CONTENTS: Toy Shop Harry Harrison The gadget was strictly, beyond any question, a toy. Not a real, workable device. Except for the way it could work under a man's mental skin.... Traders Risk Roger Dee Keeping this cargo meant death--to jettison it meant to make flotsam and jetsam of a world! The Troubadour ... more »

The mystery of the Taurus Reach is about to be revealed. Ancient secrets lie on the fourth planet of the Jinoteur system, and three great rivals are fighting to control it. The Federation and the Klingon Empire want to wield its power; the Tholian Assembly wants to bury it. But the threat stirring on ... more »

When Sir Arthur C. Clarke, the greatest science fiction writer ever, teams up with award-winning author Stephen Baxter, who shares Clarke's bold vision of a future where technology and humanism advance hand in hand, the result is bound to be a book of stellar ambition and accomplishment. Such was the ... more »

Der Einstieg in diese Sammlung verschiedener Texte ist ebenso wie ihr Ausklang selbst für fortgeschrittene Sciencefiction-Leser eher heavy als modisch light zu lesen. Das liegt zum einen gleich an ihrer phantastischen Herkunft. Zum anderen haben alle diese PPP-Schriften drei große Patinnen: Die Phantasie ... more »

Powered by a revolutionary, laser-driven stardrive, the first interstellar spaceship would reach the double planet that circled Barnard's Star in a mere 20 years. Some of the world's finest scientists are aboard the ship--prepared for adventure, danger and the thrill of scientific discovery. Note: The ... more »

Kirk and McCoy accompany Spock to the Vulcan Academy Hospital seeking experimental treatment for a badly wounded Enterprise crew member. Spock's mother is also a patient in the hospital, and Kirk soon becomes involved in the complex drama of Spock's family... Suddenly, patients are dying, and Kirk suspects ... more »

Star Wars: Boba Fett: A Practical Man by Karen Traviss brings the reader back to the very beginning of the Yuuzhan Vong invasion. This original novella is the latest Star Wars eBook publication, from Del Rey Books and will be available at eBook retailers on August 15, 2006. It also includes an exclusive ... more »

... readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic devices including the Kindle, Smartphones and other Mobile Devices with a small display. ************ Brave New World is a novel by Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. Set in the London of AD 2540 (632 A.F. in the book), the novel ... more »

Unlike most planets, Rimillia does not spin upon its axis so its day and night sides are subject to perpetual extremes of hot and cold. Habitation has only been possible on a thin band of the planet's surface...until now. Using gigantic impulse engines of unimaginable power, the alien Dumada intend to ... more »

Every wonder why there are so many errors in the newspaper of record? This story will tell you why.... more »

Jan Christian Smuts, general and statesman, spent most of his life arguing and fighting for just resolutions to conflicts, helping to found the League of Nations, and being one of the first world leaders to suggest a Jewish homeland in Palestine along side an Arab Palestinian state. In this story, Berliner ... more »

As he dropped the last grisly fragment of the dismembered and mutilated body into the small vat of nitric acid that was to devour every trace of the horrid evidence which might easily send him to the gallows, the man sank weakly into a chair and throwing his body forward upon his great, teak desk buried ... more »