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Beyond the Aquila Rift: It's shorthand for the trip no one ever hopes to make by accident. The one that will screw up the rest of your life, the one that creates the ghosts you see haunting the shadows of company bars across the whole Bubble. Men and women ripped out of time, cut adrift from families and lovers by an accident of an alien technology we use but rarely comprehend.

Twenty-four of the greatest science fiction stories of all time in this fourth sci-fi short story collection, including works by Jerry Dunham, Emmett Dowell, James Causey, Gordon Randall Garrett, James A. Cox, Phyllis Sterling Smith, Richard A. Sternbach, Robert Sheckley, E. G. Von Wald, Keith Laumer, Jerome Bixby, Frederik Pohl, Roger Dee, Arnold Marmore, James H. Schmitz, Lester del Rey, Cordwainer Smith, Ray Bradbury, and Philip K. Dick.

This second collection of great sci-fi stories includes the following: "A Sense of Wonder" by Stephen Marlowe, "Seller of the Sky" by Dave Dryfus, "The Shining Cow" by Alex James, and more.

This volume contains a variety of imaginative stories from both famous and not-so-famous science fiction writers.

The story of rookie pilot Lt. Halley's first drop ship command. (A short story in the Terms of Enlistment universe.)

Best known for such blockbuster film adaptations of his work as Blade Runner and Total Recall, Dick (1928…82) is an iconic figure in sf whose every written word remains of interest. This generous sampling of his early writings is an entirely original collection covering a wide variety of themes and settings, ranging from the near to the far future and from the earthly mundane to almost unimaginably exotic worlds.

Such a long life of killing has left plenty of dangerous enemies in its wake. An ancient witch coven, a jealous assassin, and even a demon lord all have old scores to settle. With one last contract to fulfill, Yrlissa hopes to be free from her past and her guild forever so she can disappear with her husband and young daughter. But the past doesn't forget so easily, and neither will a betrayed guild of magical assassins. Yrlissa's only concern is to keep her new family safe, but with enemies closing in on all sides, will they become a distraction she cannot afford?

In "The Variable Man", Earth (The Terran System) is in a cold war with the older, corrupt Centaurian System, which suppresses Terra from exploring space and expanding its borders. When a devastating new weapon called Icarus is developed by Terra, everyone expects the odds to tip in Terra's favor. But the computers calculating these odds find an unknown variable that throws off the odds. A time traveler from 1913 known as Thomas Cole has arrived. Can this variable man from the past rescue mankind from a catastrophic future?

"The Eyes Have It" is a humorous, early short story by Philip K. Dick that first appeared in Science Fiction Stories in 1953. In it, a bus-riding reader of a discarded melodrama with an overactive imagination is persuaded by the hackneyed prose that the world has been taken over by aliens. Thus, when "eyes slowly roved around the room", the reader imagines disembodied eyeballs traveling of their own free will. A rare example of satire from the Dick canon.

His first step... could be his last. Colt is a maverick astronaut who accepts a daring mission to be the first person on Venus. After every other mission to Venus has failed, what could possibly go wrong? Pretty much everything, as it turns out.

With Trevor's help, Mason tracks down the next memory inside the mind of a convicted mass murderer. Lyra Shin was a skilled neurosurgeon until an automated surgical drone put her out of a job. She finds work testing a new sensory experience that allows her to walk in the shoes of a young Shakespearean stage actress. In this younger woman's body, Lyra experiences love with a fellow cast member. It is a dream come true,. but things take a terrible turn when Lyra learns that acting to be someone you're not has a devastating cost.

While training for a manned mission to Mars, Dr. Sophie Winston and her team of scientists find themselves cut off from the rest of the world. Trapped inside a biosphere deep within the confines of Cheyenne Mountain, Sophie and crew discover they are the survivors of a brutal alien invasion. But as they struggle to stay alive, they realize their safe haven is far from safe and that they must team up with other survivors around the world to defeat the aliens before it’s too late for humanity and the Earth.

Audiobook contains: Accession of the Stone Born Death doesn't always ride a pale horse: Gavin Randall hasn’t been home in nearly thirty years. Upon his return, he discovers that he’s one of the rarest beings in the supernatural community - a Stone Born. Dust Walkers: When newly minted vigil Gavin Randall is summoned to a small town in New Mexico, the last thing he’s expecting is to have to fight a cartel of necromancers, and Shades of Fire & Ash: fanatics hellbent on destroying Gavin Randall, his friends, and the Archive itself have surfaced.

Jane Yellowrock has motorcycle trouble and pulls into Bayou Oiseau, hoping for help from a local motorcycle shop. Instead, she is drawn into a war between the local witches and the local, non-aligned vampires.

When an EMP plunges Charleston into silence, paramedic Lisa fights to save lives as the city unravels. With Dylan at her side, every step toward her family’s farm means facing looters, violence, and impossible choices. Survival demands more than skill, it demands sacrifice.

Connected by the mysterious Echotide Emporium, a shop that exists outside of time, these speculative tales explore the darkest corners of imagination. Excavating a dead planet, an archaeologist uncovers an artifact that feels terrifyingly familiar. Five friends open a bunker in the woods to find a message waiting for them from thirty years in the future. A grieving artist discovers her paintings don’t just capture reality… they overwrite it. Two investigators enter a Nevada ghost town where the clocks have stopped, but the day refuses to end. The shop is open.

Fronteras del infinito es una recopilación de tres relatos en los que se exploran temas de gran interés social: los prejuicios sociales y sus consecuencias, el antirracismo nacido en torno a la manipulación genética y una conjunción de religión, supervivencia y estrategia militar.

THE EARLIEST LIE IS THE DEADLIEST WEAPON. For five millennia, the earth has carried the agonizing acoustic memory of humanity’s first murder. Now, a fanatic has found the instrument to broadcast it. Julian Vane and his ruthless Order of Silence have unearthed a prehistoric weapon in the deepest trenches of the Jordan Rift. Their terrifying goal: to broadcast the "Great Silence," an ancient, inescapable frequency of the uncorrupted Ur-language that will permanently strip humanity of free will, forcing a tyrannical, lobotomized peace upon the globe.

The Stone remembers. The Salt hungers. The Silicon decides. For five centuries, the Merendón sanctuary has remained a myth—a hidden cradle where the Black Guard, vampires of obsidian skin and ancient memory, guard the Record of Life under the guidance of their king, the Scribe K'inich. But the age of shadows is over. Aethelgard, a global corporate leviathan, has cracked the sanctuary's tectonic shield, seeking to harvest the "Marrow" of the ancients to power a new era of human immortality.

In a future divided by a cure that could save —or control —humanity, one political campaign threatens to rewrite the fate of the world.. What if they could erase who you are —and call it a cure? In the near-future United States, backed by a powerful institution and a presidential candidate, Project Z offers a so-called cure —and the country is splitting at the seams.