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Industrial waste released into the ocean has caused a drought by preventing evaporation and destroying the precipitation cycle. Later released in Great Britain as The drought.
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Biological metamorphosis
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The sun has grown deadly, the world had gone mad, society has perished, savagery rules over all. All that was known is over. All that was familiar is strange and terrible. Today and yesterday collide with tomorrow. In these dying days of earth, a young drifter enters the city.
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Alfred Bester writes fiction that is offbeat and intensely imaginative. In The Dark Side of the Earth, a volume that includes his new novella and five short stories, Mr. Bester is at his most inventive.
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It fell to two people to face the news that mankind was about to follow the dinosaurs off the Earth's stage. One was Angus, veteran of a defeated Western army in a world devastated by atomic warfare. The other was Liu, woman officer of a conquering army she already knew was destined for destruction.
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A science fiction fantasy about a machine that measures the intensity of female emotions, with a strongly satirical glance at Madison Avenue.
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Describes a future America in which computers solve all your problems, machines give you everything you need, and you are taken care of from cradle to grave by an industrial society.
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A species of giant insects is threatening the freedom of the universe. Their conspiracy to conquer all inhabited planets is challenged by the crew of galactic misfits aboard the Earth Ship Black Hole.
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A searing blast of pain and fear which drives its victims into writing paroxysms of anguish...a raging plague for which the only cure is death! They tried everything: isolation institutes; screamer pickup squads stalking the streets; emergency sedation kits whose plunging hypodermic needles set off pitifully wailing sirens that could be heard for blocks. But the epidemic continued to grow....
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Set in the distant future amidst a feudal interstellar society in which various noble houses control planetary fiefs, Dune tells the story of young Paul Atreides, whose family accepts the stewardship of the planet Arrakis. While the planet is an inhospitable and sparsely populated desert wasteland, it is the only source of melange, or "the spice", a drug that extends life and enhances mental abilities. As melange can only be produced on Arrakis, control of the planet is a coveted and dangerous undertaking. The story explores the multi-layered interactions of politics, religion, ecology, technology, and human emotion, as the factions of the empire confront each other in a struggle for the control of Arrakis and its spice.
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Early in March, 1971, the Western Block exploded their newest Cold War weapon in the atmosphere-a deadly contraterrene bomb capable of destroying a continent. Two weeks later, the Eastern Bloc realized the news that they had duplicated the explosion-on the same day, at the same time. By July, the black ash from the two explosions filled the sky, blotting out the sun. The darkness grew and the temperature fell. Suddenly mankind was facing a new and terrible Ice Age.
Every resource of science was put to work to halt the deadly process. But as experiment after experiment failed, cries of terror rose into the frigid air. As panic seized the minds of the world's population, the dense, snowy night closed in, entombing the Earth beneath a blanket of incredible and suffocating cold-threatening extinction for the whole human race.
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Glen Runciter's anti-psi security agency hires out its talents to block telepathic and paranormal crimes. But when its special team tackles a big job on the moon, something goes terribly wrong, and Runciter is seemingly killed. Now, his mourning employees are receiving bewildering messages from their boss on toilet walls, traffic tickets, product labels, and even U.S. coins.
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Jason Taverner wakes up one morning to find that he is no longer a famous television star but a complete unknown without even I.D. papers. He then finds out what it is like to be hunted by the whole apparatus of society.
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A prodigal worm. A telepathic, egotistical, totally unscrupulous little alien running away from his father becomes the biggest prize in the universe. Capture the slimy brat and win an entire planet.
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Gerald Howson didn't look powerful. His body was deformed at birth, leaving him with a face so ugly people didn't want to look at him, and crippled legs that would never let him be as other men. But his mind was one in a billion -gifted with the ability to send and receive thoughts more powerfully than any other person of the face of the globe.
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Glen Runciter's anti-psi security agency hires out its talents to block telepathic and paranormal crimes. But when its special team tackles a big job on the moon, something goes terribly wrong, and Runciter is seemingly killed. Now, his mourning employees are receiving bewildering messages from their boss on toilet walls, traffic tickets, product labels, and even U.S. coins.
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This Nebula Award-nominated "work of awesome originality" (Robert Silverberg) is a mind-blowing exploration of telepathy and power on an Earth-like planet. Earthman Jai Vedh was on a star voyage when his ship blew up, leaving him stranded on an uncharted Earth-like planet. In this strange new land, he's amazed to discover a colony of humans who lost contact with their home world centuries before. They've developed telepathy, telekinesis, and teleportation-and structured a sophisticated social system out of these abilities. Under the tutelage of a female mentor named Evne, Jai Vedh begins to develop his own mental powers. But when an unexpected rescue arrives, the Earth he returns to is nothing like he remembered ... Wildly imaginative, wholly original, and boldly experimental in form, And Chaos Died "is a spectacular experience to undergo" (Samuel R. Delany).
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For more than four thousand years, an immortal has spread the seeds of an evolutionary master race, using the downtrodden underclass as his private breeding stock. But now a young ghetto telepath has found the way to awaken-- and rule-- her superhuman kind, igniting a psychic battle from the L.A. mansions to the South Central slums, as she challenges her creator for the right to free her people ... and enslave the Earth.
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Harry Bronson & Ellen Palermo had been orphaned when quite young. Attractive, intelligent children, they had grown into independent, resourceful adults. But as they matured, Harry & Ellen found they could read minds--and in New York, that proved a dangerous & frightening experience. Harry had always had the healt hy scepticism that any scientist brings to the subject of "supernatural powers," but soon even he was forced to admit that something extraordinary was happening. Then Harry discovered that he & Ellen- -lie all the gifted ones--were doomed to horrible, hoepless madness. But while he sought for a solution, his own unwelcome gifts proclaimed beyond a doubt that there was no solution!
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Dennis Guise, the world's greatest telepath, is the planet Earth's last hope against an enemy that created the human race but will also destroy it.
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To the victor go the spoils -- and in the aftermath of a brutal and drawn-out war on the planet Poictesme, an agent is sent to hunt among the smoldering ruins for the most valuable prize of all: Merlin, the most powerful computer the universe has ever known. Will the mission be successful, or will the intrepid technology hunter come home empty-handed?
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The odds were right for victory. The problem with computer warfare is that the computer is always logical while the human enemy is not - or doesn't have to be. And that's what the Betastani enemy were doing nothing that the Alphaland computers said they would. Those treacherous foemen were avoiding logic and using such unheard-of devices as surprise and sabotage, treason and trickery. They even had Alphaland's Deputy of Information believing Betastani propaganda without even realizing it. Of course he still thought he was being loyal to Alphaland, because he thought that one and one must logically add up to two. And that kind of thinking could make him the biggest traitor of them all.
