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Viajó accidentalmente a un mundo completamente nuevo, donde descubrió algunos patógenos que habían desaparecido hace mucho tiempo en la historia humana, incluyendo virus, bacterias y parásitos. Con su profundo conocimiento y tecnología en bioquímica moderna, comenzó a ejercer influencia en este mundo. Decidió ayudar a aquellos que eran marginados por la sociedad, poseían habilidades especiales pero
...Sumérjase en los primeros capítulos de esta obra maestra de la ciencia ficción y comprenderá de inmediato cómo este autor estrella en ciernes se ha convertido en un pionero en la mezcla de nuevos conceptos de exploración interestelar, thrillers de suspense y una nueva vuelta de tuerca al concepto de profanación de tumbas.
La humanidad se ha aventurado en los confines del universo con la historia centrada
...An Earthman on Venus, originally titled The Radio Man, is a science fiction novel by American writer Roger Sherman Hoar under the pseudonym of Ralph Milne Farley. It was originally published in 1924.
High Adventure and Strange Romance in a World of Mystery. When Myles Cabot accidentally transmitted himself to the planet Venus, he found himself naked and bewildered in a mystery world where every unguarded minute might mean a horrible death.
Man-eating
...Raymond Fisher Jones (1915-1994) was an American science fiction author. He is best known for his 1952 novel This Island Earth, which was adapted into the eponymous 1955 film.
Most of Jones' short fiction was published during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, in magazines such as Thrilling Wonder Stories, Astounding Stories, and Galaxy. His sixteen novels were published between 1951 and 1978.
His short story "Rat Race", first published
...Cinq nouvelles pour suivre l'humanité du futur, à travers l'espace infini !
Dans « La Messagère des étoiles », Bulma, chercheuse en informatique biomoléculaire, tente d'apprivoiser un appareil révolutionnaire, permettant de recevoir des informations venant du futur. Et bientôt, elle va recevoir un message qu'elle ne pouvait pas recevoir. Mais comment nouer des liens avec quelqu'un,
...Un homme mourant dit à son arrière-petite-fille qu'il a signé un document de ne pas réanimer, donnant des instructions au personnel médical pour le laisser mourir s'il est déterminé qu'il est en état de mort cérébrale. Un homme mourant dit à son arrière-petite-fille qu'il a signé un document de ne pas réanimer, donnant des instructions au personnel médical pour le laisser mourir s'il est déterminé qu'il est en état de mort cérébrale.
...Richard Sharpe Shaver (1907-1975) was an American writer and artist who achieved notoriety in the years following World War II as the author of controversial stories that were printed in science fiction magazines (primarily Amazing Stories). In Shaver's story, he claimed that he had had personal experience of a sinister ancient civilization that harbored fantastic technology in caverns under the earth. The controversy stemmed from the claim by
...12) The God-Plllnk
Drexel Jerome Lewis Bixby (1923-1998) was an American short story writer and scriptwriter. He wrote the 1953 story It's a Good Life, which was included in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame. It formed the basis of a 1961 episode of The Twilight Zone and was remade in Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983). He wrote four episodes for the Star Trek series: Mirror, Mirror, Day of the Dove, Requiem for Methuselah, and By Any Other Name. With Otto Klement, he
...Basil Eugene Wells (1912-2003) was an American writer. His first published story, Rebirth of Man appeared in the magazine Super Science Stories in 1940. He wrote science fiction, fantasy western, and detective stories for various magazines sometimes under the name Gene Ellerman. Two collections of his stories, Planets of Adventure and Doorways to Space were published by Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc.--Wikipedia.
"Blue vegetation, red insect-men,
..."Pluto was a coffin world, airless, utterly cold. And they had ten days to reach Base Camp, ten thousand miles away."--From preliminary page.
Manly Wade Wellman (1903-1986) was an American writer. While his science fiction and fantasy stories appeared in such pulps as Astounding Stories, Startling Stories, Unknown, and Strange Stories, Wellman is best remembered as one of the most popular contributors to the legendary Weird Tales and for
...Carl Selwyn was a space opera writer who specialized in Science Fiction. He went from unknown to one of the most prolific Planet Stories writers of 1940. He did not write detective stories or Westerns on the side. His real name was Carl Selwyn Pugh Jr. (1917-1984). In his bio for Planet Stories, Selwyn tells us that he grew up on Roanoke Island, North Carolina. He had little success as a writer until he found an agent and began focusing on the
...Clifford Donald Simak (1904-1988) was an American science fiction writer. He won three Hugo Awards and one Nebula Award. The Science Fiction Writers of America made him its third SFWA Grand Master, and the Horror Writers Association made him one of three inaugural winners of the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement. He is associated with the pastoral science fiction subgenre.
Simak attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison
...17) Task of Tau
J. Harvey (John Harvey) Haggard (1912-2001) was an American science-fiction author and railwayman, known primarily for his stories in the early science fiction Pulp magazines, chiefly Wonder Stories. His first story, Faster Than Light (October 1930, Wonder Stories) was written when he was seventeen in response to a contest in Air Wonder Stories and takes on the bold idea of accelerating to the speed of light and breaking through into a new universe.
...18) Color Blind
"For that elusive green-white glamour, go to Venus, the ads urged vain women. But that was only half the story—just ask olive-skinned Sukey Jones."--From the preliminary page.
Charles A. Stearns also used this alternate name: Chas. A. Stearns.--The Internet Science Fiction Database.
19) The Pluto Lamp
"It was the most outrageous kind of irony that fate, and the Commission of Galactic Astrography, should select such a prime misfit as Knucklebone Smith to light the lamp of Pluto."--From preliminary page.
Charles A. Stearns also used this alternate name: Chas. A. Stearns.--The Internet Science Fiction Database.
"Ron Barnard had stuck his nose into one news story too many. It had started with a lovely girl, a wily Chinese, and a drug ring that circled the System. Now it was ending for him in a rogue spaceship—his epitaph a rocket's red stream across the starways." From preliminary page.
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