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By the year 2650, the people of Earth have moved away from Aristotelian logic, training themselves through years of study and discipline to become Null-A. What was the Follower? Gosseyn knew the creature threatened to destroy the whole solar system, but not even his Null-A trained brain could thwart the Follower's plans!
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Earth has been taken over by the Ganymedians, a race of telepathic worm-like aliens whose instinct for survival has overridden any human attempt to resist their rule. But there is one man who may have discovered a way to defeat them. Dr Balkani has created a machine which distorts reality, and therefore will allow a determined human to avoid the Ganymedians' telepathic oversight. But there is one problem - Balkani is a worm-kisser, a servant of the invaders, and may not allow his invention to be used against them.
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An extraterrestrial hive mind named Medusa has assimilated many worlds and life forms and now targets Earth.
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There was no life on the asteroid, but the miles of rock-hewn corridors through which the earth party wandered left no doubt about the purpose of the asteroid. It was a mighty fortress, stocked with weapons of destruction beyond man's power to understand. And yet there was no life here, nor had there been for untold centuries. What race had built this stronghold? What unimaginable power were they defending against? Why was it abandoned? There was no answer, all was dead. But-not quite all. For in a room above the tomb-like fortress a powerful transmitter beamed its birdlike, fluting sounds toward earth. Near it, on a huge star-map of the universe, with light-years measured by inches, ten tiny red sparks were moving, crawling inexorably toward the center. Moving, at many times the speed of light, with the acquired mass of suns ... moving, on a course that would pass through the solar system. The unknown aliens would not even see our sun explode from the force of their passing, would not even notice the tiny speck called Earth as it died.
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"He woke - and discovered that somehow, somewhere, his mind had been ravished, his memory erased, and his only clue to his identity was his name: Joel. But he was not alone. Around him the omnipresent computers typed out messages he could not decipher. Embracing him was a beautiful woman. Reassuring him was a kindly, white-haired man who told him one lie after another. And pursuing him was a figure without a face who called himself the Sandman. Was Joel the only sane human in a world gone mad? Or was he a hopeless maniac living out hid fearful fantasies? Joel's long sleep was over - and his nightmare had just begun."
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After entering the Hobart Phase in whcih time moves in reverse, the world is turned upside down as the dead are coming back to life, including Anarch Peak, a charismatic religious leader with a fanatical following, whose resurrection could have awesome ramifications for the entire world.
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Malachi Constant, "the richest man in America," gives up his indulgent lifestyle to follow an urgent calling to probe the depths of space. He participates in a Martian invasion of Earth, mates with the wife of an astronaut adrift on the tides of time, and follows the lure of the "Sirens of Titan."
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What if Adolf Hitler's failed 1919 political aspirations had driven him into exile in the USA? What if instead of becoming a dictator, he became a science fiction writer? This novel is science fiction as written by that alternate universe Hitler.
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THE MIND SLAVER HE BETRAYED THE REVOLUTION OF THE LATE 1970'S, DESPOILED IT'S IDEALS, AND USED THE MOST ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY TO BRING MILLIONS OF MINDS UNDER HIS ABSOLUTE CONTROL. ROSS THE WORLD'S FUTURE DEPENDED ON HIM, BUT HIS TASK WAS IMPOSSIBLE - TO REGAIN CONTROL OF THE REVULUTION, TO DEFEAT THE MOST POWERFUL DICTATOR THE WORLD HAVE EVER KNOWN, AND TO DESTROY THE PIG
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In a story as exciting as any science fiction adventure written, Samuel R. Delany's 1976 SF novel, originally published as Triton, takes us on a tour of a utopian society at war with our own Earth. High wit in this future comedy of manners allows Delany to question gender roles and sexual expectations at a level that, 20 years after it was written, still make it a coruscating portrait of "the happily reasonable man," Bron Helstrom - an immigrant to the embattled world of Triton, whose troubles become more and more complex, till there is nothing left for him to do but become a woman. Against a background of high adventure, this minuet of a novel dances from the farthest limits of the solar system to Earth's own Outer Mongolia. Alternately funny and moving, it is a wide-ranging tale in which character after character turns out not to be what he - or she - seems.
