Seven brilliant short stories by the award-winning author of Ringworld. INCONSTANT MOON: a moon so bright could mean only one thing. The sun had gone nova.
In the future a jaded dilettante purchases a few organisms of an alien species for entertainment, but when he fails to care for them properly they develop into a threat.
First published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction - March, 1959 - the story involves a number of paradoxes caused by time travel. It further develops themes explored by the author in a pr…
Call Me Joe is a science fiction novella written by Poul Anderson and published in 1957. The plot involves an attempt to explore the surface of the planet Jupiter using remote-controlled artificial li…
In a thirtieth anniversary edition of the classic, the Harlequin, a rebel, inhabits a world where conformity and punctuality are top priorities, and the Ticktockman cannot accept the Harlequin's prese…
"Dagon" is the second story of the writer H.P.Lovecraft, written in 1917 and published ,for the first time, in 1919. The work takes its title from the mythological God Dagon, and tells a disturbing st…
