This issue, we have yet again managed to pull together an amazing lineup, kicking off with originals from N.M. Cedeño (thanks to Acquiring Editor Michael Bracken), Ron Miller (another Velda story!), Maureen Bowden, Conleth Thornbury, and Michael Randle, plus a new solve-it-yourself puzzler from Hal Charles. As if that’s not enough, we have a classic mystery novel from The Mystery of Voodoo Manor, a classic science fiction novel from Explorers Into Infinity, and classic no...

A blond witness remembers a schoolgirl trick -- and makes use of it. A classic mystery by Sam Merwin, Jr., ripped from the pages of the Summer, 1949 issue of Mystery Book Magazine.

Prepare-se para mais uma viagem além dos limites do possível. Na quinta edição da Científica Ficção, abrimos novamente as páginas das antigas revistas pulp para resgatar histórias que ajudaram a construir o imaginário da ficção científica. Aqui você encontrará mundos alienígenas, paradoxos do tempo, experimentos ousados, encontros inesperados e ideias capazes de explodir a mente dos mais incautos aventureiros espaciais. Esta edição traz a aguardada segunda parte de Armagedom 2419 d.C. (192...

Mars is slowly becoming a living world. New grasslands are spreading across the once-dead deserts, and experimental cattle herds graze under alien skies. The fragile agricultural program may determine whether the Red Planet can truly sustain human life. Then the cattle begin acting strangely—forming patterns, attacking each other, and moving as if guided by a single unseen will.Lynne Marcein is already the most watched woman on Mars. She is weeks away from giving birth to only the ...

Hannibal Pryor should have been commanding one of the greatest ships in Sirius Sector. Instead, political fallout has reduced him to babysitting a survey mission over Rigel IV, a quiet planet selected for the first live test of a terrifying new weapon. The assignment feels like an insult until his instruments reveal the impossible — human life on a world scheduled to be erased.What Pryor finds on the surface changes everything. Far from the crowded worlds and military rivalries of ...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.All Earth needed was a good stiff dose of common sense, but its rulers preferred to depend on the highly fallible computers instead. As a consequence, interplanetary diplomatic relations were somewhat strained—until a nimble-witted young man from Mars came up with the answer to the “sixty-four dollar” question.

Power has always come with advisors, safeguards, and buffers against isolation. In Final Exam, those layers begin to vanish at the worst possible moment. A global leader faces a realization that reshapes every prior decision: help has been present all along, and now it is being withdrawn. What remains is not reassurance, but accountability.As unexplained visitors cross Earth’s skies, the question is no longer whether humanity is being watched. The question is whether it ca...

Ricardo Webb has spent five long years on a distant world, holding onto one thought: coming home. Earth meant clarity, familiarity, and the woman he left behind. It meant green fields, honest tastes, and a way of life that didn’t feel borrowed. When he finally steps off the starship, everything seems to confirm that hope. The air feels right. The voices sound right. Carla is there, waiting, exactly as he remembered—or close enough to believe it.But small details begin to shift. A w...

Gegenwart und Zukunft bekämpfen sich – in einer Welt der Vergangenheit...Da war es wieder, dachte sie - wieder einer dieser seltsamen Anachronismen, wie sie so oft in den Arbeiten und Worten von Gnaius Laconius auftauchten. Während sie mit halbem Ohr auf seine dahinfließenden Hexameter lauschte, dachte sie über ihn nach.Sie vergegenwärtigte sich die Schnitzer, die er sich geleistet hatte. Da war zum Beispiel der Abend im Palast von Berenice Agrippina, wo er im Lauf...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.It was a strange and bitter Earth over which the Chancellor ruled—a strange and deformed world. There were times when the Chancellor suspected that he really was a humanistic old fool, but this seemed to be his destiny and it was difficult to be anything else. Human, like all other organic life on Earth, was dying. Where it spawned, it spawned monsters. What was to be the answer?

Fantastic Universe' started publishing in 1953 and continued until March 1960. It was one of the better magazines to launch during the boom in science fiction magazines publishing. It published many important stories' by some of the fields best known writers. Collected in this over sized edition are more than 175,000 words of science fiction and fantasy. Escape back to the golden age of science fiction! 'Exile from Space' by Judith Merril 'Cogito, Ergo Sum' by John Foster West 'Grove of th...

Sam Merwin, Jr. (1910-1996) is one of those great "lost" authors. Equally adept and mystery and science fiction, he produced a significant body of work in both fields. In fact, this volume adds as a bonus two of his classic mystery stories, in addition to a selection of 7 science fiction stories. Included are:JUDAS RAMTHE AMBASSADORTHE FINAL FIGUREREEL LIFE FILMSA WORLD APARTIT'S ALL YOURSTESTINGAMY STOPS THE CLOCK (Bonus Mystery Sto...