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Empire (Hardcover)
Clifford D. Simak
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Clifford D. Simak
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On a far future Earth, mankind's achievements are immense:
artificially intelligent robots, genetically uplifted animals,
interplanetary travel, genetic modification of the human form
itself. But nothing comes without a cost. Humanity is tired, its
vigour all but gone. Society is breaking down into smaller
communities, dispersing into the countryside and abandoning the
great cities of the world. As the human race dwindles and declines,
which of its great creations will inherit the Earth? And which will
claim the stars?
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Empire (Paperback)
Clifford D. Simak
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After two decades in space, a man returns to Earth as something new
and not completely human, in this "enormously inventive" novel by a
Nebula Award winner (Galaxy Science Fiction). Twenty years ago,
Asher Sutton vanished somewhere in the star system 61 Cygni, an
inaccessible corner of the universe that humankind has thus far
been unable to explore. Now Asher has returned to Earth, having
impossibly survived catastrophic damage to his spacecraft. But the
star-traveler is not the same man he was when he began his journey
two decades earlier. He is, in fact, no longer completely human.
And he is not alone. But he has a message to convey that could have
reality-altering consequences for the human galaxy-conquerors who
consider themselves almost gods, and for the nearly human androids
they create, enslave, and oppress. It is Asher's destiny to change
everything. His mission has made him a hero to some, a pariah to
others--and a target for determined time-traveling assassins from
the future whose mission it is to silence him at all costs before
everything they cherish is obliterated. A true science fiction
visionary, SFWA Grand Master Clifford D. Simak infused thrilling
stories of time travel, space exploration, artificial intelligence,
and alien contact with powerful, thought-provoking ideas. An
enthralling masterwork of speculative fiction that astonishes while
exploring humanity in all its disparate aspects, Time and Again can
be counted among the prolific, multiple Hugo and Nebula
Award-winning author's most brilliantly imagined and successfully
realized creations.
His body hosting a pair of strange alien presences, an amnesiac
space traveler returns home to an unrecognizable Earth Many
centuries in the future, a two-hundred-year-old man is discovered
hibernating in a space capsule orbiting a distant star. Transported
back to his home planet, Andrew Blake awakens to an Earth he does
not recognize--a world of flying cars and sentient floating
houses--with no memory whatsoever of his history or purpose. But he
has not returned alone. The last survivor of a radical experiment
abandoned more than a century earlier, Blake was genetically
altered to be able to adapt to extreme alien environments, and now
he can sense other presences inhabiting his mind and body. One is a
biological computer of astonishing power; the other is a powerful
creature akin to a large wolf. And Blake is definitely not the one
in control. With his sanity hanging in the balance, Blake's only
option is to set out in frantic pursuit of his past, the truth, his
destiny--and quite possibly the fate of humankind. A bravura
demonstration of unparalleled imagination, intelligence, and heart,
The Werewolf Principle addresses weighty issues of genetic
manipulation that are as relevant today as when the novel first
appeared in print. One of the all-time best and brightest in
speculative fiction, Grand Master Clifford D. Simak offers a
moving, stunning, witty, and thought-provoking exploration of what
it means to be human.
Two present-day investigators race across time to escape malevolent
aliens from the future and their terrible "gift" of immortality in
this novel by a Nebula Award-winning author. What is the price of
eternal life? Secret agent Jay Corcoran is about to learn the
answer when his investigation into an inexplicable disappearance
carries him and journalist friend Tom Boone hundreds of years into
the past. Corcoran and Boone's powerful extrasensory abilities lead
them to an advanced transportation system through time, and back to
the bucolic eighteenth-century English countryside. There, they
discover a family from the distant future hiding from the
Immortals--an alien race that, many centuries on, is seducing human
subjects with the promise of eternal life. But at the cost of the
corporeal self, there is no place in the aliens' future for anyone
unwilling to exist as mind alone. Now that the Evans family's
sanctuary has been breached, escape is the only answer--for Boone
and Corcoran as well--and the only way out is forward . . . far
forward. But racing through space and time can be a hazardous
occupation, especially with monstrous beasts, killer robots, and
Immortal body-destroyers waiting at every juncture. The last novel
from acclaimed science fiction Grand Master Clifford D. Simak,
winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and numerous other awards, Highway of
Eternity combines breathtaking action with provocative ideas and
unparalleled ingenuity, the hallmarks of Simak's exceptional art.
It is a fitting finale for the man who stands alongside Heinlein,
Asimov, Bradbury, and Clarke as one of the true giants of
speculative fiction's Golden Age.
A scholar, a goblin, and a gnome, among others, pursue the secrets
of a vanished ancient race through a wasteland of dark magic in
this enthralling fantasy quest adventure On an Earth that is
different from ours, the young scholar Mark Cornwall becomes a
target of the Inquisition, and specifically its most evil and
obsessed agent, Beckett. Damned for asking questions, Mark is
forced to escape over the border into the Wastelands, a magical
realm that is home to all manner of flesh-devouring monsters.
