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The Ego Machine

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:10:32 +0300

When a slightly mad robot drunk on AC, wants you to join an experiment in optimum ecology--don't do it! After all, who wants to argue like Disraeli or live like Ivan the Terrible? Celebrated playwright Nicholas Martin didn’t read the small print in his Hollywood options contract. Now he’s facing five years of servitude to a conceited director named Raoul St. Cyr, who’s taken a thoughtful play about Portuguese fishermen and added dancing mermaids. When it seems the plot has changed to include a robot from the future Nicholas looses all hope, but this robot may be just what he needs to win his freedom. The Ego Machine was first published in the May, 1952 issue of Space Science Fiction magazine.

The Secret of Kralitz

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:15:03 +0300

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.

Man Drowning

Sat, 15 Nov 2014 13:17:33 +0200

A powerful and violent crime fiction novel from an iconic author and "one of the major names in science fiction" (The New York Times).

Nick Banning was a man drowning in a land of far horizons, a land that had all the vigor sucked out of it ages ago by the Arizona sun.

But it wasn't the blasting heat of an Arizona desert that bothered Nick—it was the heat of his own emotions, his desire for Sherry, the woman who had told him no.

But Nick was winding up, faster and faster. He meant to have Sherry—or else.

"[A] pomegranate writer: popping with seeds—full of ideas." —Ray Bradbury

Bypass to Otherness (1961) SSC

Wed, 14 Sep 1977 00:01:23 +0300

A solid collection of science fiction stories from the mid-1940s which can be divided into two main groups: tales of mutations induced by nuclear war, leading to the next step in human evolution, and plain humourous tales. The former are very much products of their time (and nothing wrong with that), with the atomic bomb at the forefront of everybody's consciousness in the immediate post-war era.

Content:

Absalom Originally appeared in Starting Stories, Fall 1946

Call Him Demon Originally appeared in Thrilling Wonder Stories, Fall 1946

Cold War Originally appeared in Thrilling Wonder Stories, Oct 1949

Dark Angel – Starting Stories, March 1946

Housing Problem 1944 Reprinted from Charm.

Little Things Originally appeared in Thrilling Wonder Stories, Fall 1946

Nothing but Gingerbread Left 1946 . Reprinted from Astounding Fiction

The Piper’s Son 1945 . Reprinted from Astounding Science Fiction

Beyond the Phœnix

Wed, 14 Sep 1977 18:26:36 +0300

Collected Fiction

Thu, 01 Oct 2020 15:16:19 +0300

Scanned, converted, re-formatted, proofed, custom book cover and eBook creation by Jerry.

Bypass To Otherness

Wed, 14 Sep 1977 10:36:57 +0300

My Conversion

Nothing But Gingerbread Left

Wed, 14 Sep 1977 15:10:28 +0300

A story of a rhyme, of perfect rhythm, and the complete disruption of military machinery hy a nursery jingle that could not be forgotten.

Where the World is Quiet

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:18:20 +0300

Marion Zimmer Bradley is among many authors who have cited Kuttner as an influence. Her novel The Bloody Sun is dedicated to him. The life of an anthropologist is no doubt filled much of the time with the monotonous routine of carefully assembling powdery relics of ancient races and civilizations. But White's lone Peruvian odyssey was most unusual. Fra Rafael saw strange things, impossible things. Then there was the mystery of the seven young virginal girls of Huascan. . . .

The Citadel of Darkness

Fri, 04 May 2001 21:50:04 +0300

Line to Tomorrow

Fri, 14 Nov 2014 15:40:57 +0200

Fletcher kept on getting strange phone calls, telling him about the future, he seemed to have a direct line to tomorrow...

Lands of the Earthquake

Wed, 14 Sep 1977 14:25:22 +0300

William Boyce, in whose veins flows the blood of crusaders, goes on the quest of a lost memory and a mysterious woman in an odd clime where cities move and time stands motionless!

Short Fiction

Mon, 30 Dec 2024 13:46:54 +0200

A collection of short fiction by Henry Kuttner, ordered by date of original publication.

Trouble on Titan

Wed, 14 Sep 1977 15:10:31 +0300

The sub-human denizens of Saturn’s largest moon were said to be harmless—but when the ace director of Nine Planets Films was sent to photograph them, he was in for a shock!