The name Waldorf Astoria conjures images of Gilded Age opulence for the elite and the personalities that illuminated the Gilded Age in New York. Visit the old location on Fifth and 33rd and the current day incarnation on Park Avenue. Famed throughout the world, New York's Waldorf Astoria is quite simply the grandest of all grand hotels. Host to emperors, rajahs, potentates, and plutocrats--not to mention every US president since Grover Cleveland--its name has become synonymous with the epi...

This revised and updated third edition of Best New Horror showcases some of the very best short stories and novellas published in 1991. In this vilifying volume you will rediscover terrifying tales by, amongst many others, Ramsey Campbell, Robert McCammon, Dennis Etchison, Elizabeth Hand, Michael Marshall Smith, Charles L. Grant, Joel Lane and Thomas Tessier, along with an overview of the year in horror by the editors and a nightmare necrology of those who kicked off this mortal coil durin...

Investment Banking: Institutions, Politics, and Law provides an economic rationale for the dominant role of investment banks in the capital markets, and uses it to explain both the historical evolution of the investment banking industry and also recent changes to its organization. Although investment decisions rely upon price-relevant information, it is impossible to establish property rights over it and hence is very hard to coordinate its exchange. The authors argue that investm...

50 Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories: More Than 27 Hours of Classic Science Fiction is an extraordinary collection of timeless adventures from the Golden Age of science fiction. Featuring fifty unforgettable stories by many of the genre’s greatest authors, this epic audiobook delivers more than 27 hours of imagination, exploration, mystery, and wonder.Inside you’ll discover classic tales by Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury, Damon Knight, Winston Marks, Mack Reynolds...

This volume assembles for the first time a staggering multiplicity of reflections and readings of John Fante’s 1939 classic, Ask the Dust, a true testament to the work’s present and future impact.The contributors to this work—writers, critics, fans, scholars, screenwriters, directors, and others—analyze the provocative set of diaspora tensions informing Fante’s masterpiece that distinguish it from those accounts of earlier East Coast migrations and minglings. A must-read f...

Where and what is the place of the wild? Is the goal of preserving biodiversity across the landscape of North America compatible with contemporary Western culture?Place of the Wild brings together original essays from an exceptional array of contemporary writers and activists to present in a single volume the most current thinking on the relationship between humans and wilderness. A common thread running through the volume is the conviction that everyone concerned with the...

Red Frontier is the ultimate journey to the most fascinating world in classic science fiction. Spanning more than 30 hours of listening, this extraordinary collection brings together sixty unforgettable stories that explore Mars as only the greatest writers of the golden age could imagine it—a world of forgotten civilizations, dangerous frontiers, mysterious ruins, and endless possibilities.Featuring timeless adventures from Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Di...

Edited by H. L. Gold; ‘Galaxy Science Fiction’ hit the scene in 1950 and quickly became the leading science fiction magazine of its time. Galaxy gave a home to writers that didn't fit into Astounding and F&SF, and readers rejoiced. In this first ‘Galaxy Science Fiction Super Pack’ we bring you more than five hundred pages of fiction. These are the stories that helped Galaxy Magazine carve it's name on the Mount Rushmore of science fiction. The include: ‘Doorstep’ by Keith Laumer; ‘The Chas...

The adventure continues with twenty more unforgettable tales from the golden age of science fiction!Lost Sci-Fi Books 21 thru 40 gathers another spectacular collection of classic stories featuring some of the greatest names in speculative fiction. Philip K. Dick returns with four imaginative adventures, including The Gun, Beyond the Door, Beyond Lies the Wub, and the brilliantly humorous The Eyes Have It

1950s Science Fiction 2 - 23 Science Fiction Short Stories From the 1950sBeyond Lies The Wub by Philip K. DickThe Last Plunge by S. J. SackettHuman Is by Philip K. DickThree Spacemen Left to Die! by Russ WinterbothamBeyond The Door by Philip K. DickWanderlust by Alan E. NourseThe Flight of the Eagle by Alfred CoppelBreeder Reaction by Winston MarksThe Addicts by William MorrisonStop, You...

'Space Science Fiction' was launched in may of 1952. During it's impressive run it published many of Science Fiction's top writers. Collected here in this massive six hundred-plus page anthology are all of the most important stories that were published during its distinguished run. Included here are: 'Second Variety' by Philip K. Dick; 'Youth' by Isaac Asimov; 'To Each His Star' by Bryce Walton; 'Security' by Poul Anderson; 'Divinity' by William Morrison; 'The Hour of Battle' by Robert She...

Lost Sci-Fi Books 1 thru 20Twenty Lost Sci-Fi Short Stories from the 1940s, 1950s and 1960sThe Hanging Stranger by Philip K. DickThe Water Eater by Winston MarksDeath Star by James McKimmy Jr.The Mind Digger by Winston MarksThe Martians and The Coys written by Mack ReynoldsBreeder Reaction by Winston MarksPlanet of...