They got the key to the dead city of Mars from a race no longer there …

Schizophrenic Women is a fascinating report on the lives of seventeen families that suffered the experiences associated with the hospitalization of the wife and mother for mental illness. A description and analysis of representative experiences is presented here in an attempt to investigate various key issues--the patterns of family living preceding the crisis leading to medical hospitalization; how the patterns fell apart; how personal and family crises became psychiatric emergen...

This volume assembles for the first time a staggering multiplicity of reflections and readings of John Fante’s 1939 classic, Ask the Dust, a true testament to the work’s present and future impact.The contributors to this work—writers, critics, fans, scholars, screenwriters, directors, and others—analyze the provocative set of diaspora tensions informing Fante’s masterpiece that distinguish it from those accounts of earlier East Coast migrations and minglings. A must-read f...

For more than sixty years, the imagination of Ray Bradbury has opened doors into remarkable places, ushering us across unexplored territories of the heart and mind while leading us inexorably toward a profound understanding of ourselves and the universe we inhabit. In this landmark volume, America's preeminent storyteller offers us one hundred treasures from alifetime of words and ideas -- tales that amaze, enthrall, and horrify; breathtaking journeys backward and forward in time; classic ...

Cyril M. Kornbluth (1923–1958) was an American science fiction author and a notable member of the Futurians. He wrote prolifically during his short lifetime, and produced a remarkable body of work. This volume is the largest ebook collection of his work ever assembled. It includes:TIME BUMTAKEOFFTHE SYNDICTHE ALTAR AT MIDNIGHTCRISIS!THE GOLDEN ROADKAZAM COLLECTSTHE LUCKIEST MAN IN DENVMAKE MINE MARSTHE MARCHING MORONS

The 13th Science Fiction MEGAPACK® continues the bestselling anthology series, presenting modern and classic works of speculative fiction. This edition features an interview with author Robert J. Sawyer plus 26 great stories! Included are:SARGASSO OF LOST STARSHIPS, by Poul AndersonTHE DAY IS DONE, by Lester del ReyX MARKS THE PEDWALK, by Fritz LeiberRAFT, by Larry TrittenSPACEMAN ON A SPREE, by Mack ReynoldsTHE MASKED WORLD, by Jack Williamson

When Kane gets lost on a trek in the wilderness, he seeks shelter in a small cave when a blizzard blankets the area. The snow storm keeps him trapped for days, with nothing to eat but pine nuts, and a fire to keep him warm. Eventually the storm releases its grip on him and lets him out. He then embarks on the long journey to find his way back, surviving a wolf attack, fighting constant hunger and the freezing cold. Blizzard is the story of one man's survival against all odds.

"J. Steven York's Clockwork Cowboy stories aren't just 'weird Westerns.' They're quite touching, too. Yes, Liberty Brass is a metal man with a busted 'governor.' But he's got as much heart as any other hero you'll find riding the range."-- Steve Hockensmith, author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Dawn of the Dreadfuls, and the Holmes on the Range mystery seriesThroughout the west tales are told of a legendary Clockwork Cowboy, a restless mechanical wanderer who rode a c...

A stupid blunder and Mark Forepaugh faces a life of castaway loneliness in the savage welter of the planet Inra's monster-ridden jungles.

In a Twentieth Century Parallel world, the renegade George Washington has long been decently and quietly liquidated and Britain's greatest colony, America, is to be connected to the Mother of Parliaments by the strongest of umbilical cords - a Transatlantic Tunnel.

Little Jannita sat alone beside a milk-bush. Before her and behind her stretched the plain, covered with red sand and thorny karoo bushes; and here and there a milk-bush, looking like a bundle of pale green rods tied together. Not a tree was to be seen anywhere, except on the banks of the river, and that was far away, and the sun beat on her head. Round her fed the Angora goats she was herding; pretty things, especially the little ones, with white silky curls that touched the ground

The essay describes the experience of the English narrator, possibly Orwell himself, called upon to shoot an aggressive elephant while working as a police officer in Burma. Because the locals expect him to do the job, he does so against his better judgment, his anguish increased by the elephant's slow and painful death. After all, as he writes, he kills the animal 'solely to avoid looking a fool'.The story is regarded as a metaphor for British imperialism, and for Orwell's view that...