Luckily he will not have to make his journey alone. He is
accompanied by a cadre of stalwart companions, including the rafter
goblin Oliver, Snively the gnome, and secretive Mary from one of
three parallel planes. Somewhere beyond the vengeful, blood-hungry
Hellhounds, somewhere past the horrific legacy of the now-destroyed
Chaos Beast, the mysteries of the Old Ones are waiting to be
revealed--and only those with the courage to seek them will be able
to alter the destiny of their worlds. In Enchanted Pilgrimage,
Clifford D. Simak ingeniously blends elements of science fiction
into a savory fantasy stew. The award-winning Grand Master of
science fiction spreads his wings and takes glorious flight into a
bold new realm of magic and adventure, demonstrating why he remains
one of the most acclaimed storytellers in the literature of the
remarkable.
From science fiction Grand Master Clifford D. Simak, an
interstellar adventure of aliens, fairies, and time travel. Until
the day he was murdered, Professor Peter Maxwell was a respected
faculty member of the College of Supernatural Phenomena. Imagine
his chagrin when he turns up at a Wisconsin matter transmission
station several weeks later and discovers he's not only dead but
unemployed. During an interstellar mission to investigate rumors of
dragon activity, this alternate Maxwell was intercepted by a
strange alien race that wanted him to carry knowledge of a
remarkable technology back to Earth, and it seems someone does not
want the information shared. Suddenly, it's essential for Maxwell
to find his own killer. He enlists the aid of Carol Hampton of the
Time College, along with her pet saber-tooth tiger, a ghost with
memory issues, and the intelligent Neanderthal Man recently rescued
from a prehistoric cooking pot. But the search is pointing them
toward the goblins, fairies, and assorted Little Folk living in
reservations on campus, and into the dangerous heart of an
interspecies blood feud that has been raging for millions of years.
Ingeniously inventive and unabashedly tongue-in-cheek, this novel
demonstrates multi-award-winning fantasy and science fiction
favorite Clifford D. Simak operating at the imaginative peak of his
considerable powers.
Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic science
fiction double novels. The first novel is sci-fi maestro Murray
Leinster's "The Wailing Asteroid." There was no life on the
asteroid, but the miles of rock-hewn corridors through which the
Earth party wandered left no doubt about the purpose of the
asteroid. It was a mighty fortress, stocked with weapons of
destruction beyond man's power to understand. And yet there was no
life here, nor had there been for untold centuries. What race had
built this stronghold? What unimaginable power were they defending
against? Why was it abandoned? There was no answer, all was dead.
But-not quite all. For in a room above the tomb-like fortress a
powerful transmitter beamed its birdlike, fluting sounds toward
Earth. Near it, on a huge star map of the universe, with
light-years measured by inches, ten tiny red sparks were moving,
crawling inexorably toward the center. Moving, at many times the
speed of light, with the acquired mass of suns...moving, on a
course that would pass through the solar system. The unknown aliens
would not even see our sun explode from the force of their passing.
They would not even notice the tiny speck called Earth as it
died... The second novel is "The World that Couldn't Be" by one of
the top-tier science fiction writers of all time, Clifford D.
Simak. Life on the planet Laynard was more than unusual. Gavin
Duncan had settled on this distant planet because it was virtually
unspoiled and unpopulated by man, making the farming opportunities
endless. While his livelihood depended on this plantation being a
success, he did not know the planet well, or its peculiarities, and
had virtually no knowledge about the wildlife. When he found he'd
lost part of his crop to a strange beast, his job was plain... Like
every farmer on every planet, Duncan had to hunt down anything that
damaged his crop, and kill it. The natives were quite peculiar
regarding the hunting of certain beasts, especially the one he was
after, the Cytha. With a lot of persuasion, he finally sets out
with a local native to track the beast. During the hunt, the
strangest things began to take place, and Duncan gets a lesson the
hard way about xeno-ecology
The Anthology of Sci-Fi V21 is a collection of eleven Sci-fi
stories from some of the best writers of the past century. Included
are: Out Around Rigel by Robert H. Wilson, The Space Rover by Edwin
K. Sloat, The Einstein See-Saw by Miles J. Breuer, Hellhounds of
the Cosmos by Clifford D. Simak, Raiders of the Universes by Donald
Wandrei, Loot of the Void by Edwin K. Sloat, The Moon Destroyers by
Monroe K. Ruch, The Martian by Allen Glasser & A. Rowley
Hilliard, The Floating Island of Madness by Jason Kirby, The
Worshippers by Damon Knight, Special Delivery by Damon Knight.
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