There was no shortage of danger on Cuckoo. 20,000 light years away, the enormous flat surface of Cuckoo travelling at one-sixth the speed of light aimed arrow-straight at the galaxy. Sun One sent the space probe Aurora with a crew of replicates,...
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from the original source: Science Fiction Quarterly, August,...
A Home for the Old...
Penguin paperback, 1979 printing. Something of a minor sf classic, by the heralded team of Pohl and Kornbluth. First serialized in Galaxy Science Fiction, October and November 1957. The Earth has been torn away from the Sun, kidnapped by a runaway...
Wan-To was the oldest and must powerful intelligence in the universe, a being who played with star systems as a child plays with marbles. Matter occupied so tiny a part of his vast awareness that humans were utterly beneath his notice.
The...
Collection of stories by these masters of science fiction. Introduction by Pohl, and these STORIES: Critical Mass (1962); A Gentle Dying (1961); Nightmare with Zeppelins (1958); Best Friend (1941); The World of Myrion Flowers (1961); Trouble in Time...
An interstellar trilogy--complete in one volume. Earth in the near future is governed by the Plan of Man--a complex set of laws enforced by a worldwide computerized security network, necessary for the survival of humankind. Or, so the authorities...
A race of turtle-like creatures conquers Earth, imposing a gentler set of values on humankind, outlawing destructive technology, and denying the validity of human scientific theories. When their home planet disappears into a black hole, however, the...
Contents:
"The Man Who Ate the World," 1956
"The Seven Deadly Virtues," 1958
"The Day the Icicle Works Closed," 1960
"The Knights of Arthur," 1958
"Mars by Moonlight," 1958
"The Haunted Corpse," 1957
"The Middle of...
THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST
The crew of the Constitution--scientists cum astronauts--had been carefully screened for extremely high intelligence and superb physical qualities. They were to be the first explorers sent to another stellar system....