"99 Science Fiction Short Stories" brings together some of the finest sci fi short stories ever crafted. Featuring gems from masters of the genre, such as H.G Wells , Robert Barr , PKD, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Norton, and many, many more!

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Ma préoccupation majeure est la suivante : qu'est-ce que la réalité ?Philip K. Dick, mort en 1982 à 53 ans, a écrit 44 romans et plus de 120 nouvelles.Il est considéré aujourd'hui comme un auteur majeur de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle. Pourtant, et malgré la plus grande distinction que peut recevoir un auteur de SF, le « Hugo » pour Le maître du Haut Château, il ne fut vraiment reconnu qu'après sa mort, grâce aux nombreuses adaptations cinématographiques ...

Philip K. Dick was a writer who drew upon his own life to address the nature of drug abuse, paranoia, schizophrenia and transcendental experiences of all kinds. More than 10 major Hollywood movies are based on his work including Blade Runner, A Scanner Darkly, Total Recall, Minority Report and The Adjustment Bureau. Born in 1929 just before the Great Crash, Dick's twin sister died when she was a month old and his parents were divorced by the time he was three. In his teens, he began to sho...

Too often we avoid what Jesus clearly pursued. Pastor Dicks unlocks the mystery of holy hardships, arming listeners with wisdom and revelation to embrace what they've been trying desperately to escape; the advantage of adversity.Holy hardship is cross-shaped adversity you can't avoid or ignore. The experience can change you for the better, but you must handle your hardship like Jesus handled his. Based on his own journey through a dark season of personal adversity,...

Too often we avoid what Jesus clearly pursued. Pastor Dicks unlocks the mystery of holy hardships, arming readers with wisdom and revelation to embrace what they've been trying desperately to escape; the advantage of adversity.Holy hardship is cross-shaped adversity you can't avoid or ignore. The experience can change you for the better, but you must handle your hardship like Jesus handled his. Based on his own journey through a dark season of personal adversity, Pa...

One of the great works of American literature, Moby-Dick is the epic tale of one man’s fight against a force of nature.The outcast youth Ishmael, succumbing to wanderlust during a dreary New England autumn, signs up for passage aboard a whaling ship. The Pequod sails under the command of the one-legged Captain Ahab, who has set himself on a maniacal quest to capture the cunning white whale that robbed him of his leg: Moby-Dick.Capturing li...

Dick Everington is a high-profile events organizer with access to the highest levels of British society: dukes, duchesses, generals, even princes and princesses, he has met them all, and some he knows intimately. In fact, Dick is privy to secrets that would make heads spin.When he is tasked with putting on a gala event that the Prince and Princess will attend, it gets his blood flowing. For Dick enjoys a relationship with the Prince that would scandalize a sailor. For Dick is all to...

A few years have passed since the conquering of the Mein, and Queen Corinn is firmly in control of the Known World—perhaps too firmly. With plans to expand her empire, she sends her brother, Daniel, on an exploratory mission to the Other Lands. There Daniel discovers a lush, exotic mainland ruled by an alliance of tribes that poses a grave danger to the stability of the Known World. Is Queen Corinn strong enough to face this new challenge? Fans of this bold, imaginative series will not be ...

"Ich kann sie sehen! Wirklich sehen! Geister, Dämonen, Gespenster. Sie lauern in dunklen Nischen und Ecken, treiben ihr Unwesen … überall. Doch ich stelle mich ihnen entgegen und mache dem Spuk ein Ende. Ich bin Johnny. Johnny Sinclair. Ich bin Geisterjäger." Johnny Sinclair ist endlich offizieller Geisterjäger! Seine erste Auftraggeberin ist Klassenkameradin Millie Edwards, die offenbar von Geistern geplagt wird. Als Johnny zusammen mit seinem Freund und Helfer Russell erste Informationen...

Leodan Akaran, ruler of the Known World, has inherited generations of apparent peace and prosperity, won ages ago by his ancestors. A widower of high intelligence, he presides over an empire called Acacia, after the idyllic island from which he rules. He dotes on his four children and hides from them the dark realities of traffic in drugs and human lives on which their prosperity depends. He hopes that he might change this, but powerful forces stand in his way. And then a deadly assassin s...

Developmental science is an interdisciplinary scientific field dedicated to describing, understanding, and explaining change in behavior across the lifespan and the psychological, environmental, and biological processes that co-determine this change during the organism’s development. Developmental science is thus a broad discipline that lies at the intersection of psychology, biology, sociology, anthropology and other allied disciplines. Advancing Developmental Science: Philosophy, The...