Very nice and short. And I like the way women are portrayed: within the framework of their roles of that time, but at the same time as real people with brains and courage (well, in any case, one of them)....
They put Ramsay’s ship on a hostile planet, hoping that he would die of starvation, so the first thing he did was give most of his money and lose all other gambling. Then he had a fight with the chief of police and joined forces with a half-naked chick of a dream, who seemed to be prone to self-destruction. The stakes were big - a planet or two - but it all worked out......
The fate of a great civilization lay in the hands of Dick Barrow when he brought his brave fellow engineers to a strange and unknown country. None of them knew what lay ahead — what dangers awaited them — or what rewards. But they did not hesitate, because the first question they were asked was: “Are you a brave man?”...
One of the wonderful things in the fallacy is that no matter how insanely someone dislikes this ... he cannot harm him. Therefore, delusion can be a good thing to push the evil warring parties ......
John Venex is a robot in the Venus Experimental series. It was designed to work on the seabed of Venus, but he bought his contract and returned to Earth. And here even among robots there is unemployment. He had to work for three months on a pig farm in New Jersey, until an announcement appeared on the labor exchange: "Venex is required."...
This is a story about a woman - one of those that no man knew and forgot. I do not apologize for her; I do not give her credit. I am writing down just an accurate story about the adventure of my youth, in which she played a part; I leave you the task of judging it....
Conger agreed to kill a stranger whom he had never seen. He was not worried about finding the wrong person. He knew what this man looked like. He could not be mistaken in relation to the personality of his goal - he held a human skull in his hand...
The treacherous continental powers invaded Britain with the help of the technological genius of the treacherous Irishman. The world, or at least the really important parts, is engulfed in war. Oh, and a giant comet is on its way to destroy the Earth ... all this, and not just pieces where white English-speaking people live....
Bron is a descendant of the infamous space pirates, but instead of following in the footsteps of his family, he decides to become an electronic engineer. Unfortunately, every time he tries to get out, something pulls him back. This is a mocking space adventure modeled after Harry Harrison's Stainless Steel Rats....
This small dystopia confirms the status of Robert Sheckley as an unsurpassed master of fantastic ideas, a filigree stylist and a subtle connoisseur of human souls. Two alternative ways of developing society - the planet-prison Omega and the Earth - an oasis of order and stability, in which everything is predetermined for you in advance....
Carse Hawk reached the borders of space when Saturn was borderline planet that was years before fast patrol ships brought Earth law and order in these vast regions. A casual look at his slim figure did not betray that he was to become the greatest adventurer in outer space so that his name bears such a deadly character in subsequent years. But upon closer inspection, a number little things became apparent...
One of the many interesting things that Randall Garrett did in his long and long career was writing a series of novels and stories taking place in a world where magic is as complex a science as physics or chemistry in our world. Magic is a licensed field. The setting for this story is slightly different - and yet it resembles the stories of D'Arcy. Kenneth Malone, sometimes called Sir Kenneth of the Royal FBI, had problems with telepathic spies and not only crazy telepathic counterspies. But the case of the disappearance of criminals was, at least, just as bad....
