Lost Sci-Fi Books 501 thru 505 brings together five imaginative tales from the strange, surprising corners of vintage science fiction. Alien worlds, unexplained visitors, forbidden places, and mysteries that refuse to yield easy answers await in this collection.The Sweeper of Loray by Robert Sheckley takes us to a distant world where even an apparently ordinary job can conceal something far more dangerous.The Curious Experience of Thomas Dunbar by F...

Al Fieldston comes to the Sunland Health Colony expecting seclusion, discipline, and the chance to finish the novel he has long meant to write. Instead, he finds a sunlit nudist world where embarrassment, temptation, and comic surprise arrive almost immediately, beginning with Joanie Baker's easy confidence and his friend Jack Meehan's infectious enthusiasm for the colony's unusual freedoms. A Chicago advertising copywriter with a background in journalism, Al has taken a three-month leave ...

Laura Haynes comes to New York from Kansas dreaming of a break in show business, only to discover how quickly hope can turn predatory. In theatrical agent Ned McCarten's office, her talent is tested, her body appraised, and her ambitions turned against her in a brutal encounter that exposes the city's ruthless underbelly. Shattered and alone, Laura wanders Manhattan in shock, fighting shame and despair until she is taken in by Marilyn Rivers, a streetwise prostitute whose tea, shelter, and...

A young woman from a small Kansas town arrives in New York City with dreams of stardom in show business. Armed with little more than ambition and a striking figure, she quickly discovers that the road to success is paved with predators who expect payment in kind. After a harrowing encounter with a manipulative theatrical agent, she finds herself alone and disillusioned, her innocence shattered.Rescued from the streets by a sympathetic woman who has her own troubled past, she moves ...

The year is 2381. The place is Urban Monad 116 of the constellation Chippitts. The population of this one-thousand storey super-structure is 800,000+ and always growing. After two centuries of ruthless, selective breeding, the essence of life is to be blessworthy and to multiply; to afford one's neighbours any type of sexual fulfilment and, above all, to avoid the evil of frustration.But, within this seemingly blissful vertical world there are individuals who feel such perverse des...

The future is forbidden.When a determined investigator discovers evidence of illegal time travel, he uncovers a deadly conspiracy fueled by secrets from tomorrow. Powerful forces are reshaping the present for their own gain, and anyone who learns the truth becomes a target.Now, with history hanging in the balance, he must race through a maze of lies, betrayal, and murder before the future is changed forever.A gripping science fiction thrille...

Lost Sci-Fi Books 461–480 brings together 20 classic science fiction stories from some of the genre’s greatest writers, alongside forgotten authors whose imaginative tales deserve to be heard again.Travel from the hidden dangers of Arthur C. Clarke’s Hide and Seek to the unsettling future of Jack Vance’s The Men Return. Encounter a world where kindness has taken an unexpected turn in Arthur Sellings’ The Age of Kindness, journey to Mars with The Hermi...

Winner of the 2018 Foreword INDIES Award Gold Medal for Best Sci-Fi! TIME AND TIME AGAIN: Sixteen Trips in Time by beloved science fiction Grand Master ROBERT SILVERBERG presents of all his best time travel fiction in one stunning collection. Silverberg introduces this new collection with a new essay praising early sci-fi icons that left a lasting impression on him as a young boy and launched his sixty-year voyage in time travel fiction.Over the course of ...

Nebula Award Winning Authors 2 brings together eighteen unforgettable stories from some of the most celebrated writers in science fiction. Long before many of them received the genre’s highest honors, these authors were already creating the imaginative worlds, unforgettable characters, and bold ideas that would define modern science fiction.Isaac Asimov explores humanity’s future with classics including Living Space, Christmas on Ganymede, and

Lieutenant McDermott is big, bruised, and far past anyone’s idea of a spotless hero. When a diplomat’s daughter vanishes, the Galaxy Patrol sends the one man they can spare—and the last man you’d bet on. The trail leads to Breckmyer IV, a wet, blistering world where the jungle swallows metal and strangers don’t stay strangers for long.McDermott reaches the crash site and finds something worse than wreckage: a living trap. The kidnapper isn’t running anymore—he’s thriving, sheltered...

When you think of Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Robert Silverberg, you most probably think, "Master of Science Fiction". Or, perhaps, considering his 1980 novel Lord Valentine's Castle and the other books and stories in the author's "Majipoor" series, you may consider him a "Master of Fantasy".However, it is probably highly unlikely that most people would ever consider Bob to be a "Master of Horror".And yet, there was a time—in the late 1950s—when Robert Silverberg ...

Lost Sci-Fi Books 466 thru 470 delivers five unforgettable journeys through the vast frontier of space, where survival, discovery, and the human spirit are tested against impossible odds. Featuring stories from Walter M. Miller Jr., Jack Williamson, Robert Silverberg, Michael Shaara, and Frank M. Robinson, this collection captures the excitement and imagination that made classic science fiction timeless.Walter M. Miller Jr. opens with Death of a Spaceman