Con este volumen comenzamos una serie que pretende dar a conocer cuentos de la edad dorada de la ciencia ficción, escritos por algunos de los autores más representativos y que posteriormente darían el...

Honor White Jackson was a human being. But his planet was not Earth, nor his time Now. His world was dominated by a giant Iron Thorn. Beyond the reach of this tower there was supposedly, nothing - except...

Science fiction begins, wrote Algis J. Budrys, where unreality leaves off. In these unforgettable stories Budrys creates an alien but familiar world stripped of the lies of everyday life: a world where...

Shortlisted for the 1961 Hugo Award, Rogue Moon is the disquieting and story of what happens when monstrous scientific ambition is matched by human obsession.The moon had finally been reached, and on...

To get his woman a slice of bread, a man will kill. He does it out of love. To feed and protect his children, a man will conquer the world.A man wants things safe. If he has to, he will pick up a weapon,...

His only escape was to become another man!Allen Sibley was a frightened little man - frightened for his life. In the corrupt, swindling world of cutthroat big business in which he was an important and...

From 1965 until his death, Algis Budrys was a leading critic of modern speculative fiction; insightful, eclectic, and notoriously uninhibited. Benchmarks collects the material that started it - all the...

Lucas Martino est un savant américain de premier choix, un atout de poids, donc, dans un contexte de guerre froide qui fait toujours rage en 1985. Sauf que les choses ne se passent pas comme prévues pour...

Il existe sur la Lune une chose mystérieuse, qu'on appelle la Formation - être vivant extraterrestre ou artefact, on sait seulement que cette chose repousse ou tue tous les humains qui s'en approchent....

Michaelmas, reporter adoré des médias, dispose d'une arme d'exception : Domino, un terminal dont il ne se sépare jamais. Grâce à lui, il est capable de traquer et de manipuler l'information sur tous les...

L'Amérique n'est plus qu'un pays dévasté, ravagé par une monstrueuse épidémie qui l'a laissé exsangue. Heureusement, en ce genre de temps troublés, on peut compter sur l'apparition d'hommes incroyables,...

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. Know him? Yes,...

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.

History was repeating itself; there were moats and nobles in Pennsylvania and vassals in Manhattan and the barbarian hordes were overrunning the land.

Inconspicuous in his half of the room, which was dark, Henry Walters watched his partner fraying down into tatters like a mooring line caught between hull and dock. It was disquieting to see. Algis Budrys...

Dan Henry discovered the derelict on the open seas and that meant by law of salvage it belonged to him. But when the previous owners showed up to claim it he was going to have a hard time pressing his...

He began as a hero. Eons later and auniverse away, he became instead a god! Algis Budrys was the Hugo and Nebula award nominated author of Rogue Moon and Michaelmas.

He is from a world where the Germans won World War II she lives in an alternate universe in a Russian occupied Berlin. Is there any escape from tyranny? Algis Budrys was the Hugo and Nebula award nominated...

Unfortunate castaway! Marooned far from home—with nothing to share his loneliness but humans!

He was a vendor of dreams, purveying worldsbeyond imagination to others. Yet his doom was this:He could not see what he must learn of his own! Algis Budrys was the Hugo and Nebula award nominated author...

How far would one man go to protect mankind from tyranny? This thoughtful and suspenseful novel of the far future answers that question. Algis Budrys was the Hugo and Nebula award nominated author of...

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" ...

He was looking for a privacy his strange personality needed, and never quite seemed to achieve it. All his efforts were, somehow, great triumphs of the race, and great failures for him!

Trapped in a protective underground world made of reinforced concrete they can here their enemies chipping away at their walls day after day, year after year, eventually they will get through, then what...

History was repeating itself; there were moats and nobles in Pennsylvania and vassals in Manhattan and the barbarian hordes were overrunning the land. Algis Budrys was the Hugo and Nebula award nominated...

He had but one ambition, one desire: to pilot the first manned rocket to the moon. And he was prepared as no man had ever prepared himself before.... Algis Budrys was the Hugo and Nebula award nominated...

Seven classic excursions into the fantastic imagination of one of post-war America's greatest science fiction writers. This collection showcases the humanity, imagination and variety of Budrys' writing...

Exilé de force étant bébé, Michael Wireman a traversé la galaxie pour revenir sur Terre avec un but bien précis. La vengeance. Qui consistera à abattre l'Empire Galactique qui a asservi l'humanité. Mais...

Never underestimate the power of a woman, they told him. But when he found the bedraggled waif stowed away on the miserable little ship to Mars, he knew what was waiting for her out there. And he knew...

Collected her are five fantastic stories by Algis Budrys, Frank Herbert, Robert Sheckley, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., and Jamie Wild. The Stoker and the Stars When you've had your ears pinned back in a bowknot,...