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In "Paycrafts Kur" nervt ein von Komplexen zerfressenes Individuum ein Londoner Club-Mitglied so lange bis er von diesem ein altes Rezept seiner Urgroßmutter als Lösung seiner Probleme dargeboten bekommt - die erhoffte Wirkung stellt sich alsbald auch ein, allerdings so ganz anders als erwünscht. "Im Tal der Spinnen" erzählt die Geschichte dreier Verfolger einer Dirne, die auf ihrer Jagd von einer Art mutierten Riesenspinnen-Armada angegriffen werden.

In "Jimmy Goggles der Gott" macht ein junger Abenteurer die höchst interessante, praktische und aberwitzige Erfahrung, dass Wahrheit und Gottesglaube von Region zu Region variieren und immer lediglich in der Wahrnehmung und Vermittlung der entsprechenden Perspektiven und Blickwinkel liegen. "Tiefseepiraten" berichtet von einer bislang unbekannten Meeresungeheuer-Art, welche vermutlich aus diversen Gründen sich dazu entschließt Menschenfleisch auf ihre Speisekarte zu setzen.

"Ein Nachtfalter" erzählt die Geschichte zweier konkurrierender Wissenschaftler, die sich jeweils für die treibende Primärkraft in ihrer Disziplin halten und rücksichtslos den jeweils anderen mit Argumenten und Verleumdungen zerstören wollen. Einer der beiden stirbt und sein ehemaliger Erzfeind entdeckt das Gesicht des Verstorbenen in einer neuen Insekten-Spezies... "Mr. Ledbetters Urlaub" zeigt die Schwierigkeiten auf, mit welcher eine Person konfrontiert wird, welche sich auf ihr fremdes Terrain wagt bzw. wie aus einem "das kann ich doch auch" ganz schnell ein "was um alles in der Welt passiert hier" wird.

In "Der gestohlene Körper" wagen zwei Wissenschaftler ein mutiges Experiment, während dessen sie die Gegenstände Gedankenübertragung und körperunabhängiges Seelenleben empirisch zu beweisen trachten und kommen zu Ergebnissen, die faszinierender und realistischer erscheinen als die plumpen religiösen Baukästen-Antworten. "Die Äpyornisinsel" berichtet von einem ehemaligen Seemann, der mehrere urzeitliche Eier findet, aus welchen aus einem auch tatsächlich ein Relikt vergangener Ur-Zeiten wiederaufersteht.

"In der Tiefe" erzählt von einer neu entwickelten Tauchmaschine, welche in die Abgründe des Ozeans vordringt. Dem glücklichen Insassen begegnen bei deren Jungfern-Tauchfahrt Erlebnisse faszinierender Art. Er lernt eine intelligente Spezies kennen, welche trotz unbestreitbarer Unterschiede verblüffende Ähnlichkeiten mit dem heutigen Menschen aufweist. "Der Herr der Dynamos" reflektiert den Umstand, dass Religionsglaube von Erziehung und Geburtsregion abhängig ist.

In "Der gestohlene Bazillus" entwendet ein Anarchist einem Bakteriologen eine tödliche Virenart, die sich glücklicherweise der glorreichen Absicht des Anarchisten - der Zerstörung der Welt - als leicht unzweckmäßig erweist. In "Die Triumphe eines Ausstopfers" referiert ein erfahrener Ausstopfungs-Spezialist über die grotesken Aufträge, denen er in seiner Berufspraxis die Ehre hatte nachkommen zu dürfen.

This collection of science-fiction writings by Jayant V. Narlikar offers listeners a unique glimpse into the world-famous Indian astrophysicist’s vivid and highly imaginative concepts and stories.

The history of science fiction and fantasy is filled with stories by what we like to call "Davids of Distinction". Now, for the first time, an anthology by people named David, for everyone. Even if your name is anything but David! Listen along as editor David Afsharirad guides you through the strange, wonderous imaginations of the great Davids of the field, past, present, and future.

