Cracks in the Sky, Tales of Sci-Fi Horror : A Gap Through Midnight
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Another Stapledonian epic, which illustrates two points: He discovers that Earthlings once traveled the stars, only to be forced back to their planet by aliens; and once offworld, Alvin discovers civilizations and entities that beggar belief.
Will he keep going? Or return to Diaspar, as a prophet? Yes, this is The Prisoner of Zenda in space; hokey material, but Heinlein handles it very well. Serialized in Astounding Science Fiction and published in hardcover the same year.
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Premarital sex is now taboo, not to mention cursing, drunkenness, even pulp fiction. In this updating of J. Which kills off the cattle, as well. With their families in tow, John Custance and his friend, Roger Buckley, make their way across a brutal, chaotic England.
It was adapted, under that title, as a British-American science fiction movie directed by Cornel Wilde. Also, a child with your name died in that town, years ago. Why does the town drunk remember the town the way Ted does? Who are the incorporeal Wanderers haunting the town? Although he struggles to make sense of these eerie incongruities, before long Ted finds himself in the midst of a cosmic struggle stretching far beyond Virginia or even Earth. The Zoroastrian demigods Ohrmuzd and Ahriman might have something to do with all this. The title refers to a Bible passage First Corinthians In the near future of , nuclear fallout from World War III has eradicated all human and animal life in the Northern Hemisphere, and air currents are steadily carrying the same fate to the Southern Hemisphere.
Perhaps someone is still alive? Moira, meanwhile, copes by drinking heavily. Peter Holmes, an Australian scientist, cannot persuade his wife to believe in the impending disaster. Another member of the submarine crew, Osborne, spends all of his time driving a racecar. As the radiation reaches Melbourne, how will each character face his or her final moments? Originally serialized in the London weekly periodical Sunday Graphic April Is that what you want to know? Having entered an advertising jingle writing contest on a lark, high-schooler Kip Russell wins a functional, but obsolete spacesuit.
At which point, a UFO materializes. During World War II, Heinlein was a civilian aeronautics engineer working at a laboratory where pressure suits were being developed for use at high altitudes.
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Why is their world made of plastic and steel? What lies beyond the jungle? The Big Time is a far-out example of what I have elsewhere called the Crackerjack sub-genre of adventure — in which consummate professionals team up for a common purpose.
One of the first sci-fi films to portray aliens as advanced saviours rather than menacing monsters. Site policies and disclaimer. I did not include a single Isaac Asimov title; and readers were outraged. Sean Connery stars as the marshall on an outer-space mining colony who discovers a secret that threatens the sanity of the miners working there. Richard Crane, Sally Mansfield. Nalo Hopkinson "uses Caribbean mythology to create stories that are as horrific as they are character-driven and fresh," says judge Tananarive Due.
An immediate predecessor is, for example, The Guns of Navarone []. Here, however, our crackerjacks are ten warriors from various eras of Earth and non-Earth history: Each of these characters was snatched out of his or her own time at the moment of his or her death, and shanghaied into the service of alien factions — known colloquially as the Spiders and the Snakes — who send them into battles across time and space, in an ongoing effort to alter the course of history. Here, characters fall in and out of love, make speeches, and… deal with a time bomb set ticking by a saboteur!
Originally serialized in Galaxy March—Aril The terrific Hasbro boardgame Heroscape — seems directly influenced by this book.
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Ragle Gumm lives with his sister and her husband in a quiet suburb; the year is But his brother-in-law begins to notice reality-discrepancies, too. Still, Gumm stubbornly investigates. A minimally sci-fi novel about false reality; an important turning point in the Philip K. It reminded me of the idea that Van Vogt had dealt with, of artificial memory, as occurs in The World of Null-A [] where a person has false memories implanted.
A lot of what I wrote, which looks like the result of taking acid, is really the result of taking Van Vogt seriously! In this semi-autobiographical sci-fi detective novel and work of pornography and political satire, William Lee, a drug dealer and addict, flees from the police to Mexico. He is instinctively determined to avoid the normalizing apparatuses of the police, psychiatrists, and government. In Mexico, however, is assigned to the sadistic Dr. First published by Olympia Press, in Paris.
