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Once escritores le van a transportar a futuros lejanos y más cercanos, a momentos posibles y creíbles de nuestro destino como seres humanos. Once visiones que harán que también sea capaz de afirmar: "Yo he visto cosas que vosotros no creeríais".
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Seiscientas preguntas de Alberto González Ortiz.
Trabajadores en caída libre de Víctor M. Valenzuela.
Global Owen INC de Álvaro López León.
FIYW (Feel If You Want) de Ángel Mirallas...
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AMAZING STORIES, Volume 1. Nine Classic Short Stories from The Golden Age of Science Fiction by various authors. Featured here: "The Seeder" by Max Williams, "A Matter of Taste" by Joseph Wesley, "Vassi" by Art Lewis, "Murder Beneath the Polar Ice by Hayden Howard, "The Contact Point by Jack Sharkey, "Superjoemulloy" by Scott F. Grenville", "The Non-Electronic Bug" by E. Mittleman", and "Virgin Ground" by Rosel George Brown.
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As the author of this novel, I prefer not to provide biographic data, except to disclose that I currently reside in Florida, having moved there in 2004 after working in the financial district of New York City. While still a rail commuter from New Jersey, my daily morning route included taking the PATH train from Hoboken into the basement of the World Trade Center where, especially when the weather was spring-like, I usually would exit the complex...
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Nine Classic Science Fiction Stories from the "Golden Age" by various authors. Featured stories: The Floating Island Of Madness by Jason Kirby, The Winged Men Of Orcon A Complete Novelette by David R. Sparks, The Metal Moon by Everett C. Smith & Roman Frederick Starzl, Spawn Of The Comet by H. Thompson Rich, Disowned by Victor A. Endersby, Out Around Rigel by Robert H. Wilson, Raiders Of The Universes by Donald A. Wandrei, The Einstein See-Saw by...
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SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY, HUMOR
* Cranky Goblin Cooks
* Unscrupulous Chemists
* Lecherous Space Pirates
* Disagreeable Alien Symbiotes
* Soul-Searching Snot Elementals
The Unidentified Funny Objects series serves an annual dose of funny. zany, and unusual science fiction and fantasy stories. All-new fiction from the genre's top voices! Our sixth volume features a Mad Amos story by Alan Dean Foster, a Harry the Book tale by Mike Resnick, and an Alexander...
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James Coleman wanted a simple life. Money, women and booze. Former crewman of the military, a job onboard the colony ship Pytheas fits right in his alley. Ship people from a dying Earth to a terraformed planet named Anden ready for colonization. Couldn't get any simpler than that, he had imagined.
Reality had different ideas when the Pytheas is sabotaged and crash lands onto the planet. Stranded with little food and water, he is forced to find a...
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Janika is suppressing her pain but reluctantly shares it with a teacher. She shares her trials and thoughts that many young people may have a personal connection to. This story goes into her home and takes your heart to some very real lives of many children today. Janika is not aware of her situation of abuse and seems to have a very low self-image of her gifts and abilities.
Janika shares is a powerful tool for teachers to identify students with...
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Civilizations of the 2600 continue to expand out into the universe requiring a need for preserving the laws created by many colonizing worlds. A United Universe Service and the help of the Universe Diplomats in combination with a unique judicial system had been created to make this possible. Travel around the universe with a Universe Diplomat and follow the sacrifices and hardships he had to endure caused by one rouge agent. As he begins his retirement...
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Essays about the inherently collaborative nature of science fiction
As a geometric term, parabola suggests a narrative trajectory or story arc. In science fiction, parabolas take us from the known to the unknown. More concrete than themes, more complex than motifs, parabolas are combinations of meaningful setting, character, and action that lend themselves to endless redefinition and jazzlike improvisation. The fourteen original essays in this collection...
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NOVA Storys
Thomas Grüter: Freie Wildbahn
J. A. Hagen: Yuggoth
Anke Hüper: Außerirdische Daten
Karsten Kruschel: Kurz nach dem Einmarsch der Befreiungsarmee
Dieter Rieken: Jonas und der Held Terranovas
Glen Sedi: Kobo, das Wunschkind
Lukas Schneider: Alina
Rafael Torra: Die Spinne
Erik Wunderlich: Unearthing
Álex Souza: Unsichtbare Körper
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Tanine Allison: Woran man einen Kriegsfilm erkennt. Der zeitgenössische Science-Fiction-Blockbuster...
