The story begins with a comet that touches the Earth during flight and collects a few small pieces. About forty people of different nations and ages are doomed to a two-year journey through a comet. They form a mini-society and cope with the hostile environment of the comet (mainly with cold). The size of the "comet" is about 2,300 kilometers in diameter - much larger than any comet or asteroid that even exists....
The protagonist of this novel is the Square, living in a flat country - Flatland. After a lengthy account of customs and social hierarchy, Kvadrat tells about a dream in which he saw the one-dimensional country of Lainland and communicated with its king. Every millennium, a voluminous world comes into contact with a flat world. On the threshold of 2000, the Sphere is the Square and introduces it to three-dimensional space. At the same time, a law was passed in Flatland, according to which everyone who talks about the world outside is recognized as heretics and subject to execution or...
From the atomic age in Atlantis to a world remote in space and time, two incredible ancient races, the Arises and the Eddorians, are in the midst of an interstellar war with the Earth as a reward. The Arises, using advanced mental technology, foresaw an invasion of the corrupt and evil Eddorians in their galaxy, so they begin a breeding program on every planet in their universe. Their goal ... to produce super warriors that can hold back the Eddorian invasion....
Bellamy's fantastic utopian novels made a great contribution to the theory of American socialism. In his main work, “After a Hundred Years,” the author described the social system that had come to him. The hero of the book, under the influence of hypnosis, fell asleep in a lethargic dream in 1887, and woke up already in 2000 and was surprised to find that over the past 113 years, a society of universal equality had emerged in the process of peaceful evolution in America. All implements of production are nationalized, the people represent the “industrial army of labor”, competition, business,...
Three friends built a time machine, set off on it in the distant past, 150 thousand years ago, and founded the state of Mastodonia there. Will they be able to achieve political recognition of Mastodonia in our time, because no one believes in the existence of such a country?...
Is Spirit and Flesh the same thing? Or are these separate entities, dependent and at the same time independent of each other? Perhaps some great Cosmic Law holds this secret. But the only Universal Element on which we can depend, apparently, is the Happy Event. A twisted moment in the Cosmos - and two ego are separated from their bodies and lost in a lonely abyss....
A young Englishman, along with a classmate - a young man of a mysterious nationality - make an escape from school and go to Africa. Along the way, it turns out that this African is the crown prince of one of the most mysterious kingdoms of the Black continent, where the white man’s foot has not yet stepped. And the Great White Queen rules this state. Not having time to land on the African coast, friends fall into a trap set up by the worst enemy of the royal dynasty of the unknown country of Mo. Innumerable adventures have to go through them on the way to the lost world, but even there...
Millions of millions of creatures living on planet Earth are slowing and falling. What is the reason? The sense of time disappears ... What awaits our world?...
In this short story, the author confronts the characters with one of the oldest questions that interest humanity - what is the soul? And like hundreds of times before, history is trying to find a new answer...
In a world where most people sleep and dream about life, only a few, such as Nelson, really walk the earth, hide from guards and tracking robots, only they really live and try to achieve their goal. But the problem is completely different. Nelson is a rebel by nature, and this rebellion cannot lead to anything good ......
This is perhaps one of the most powerful stories in modern social philosophy - a small fairy tale, from which frost runs over the skin. An unusual situation, an unpredictable plot - a fascinating story awaits you!...
The Blue Germ concentrates on what will bring immortality to society and the individual, but does not focus on science as the basis. Its main qualities are in symbols and tones, and not in conceptualization. He makes interesting and insightful observations and voices a truly unique (for his era) assumption that could become a stepping stone to the medical provision of immortality....
The Star of the World was an unpredictable variable. Sometimes it was flaming, sparkling and hot. In other cases, it was strangely dim, radiating a little heat to its many planets. Gresth Gkae, Miran leader, was looking for the best star his people could migrate to. This star must be stable, reliable, with a good planetary system. And in his astronomical search, he found Sol. With hundreds of ships, each of which is larger than entire Earth cosmodromes, and moving faster than the speed of light, Mirans intended to move to the solar regions and seize power. And there was nothing on Earth that...
PLANET STRAPPERS started as The Bunch, a group of space students sitting in the back room of a store in Jarviston, Minnesota. They needed the riches of the earth, and they asked, selected and built what they wanted in order to achieve their goal. PLANET STRAPPERS got what they wanted - the beginning of the path to the stars - but none of those born and raised on Earth could imagine that they would be waiting there!...
