“Tomorrow is Christmas. As the three of them drove to the spaceport, mother and father were worried. This was their son's first trip into space, his first fl...

“- Are you ready? – Yes. – Already? – Soon. – Do scientists know right? Will this really happen today? – Look, look, you’ll see for yourself!..”

“Send for leeches: she needs to be bled,” said Dr. Gimp. “She already has no blood left!” - Mrs. Wilkes exclaimed. – Oh, doctor, what’s tormenting our Camill...

In this collection, the writer allows himself to move away from science fiction, publishing realistic stories, fairy tales and detective stories, and reducin...

The collection includes the best stories created by American prose writers on a sports theme in the 19th and the first two-thirds of the 20th century. The an...

“There are few murder weapons that are as pathologically attractive as poisons.” Professor of physiology and biophysics Neil Bradbury explores these sophisti...

Movie star Constance Rattigan receives in the mail the Books of the Dead - an old telephone directory and a notebook in which the names are marked with grave...

Each new book by Bradbury, a great master, a classic of American literature, is a greatest event, especially if we are talking about works that have not yet ...

“Nothing moves on the endless swampy plain, only the breath of the night sways the short grass. For many years now, not a single bird has flown under the hug...

“The parcel was delivered by evening mail. Andrew Lemon shook it, wanting to know what was inside. The contents rustled like a huge, furry tarantula. He didn...

“So you want to know all the “whys” and “whys” of the Irish? What makes them like this, you ask? Well then listen. I knew, in fact, only one, but we met one ...

“On the main square, the queue had formed as early as five o’clock, when distant roosters were crowing across the frost-whitened fields and there were no lig...