The events chronicled in the award-winning Man Plus were only the beginning. It is 50 years later. Man is on Mars to stay. But things have become strange, even compared to the population of cyborgs and human misfits who now occupy the Red Planet....
Contents:
"Introduction: Science-Fiction Games," 1974
"In the Problem Pit," 1973
"Let the Ants Try," 1949
"To See Another Mountain," 1959
"The Deadly Mission of Phineas Snodgrass," 1962 (aka The Time Machine of Phineas...
Caution! You are about to enter a world...
...where all engineering ingenuity has been employed for public spectacles of torture and death.
...where the stock market operated with pari-mutuel machines.
...where a court clerk transcribes...
He was a master teacher-respected, successful, his life well rewarded in past accomplishments and rich in the promise of achievements to come.
And yet he was fighting a bitter battle with a savage, bewildering driveto self-destruction.
But...
Original collection of stories. Includes foreword and afterward by Pohl, and these stories: The Quaker Cannon (1961); Mute Inglorious Tam (1974); The World of Myrion Flowers (1961); The Gift of Garigolli (1974); A Gentle Dying (1961); A Hint of...
When a mysterious alien spacecraft approaches the Earth and demands to speak with the President of the United States, then destroys a large Pacific island to demonstrate its strength and seriousness, you'd expect the President to talk. Problem is,...
Collection of classic stories by collaborators C. M. Kornbluth and Frederik Pohl. Introduction and Afterword by Pohl, plus these stories: Mars-Tube (1941); Trouble in Time (1940); Vacant World (1940); Best Friend (1941); Before the Universe (1940);...
A struggling art student on a distant world, trapped in the middle of an intergalactic battle against a tyrannical empire, looks for his salvation in an immortal, immensely powerful spirit called The...
The craft was in trouble. And the alien entity known as NK-2 was headed for an unscheduled landing on a backwater planet named Earth. To make matters worse, his enemy had reached the ground before him, and by now was probably already hidden among...
In the land of Mazonia where magic is the province of women and men are considered no better than slaves, a young sorceress sets out to defeat a curse upon her family and becomes the catalyst for changing her world. Veteran fantasy authors Anthony...