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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 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 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 February 1930 features eight Classic Science Fiction Stories from the "Golden Age of Science Fiction". Contents and short description: "Old Crompton's Secret" by Harl Vincent: Tom's Extraordinary Machine Glowed-and the Years Were Banished from Old Crompton's Body. But There Still Remained, Deep-seated in His Century-old Mind, the Memory of His Crime, "Spawn Of The Stars" by Charles Willard Diffin: The Earth Lay...
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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 March 1930 features six Classic Science Fiction Stories from the "Golden Age of Science Fiction". Contents and short description: "The Man Who Was Dead" by Thomas H. Knight: As Jerry's Eyes Fell on the Creature's Head, He Shuddered-for the Face Was Nothing but Bone, with Dull-brown Skin Stretched Taut over It. A Skeleton That Was Alive!, "Monsters Of Moyen" by Arthur J. Burks: "The Western World Shall be Next!"...
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Astounding Stories Of Super Science November 1930 features six Classic Science Fiction Stories from the "Golden Age of Science Fiction". Contents and short description: "The Wall of Death" by H.W. Wessolowski: Out of the Antarctic It Came-a Wall of Viscid, Grey, Half-Human Jelly, Absorbing and Destroying All Life That It Encountered, "The Pirate Planet", by Charles W. Diffin: A Strange Light Blinks on Venus, and Over Old Earth Hovers a Mysterious...
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Astounding Stories Of Super Science June 1930 features six Classic Science Fiction Stories from the "Golden Age of Science Fiction". Contents and short description: "Out Of The Dreadful Depths" by C.D. Willard:Robert Thorpe Seeks Out the Nameless Horror That Is Sucking All Human Life Out of Ships in the South Pacific, "Murder Madness" by Murray Leinster: Bell, of the Secret "Trade," Strikes into the South American Jungle to Find the Hidden Stronghold...
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Steam engines and mechanical advances abound ushering in the Industrial Revolution, while in the deserts of Egypt, archaeologists are uncovering lost secrets.
In 19th century England, an unlikely pair of siblings discover a connection between the advances of Ancient Egypt's architectural achievements and man's leap forward in mechanical engineering. It's a race to discover if this new knowledge is due to evolution or the tinkering of the gods.
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Astounding Stories Of Super Science March 1930 features five Classic Science Fiction Stories from the "Golden Age of Science Fiction". Contents and short description: "Cold Light" by Captain S.P. Meek: How Could a Human Body Be Found Actually Splintered--Broken into Sharp Fragments Like a Shattered Glass! Once Again Dr. Bird Probes Deep into an Amazing Mystery, "Brigands Of The Moon" by Ray Cummings: "Black Mutiny and Brigandage Stalk the Space-ship...
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This seventh volume of the year's best science fiction and fantasy features over thirty stories by some of the genre's greatest authors, including Elizabeth Bear, Paul Cornell, Cory Doctorow, James Patrick Kelly, Yoon Ha Lee, Kelly Link, Ken Liu, Sandra MacDonald, K.J. Parker, Robert Reed, Peter Watts, and many others. Selecting the best fiction from Asimov's, Clarkesworld, F&SF, Lightspeed, Subterranean, and other top venues, The Year's Best Science...
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An anthology of action-packed, science fiction adventure tales featuring pirates, strong women, soldiers, horrors, vagabonds, and deadly battles in space. The Full-Throttle Space Tales series collected action-packed, high octane, science fiction stories across the full potential of the genre. Here, the original editors have teamed up to pick the very best of Full-Throttle Space Tales, eighteen stories collected here for the first time. Stories by...
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Drawn from the leading pulp magazines of the 1950s - Galaxy, Amazing Science Fiction Stories, and Fantastic Universe - these eight groundbreaking selections offer spellbinding science-fiction tales of encounters with Martians and other extraterrestrials. "Youth," by Isaac Asimov, recounts two friends' discovery of a pair of strange little animals the morning after mysterious thunder without a storm. Philip José Farmer's "Rastignac the Devil" tells...
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En la vastedad del universo, donde la oscuridad cósmica se mezcla con la danza de las estrellas, existe un rincón misterioso que desafía la lógica y estira los límites de nuestra comprensión: el agujero negro. Este fenómeno gravitacional, donde la gravedad se vuelve implacable y la luz se desvanece en la insondable negrura, ha sido el tema de especulación, asombro y fascinación a lo largo de la historia de la astronomía.En este viaje intergaláctico,...
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Young fans and reluctant readers can get to know the most iconic heroes from the Skywalker saga! Featuring the vibrant illustration style from the celebrated Galaxy of Adventures animation shorts, this bind-up of level 1 readers includes five stories about Obi-Wan, Leia, Luke, Rey, and the ever-popular droids C-3PO, R2-D2, and BB-8! The World of Reading early readers are designed to offer reluctant readers books they will want to read by featuring...
37) Released
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Tips for how not to end up in a horror story
DON'T
-Listen to the Spiders
-Drive in the rain
-Buy the doll
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-Sell the Puppet
-Take the Dr.'s Advice
-Leave the Box Shut
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George Scithers published AMRA, a leading sword and sorcery fanzine, beginning in 1959. The term "swords and sorcery" first appeared there, and AMRA became a leading proponent of the subgenre. Several of the articles originally published in AMRA were later re-printed as part of two volumes about Conan the Barbarian, which Scithers co-edited with L. Sprague de Camp. Contributors to the magazine included all the leading fantasists of the day: Poul Anderson,...
39) Pandorum 2
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Pandorum es una colección de libros de bolsillo (o paperbacks) que intenta traer hasta nuestros tiempos el espíritu de las antologías de relatos de ciencia ficción que poblaron las estanterías de kioscos y librerías durante la segunda mitad del siglo XX.Cada antología de la Colección Pandorum contiene entre diez y quince relatos de ciencia ficción (de lectura independiente), escritos por otros tantos autores y autoras actuales del género,...
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DEATH TO THE ROBOTS!
This Zero Issue of Tenebrous' upcoming quarterly magazine has arrived to wrest the controls of artistic endeavor from the clutches of A.I. thieves and restore it to the rightful hands of human creators.
This collection of Sci-Horror short fiction, comics, poems, and art celebrates the connection between humanity and creativity in the face of ever-increasing pressure to submit to the inevitability of algorithmic dominion.
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