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"Futurismic is a free science fiction webzine specialising in the fact and fiction of the near future - the ever-shifting line where today becomes tomorrow.
Triplanetary was first serialized in Amazing Stories in 1934 and it later on formed the first of the Lensman series, where it set the stage for what is one of the greatest space-opera sagas ever written. This original publication brings us to a distant planet inhabited by a highly developed aquatic race called the Nevians.
We were playing at The Space Room that night, and one of our quartet was out. We were waiting for his replacement, and he was so late we were getting threats from management.
The first science fiction series written by E. E. “Doc” Smith, better known for his Lensman series. Smith started work on The Skylark of Space in 1913, though it was not published until 1928, making the work arguably the first Space Opera, and certainly the first major one. If you've enjoyed Star Wars then E.E.
The Masters had ruled all space with an unconquerable iron fist. But the Masters were gone.
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.
"It isn't so bad," says one of the men who are with you inside this ultimate room. "Fifty years from now, the rest of us will all be old, or dead."
"A fine example of Hamilton's skill in encapsulating an enormous theme into the neat and perfect compass of a short story." -Leigh Brackett
Through the treason of a handful of men, contact between Earth & the Moon had become a nightmare.
"Chap" West, who was never an enthusiast for work, laid down the long pole that had brought him from Bisham to the shade of a backwater west of Hurley Lock, and dropped to the cushions at the bottom of the punt, groaning his relief.
Cooperation was all right back in the dark ages but this was an era of super culture and hi-psi intelligence.
The ship itself occasioned some excitement, but back there at the tattered end of the century, what was one visiting spaceship more or less? Others had appeared before, and gone away discouraged -- or just not bothering.
Don Thompson was a fan who worked most of his life as a professional journalist. He was also active in comic book fandom.
Tensor's melancholia threatened to disturb the entire citizenry, and that was most uncivil!
Everyone knows him as the mystery writer who published books like The Hook (2000), Bad News 2001, and Put a Lid on It (2002) under his own name, Donald E. Westlake, and of course that he was also Richard Stark and a number of other favorite authors. But a science fiction writer? -- Really? -- You bet he was, early on in his career. (He even wrote one SF novel -- Anarchaos, in 1966, as "Curt Clark.")
Far out at the edge of the Universe two scientists play a game of wits--Earth to the winner
A Scientist Rises is presented here in a high quality paperback edition.
With Dr. Keller's genius for hitting at vital spots every time, he now gives us a brand new idea and an ingenious solution