Download or read book Jerome Bixby s The Man from Earth written by Richard Schenkman and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Schenkman / 6m, 3f / Drama / Unit Set After history professor John Oldman unexpectedly resigns from the University, his startled colleagues impulsively invite themselves to his home, pressing him for an explanation. But they're shocked to hear his reason for premature retirement: John claims he must move on because he is immortal, and cannot stay in one place for more than ten years without his secret being discovered. Tempers rise and emotions flow as John's fellow professors attem

Download or read book The Slizzers written by Jerome Bixby and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main trouble is that you'd never suspect anything was wrong; you'd enjoy associating with slizzers, so long as you didn't know....

Download or read book The Holes Around Mars written by Jerome Bixby and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science said it could not be, but there it was. And whoosh—look out—here it is again! Spaceship crews should be selected on the basis of their non-irritating qualities as individuals. No chronic complainers, no hypochondriacs, no bugs on cleanliness—particularly no one-man parties. I speak from bitter experience. Because on the first expedition to Mars, Hugh Allenby damned near drove us nuts with his puns.

Download or read book The Men Inside written by Barry N. Malzberg and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earth's Elite - or its outcasts? For a selected, genetically-fitted few among the teeming millions of the twenty-first century, to become a Messenger for the Hulm Institute is to escape the prison that is life, that is earth. A Messenger is Noble! A Messenger is One of the Chosen. A Messenger is a Forerunner of a Time in which Fear and Disease will Disappear Forever. And inside a Messenger's head is murder, impotence and despair.

Download or read book The Girl from Atlantis written by Richard Schenkman and published by Thegirlfromatlantis.com. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Athena Crowley is an ordinary eleven-year old girl who lives in an extraordinary place: The Atlantis Resort, in Nassau, Bahamas, where her father Robert is a marine archeologist. He?s the man who discovered traces of the Mythical Lost City of Atlantis, for which the hotel is named. Athena?s mother was lost years ago when a freak whirlpool took her away.Athena goes to school, rides the slides, and helps out at the hotel?s dolphin encounter? a fairly normal life. But everything changes the day an old turtle starts talking to her, and Athena realizes that she can communicate with sea creatures. Determined to understand her roots, Athena takes a risky journey to the undersea kingdom of Atlantica, where mer-people rule, humans are slaves, and dangerous and thrilling surprises await her.

Download or read book The Man from Earth written by Gordon R. Dickson and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 1990-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Stepsons of Terra written by Robert Silverberg and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It had been five hundred years since the distant Terran Colony of Corwin had communicated with Earth. But now Corwin was threatened by the indomitable warriors of Klodni and the peaceful planet desperately needed help. Baird Ewing was the ambassador chosen by his people to find that help and save Corwin from destruction. But Earth had changed . . . Ewing found a decadent world of worthless pleasure-seekers devoid of hope and incapable of help. The only remaining vestige of the old world on Earth was to be found in the College of Abstract Science. It was Ewing's last hope. If he failed it was the end of the line for him, Corwin - and the galaxy. First published in 1958.

Download or read book Mutants written by Robert Silverberg and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Included: "Tomorrow's Children," by Poul Anderson and F.N. Waldrop; "It's a Good Life," by Jerome Bixby" The Mute Question" by Forrest J Ackerman; "Let the Ants Try" by Frederik Pohl; "The Conqueror" by Mark Clifton; "Liquid Life" by Ralph Milne Farley; "Hothouse" by Brian W. Aldiss; "Oxymandias" by Terry Carr; "The Man Who Never Forgot" by Robert Silverberg; "Ginny Wrapped in the Sun" by R.A. Lafferty; and "Watershed" by James Blish.

