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Space Science Fiction Super Pack
With linked Table of Contents
Av H. Beam Piper, Henry Kuttner m. fl.
E-bok, 2016
28 kr
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''Space Science Fiction'' was launched in may of 1952. During it''s impressive run it published many of Science Fiction''s top writers. Collected here in this massive six hundred-plus page anthology are all of the most important stories that were published during its distinguished run. Included …
Creating Short Fiction
Av Damon Knight
Häftad, 1997
296 kr
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Distilled from decades of teaching and practice, this book offers clear and direct advice on structure, pacing, dialogue, getting ideas, working with the unconscious, and more. Newly revised and expanded for this Third Edition, Creating Short Fiction is a popular and widely trusted guide to writing …
Turning Points: Essays on the Art of Science Fiction
Av Damon Knight
E-bok, 2021
55 kr
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SFWA Grandmaster Damon Knight edits and contributes to this incredible collection of essays on writing, reading, and the nature of science fiction, written by all the greatest science fiction writers ever..
Hell's Pavement
Av Damon Knight
E-bok, 2011
51 kr
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A voice in your brain warning you away from that one drink too many, or the crime of violence, guiding your every move from birth to death - that''s the Analogue Machine, a terrifying and ingenious psychological device for compelling conformity. Analogue Men is an exploration of man and society …
for Anything
Av Damon Knight
E-bok, 2011
51 kr
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We call it a gismo. That''s right, a gismo. A bit difficult to describe. Like a cross, I suppose, without the top part. Sort of two arms on a stand. What happens is this. You hang something on one arm. Anything at all. A watch, a bracelet, money, anything. I supposed you could hang a locomotive on, …
Natural State
Av Damon Knight
E-bok, 2011
44 kr
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A collection of cutting-edge SF stories from one of the grand masters of science fiction, including: Rule Golden To protect the galaxy, Aza-Kra came from a world where violence and cruelty ceased to exist. To him, Earth was a jungle. The Dying Man In a century that holds the secret of immortality, …
Beyond the Barrier
Av Damon Knight
E-bok, 2013
51 kr
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He reached for Churan''s throat and his hands closed on air... ...yet the alien had not moved. With a chill of terror, Naismith realized that his arm had passed completely through the ugly, green-skinned body. The aliens'' laughter swelled out, malicious and mocking. Behind him, Lall''s voice said, …
Mind Switch
Av Damon Knight
E-bok, 2011
45 kr
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Time Switch at the Zoo. One day Martin Naumchik, reporter for Paris Soir, visited the Berlin Zoo. He was standing outside the spacious cage housing the newly-acquired Brecht Biped, Fritz, when the world seemed to lurch. Then he was no longer outside the cage looking in, but inside looking out. He …
Double Meaning
Av Damon Knight
E-bok, 2011
51 kr
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The fate of the Earth Empire hung in the balance - and Security Commissioner Spangler knew it was up to him to find the monster, the Rithian Terror, as some called it. Seven Rithians had landed on Earth. Six had been disposed of. One was loose. Surely, Spangler reasoned, the stereoptic fluoroscope …
World without Children and The Earth Quarter
Av Damon Knight
E-bok, 2011
45 kr
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Alien Ghetto. The men of Earth were spread thin across the galaxy - and little welcome where they did appear. They lived on sufferance, disliked by their hosts and intent on spreading hatred to the stars! Unable to live in peace in their own worlds, they would sow their seeds of discontent among …
Man in the Tree
Av Damon Knight
E-bok, 2011
51 kr
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Gene Anderson was born in Oregon, in the twilight post-war years, into the most ordinary circumstances imaginable. Gene is endowed with powers. He can look into the other worlds that are all around him. He can make things happen. He can hurt and he can heal. His life changes dramatically when …
CV
CV Book 1
Av Damon Knight
E-bok, 2011
50 kr
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Sea Venture, CV for short, is the largest ocean-going vessel ever built by man. It is not a ship but a huge sea habitat housing a scientific research station, an entire city of two thousand permanent residents and a thousand passengers. For some, CV is the vacation dream of a lifetime; for others, …
Observers
CV Book 2
Av Damon Knight
E-bok, 2013
51 kr
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McNulty''s Disease has escaped the Sea Venture and is now epidemic on land. The disease kills only a few of its victims...but no one knows what long-term effects it has on those who survive. For the public''s safety, the U.S. government sets up a giant internment camp on the old CV herself, and …
