An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now humankind’s most thrilling fantasies have come true. Creatures extinct for eons roam Jurassic Park with their awesome presence and profound mystery, and all the world can visit them - for a price.

Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive - and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. But Mark isn't ready to give up yet.

At a dinner party in Richmond, the host tells an astonishing story of his travels into the future, where, at first, it seems that man has moved on to a higher plane of existence - suffering and war seem to have been eliminated. But in fact there are two races living on the Earth: the Eloi, a leisured, decadent, androgynous group; and the Morlocks, an underground tribe of bestial workers.

The United States government is given a warning by the preeminent biophysicists in the country: current sterilization procedures applied to returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere.

An aspiring writer moves into a new apartment and discovers that her landlady has murdered her husband. Elsewhere, an accomplished surgeon is approached by a cabaret singer, whose beautiful appearance belies the grotesque condition of her heart. And while the surgeon's jealous lover vows to kill him, a violent envy also stirs in the soul of a lonely craftsman. Desire meets with impulse and erupts, attracting the attention of the surgeon's neighbor - who is drawn to a decaying residence that is now home to instruments of human torture.

A classic thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Crichton, Sphere is a bravura demonstration of what he does better than anyone: riveting storytelling that combines frighteningly plausible, cutting-edge science and technology with pulse-pounding action and serious chills.

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私は汽車の中で旅僧と居合わせた。話を聞くと高野山に籍を置いている旅僧で、宗派は違うが永平寺に訪ねる用があり、今晩は一泊するという。私は若狭へ帰省するところで、一泊しなければならなく、旅僧と敦賀の旅籠屋で同宿することになった。私は夜が更けるまで寝ることができない質なので、旅僧に諸国を行脚したおもしろい話はないかとねだった。 すると、旅僧は若い頃の奇妙な体験談を語りだし、それは、旅僧が飛騨の山越えをした時の話であった。



私（旅僧）は喉が渇き茶屋に入ったところ、付近で恐ろしい病が流行っていることを思い出した。茶屋の女にこの水は井戸のか、それとも川のかと訪ねたところを富山の薬売りに聞かれ、薬売りは「女ができないからと坊主になって、でも生命がほしいんだな。生命が危なくなったら薬をやるよ。」と馬鹿にされた。私は逃げ出し、むやみに急いでいると、先程の薬売りが無言でわざとらしく私を追い越し、危ない旧道の方へさっさと行ってしまった。見殺しには出来ないと思い、薬売りを追いかけることにした。蛇に苦戦した後、目の前に大森林があらわれ、森に入

A man. His ex-girlfriend's cat. A sadistic game show unlike anything in the universe: a dungeon crawl where survival depends on killing your prey in the most entertaining way possible. In a flash, every human-erected construction on Earth - from Buckingham Palace to the tiniest of sheds - collapses in a heap, sinking into the ground. The buildings and all the people inside have all been atomized and transformed into the dungeon: an 18-level labyrinth filled with traps, monsters, and loot.

「保護鳥」は1971年（昭和46年）小説新潮に掲載された作品。
異国の村人達に大切に保護されている鳥、その鳥に引き寄せられるように近づいた主人公が体験する壮絶な恐怖の物語。
作者、小松左京（こまつさきょう、大阪生まれ、1931年 - 2011年）は日本を代表するＳＦ作家。1961年「地には平和を」でＳＦ作家としてデビュー。「日本沈没」「復活の日」など映画化された長編の名作や、「ゴルディアスの結び目」などの短編小説の名作も多数執筆しています。又、1970年の大阪万博のテーマ館のサブ・プロデューサー、1990年の国際花と緑の博覧会の総合プロデューサーを務めるなど、その才能は多岐にわたりました。

A scientist and gentleman inventor in industrialized Victorian England claims to have irrefutable proof that time is not simply a concept - it's a whole other dimension. When he reveals the prototype of a time-traveling machine to his peers, he's met with skepticism at first...until he returns one week later, disheveled, bloody, and with a fantastic story to tell.