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Download or read book The Weird written by Jeff VanderMeer and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2012-01-24 with total page 2482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Lovecraft to Borges to Gaiman, a century of intrepid literary experimentation has created a corpus of dark and strange stories that transcend all known genre boundaries. Together these stories form The Weird, and its practitioners include some of the greatest names in twentieth and twenty-first century literature. Exotic and esoteric, The Weird plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities. You won't find any elves or wizards here...but you will find the biggest, boldest, and downright most peculiar stories from the last hundred years bound together in the biggest Weird collection ever assembled. The Weird features 110 stories by an all-star cast, from literary legends to international bestsellers to Booker Prize winners: including William Gibson, George R. R. Martin, Stephen King, Angela Carter, Kelly Link, Franz Kafka, China Miéville, Clive Barker, Haruki Murakami, M. R. James, Neil Gaiman, Mervyn Peake, and Michael Chabon. The Weird is the winner of the 2012 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book Regretsy written by April Winchell and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Showcases the best of the worst handicraft, in categories such as décor, pet humiliation, and Christmas. Based on the blog of the same name.

Download or read book Mirror Mirror written by Jerome Bixby and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...Breathtaking skill ... interesting dialogue, a carefully constructed story, and an appealing message. Bixby should be better known." -Gary Westfahl Jerome Bixby (1923-1998) was a highly regarded professional science fiction magazine editor and writer remembered for his "yeoman work in raising the standards of the science fiction action story, whose own stories, though few, are much sought after by discriminating readers." (Science Fiction Stories, 1953). Mirror, Mirror, the first collection of Jerome Bixby's science fiction in nearly fifty years, showcases the best work from this motion picture and television writer's journeyman years as a pulp magazine writer. It features four stories made immortal by their adaptation for Star Trek and The Twilight Zone. Elements from two of these stories, "One-Way Street" and "Mirror, Mirror," were woven into Bixby's Hugo Award winning Star Trek episode, which gave birth to the evil mirror universe populated by sinister facsimiles of Kirk, Spock, the crew of the Enterprise, and the entire Federation. Another, "Cargo to Calisto", became the basis for the Star Trek episode "By Any Other Name". Meanwhile, "It's a Good Life" won immortality as an episode of the The Twilight Zone. Plus eleven more irresistible science fictional masterpieces from the pen of Jerome Bixby. Mirror, Mirror was edited, and is personally introduced, by his son, screenwriter and producer Emerson Bixby. "Good entertainment." -Analog

Download or read book The Twilight Zone written by Martin Harry Greenberg and published by M J F Books. This book was released on 1994-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects thirty fantasy and science fiction short stories which were the basis for episodes of the Twilight Zone television series.

Download or read book The Boat of a Million Years written by Poul Anderson and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book and Hugo and Nebula Award Finalist: This epic chronicle of ten immortals over the course of history “succeeds admirably” (The New York Times). The immortals are ten individuals born in antiquity from various cultures. Immune to disease, able to heal themselves from injuries, they will never die of old age—although they can fall victim to catastrophic wounds. They have walked among mortals for millennia, traveling across the world, trying to understand their special gifts while searching for one another in the hope of finding some meaning in a life that may go on forever. Following their individual stories over the course of human history and beyond into a richly imagined future, “one of science fiction’s most revered writers” (USA Today) weaves a broad tapestry that is “ambitious in scope, meticulous in detail, polished in style” (Library Journal).

Download or read book Tomorrow s Children written by Isaac Asimov and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1966 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The World at the End of Time written by Frederik Pohl and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 colonists of Newmanhome first suffered the effects of Wan-To's games when their planet's stars began to shift, the climate began to cool down, and the colony was forced into a desperate struggle to survive. Viktor Sorricaine was determined to discover what force had suddenly sent his world hurtling toward the ends of the universe. And the answer was something beyond the scope of his imagination -- even if he lived for 4000 years...

Download or read book Ascendance written by Sadhna Shanker and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The location is a planet in outer space inhabited by antagonistic species. The night Seeni died, the fault line reappeared. The existing equilibrium between men and women, the antagonistic species that inhabit Elone began to crumble. If a clash happens, how long would it last? What would remain? Who? How many? Were they heading for a time like the last days on Earth?