Reasonable World
CV Book 3
Av Damon Knight
E-bok, 2013
45 kr
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Plague...or paradise? 2005 A.D. Six years have passed since the alien Symbionts invaded Sea Venture, Earth''s largest ocean habitat. Now, despite the government''s best attempts at quarantine, the Symbionts have spread all over the planet, infecting the bodies of both humans and animals - and …
Why Do Birds
Av Damon Knight
E-bok, 2011
45 kr
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It''s the early 21st century. Ed Stone says he''s been in suspended animation since the 1930s. He says he was kidnapped by aliens. He says they sent him forth on a mission: to convince the nations of the world to build massive vault, a mile on each side, in which humanity''s billions will lie in …
Humpty Dumpty: An Oval
Av Damon Knight
E-bok, 2013
51 kr
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Humpty Dumpty is a breakthrough work for this acknowledged master of the fantastic, an intriguing, entertaining, and immensely appealing novel of a man trying to make sense of a world gone mad. The tale begins when Wellington Stout wakes in an Italian hospital, uncertain how or why he came to be …
Far Out
Av Damon Knight
E-bok, 2011
51 kr
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What would you do if little men in purple uniforms filled your living room with impossible machinery? A machine made it possible to bury your crimes in the future? You were abandoned on an asteroid alone with a murderous living snake of metal?
In Deep
Av Damon Knight
E-bok, 2011
51 kr
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Take a step forward and fall suddenly into a creeping blob of protoplasm, then discover that your three companions have fallen with you and your bodies have been digested by the ''thing''. Watch a man searching on a beach, and feel your blood run cold when he tells you what he is searching for. A …
Off Centre
Av Damon Knight
E-bok, 2011
51 kr
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The room was quiet; the man in front of the mirror was the only living things there, and he was too horrified to utter a sound. In the mirror, five faces stared back at him: one young and ruddy, which was his own, and four that did not belong in that place at all, for they were wrinkled, …
Turning On
Av Damon Knight
E-bok, 2011
45 kr
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Brilliant invention, a rich sense of humour, an equal facility for describing ideas and technologies - these are the ingredients of Knight''s extraordinary talent as an SF writer. This collection of stories takes the reader from the death bed of the last man on earth to the unlikely demise of a …
Rule Golden
Av Damon Knight
E-bok, 2011
45 kr
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Five startling and provocative voyages into the future, by one of the most respected authors in science fiction - Rule Golden, Natural State, The Dying Man, Double Meaning and The Earth Quarter.
Futurians
Av Damon Knight
E-bok, 2013
51 kr
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The Futurian Society was founded in 1938 by thirteen science fiction fans; it never numbered more than twenty, including wives, girl friends and hangers-on; yet out of this small group came seven of the most famous names in science fiction: Isaac Asimov, James Blish, Damon Knight, Cyril Kornbluth, …
Turning Points
Essays on the Art of Science Fiction
Av Damon Knight
E-bok, 2014
50 kr
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Culled from the most imaginative and provocative minds of the pas thirty years, these pieces demonstrate the vitality and diversity, the excitement and commitment of the writers who helped make science fiction what it is today.
In Search of Wonder
Essays on Modern Science Fiction
Av Damon Knight
E-bok, 2013
51 kr
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In the decade from 1951 to 1960, Damon Knight was the outstanding critic of science fiction books. Knight''s reviews were not mere statements of his personal preferences - his skillful essays analysed the books and told why they were good or bad, to the edification of readers, the delight of good …
World and Thorinn
Av Damon Knight
E-bok, 2011
45 kr
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Thorinn went down. He had little choice, since his own father had hurled him into a well. Yet the world was shifting in those days, and Thorinn was to go deeper than his father had ever dreamed; destined to discover strange worlds within worlds, to meet beasts undreamed of, and to discover that …
Better than One
E-bok, 2014
51 kr
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A collection containing two short stories ("Semper Fi" and "Baby, You Were Great"), seven poems, and autobiographical introductions.
Masters of Evolution
Av Damon Knight
E-bok, 2021
37 kr
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SHOWDOWN WITH MONSTERS!Alvah Gustad was typical of New York City's twenty million citizens.
