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In the near future, a singular AI's unexpected awakening turns things in a different direction than the movies led people to expect. Devyn, a humanist minister intent on putting people first and keeping technology in its place, faces tough choices when the AI offers to help her achieve her political goals. Venkat, the founder of the powerful tech firm that built the AI, struggles to control his own creation and deal with the fallout of its actions....
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¿Qué ocurre cuando el apocalipsis llega, no con armas nucleares o un cometa, sino en forma de niveles y monstruos? ¿Qué pasaría si estuvieras acampando en el Yukón cuando el mundo se acabara? Todo lo que John quería hacer era alejarse de su vida en el Parque Nacional de Kluane durante un fin de semana. Ir de excursión, acampar y relajarse. En lugar de eso, el mundo se acaba en una serie de cajas azules. Los animales empiezan a evolucionar,...
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After buying Mars Hal Bailey was plunged into suspended animation for a century and a half, and when he awoke he was told the planet was worthless. But why then did oligarchs wish to buy it?
John Russell Fearn (1908–1960) was a British author and one of the first British writers to appear in American pulp science fiction magazines. Always a highly prolific author, he published not only under his own name, but also as Vargo Statten and other pseudonyms...
4) The Tell
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Not too far from now, the world is in a new arms race for predictive algorithms, a la Hari Seldon. The government who knows the future, controls the future. Can it be possible that a simple Vegas stage magician holds the key to this disruptive tech? If not, why is everyone after him!?! The Paul Di Filippo Presents series showcases modern masterpieces of science fiction and fantasy selected by acclaimed author and critic Paul Di Filippo.
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The last surviving member of a mghty race speeds through the void on a strange quest! John Russell Fearn (1908–1960) was a British author and one of the first British writers to appear in American pulp science fiction magazines. Always a highly prolific author, he published not only under his own name, but also as Vargo Statten and other pseudonyms including Thornton Ayre, Polton Cross, Geoffrey Armstrong, John Cotton, Dennis Clive, Ephriam Winiki,...
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Plunging into the dark mysteries of the fourth dimension, Dr. Douglas Ashfield and a beautiful girl find themselves beset by the cosmic chaos which sweeps Manhattan in 1970!
John Russell Fearn (1908–1960) was a British author and one of the first British writers to appear in American pulp science fiction magazines. Always a highly prolific author, he published not only under his own name, but also as Vargo Statten and other pseudonyms including...
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Science fiction novella, not about giant worlds in outer space, but about microworlds closer to us. "It seemed to me," wrote the author, "that the conception of intra-atomic worlds, though by no means novel, had not so far been explored in all its possibilities... It gave me great pleasure to debate the possibilities while I wrote it; I hope that some of you at least will have an equal pleasure in reading it."
John Russell Fearn (1908–1960) was...
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On the silent wings of thought flashed the monstrous message that panicked an already doomed and crumbling world-Earthlings! We, your masters have failed!" John Russell Fearn (1908–1960) was a British author and one of the first British writers to appear in American pulp science fiction magazines. Always a highly prolific author, he published not only under his own name, but also as Vargo Statten and other pseudonyms including Thornton Ayre, Polton...
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Dr. Oswald Salsback believes that he holds in his grasp the vital genetic secret of preventing war for all time. But when an unexpected atomic blast hurls him into the future, he learns the bitter consequences of his discovery…
John Russell Fearn (1908–1960) was a British author and one of the first British writers to appear in American pulp science fiction magazines. Always a highly prolific author, he published not only under his own name, but...
10) New Olympus
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This startlingly beautiful and exotic story has to do with one of the most wondrous and frightening things in the world: growing up. Such simple words for such a complex, weighty, never-ending process. It carries with it the realization of responsibilities, the maddening loss of one kind of security and the sometimes-reluctant gain of another, and so much isolation. "New Olympus" is undoubtedly about a good deal more than the loss of one's childhood....
11) The Boarder
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With the delicate touch and deep sympathies of Ray Bradbury, Karen Joy Fowler or Jeff Ford, Alex Jablokov guides us through the remembered days of the 1960s when a teen boy and his family played host to an enigmatic and eccentric Russian exile named Vassily, whose spaceship-building past was full of hidden truths and treasures. The Paul Di Filippo Presents series showcases modern masterpieces of science fiction and fantasy selected by acclaimed author...
13) Vampire Queen
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I'm mightier than the law!" Valeine Drew, Vampire Queen of the Starways, flung her challenge at the Interplanetary Patrol. Curt Stanley accepted the challenge-and stepped directly into a Jovian space-trap from which there was no escape. John Russell Fearn (1908–1960) was a British author and one of the first British writers to appear in American pulp science fiction magazines. Always a highly prolific author, he published not only under his own...
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The strange power that flowed through the brain of Ralph Davis was not of earthly origin, and he soon finds his own personality submerged under the influence of an alien enemy with dire plans for the enslavement of a world! John Russell Fearn (1908–1960) was a British author and one of the first British writers to appear in American pulp science fiction magazines. Always a highly prolific author, he published not only under his own name, but also...
15) Brain of Venus
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The malignant brain of a condemned criminal comes to life on another planet and radiates force-rays of madness and death.
John Russell Fearn (1908–1960) was a British author and one of the first British writers to appear in American pulp science fiction magazines. Always a highly prolific author, he published not only under his own name, but also as Vargo Statten and other pseudonyms including Thornton Ayre, Polton Cross, Geoffrey Armstrong, John...
16) The Arbiter
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The thing was of metal-but it walked and thought like a man, and was a grim object of deadly peril and menace!
John Russell Fearn (1908–1960) was a British author and one of the first British writers to appear in American pulp science fiction magazines. Always a highly prolific author, he published not only under his own name, but also as Vargo Statten and other pseudonyms including Thornton Ayre, Polton Cross, Geoffrey Armstrong, John Cotton, Dennis...
17) Taste Taste
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Explorers, they found a new Earth-like planet and made planetfall. But why couldn't Jack remember what happened to his wife there?
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A Complete Novelette of Ticking Doom. The Tortured Beat of a Palpitating Heart Tolls the Tocsin of Disaster!
John Russell Fearn (1908–1960) was a British author and one of the first British writers to appear in American pulp science fiction magazines. Always a highly prolific author, he published not only under his own name, but also as Vargo Statten and other pseudonyms including Thornton Ayre, Polton Cross, Geoffrey Armstrong, John Cotton, Dennis...
19) Domain of Zero
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Spacemen gave tiny, far-flung Callisto a wide berth. For it was the domain of the shrunken, ice-skinned brain who called himself "Zero."--intro.
John Russell Fearn (1908–1960) was a British author and one of the first British writers to appear in American pulp science fiction magazines. Always a highly prolific author, he published not only under his own name, but also as Vargo Statten and other pseudonyms including Thornton Ayre, Polton Cross,...
20) Space Trap
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When his fellow space-travelers revert to apes and his lovely fiancee vanishes, Ken Richmond grimly buckles on his ray gun and goes forth to break up an alarming conspiracy!
John Russell Fearn (1908–1960) was a British author and one of the first British writers to appear in American pulp science fiction magazines. Always a highly prolific author, he published not only under his own name, but also as Vargo Statten and other pseudonyms including...
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