No one was more revered by the mysterious Kanalist movement than their rebel playwright, Evan Larkspur. But that was long ago, before Kanalism was driven underground by the repressive Column dictatorship. Believed dead, Larkspur was now a fugitive, surviving as an actor and changing ...

Unconscious, near-dead from the spaceshuttle crash and the cruel, parched days adrift on the vast South Pacific, Calvert Roberts, Undersecretary of State, was washed up onto the shores of an isolated isldnd...an island called Moreau. But on this tropical paradise, Roberts was horrified ...

'The SF pulps began in the twenties and blossomed in the thirties. The forties were Campbell and the Astounding years, one man single-handedly inventing modern science fiction . . . 'The fifties built on Campbell's foundations, new editors and new writers . . . It was a vital and ...

Africa is the last frontier in a starving and overpopulated world. A world gone dry. A world of horror where literacy and thought are for machines only. Where cities are beehives built on stilts to protect them from the chemicals which grow crops. Where penal institutions are collective ...

Venus—Earth's sister planet, a strange world shrouded in mist and mystery. Is it a land of primeval swamps where giant reptiles wallow? A scorching landscape of rock and sand blasted by screaming winds? A vast planetary ocean, speckled with islands of floating water weeds? In ...

Galaxies Like Grains of Sand presents the history of our future. It is Brian Aldiss's brilliant, epic chronicle of mankind's next 40 million years. From the end of the ultimate race war, it traces man's evolution through the unimagined heights of civilization to the final dissolution ...

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 ...

At any one time the inhabited solar systems of our galaxy will exhibit the characteristics of every phase through which a civilization can pass. So it is fitting in this ultimate anniversary of star flight that we should survey a handful of our myriad civilizations—all contemporary ...

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 ...

Amid the frozen volcanic rubble of northern Iceland, an ancient mystery is solved. In translunar space, an asteroid's orbit is cunningly shifted. And on the Moon, spokesmen for Earth and the Settlement Worlds threaten each other across the conference table. Geologist Garrison Morrow ...