In the springtime boom years of postwar London, a brilliant young financier has everything money can buy — except rest. When his pleasure-seeking friends drag him from their exclusive gentlemen’s club into a garish Soho strip joint, he expects nothing but tawdry amusement. Instead, he finds himself transfixed by a performer whose beauty and quiet intelligence pierce straight through his armor of ambition.She is unlike any woman on that stage — poised, literate, aloof behind her daz...

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 ...

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 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...

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...

A collection of twenty classic stories from the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning Grand Master of Science Fiction.Needle in a Timestack is Robert Silverberg at his very best—intelligent, inventive, and visionary. This collection showcases his talent for thought-provoking science fiction, ranging in themes from time travel to space travel, the media to mortality.In the titular story—the basis for the feature film by Oscar-winning screenwriter John Ridle...

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...

The eighth in a series of superb science fiction.The Alpha series of anthologies center on no particular theme except that of literary quality and importance to the science fiction genre.Here is another set of the best stories, stories which were ahead of their epoch when they were new, which display a freshness and vigor that make them almost indistinguishable from the best of today's s-f, and which set the standard by which modern writers have guided their careers.

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...

What will it mean to be human in the future? How will we evolve in order to reach the stars?Fifteen short stories collected in this book examine how interstellar flight might change humanity itself. Will we choose to upload our minds into a singularity? Enhance ourselves with alien DNA? Will our bodies remain the same, but our culture and societal norms adapt to accommodate for effects of time dilation, or become subsumed by advanced alien cultures?Hugo and Nebula award win...