The American edition, from Grove Press, was one of the last books to be banned in Boston. If Rumford and his dog, Kazak were to materialize on Earth and other planets, at various points in history, would he for some reason instigate a Martian invasion? Hello, Ozymandias from The Watchmen. A mostly bleak and ironic mini-epic, post-Olaf Stapledon and pre-Douglas Adams.
The movie was never made. He does menial work for a living, and attends reading and writing classes at the Beekman College Center for Retarded Adults.
Two Beekman researchers have succeeded in dramatically increasing the intelligence of a lab mouse Algernon , through experimental brain surgery; and Charlie is selected as their first human subject. How will he choose to live, now? The novel version was joint winner, with Babel , of the Nebula. Cliff Robertson won the Oscar for his portrayal of Charlie in the film Charly. In the second section, set in , a new Renaissance is beginning: One of my favorite science fiction novels of all time. Soon enough, the English warriors, led by Sir Roger, have captured the spaceship… at which point it takes off, heading back to a Wersgor colony planet — where the battle of old-fashioned virtues and valor against advanced technology continues.
In , the TSR-published magazine Ares adapted the novel into a wargame: Bombarded by cosmic rays, the quarrelsome crew are transformed: In their first outing, the Fantastic Four jet to Monster Isle, the source of subterranean attacks on atomic plants around the world. There, they discover that the Mole Man, who seeks revenge on humankind for having ridiculed him, plans to invade the surface world with an army of monsters!
Lee and Kirby upended the superhero conventions of previous eras by eschewing secret identities, and allowing their characters to have real-life problems and interpersonal conflicts. He infiltrates the Mayan slave laborers, who are mind-controlled by sounds recorded on magnetic tape — by the priestly caste — and embedded in books the famous Mayan calendar. In addition to time travel, The Soft Machine circles around themes of media bombardment, sexuality, and out-of-body travel.
The Rat falls in love with the master criminal — a beautiful, but sociopathic woman — and tries to reform her.
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The brilliant, independent female character is a sociopath, it turns out, because… she was born unattractive. Still, without Slippery Jim, would we have the charming rogue Han Solo? Chronologically, this is the fourth title in the series. After a year mission exploring a black hole, astronaut Hal Bregg returns to Earth — where nearly years have passed, due to time dilation.
Space exploration is now seen as youthful adventurism, too dangerous to continue. Return from the Stars predicts e-readers: The bookstore resembled, instead, an electronic laboratory. The books were crystals with recorded contents. They can be read the aid of an opton, which was similar to a book but had only one page between the covers. At a touch, successive pages of the text appeared on it.
One of the most famous, and most infuriating science fiction books ever. Its premise is a promising one: Valentine Michael Smith, a human raised by cosmically wise Martians and endowed with psychic and telekinetic powers, is brought back to Earth — whose social, cultural, economic, sexual, and psychological customs he finds bewildering and strange. With the aid of Jubal Harshaw, a Socrates-like philosopher, physician, lawyer, and sybarite, Smith becomes a controversial champion of free love, open-mindedness, and pacifism. The book became a cult hit later in the Sixties, for obvious reasons; however, it is firmly anchored in Fifties culture too.
Each member of the crew is visited by a lifelike simulacrum; Kelvin, for example, who feels guilty about the suicide of his lover, suddenly meets her again! Bob Childan runs an Americana shop in San Francisco, selling antiques — many of them counterfeit — to the Japanese colonists. Frank Frink, a secretly Jewish-American veteran, makes hand-crafted jewelry; his ex-wife, Juliana, lives in the neutral Mountain States buffer zone, where she has begun an affair with an Italian trucker.
Is The Grasshopper Lies Heavy somehow more true than the reality our characters are experiencing? An eco-catastrophe in which the catastrophe is in the past; the mood is contemplative; and the protagonist is looking forward to his devolution. Along with other members of a survey team, biologist Robert Kerans is sent to London, now an intensely hot and humid swamp, in order to catalog the flora and fauna. Their relationship to nature changes — they become less interested in controlling it and extracting its resources, and more interested in adapting to it. First serialized, in novella form, in Science Fiction Adventures in January But at what cost?
In the end, amazingly, we actually feel pity for evil Alex. Written in three weeks, A Clockwork Orange has been named by Modern Library one of the best English-language novels of the 20th century. It was adapted as a brilliant movie by Stanley Kubrick.
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