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It all started with a door-to-door salesman. Circa 1980, my folks bought the set of Funk And Wagnalls New Encyclopedia, opening up the world I suspect existed yet needed the data to explore it. The A to Z articles crammed with information and pictures not only confirmed and explained what was happening in the world around me but I got to understand who I was, my heritage, and how I got to where I was.

One may readily be prepared to die. Any punter can act bravely when faced with imminent death. Even the foolish...

Aris Forcer sensed it in every cell in his human body. Another dimension. Another universe. Ever since their ordeal with the...

Engineering A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jamFrederik Pohl Photo...

All artists are influenced by the previous generation of artists. Westerns were part of John Carpenter's cinematic diet growing up....

"A slave?" asked Aris. "Yes, a slave," answered Owis, bemused why the Earthman's facial features had suddenly shrivelled up. "Why...

At the edge of the galactic core, a supercluster of fourteen thousand stars, caught in an asymmetric elliptical orbit around a supermassive black hole, is home to hundreds of extinct civilisations. The pirates of the inner arm embark on an odyssey to raid as many artefacts as they can before the EXO Consortium locks down the entire Sector. What Silv and the crew of the Vitalis Express uncover on a far and remote ice planet, is a grave... mistake.

If there's one thing John Brunner is known for, it would be the culture shock he gives readers via his...

Disease Whether its curing existing diseases or encountering new ones, a bit or a lot of pathology doesn't hurt a...

A hive mind assassin hunts down a fugitive to the far-flung unexplored Draconis Sector. What it encounters will test its resolve and loyalty.

Life imitates art. It inevitably has to, because art starts off by imitating reality in an attempt to explain it...

The featureless salt desert spread out to infinity. The horizon; nothing but smooth, chrome landscape under a dark taupe sky....

“There’s a world that exists outside your experience. You do not possess the freedom to oppress this world and others like yourself.” “You’re wrong.”