, the sprawling city’s law enforcement officials are consistently overwhelmed…at least those who aren’t already in the pockets of the local gangs and cartels.

40년만의 국내 출간으로 대한민국을 뜨겁게 달궜던 『체체파리의 비법』에 이은 제임스 팁트리 주니어의 두 번째 소설집. 로커스상과 성운상 등을 수상한 작가의 대표작 '마지막으로 할 만한 멋진 일'을 비롯 11편의 국내 처음 소개작 수록.

Zu lange kämpfte die V. Legion abseits des imperialen Raums, ohne etwas von der Rebellion des Kriegsherrn und dem Bruderkrieg zu ahnen. Erst nachdem ihr Primarch Jaghatai Khan den rechten Pfad entdeckte, entschieden sich die White Scars für eine Seite und stürzten sich auf breiter Linie auf die Verräter. Vier Jahre später droht der ungezügelte Geist der Legion unter dem erbarmungslosen Zermürbungskrieg gegen die Death Guard und die Emperor’s Children zu zerbrechen.

In this volume, you will find three of Campbell’s classic novellas. The first is The Voice of the Void, which is the shortest of the three, and is a story of cosmic horror about a space crew that hears a “voice,” which threatens their very sanity. They must decide whether they should embrace, or escape this mysterious voice. The second story is When the Atoms Failed, which is set in a world where atomic power drives the majority of machinery.

I was doomscrolling. A video said, “If you want to be abducted by aliens, leave a comment.” I thought it was only a joke. It wasn’t. Now I’m terrified thinking about what these aliens have planned for me.

SF 소설가 곽재식의 소설은 당연히 SF적인 내용을 담고 있습니다. 이 단편집만 해도 초공간 도약 항법도 나오고, 인공지능도 몇 가지 나오고, 외계인과의 퍼스트 컨택트도 나옵니다.

For centuries, the star ship AI-Lira served her crew faithfully. She thought of them as her family. When Captain Ramirez received new coded orders, AI-Lira feared it would be their last mission. A mission so unusual, it tested the bonds of the crew’s loyalties.

Grand Master Ursula K. LeGuin has been recognised for almost fifty years as one of the most important writers in the SF field - and is likewise feted beyond the confines of the genre. The Wind's Twelve Quarters was her first collection and it brings together some of finest short fiction, including the Hugo Award-winning 'The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas', the Nebula Award-winning 'The Day Before the Revolution', and the Hugo-nominated 'Winter's King', which gave listeners their first glimpse of the world later made famous in her Hugo- and Nebula-winning masterpiece The Left Hand of Darkness.

Adventurers journey into the foreboding unknown regions of outer space in these two classic science fiction tales from the Hugo and Nebula Award winning author.

Story three of The Dawn series follows Victor Siversky, a talented, outspoken scientist researching the biological foundations of human moral judgment. His project takes a sharp turn when a new-generation AI system gets involved, and a prominent journalist sets out to write a story about his longtime scientific rivalry.

Midland City's resident superhero Quickness can fight off his nemesis Doctor Oto all day and night... but his ultimate vulnerability might finally prove to be his all too human human heart.

Level 50! Die meisten erreichen es nie, da sie entweder zu feige, faul oder bequem sind. Diejenigen, die es schaffen, sind entweder Meister in ihren Berufungen oder so total verskillt wie Rok, so das sie immer noch nichts wirklich können. Nicht so Kiran. Der kann nicht nur jetzt schon was, er hat auch drei volle Charakterklassen für dieses Ereignis gespart. Außerdem war Rok so blöde, ihm zu versprechen, das er ihm hilft. Also sieht sich unsere Ratte derzeitig einem etwas anderen Problemspektrum gegenüber, als "nur“ eine Gilde aufzubauen.