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Step into the golden age of speculative imagination with Classic Science Fiction: Selected Short Stories, a masterfully curated collection from some of the most influential voices in science fiction history. This volume brings together visionary tales by Philip K. Dick, Murray Leinster, William Tenn, Robert Sheckley, Lynn Venable, E. E. Smith, and Fredric Brown—authors who shaped the genre with bold ideas, sharp wit, and unforgettable concepts.

It's all fiction, but then the ceiling bends and twists until a blue light shines through. You don't understand, but you know you should run. Your body won't allow you to move. An incredible force holds you in place. Fight or Flight is no longer an option. You are now in a frozen state, a fawn blinded by headlights. Then, you feel lighter and lighter until you realize everything is moving past you as if you were quickly going through a fast growth spurt. But no, that isn't possible. That can't be it. You aren't growing. No, that isn't it at all. You are levitating towards the ceiling.

Punktown is considered by many critics and readers to be one of the new classics of SF short story collections. In the nightmarish city they call Punktown, on a planet where countless sentient species collide, you can become a creator of clones. You can become a piece of performance art. You might even become a library of sorrows...

From boardrooms to befuddled aliens, what if the high-tech absurdities of modern life accelerated to warp speed? The stories in Neil Rackham's debut science fiction collection, Elliptical Billiard Balls, explore the worlds of business and tech - not to mention English-speaking dogs and aliens who communicate via smells - to create strange new futures.

Author Henry Elder came to Alta Novis to learn more about the fabled battle lord and his lady. But rather than re-tell the tales of their already well-known exploits, he wants to hear about the couple from the people who really know them. The people who live, love, interact, and fight alongside with them. He wants to hear those personal anecdotes in order to discover a side of Yulen and Atty D'Jacques that few people know.

Step into the golden age of imagination with Classic Science Fiction Short Stories, a powerful collection of visionary tales from the masters who defined the genre. Featuring works by Isaac Asimov, Frank Herbert, Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury, Andre Norton, and E. E. Smith, this anthology explores humanity’s future, the limits of technology, distant worlds, and the nature of reality itself.

Los cuentos de Alberto Chimal tratan de las proyecciones y los demonios de una «inteligencia» que desplaza y suplanta lo humano hasta su extinción, del poder absoluto de una tecnología adictiva, propiedad de unos pocos, de la ingenuidad de creer en sus buenas intenciones y de las horribles fantasías de poder absoluto y saqueo de este mundo (y hasta de otros mundos). Porque incluso aunque esas máquinas «enfermaran», nuestra fe en ellas podría ser suficiente para que triunfasen sobre nosotros.

En los cuentos de El comienzo del paraíso, Edmundo Paz Soldán explora cómo, al cambiar dramáticamente lo que nos rodea, nosotros también nos hemos vuelto seres extraños en este planeta. En estos cuentos impactantes y de vigoroso ritmo narrativo –escritos con una prosa envolvente capaz de construir atmósferas variadísimas– aparecen peces monstruosos de las profundidades abisales, árboles estranguladores y animales de una península devastada, que van de mutación en mutación.

London's Maxwell Towers have long been under the control of Max—an all-seeing AI intent on punishing wrongdoers and wicked tenants by sending them to the Thirteenth Floor, where unspeakable horrors come to life. Now, Max's coding has been embedded in computer systems all over the world, and there is no escape from his nightmarish reign.

In the quiet hours of the desert night, ordinary people encounter things they cannot explain. The Quiet Visitors is a collection of calm, atmospheric UFO encounter stories set beneath the vast skies of the American Southwest. From isolated campsites and empty highways to ancient ruins and remote ranchland, each chapter follows a different witness through a single night that quietly changes everything.

This short story collection delves into the origins of our civilization. How we came to be and where we will end up if we are not careful. One story is about a small alien sent to Earth to help a primitive couple become more civilized and what kind of chaos ensues. The other involves a NASA astronaut discovering the truth about our origins and what harm it cause once he delves further into the truth. Enter if you dare....

Eight months after a failed assassination attempt on confederation leadership, Nathan Bishop faces infrastructure warfare unlike anything the confederation has ever encountered. Federal authorities have weaponized confederation infrastructure systems using the confederation's own native protocols—the sophisticated technical standards designed to protect critical systems now turned into attack vectors. Water treatment systems fail. Power grids cascade into darkness. Telecommunications networks collapse.

For life in America it was quite laid back albeit mundane. When America is decimated by an unknown virus the world for many changed irrevocably. Millions are killed across the world by this unknown virus. Just when people were learning to cope and survive, America was hit by an EMP, which compounded the problem. Zachary Cain an ex-military soldier is in for the fight of his life for survival and that of his family. Is he up for the challenge? Will he survive what's to come? Would you be able to survive in the aftermath of an unknown virus compounded by an EMP!?

Discover the vast worlds and pocket universes of Michael Swanwick (Stations of the Tide), the only author to win science fiction’s most prestigious award five times in six years. In his dazzling new collection, the master of speculative short stories returns with tales in which magic and science improbably coexist with myth and legend. With two stories original to this collection, Swanwick aptly demonstrates with poignant humor why he is widely respected as a master of imaginative storytelling.

Lucía trabaja como mecánica en un carguero espacial, dando las mismas rondas día tras día. Entre bromas pesadas de compañeros, herramientas "para zurdos" inexistentes y motores que parecen tener vida propia, pensaba que ya había visto de todo.

Sheriff Deena Mallory’s murder investigation aboard the solar failsafe ship Agni unravels into a desperate fight against eco-terrorist sabotage threatening Earth itself. But survival comes at a heartbreaking cost.

Step into the sharp, idea-driven imagination of Isaac Asimov with this carefully selected collection of classic short fiction.

An EMP strike shatters the nation. Keith flees biker gangs, his daughter is trapped in mall rubble, and his wife fights through burning streets. Their only hope is Eddie’s off-grid mountain homestead. Survival, family, and chaos collide in this explosive thriller.

After a mysterious blackout shatters society, Samantha and her dog Dean journey through looted cities and treacherous wilds. Haunted by her parents’ deaths and unable to save a wounded survivor, she finds an unlikely ally in Gabriel. As danger closes in, a hidden bunker may be their last chance at hope.

Dreißig dystopische Microstorys und Kurzgeschichten führen in Welten, in denen Hoffnung selten geworden ist: Eine junge Rebellin trotzt der Überwachung im Paris von morgen, auf einem fernen Planeten wächst das Grün zur Bedrohung, und ein uraltes Baumwesen spürt sein Ende nahen.