The collection “The Death of the Universe” introduces the reader to two popular trends in Anglo-American prose: the “black” novella (sometimes mistakenly att...

According to Anthony Burgess, Brian Aldis (b. 1925) is so celebrated and titled as a science fiction writer that you can't help but forget what a wonderful w...

The story of contact with an extraterrestrial civilization, deliberately presented by the author as very unsightly from the point of view of external influen...

As a result of a military experiment, people and animals lost the ability to procreate. As time passes, only old people remain on Earth, living out their liv...

Hampden Ferrers is a “most ordinary village” on the outskirts of Oxford. Its history is rich in minor events, its church is one and a half thousand years old...

Before you is one of Aldiss's best creations. A “space saga” comparable in scale, fascination and epic authenticity only to Frank Herbert’s “Dune.” A saga ab...

A giant ship is moving in the infinity of space, in the depths of which everything is surrounded by an aura of mystery and regression reigns. What happened? ...

Mrs. Snowden and her granddaughter Paulina live in a world devoid of sounds. This is the result of using new “humane” weapons...

There has been no death in this world for a long time and the living have existed for a long time. So long that they forgot the beginning of their lives. Now...

The book includes novels by famous foreign science fiction writers. The novel “Ring-World” was awarded the most authoritative literary award “Hugo”, the nove...

The human species has begun to racket about the galaxy. When they reach the planet Grudgrodd, they come across another space-faring species. It’s a case o...