After the accident the Dark Ages return to Earth. By the year 2029 A.D. few survivors remain. Those who are left huddle in isolated villages, prisoners of fear, superstition and old age. The rare man who still wants to shape his own destiny must strike out into the unknown. GREYBEARD ...

In the long tide of history, the world-famous reticence of the British is a very recent development. Less than a hundred years old in fact. The rakish ways of the Regency, the roisterling Restoration and the downright rowdyism of the Tudor era are older and mere firmly rooted traditions ...

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PASSPORT TO ETERNITY is J. G. Ballard's third collection of stories and his fifth book to date. Since the publication in 1962 of THE WIND FROM NOWHERE, Ballard's reputation as the most challenging new writer of science fiction has grown immeasurably. His second novel, THE DROWNED ...

Kerans could not remember how it had been before the violent solar storms shattered the ionosphere and turned the earth into a vast tropical heat zone, a seething world of jungle, swamp and fetid water... In the drowned, lost cities, there was the eerie beauty of the lagoons, the ...

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Here is your passport into the fascinating world of science fiction...eleven dazzling, jet-propelled, rocket-paced tales of tomorrow by one of today's leading writers.

"I'm Julian Cole. I'm a science writer. I've read about every theory of history you can name, and only one makes sense: the one which assumes that every historical event is aimed personally at my very own head." Sounds paranoid, doesn't it? But wait. Suppose you had the job given ...

Masterful, provocative tales of an improbable but all-too-possible, fantastic but all-too-real world in which A robot is made pertect when programmed to fail A murderer from a dead civilization pursues himself through time A miracle converts a scientist—and causes a priest to ...

Science fiction's most argumentative writer. Mr. del Rey is an authority on music, religion, biology, witchcraft, extra sensory perception, flying saucers and worse. In fact, he would probably be unbearable if it were not for his sense of humor, wit and love of fallible humanity. ...