Author : Isaac Asimov
Publisher : Carroll & Graf Pub
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 49,17 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780881844801
Ten of the finest short science fiction novels of the 1940s are collected in this outsized volume.
Author : Isaac Asimov
Publisher : Running Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,58 MB
Release : 2007-01-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780786719051
The Golden Age of Science Fiction, from the early 1940s through the 1950s, saw an explosion of talent in SF writing, including authors such as Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, and Arthur C. Clarke. Their writing helped science fiction gain wide public attention, and left a lasting impression upon society. The same writers formed the mold for the next three decades of science fiction, and much of their writing remains as fresh today as it was then.
Author : Isaac Asimov
Publisher : Carroll & Graf Pub
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 29,51 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780881846218
Author : Maxim Jakubowski
Publisher : C & R Crime
Page : 671 pages
File Size : 35,51 MB
Release : 2014-02-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 147211180X
Pulp fiction has been looked down on as a guilty pleasure, but it offers the perfect form of entertainment: the very best storytelling filled with action, surprises, sound and fury. In short, all the exhiliration of a roller-coaster ride. The 1920s in America saw the proliferation of hundreds of dubiously named but thrillingly entertaining pulp magazines in America – Black Mask, Amazing, Astounding, Spicy Stories, Ace-High, Detective Magazine, Dare-Devil Aces. It was in these luridly-coloured publications, printed on the cheapest pulp paper, that the first gems began to appear. The one golden rule for writers of pulp fiction was to adhere to the art of storytelling. Each story had to have a beginning, an end, economically-etched characters, but plenty going on, both in terms of action and emotions. Pulp magazines were the TV of their day, plucking readers from drab lives and planting them firmly in thrilling make-believe, successors to the Victorian penny dreadfuls of writers such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Charles Dickens. These stories exemplify the best of crime and mystery pulp fiction – its zest, speed, rhythm, verve and commitment to straightforward storytelling – spanning seven decades of popular writing.
Author : Richard Dalby
Publisher : Carroll & Graf Pub
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 29,5 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780786702794
Gathers forty of the best English and American ghost stories from the genre's golden age of 1839 to 1910, including works by Charles Dickens, Bram Stoker, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Ambrose Bierce. Original.
Author : Isaac Asimov
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 39,56 MB
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 178033723X
Ten classic stories from the birth of modern science fiction writing The Golden Age of Science Fiction, from the early 1940s through the 1950s, saw an explosion of talent in SF writing including authors such as Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, and Arthur C. Clarke. Their writing helped science fiction gained wide public attention, and left a lasting impression upon society. The same writers formed the mould for the next three decades of science fiction, and much of their writing remains as fresh today as it was then. Collected in one giant volume, here is the very best of the golden era. The stories include: A.E. van Vogt, 'The Weapons Shop' Isaac Asimov, 'The Big and the Little' Lester del Rey, 'Nerves' Fredric Brown, 'Daymare' Theodore Sturgeon, 'Killdozer!' C.L. Moore, 'No Woman Born' A. Bertram Chandler, 'Giant Killer'
Author : Isaac Asimov
Publisher : Constable
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 48,91 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Science fiction, American
ISBN :
10 short stories by some of the early writers of science fiction.
Author : Mike Ashley
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 20,43 MB
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1472100263
This thought-provoking collection not only takes us into the past and the future, but also explores what might happen if we attempt to manipulate time to our own advantage. These stories show what happen once you start to meddle with time and the paradoxes that might arise. It also raises questions about whether we understand time, and how we perceive it. Once we move outside the present day, can we ever return or do we move into an alternate world? What happens if our meddling with Nature leads to time flowing backwards, or slowing down or stopping all together? Or if we get trapped in a constant loop from which we can never escape. Is the past and future immutable or will we ever be able to escape the inevitable? These are just some of the questions that are raised in these challenging, exciting and sometimes amusing stories by Kage Baker, Simon Clark, Fritz Leiber, Christopher Priest, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Robert Silverberg, Michael Swanwick, John Varley and many others.
Author : Paul Gravett
Publisher : Running Press Adult
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 20,96 MB
Release : 2008-08-12
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN :
Mammoth Books: From history to manga, true crime to sci-fi, these anthologies feature top-name contributors and award-winning editors.
Author : Michelle Morgan
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 33,51 MB
Release : 2013-10-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1472100344
Murders, suicides, unexplained deaths, scandalous romances, illegitimate children, cover-ups, and more, from the 1920s to Hollywood's Golden Age in the 1960s and right up to the present day. It covers over 60 scandals including: The Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle Scandal; Clark Gable's Baby Scandals; The Rape of Patricia Douglas; The Life and Death of Jean Harlow; The Sudden Death of James Dean; Marilyn Monroe's Mysterious Death; John Belushi Dies at the Chateau Marmont; Madonna's Hollywood Stalker; Hugh Grant's Hollywood Scandal; Winona Ryder Is Arrested For Shoplifting; The Brad Pitt, Jennifer Aniston and Angelina Jolie Love Triangle; The Tragic Life and Death of Anna Nicole Smith; The Life and Death of Michael Jackson; Arnold Schwarzenegger's Love Child; The Very Public Melt-Down of Charlie Sheen; The Rise and Fall of Whitney Houston; The Marriage of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes and many, many more.
