A thin spot appeared on the visor plate and grew with an ominous and frightening speed. Flashes of flame began to play around the rocket ship, explosions fired from side to side as it spun and turned into a crazy attempt to escape. Rogue Rogan, his evil lips were clenched, his sparkling evil eyes narrowed, his heart was pounding, he knew that was all. It was a day of retribution, which he had been afraid for so long ......
The book is based on the prediction of nuclear weapons more destructive and uncontrolled than the world has ever seen. It first appeared in serialized form with a different ending, as "The Prophetic Trilogy", consisting of three books: "The Trap to Catch the Sun", "The Last War in the World" and "The Released World". A common theme of Wells' work, as in his Book of Foreboding, 1901. Foreboding is the story of man's mastery of power and energy through technological advances, seen as a determining factor in human progress. The novel begins: "The history of mankind is the story of the attainment...
Here he is again, the irrepressible Septimus Spink, in a story as noisy as an old giant juggling stars and planets in his huge golden hands, and laughing joyfully like one tiny world - our own - spinning from it into caves, immeasurable for people . Thanks to specifications made to scale, Joe Archibald, whose versatility with a needle never ceases to amaze us, managed to angrily achieve a rare triumph in space and time, as well as a back halo in a magnificent solar burst of imperishable glory....
When a super robot named Snookums learns how to create its own superbombs, it becomes obvious that the Earth is by no means the safest place for it. Therefore, Dr. Fitzhugh, his designer, and Leda Crannon, a child psychologist acting as the Snookums nanny, agree to organize Operation Brain, a plan to transport the robot to a distant planet. Mike Angel - MR R. Gabriel, Power Design - designed a propulsion system that would deliver the Branchell spaceship to its secret destination along with its unusual cargo. And, as a reserve officer in the Space Patrol, Mike is the logical replacement for...
It can be a little difficult to sell the whole city and make it unnoticed, either to distribute it freely, or in the more ordinary sense of sale. People do not quite believe it....
Shanghai had changed. We sensed that the moment we came ashore. Extraterritoriality was long gone; we had known that, of course. The days of exploitation, of clubs where Chinese and Burmese and Indian servants waited on Britons and Americans were passed. Pan-Asia had seen to that. This was 1965. The white man's burden in the east had been upon brown and yellow shoulders for over sixteen years now, and the Indians and Burmese and Indonesians were ruling themselves, after their fling at communism in the fifties....
In the future, theoretically, the vanishing point is at infinity, and therefore unattainable. But the reality is different; extinction occurs much earlier than theory suggests ......
Maud was lying in a long chair on the lawn after lunch the following afternoon, defending Christian Science from the gibes (which were keen) of the mockers, who were many. She had an ally, it is true, in the person of Alice Yardly, who, in her big hat and white dress, with a blue sash, looked like a doubtful Romney, and was smiling, literally with all her might. The more the mockers mocked, the kinder grew her smile, and the more voluble her explanations. Maud, for her part, would sooner have done battle alone, for all that Alice as an ally did was, with great precision and copious...
The story captures numerous small colonies based on unusual perceptions of family unit and social group. Most of them failed in practice, but usually because they were based on idealistic ideas that had little to do with the economic or social needs of their time. But what can such a group face when a new member, a person who does not understand the real conditions, has to be accepted as a member? And what about the new theory of family and social unit that is designed to fit the real world?...
The story of William Porphyry Benham is the story of a man whose idea came to fruition. It was an idea that captured his imagination early in life, grew with him and changed with him, finally intertwining with his being. His story is his story. This was observed in a student; it was clearly present in his mind at the very last moment of his adventurous life. He belonged to a happy minority that was not dependent on the necessities of life, so he could freely walk the world under his leadership. This brought him far. It led him to situations bordering on the fantastic, it made him funny, it...
Here are five stories from the science fiction magazine of the 1930ies, interesting to see what was considered 'astounding' in the 1930s. Some of which are old hat to us in the 21st century, and some of which (including the secret to life) which still amaze us....
There are times when a broken tool is better than a healthy one, or a perverted person is more useful than a whole tool. For example, a whole bottle of beer is not half a weapon, but half a bottle of beer ......