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Astounding Stories Of Super Science May 1930 features five Classic Science Fiction Stories from the "Golden Age of Science Fiction". Contents and short description: "Dark Moon" by Charles W. Diffin: Mysterious, Dark, Out of the Unknown Deep Comes a New Satellite to Lure Three Courageous Earthlings on to Strange Adventure. (A Complete Novelette.) "When Caverns Yawned", by Captain S.P. Meek: Only Dr. Bird's Super-Scientific Sleuthing Stands in the Way...
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Astounding Stories Of Super Science June 1931 features five Classic Science Fiction Stories from the "Golden Age of Science Fiction". Contents and short description:
"The Man From 2071" by Sewell Peaslee Wright: Out of the Flow of Time There Appears to Commander John Hanson a Man of Mystery from the Forgotten Past.
"Manape The Mighty", by Arthur J. Burks: High in Jungle Treetops Swings Young Bentley-His Human Brain Imprisoned in a Mighty Ape. (A...
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Astounding Stories Of Super Science January 1930 features seven Classic Science Fiction Stories from the "Golden Age of Science Fiction". Contents and short description: "The Beetle Horde" by Victor Rousseau: Only Two Young Explorers Stand in the Way of the Mad Bram's Horrible Revenge-the Releasing of His Trillions of Man-sized Beetles upon an Utterly Defenseless World. (Part One of a Two-part Novel), "The Cave Of Horror" by Captain S.P. Meek: Screaming,...
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Astounding Stories of Super Science September 1930 features seven Classic Science Fiction Stories from the "Golden Age of Science Fiction". Contents and short description: "A Problem In Communication" by Miles J. Breuer, M.D.: The Delivery of His Country into the Clutches of a Merciless, Ultra-Modern Religion Can Be Prevented Only by Dr. Hagstrom's Deciphering an Extraordinary Code, "Jetta Of The Lowlands" by Ray Cummings: Fantastic and Sinister Are...
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Astounding Stories Of Super Science August 1930 features seven Classic Science Fiction Stories from the "Golden Age of Science Fiction". Contents and short description: "The Planet Of Dread" by R.F. Starzl: A Stupid Blunder-and Mark Forepaugh Faces a Lifetime of Castaway Loneliness in the Savage Welter of the Planet Inra's Monster-ridden Jungles, "The Lord Of Space" by Victor Rousseau: A Black Caesar Had Arisen on Eros-and All Earth Trembled at His...
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Astounding Stories Of Super Science July 1931 features six Classic Science Fiction Stories from the "Golden Age of Science Fiction". Contents and short description: "The Doom From Planet 4" by Jack Williamson: A Ray of Fire, Green, Mysterious, Stabs Through the Night to Dan on His Ship. It Leads Him to an Island of Unearthly Peril. "The Hands Of Aten" by H.G. Winter: Out of the Solid Ice Craig Hews Three Long-Frozen Egyptians and Is at Once Caught...
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Astounding Stories Of Super Science December 1930 features five Classic Science Fiction Stories from the "Golden Age of Science Fiction". Contents and short description: "Slaves Of Dust" by Sophie Wenzel Ellis: Fate's Retribution Was Adequate. There Emerged a Rat with a Man's Head and Face, "The Pirate Planet" by Charles W. Diffin: It is War. Interplanetary War. And on Far-Distant Venus Two Fighting Earthlings Stand Up Against a Whole Planet Run Amuck....
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Astounding Stories Of Super Science February 1931 features five Classic Science Fiction Stories from the "Golden Age of Science Fiction". Contents and short description: "Werewolves Of War": The Story of the "Torpedo Plan" and of Capt. Lance's Heroic Part in America's Last Mighty Battle with the United Slavs, by D.W. Hall "The Tentacles From Below": Down to Tremendous Ocean Depths Goes Commander Keith Wells in His Blind Duel with the Marauding "Machine-Fish."...
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Astounding Stories Of Super Science March 1931 features five Classic Science Fiction Stories from the "Golden Age of Science Fiction". Contents and short description: "When The Mountain Came To Miramar": It is Magic against Magic As Garry Connell Bluffs for His Life with a Prehistoric Savage in the Heart of Sentinel Mountain, by Charles W. Diffin, "Beyond The Vanishing Point": The Tale of a Golden Atom-an Astounding Adventure in Size. (A Complete...
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