Download or read book Valley of Dreams written by Stanely G. Weinbaum and published by eStar Books. This book was released on 2014-10-10 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sequel to “A Martian Odyssey”, Dick Jarvis and Frenchy Lerory set out to retrieve the film Jarvis took before his rocket crashed the week before, along the way Lerory and Jarvis stop at to get a closer look at the local wild life and seek out their Martian friend Tweel…

Download or read book The Worlds of If written by Stanley G. Weinbaum and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "The Worlds of If," author Stanley Weinbaum plays with a concept that has been at the center of countless science fiction tales before and after: how the most minute shifts can alter the past, present and future. In this case, nutty professor Haskel van Manderpootz invents a contraption that allows users to view alternate life paths that might have transpired if they had made different choices along the way.

Download or read book Way Station written by Clifford D. Simak and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hugo Award Winner: In backwoods Wisconsin, an ageless hermit welcomes alien visitors—and foresees the end of humanity . . . Enoch Wallace is not like other humans. Living a secluded life in the backwoods of Wisconsin, he carries a nineteenth-century rifle and never seems to age—a fact that has recently caught the attention of prying government eyes. The truth is, Enoch is the last surviving veteran of the American Civil War and, for close to a century, he has operated a secret way station for aliens passing through on journeys to other stars. But the gifts of knowledge and immortality that his intergalactic guests have bestowed upon him are proving to be a nightmarish burden, for they have opened Enoch’s eyes to humanity’s impending destruction. Still, one final hope remains for the human race . . . though the cure could ultimately prove more terrible than the disease. Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel, Way Station is a magnificent example of the fine art of science fiction as practiced by a revered Grand Master. A cautionary tale that is at once ingenious, evocative, and compassionately human, it brilliantly supports the contention of the late, great Robert A. Heinlein that “to read science-fiction is to read Simak.”

Download or read book Pygmalion s Spectacles written by Stanley G. Weinbaum and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sci-fi luminary Stanley G. Weinbaum first broke through with the hugely influential story "A Martian Odyssey," one of the first to depict an alien being in a somewhat sympathetic light. Written in 1935, the short tale "Pygmalion's Spectacles" is no less innovative: it centers around the implications of a technology that's surprisingly close to what we now call virtual reality.

Download or read book The Dark Other written by Stanley Weinbaum and published by Jovian Press. This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pat is a beautiful young woman with many admirers. Nick is a young man with a secret. When his dark side interferes with their burgeoning love, things turn grim, and psychologist Carl Horker has to intervene.

Download or read book The Heathen written by Jack London and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Heathen" is a short story by the American writer Jack London. It follows two people from different cultural and racial backgrounds who are the only ones left after their ship has encountered a storm in the Pacific. What kind of friendship emerges between them uncovers later in the story.

Download or read book Electromagnetic Theory written by Oliver Heaviside and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Ideal written by Stanley G. Weinbaum and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After making science-fiction history with his beloved and broadly influential tale "A Martian Odyssey," Stanley G. Weinbaum turned his creative powers to a series of stories starring a mismatched pair of protagonists: legend-in-his-own-mind Professor Haskel van Manderpootz and dashing aristocrat Dixon Wells. In the engaging short story "The Ideal," the two develop a device that allows the user to catch a fleeting glimpse of his or her ideal in any category -- person, place or thing.

Download or read book Electrical Papers written by Oliver Heaviside and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Point of View written by Stanley G. Weinbaum and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of science fiction's classic duos – wacky inventor Professor Haskel van Manderpootz and dashing man-about-town Dixon Wells – team up again in Stanley Weinbaum's short story "The Point of View." In this tale, the pair are perfecting a gadget that will allow users to briefly view the world from another person's point of view.

Download or read book STRANGE GENIUS Classic Tales of the Human Mind at Work Including the Complete Novel The New Adam the van Manderpootz Stories and Others written by Stanley G. Weinbaum and published by Leonaur Limited. This book was released on 2006-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strange Genius is a collection of stories about people whose minds are beyond the ordinary. Included is the hard to find novel The New Adam, a surprising tale of homo superior born among us, the first of a new human race, an evolutionary leap and a man whose mind is so different that he's an alien on his own planet. Also included are the humorous van Manderpootz stories about a scientific genius who wants everyone to know how great he is, and several more of Weinbaum's delightful tales of the human mind at work.

Download or read book Dawn of Flame written by Stanley G. Weinbaum and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Dawn of Flame" is a dystopian novel by Stanley G. Weinbaum. It tells about a world diseased by the plague. After the civilization gets broken, two people, Joaquin Smith and his sister, build an empire up the Mississippi Valley. Yet, a young backwoodsman named Hull Tarvish stands in their way, fighting for a better world.

Download or read book Rogue Moon written by Algis Budrys and published by . This book was released on 1978-06-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Invisible Country written by Paul J. McAuley and published by Gollancz. This book was released on 1996 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these nine extraordinary tales, acclaimed author Paul J. McAuley illuminates the unseen and the unimaginable with brilliant prose and incandescent conceptual daring. These stories explore the wonders and dangers of biotechnology and its and travel from a distant alternate past to a breathtaking far-flung future. in sixteenth century Venice, transformed by a premature Industrial Revolution, a physician mourning his daughter's passing meets a mountebank with the power to raise the dead. In a tomorrow of raw and terrible beauty, revolutionaries struggle to free genetically engineered creatures fated to die in combat games and violent sexual encounters. And ten million years in the future, on an artificial world orbiting an immense black hole, a civilization of awesome strangeness and complexity created -- and abandoned -- by God-like Preservers is about to meet the human ancestors of its makers. Enter "The Invisible Country" -- and prepare to be dazzled.

Download or read book Oliver Heaviside the Man written by G. F. C. Searle and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Pushing Ice written by Alastair Reynolds and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pushing Ice is the brilliant tale of extraordinary aliens, glittering technologies, and sweeping space opera from award-winning science fiction author Alastair Reynolds. 2057. Humanity has raised exploiting the solar system to an art form. Bella Lind and the crew of her nuclear-powered ship, the Rockhopper, push ice. They mine comets. And they're good at it. The Rockhopper is nearing the end of its current mission cycle, and everyone is desperate for some much-needed R & R, when startling news arrives from Saturn: Janus, one of Saturn's ice moons, has inexplicably left its natural orbit and is now heading out of the solar system at high speed. As layers of camouflage fall away, it becomes clear that Janus was never a moon in the first place. It's some kind of machine -- and it is now headed toward a fuzzily glimpsed artifact 260 light-years away. The Rockhopper is the only ship anywhere near Janus, and Bella Lind is ordered to shadow it for the few vital days before it falls forever out of reach. In accepting this mission, she sets her ship and her crew on a collision course with destiny -- for Janus has more surprises in store, and not all of them are welcome.

Download or read book Expedition to Earth written by Arthur C. Clarke and published by Orbit Books. This book was released on 1999-05 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This was Arthur C. Clarke's first published collection of short stories. It includes The Sentinel, which was the starting point for the film 2001: A Space Odyssey.