Sometimes she had walked for days at a time in that dream; she would wake to find food that she could not remember gathering. Somehow, pervasive, the dream voices had taken over; the whispering winds had been full of voices and even hands. She had fallen ill and lain for days sick and delirious, and had heard a voice which hardly seemed to be her own, saying that if she died the wind voices would care for Robin.

Here is high fidelity fiction at Philip José Farmer's storytelling best. It's a vibrant, distractingly different tale of three centuries into the future. And as you read you'll have a vague, uneasy feeling that it's all taking place somewhere in the unexplored parts of the universe, even today. Enslaved by a triangular powered despotism - one lone man sets his sights to the Six Bright Stars and eventual freedom of his world.

Youth is a science fiction novelette by Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in the May 1952 issue of Space Science Fiction and was reprinted in the 1955 collection The Martian Way and Other Stories. Youth is one of the rare Asimov stories with alien characters. Slim is a boy whose astronomer father is visiting the country estate of an important industrialist. The industrialist's son, Red, has found two strange animals, and he enlists Slim in a plan to...

Tara and Gahan are each Barsoomian royalty, residing in two prominent cities, Helium, and Gathol. Hoping to align the cities and enjoy the advantages of a romantic union, Gahan wishes to marry Tara. However, Tara does not reciprocate this love. After rejecting the engagement, Tara sets out in her flying ship. When she flies into a turbulent storm, Tara crashes her ship in an unknown territory. Unharmed but still in danger, Tara is forced to run from...

¿Qué sucede cuando una persona de otro planeta termina en el centro de Río de Janeiro? Kris cae con su barco en medio de la bahía de Guanabara, y tendrá que dar la vuelta para sobrevivir no solo a sus perseguidores, sino también a la realidad de uno de los estados más violentos de Brasil. Encontrará que la vida en este lugar puede ser muy difícil, especialmente cuando se desconoce el dinero, la religión, el robo, la corrupción, la homofobia...

Multi-Hugo Award-winning author Ben Bova continues the story of Earth's first extraterrestrial contact with Voyagers II: The Alien Within. Eighteen years ago, astronaut Keith Stoner had been the American member of a joint U.S.-Soviet mission to capture an alien ship that had entered the solar system. It was the greatest adventure in the history of Earth-but disaster struck when a bomb placed on the Soviet craft forced its recall. Stoner refused to...

"They Are Coming" is a science fiction novel that follows the journey of Alex Erich, a young store manager who experiences a life-changing incident while traveling home. Alex is abducted by an alien orb and transported to the year 2126, where he arrives at an alien moon base. The aliens enhance Alex's body and brain, giving him special abilities and increased intelligence. As an archaeologist on the moon, Alex discovers evidence of ancient civilizations...

When meteors strike Earth, destroying every major city, the fallout is immediate and devastating. Surrounding towns and smaller cities survive the meteors but are thrust into an apocalyptic nightmare. The survivors quickly realize it was not meteors that destroyed the major cities, it was a deliberate and orchestrated attack from above. The power quickly goes out, and cell phones become useless. People begin to loot and kill for basic necessities....

University student David Asbury trusts no one and wants nothing more than to be left alone to study alien languages. For three years, he has managed just that as an undergraduate at Shel Matkei Academy. But, his scholarship, which is his only means of support as an orphan, requires him to become a diplomat in the InterStellar Commonwealth. Now he's on a team of aliens learning how to broker peace treaties and trade deals. Some of them hate him. Some...

You don't exist, any of you, except in my mind. Don't you see? I'm asleep and dreaming all this. You, your wives, your children, it's all part of my dream-and when you kill me then I'll wake up and that will be the end of you....