Colonel Pyat: addict, inventor and bizarre Everyman of the twentieth century. In Jerusalem Commands, the third of the Pyat Quartet, he schemes and fantasises his way from New York to Hollywood, from Cairo to Marrakesh, from cult success to the...
Maxim Arturovitch Pyatnitski, that charming but despicable mythomaniac who first appeared in Byzantium Endures, is back. Having fled Bolshevik Russia in late 1919, Pyat’s progress is a series of leaps from crisis to crisis, as he begins affairs...
Meet Maxim Arturovitch Pyatnitski, also known as Pyat. Tsarist rebel, Nazi thug, continental conman, and reactionary counterspy: the dark and dangerous anti-hero of Michael Moorcock’s most controversial work
Published in 1981 to great critical...
Murder Madness! Seven Secret Service Men Had Completely Disappeared. Another Had Been Found a Screaming, Homicidal Maniac, Whose Fingers Writhed Like Snakes. So Bell, of the Secret "Trade," Plunges into South America After The Master—the Mighty,...
Contents:
"The Dean of Science Fiction" [introduction] (John J. Pierce)
"Sidewise in Time" (from Astounding Stories, Jun. 1934)
"Proxima Centauri" (from Astounding Stories, Mar. 1935)
"The Fourth-Dimensional Demonstrator" (from...
What are the "Aliens?" Scattered throughout the vastness of infinite space live the "Aliens," those fantastic but intelligent beings. Some day we will find them or they will find us... Just as the human race had expanded throughout the galaxy, so...
Murray Leinster's "Planets of Adventure" (2003), ed. Eric Flint is an omnibus of two novels and five short stories by the Dean of Science Fiction. The novels are "The Forgotten Planet" (1954) and "The Planet Explorer" (aka, "Colonial Survey",...
FEAR RIDES THE ROCKETS
The Interstellar Medical Service was just about the only remaining galactic organization that every one of the hundreds of inhabited planets respected. So when their service broke down in Star Sector Twelve, it created a...
The Med Service people hit strange problems as routine: if they weren't weirdos, they weren't tough enough to merit Med Service attention. Now the essence of a weird problem is that it involves a factor nobody ever thought of before ... or the...