Contained herein are tales of the history of mankind's future first colony, from the first failed attempt at colonization, to the rise in crime, to the rise in terrorism, to its descent into widespread civil war and rebellion...and ultimately, liberation. As with most of human history, this history is messy, with good men and women turning bad, bad men and women inadvertently doing good, and blood flowing in the streets.

From the distant past to the far future, those who carry the sword rack up commendations for bravery. They are men and women who, like the swords they carry, have been forged in blood. These are their stories.

Nineteen sparkling stories that weave between the lands of the living and the lands of the dead. Spirits Abroad is an expanded edition of Zen Cho’s Crawford Award winning debut collection with nine added stories including Hugo Award winner “If at First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again”. A Datin recalls her romance with an orang bunian. A teenage pontianak struggles to balance homework, bossy aunties, first love, and eating people.

Alias Space and Other Stories is the first fiction collection from Nebula Award-winning writer Kelly Robson, who vaulted onto the science fiction, fantasy, and horror stage in 2015, earning spots in multiple year's best anthologies. This volume collects Robson's best stories to date, along with exciting new work, and notes to accompany each piece. Robson's stories are noted for their compassion, humanity, humor, rigor, and joy.

A collection of Silvia Moreno-Garcia's short stories, including Prime Meridian and The Return of the Sorcerers or the Diamond Heart.

Edgar-award winning author Dana Stabenow is best known for her Kate Shugak novels, but the unifying protagonist of almost all her writing - be it crime, fantasy, horror, or science fiction - is Alaska. This genre-spanning collection of 16 short stories features familiar characters like Kate and Jim, Liam and Wy, and Bill and Moses, but also ranges farther afield than many listeners will expect.

This is the first story collection ever from best-selling fantasy and science-fiction writer L. E. Modesitt, Jr. Modesitt began publishing short fiction in the SF magazines in the 1970s, and this collection includes a selection of stories from the whole of his career. Some of the early stories are kernels for his early SF novels, others display the wide range of his talents and interests, from satire to military adventure.

At turns nonchalantly hip and charmingly deranged, Suzuki's singular slant on speculative fiction would be echoed in countless later works, from Margaret Atwood and Harumi Murakami, to Black Mirror and Ex Machina. In these darkly playful and punky stories, the fantastical elements are always earthed by the universal pettiness of strife between the sexes, and the gritty reality of life on the lower rungs, whatever planet that ladder might be on.

Walter M. Miller, Jr., is best remembered as the author of A Canticle for Leibowitz, which has been universally recognized as one of the greatest novels of modern science fiction. But he also produced many shorter works of fiction of stunning originality and power. His profound interest in religion and his innate literary gifts combined perfectly in the production of such works as The Darfstellar, for which he won a Hugo in 1955, Conditionally Human, "I, Dreamer", and "The Big Hunger", all of which are included in this brilliant and essential collection.

A beer run becomes an interdimensional excursion. Two men settle their differences after discovering an extraordinary secret in the wilderness. A woman faces the bureaucracy of a digital afterlife. A grieving man seeks to know where his wife was reincarnated. Strange lights in the sky transform the lives of a small town. God and the devil play billiards for people's souls. A teenage deity's science project sprouts a startling discovery. These and more dream-like detours into the surreal, interstitial, and inexplicable await within. Chock full of gooey, mind-bending goodness.

On Mars, a scientist experiments with a new engine that will one day become the drive that fuels humanity's journey into the stars. On an asteroid station, a group of prisoners are oblivious to the catastrophe that awaits them. On a future Earth beset by overpopulation, pollution, and poverty, a crime boss desperately seeks to find a way off planet. On an alien world, a human family struggles to establish a colony and make a new home. All these stories and more are featured in this unmissable collection of short fiction set in the hardscrabble world of The Expanse.

Nine exclusive adventures featuring a multitude of Doctors and companions. The collection opens with a trilogy of stories set in the First World War—Men of War, Horrors of War and Fortunes of War—in which the First, Third and Sixth Doctors are pitted against a rogue element in time.