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(0)Frederik Pohl
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Arthur made it alive through the Third World War. Well, if you can call a computer brain alive. He's not much more than a suitcase and a typewriter, but he has skills, skills that a lot of people want and need in a post-apocalyptic world. So he and his friends are on the run. But is there anywhere safe for them to run to?
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A delightful time travel romp. What happens when a bored criminal from the future returns to a more exciting time in the past? Foraminifera 9-Hart Bailey's Beam is about to find out. He's gathered a cache of high-tech weapons to take back in time with him, with the intention of teaming up with the legendary New York Mafia. Upon arriving in our time he meets a street gang named The Boomer Dukes and he asks them to "take me to your Mafia." From there...
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Guy Burckhardt wakes up screaming, but can't remember the nightmare that caused his fright. Slowly over the next couple of days he comes to realize he's been reliving the same day over and over. And things only get stranger and more frightening from there. One of the true classics of science fiction.
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The Science Fiction Novel Super Pack #1 brings you ten full novels, and more than 1,500 pages of awe inspiring fiction. These are the novelists who shaped the field. Collectively these authors have won thirteen Hugo awards and four Nebula awards, while six of them have been named Grand Masters by the Science Fiction Writers of America. Collected here are: 'Empire' by Clifford D. Simak; 'Falcons of Narabedla' by Marion Zimmer Bradley; 'The Green Odyssey'...
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Frederik Pohl was an influential writer and editor. As an editor he won three Hugo awards for best professional magazine. As a writer he won four Hugo Awards and three Nebulas. Pohl was awarded the title of Grand Master by the Science fiction Writers of America and is a member of the Science Fiction Hall of fame. Collected here are a novel and five stories that helped Pohl carve his name onto the science fiction field. His stories are imaginative...
9) Pythias
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Sure, Larry Connaught saved my life-but it was how he did it that forced me to murder him!
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Frederik Pohl was one of the greatest science fiction writers of all time, with a career that spanned 7 decades (and won him every major award in the field). Included are ten of his classic novels and short stories:
PLAGUE OF PYTHONS
THE DAY OF THE BOOMER DUKES
MY LADY GREENSLEEVES
THE TUNNEL UNDER THE WORLD
PYTHIAS
SEARCH THE SKY (written with C. M. Kornbluth)
THE HATED
THE KNIGHTS OF ARTHUR
SURVIVAL KIT
PREFERRED RISK (written with Lester...
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Collected here are five adventures from Science Fiction Writers of America Grand Master and Science Fiction Hall of Fame member, Frederik Pohl. Each of these stories will transport you to an imaginative place and time. Pohl was one of the best science fiction writers of all time and these are some of his best stories.
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Amazing Stories Volume 130 is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are five short stories by different authors: "A Hitch in Time" by Frederik Pohl, "The Penultimate Trump" by R. C. W. Ettinger, "Definition" by Damon Knight, "The Sky Was Full Of Ships" by Theodore Sturgeon, and "You Are Forbidden!" by Jerry Shelton.
14) Preferred Risk
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Thomas Wills is a claims adjuster. That doesn't sound like much, but the insurance company he works for rules the world with an Iron fist. Thomas Wills believes he is working for the greatest company in the history of mankind. But when he meets Rena dell'Angela he learns that everything is not as it seems. His company enforces complete compliance to their rules with a deep freeze vault that anyone who violates their rules is imprisoned in. Once he...
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A Plague of Pythons is a science fiction novel by American writer Frederik Pohl. Serialized in Galaxy Science Fiction in October and December 1962, the novel was published in 1965, and an updated version was published in 1984 under the title Demon in the Skull. The title derives from the words "Domina Pythonis" used as part of an exorcism ritual performed in the first chapter to scare away the "demons" that seem to possess people in the novel. The...
16) The Hated
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After space, there was always one more river to cross . . . the far side of hatred and murder!
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Great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here: "Asteroid of the Damned" by Frederic Pohl and Dirk Wylie, "Rundown" by Robert Lory, "The Time of Cold" by Mary Carlson, "The Cosmic Derelict" by John Broome, "The Thing of Venus" by Wilburn S. Peacock, "Satellite of Fear" and "Pied Piper of Mars" both by Frederic Arnold Kummer, and "The Last Martian" by Ray Van Houten.
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Hugo and Nebula award-winning science fiction Grand Master Frederik Pohl presents a fictional account of the worst nuclear disaster in human history.
Chernobyl: The very name conjures the catastrophe that the world feared could happen someday at a nuclear power plant.
On April 26, 1986, a power surge caused the core of one of the reactors to explode, spewing a cloud of radioactive steam into the Ukrainian air. More than four thousand people died,...
20) Gladiator-At-Law
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CAUTION! You are about to enter a world...where all engineering ingenuity has been employed for public spectacles of torture and deathwhere the stock market operates with pari-mutuel machineswhere a court clerk transcribes testimony on punch cards, then feeds it to a jury machinewhere the dream real-estate development of today has become a cracked-concrete savage jungleIn this world, young lawyer Charles Mundin battles a great combine of corporate...