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Suspended in the jade depths of an ancient Earth sea. Chrono-hurled to a steep winter planet swept by an eerie future war. Middle-aged (at 26), tiger-tough (at 4'9"), walking a wild Universe on Time-long legs. This is the story of a woman named Alyx.
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When young Tenar is chosen as high priestess to the ancient and nameless Powers of the Earth, everything is taken away -- home, family, possessions, even her name. For she is now Arha, the Eaten One, guardian of the ominous Tombs of Atuan. While she is learning her way through the dark labyrinth, a young wizard, Ged, comes to steal the Tombs' greatest hidden treasure, the Ring of Erreth-Akbe. But Ged also brings with him the light of magic, and together, he and Tenar escape from the darkness that has become her domain.
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Genly Ai, a human ambassador, is sent to the planet Gethen to invite the rival nations living there to join the Terran confederation. Encountering an unusual civilization where sexuality is fluid, Ai has great difficulty understanding the political and interpersonal interactions of beings with no set gender. This ground-breaking novel won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, and influenced the development of serious, thematic science fiction.
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The Earth colony of Landin has been stranded on Werel for ten years - and ten of Werel's years are over 600 terrestrial years, and the lonely and dwindling human settlement is beginning to feel the strain. Every winter - a season that lasts for 15 years - the Earthmen have neighbors: the humanoid hilfs, a nomadic people who only settle down for the cruel cold spell. The hilfs fear the Earthmen, whom they think of as witches and call the farborns. But hilfs and farborns have common enemies: the hordes of ravaging barbarians called gaals and eerie preying snow ghouls. Will they join forces or be annihilated?
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Custer's loss at Little Bighorn is just the beginning of a route of the US Army. The tribes consolidate their power and establish their own separate nation so that in the present day they are a nuclear state within the US.
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On August 12, 1992, England's tiny nuclear arsenal fell on Ireland, on South Africa, and finally on China. Instantly, the planet went up in flames. In the first half year of what was to be the War of '92, half the Earth's population perished. The United States was reduced to a vast under peopled land-and, to make matters worse, Texas had seceded and taken her precious oil reserves. But Israel, virtually untouched in a world ravaged by war, was painfully overpopulated. So Sol Iglestein and Myra Kalen had come to America looking for a place to settle. As mercenaries on the side of the Union in its war with Texas, the Israelis had been promised land in exchange for their services. Leading their begraggled troops into the heartland of Texas, Sol and Myra head up Operation King. Mission: Rescue the President of the United States!
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End game -- The subliminal man -- The last world of Mr. Goddard -- The time-tombs -- Now wakes the sea -- The Venus hunters -- Minus one -- The sudden afternoon -- Terminal beach.
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The wind came from nowhere...a super hurricane that blasted round the globe at hundreds of miles per hour burying whole communities beneath piles of rubble, destroying all organized life and driving those it did not kill to seek safety in tunnels and sewers-where they turned against each other in their desperate struggle to survive.
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The lives of Joanna and Jeannine interact with the world of Janet Evason after the female man from a planet of the future arrives in New York City.
"A Frederik Pohl selection."
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Elsewhere out beyond the orbit of the moon was a huge space station, lost to all Earth tracking. At its center, where gravity was weakest, lived nine aliens; the rest of the station was filled with almost one thousand male and female mutants. "Soon, now," the mutants told each other, "we shall go down and kill them all..."
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Through a 'leaking' of time, the West African jungle starts to crystallize. Trees are metamorphosed into enormous jewels. Crocodiles encased in second glittering skins lurch down the river. Pythons with huge blind gemstone eyes rear in heraldic poses. Fearing this transformation as a herald of the apocalypse, most flee the area in terror, afraid to face a catastrophe they cannot understand. But some, dazzled and strangely entranced, remain to drift through this dreamworld forest. Travelling through this gilded land, a doctor tries to resist its strange allure in pursuit of his ex-mistress, while a tribe of lepers search for Paradise.
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When astronaut Morgan Harvey returns to earth after a two-hundred year voyage that seems like only a few months to him, he finds the world changed beyond recognition.
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1984 is the good old days. On America's campuses professors hawk their courses, dozens of political groups compete in violence and computer-dating means having sex with a computer. It may not be all grind, but it isn't fun and games- as one senior finds out when he kidnaps his favorite professor- and kills him for his knowledge.
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Short stories.
