This is a unique collection that represents all facets of the sword and sorcery genre, which originated at the intersection of high epic fantasy and gangster...

The theme of the end of the world, one of the main ones in science fiction, has been exciting people's minds for many years. With a shudder and involuntary c...

He was once a famous musician. Now dead, he is periodically revived so that he can play to sophisticated audiences who admire his skills. But how does he fee...

What if you could not only travel any location in the world, but to any possible world?We can all imagine such “other worlds”—be they worlds just slightly...

Based on Philip K. Dick's novel Blade Runner, a film of the same name was made in Hollywood, in which the famous Harrison Ford played the main role. The hero...

Silverberg’s magisterial alternate history is likely the coda to his ongoing exploration of a Roman empire that survived in some form to a time contempora...

The story was published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (Vol. 10, #7, Issue 106) and as part of the anthology “Rebels in Hell” in July 1986.

IT’S THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT…For decades, the apocalypse and its aftermath have yielded some of the most exciting short stories of all time. Fr...

The years since first be gained the Starburst Crown have been difficult ones for Coronal Lord Prestimion and the vast, unfathoniable realm he rules. But f...

From the first appearances of Roger Zelazny’s short fiction in the early 1960s, it was clear that a dazzling new genius had burst into the field of specul...

A collection of science fiction stories first published in the 60s of the 20th century. Made as an example for S. Podshipnikov’s self-instruction manual “Col...

In the book “Vampires of the Desert” the reader will meet unusual vampires. These vampires bear little resemblance to the traditional fatal and fanged strang...