In the powerful story below, the writer takes us into a dire—and all too plausible—future of Earth, where people struggle to cope with the transition from ba...

The Guiding Thread store on Tsvetochnaya Street has become a kind of club for women interested in knitting. While doing needlework, they discuss their plans ...

Old letters from Auschwitz, which a young businessman accidentally finds, completely destroy his stable and successful life.

In the following story, the writer takes readers to a bizarrely transformed Mars, teaching us an important lesson: if a lack of knowledge is a dangerous thin...

The famous composer Dmitry Ivanovich Chigrinsky considered himself a person resistant to the blows of fate, but the murder of his beloved woman literally kno...

The southern city is excited: an auditor is coming to see them - a charming lady from St. Petersburg, Baroness Amalia Korff. She is supposedly looking for th...

Dear readers, I present to your attention a collection of poems about one hero. He is a romantic, a musician. The collection contains part of his life. He is...

The best works of Lovecraft. They are infinitely diverse and multifaceted. Some belong to classic “black neo-romanticism”, others to Victorian horror literat...

The following fascinating story proves that, contrary to the old adage, returning home is possible, but if the journey has been difficult, it is likely that ...

An ancient manor in Crimea, which once belonged to Count Stomballo and his mysterious adopted daughter. According to legend, those who met in this manor will...

In the following fascinating work, the authors demonstrate that although censorship and repression have existed and will exist always and everywhere, there a...

“The Good Rat” by Allen Steele. Copyright © 1995 by Allen Steele. First appeared in Analog. Mid-December 1995. The story "The Good Rat" is typical hard scien...