The Demolished Man – Alfred Bester
For the first time in centuries, someone has committed premeditated murder—almost unthinkable in an age of telepathy. Psychic detective Lincoln Powell will risk it all to meet out justice.
For the first time in centuries, someone has committed premeditated murder—almost unthinkable in an age of telepathy. Psychic detective Lincoln Powell will risk it all to meet out justice.
A child is shocked by what he sees, flees to the city, but is brought back to live with his increasingly deranged parent. Hope seems lost, until the arrival of a strange record-taker with a gun.
The surviving members of a ’70s acid-folk band relive their strange days at Wylding Hall for a modern-day documentary, retelling the strange disappearance of their lead singer.
When he delivers an occult tome to an old woman in Queens, a street-smart hustler opens a door to deeper kind of magic and attracts the attention of things best left sleeping…
Industrialist Simeon Krug’s dream is to contact the source of an alien code broadcast to Earth, building his communications tower on the backs of android servitors yearning for their freedom.
A fixup novel by Isreali author Lavie Tidhar, following the inter-connected lives of those living in the shadow of a spaceport towering over a Tel Aviv.
A plague threatens to doom all of humanity, but a cure may lie on the planet Grass—a world of boundless prairie ruled by elitist aristocrats and their demonic mounts.
Clifford Simak’s cerebral fixup novel that takes humanity out of its far-future cities, to the stars, and beyond humanity itself.
Terran exploitation of an alien planet causes the “docile” near-human natives to rise up in bloody rebellion, in this novel rich in ’70s SFnal themes.
3rd anthology in the Universe series. Stories by Gene Wolfe, Robert Silverberg, Edgar Pangborn, Gordon Eklund, Ross Rocklynne, and Edward Bryant.
Pell’s World and Downbelow Station become the heart of turmoil in an interstellar war, the fulcrum where the fate of Earth and Union will be decided.