The Serapis Classics edition of The Science Fiction Omnibus #1! A smashing, kick-butt collection of some of the best sci-fi ever written: GENESIS, by H. Beam Piper FARMER, by Mack Reynolds EARTHSMITH, by Milton Lesser WHERE THE WORLD IS QUIET, by C.H. Liddell WARNING FROM THE STARS, by Ron Cocking THY NAME IS WOMAN, by Kenneth O'Hara THE SWORD, by Frank Quattrocchi THE YILLIAN WAY, by Keith Laumer OPERATION EARTHWORM, by Joe Archibald THE LAST LETTER, by Fritz Leiber THE BACK OF OUR HEADS,...

Fourteen exciting stories by Hugo and Nebula nominated author Algis Budys, one of science fiction’s most influential authors. More than 250 pages of unforgettable adventure! If you enjoyed this book, you’ll want to search on “Positronic Super Pack” and check out all our other Super Packs!The BarbariansThe Stoker and the StarsCitadelRiya’s FoundlingThe Rag and Bone MenDesire No MoreWall of Crystal, Ey...

A science fiction adventure told from the point of view of aliens who crash-land on Earth and must assimilate in secret—until their human cover is blownBudrys's final novel opens with the report of a man found electrocuted on suburban train tracks in Shoreview, Illinois. Neville Sealman appeared to be just another commuter, but after his tragic death, no one comes forward to claim his body. And a routine autopsy reveals some disturbing physiological anomalies. Then...

A Hugo Award Finalist: Humanity struggles to understand a killing labyrinth discovered on the Moon in this science fiction adventure about death and rebirthHugo and Nebula Award–winning author Robert Silverberg credits Rogue Moon with containing "the most terrifying pages in any SF novel I have ever read."A monstrous apparatus has been found on the surface of the moon. It devours and destroys in ways so incomprehensible to humans that a new language...

Twenty years after Earth is conquered by invaders from space, the exiled US government has a chance to reclaim their lost planet2513 AD. For the past generation, since Earth was taken over by the Invaders, the US president and his cabinet have lived in exile on a planet in orbit around faraway Alpha Centauri. The Centaurian colony has become the center of the human race, reducing Earth to a backwater region in a sprawling foreign domain. But the banished American le...

Collected here are five fantastic stories by Algis Budrys, Frank Herbert, Robert Sheckley, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., and Jamie Wild. 1) The Stoker and the Stars: When you've had your ears pinned back in a bowknot, it's sometimes hard to remember that an intelligent people has no respect for a whipped enemy ... but does for a fairly beaten enemy. 2) Missing Link: The Romantics used to say that the eyes were the windows of the Soul. A good Alien Xenologist might not put it quite so poetically ... ...

Set against a backdrop of Cold War paranoia, this futuristic novel about identity and technology is "one of the unrecognized classics of SF" ( Locus).East and West have fused into separate superstates known as the Allied National Government (ANG) and the Soviet International Bloc (SIB). As the Cold War rages, brilliant scientist Lucas Martino works on a top-secret project known only as K-Eighty-eight that could alter the balance of world power. The project...

Fourteen exciting stories by Hugo and Nebula nominated author Algis Budys. One of science fiction’s most influential authors. More than 250 pages of unforgettable adventure! If you enjoyed this book, you’ll want to search on “Positronic Publishing Super Pack” and check out all our other Super Packs! The Barbarians The Stoker and the Stars Citadel Riya’s Foundling The Rag and Bone Men Desire No More Wall of Crystal, Eye of Night Die, Shadow! The Burning World Between the Dark and the Daylig...

Nine stories travel through time and space to share insights into the human—and not so human—experience in this gripping science fiction anthology from respected author and critic Algis BudrysThrough stories of humans mistaken for gods and assimilation into an android society, this stunning collection illustrates our inability to understand and communicate with one another.In "Silent Brother," the spaceship Endeavor returns to Albu...

Now, if the animal we know as a cow were to evolve into a creature with near-human intelligence, so that she thought of herself as a “person” ...

Published less than a decade into the Internet era, this remarkable science fiction novel foreshadows many of the world's technological advancesOne of the world's wealthiest and most influential men, journalist Laurent Michaelmas lives in a penthouse overlooking New York City's Central Park with his superintelligent computer, Domino. He attained his fame and power after hacking into the worldwide computer network. He then went on to use his unique gifts to create a...

This anthology includes the following short stories:The World That Couldn't Be, by Clifford D. SimakThe Stoker And The Stars, by John A. Sentry (Algirdas Jonas Budrys)Wall Of Crystal, Eye Of Night, by Algis BudrysOmnilingual, by H. Beam PiperCry From A Far Planet, by Tom GodwinYouth, by Isaac Asimov