When a routine tour of a particle accelerator goes awry, Jack Hamilton and the rest of his tour group find themselves in a world ruled by Old Testament morality, where the smallest infraction can bring about a plague of locusts. Escape from that world is not the end, though, as they plunge into a Communist dystopia and a world where everything is an enemy. Philip K. Dick was aggressively individualistic and no worldview is safe from his acerbic and...

Edward Tolby and his daughter are members of a legendary militant group-The League-that helped to bring down the corrupt and misguided governments of the past, placing humanity on its path to a free, ruler-less society. Always on the lookout for groups trying to organize and stratify, Tolby and his companions encounter a powerful remnant of the old world. Philip K. Dick was an American science-fiction novelist, short-story writer and essayist. His...

This satirical adventure from Philip K. Dick deals with issues of power, class, and politics, set in a world ruled by big-brained elites. In Our Friends from Frolix 8, the world is run by an elite few. And what determines whether one is part of the elite isn't wealth or privilege, but brains. As children, every citizen of Earth is tested; some are found to be super-smart New Men and some are Unusuals, with various psychic powers. The vast majority...

The Science Fiction Super Pack #3 is the 53rd volume in Positronic Publishing's best selling Super Pack series. The over two hundred fifty thousand words and six-hundred-fifty pages of exciting science fiction are sure to provide you with hours and hours of reading enjoyment. Blast off to Adventure! The Carnivore by Katherine MacLean Martians, Keep Out! By Fritz Leiber And There Was Light by Lester del Rey The Moon That Vanished by Leigh Brackett Second...

Here is a selection of 18 jaunts through time, many of them rare tales from the pulps that we know you haven't read before. Even if you're jaded with time-travel (Dinosaurs? Again?) you'll find something new in these pages. Included are: THE CHILDREN'S ROOM, by Raymond F. Jones SIDETRACK IN TIME, by William P. McGivern GEORGE ALL THE WAY, by Richard Wilson ABSOLUTELY NO PARADOX, by Lester del Rey THE HOHOKAM DIG, by Theodore Pratt GUARANTEED...

Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 - March 2, 1982) was an American author who wrote 44 novels and about 121 short stories, most of which appeared in science fiction magazines during his lifetime. His fiction explored varied philosophical and social questions such as the nature of reality, perception, and identity, and commonly featured characters struggling against alternate realities, illusory environments, monopolistic corporations, authoritarian...

Ed Loyce lives a happy and normal life is a happy and normal small town in mid America. But today something strange happens. In the late evening, on his way to work at his TV sales and repair shop he passes the tiny one block park in the middle of town and sees something hanging from the only lamp post, something big, almost like a body. Of course it must be something else, probably an ad of some sort or a joke. Not able to discern exactly what it...

Tieing in to the major motion picture of the same name starring Ben Affleck and Uma Thurman and opening on Christmas Day 2003, an unabridged edition of the short story Paycheck, penned by one of the greatest names in science fiction

Electronic mechanic Jennings wakes up with no memory of the past two years of his life—except that he had agreed to work for Retherick Construction. Payment for his services, now completed, is a bag of

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Was wäre, wenn die Achsenmächte den Zweiten Weltkrieg gewonnen hätten? Und sich Hitler mit Japan die USA geteilt hätte? Die Grenze durch die Rocky Mountains verliefe, wo es neutrale Pufferstaaten gäbe? Und dort ein "Orakel vom Berge"? Vor dieser Unwirklichkeit flüchten die Menschen in ein Buch über die "Heuschrecken", in der die Welt so dargestellt wird, wie sie eher unserer Wirklichkeit gleicht - aber nur fast, oder ist es wirklich ganz anders...

It was a 400 pound slobbering, disgusting blob with tiny piggy eyes that peered dimly out at the world, perpetually looking for a place to lie down and sleep- but maybe it was good to eat? The crew of the spaceship had never seen anything like it before but they were desperate for anything to eat on their return trip. Everything else they had rounded up was on the scrawny side but at least they looked like something a civilized person might eat. But...