The remarkable American visionary writer Robert Sheckley was interested in all spheres of human life and activity, but most of all, as a true humanist, the p...

This book is about the elusive thoughts of a young soul, its search, flights in dreams and in reality, when it shrinks from the approaching danger, and, seei...

Only madmen claim that there is no fear. It lies in wait for us everywhere - in the dark corners of deserted streets, in a sunny exam room, in the need to ma...

Can two opposites become true friends? Badger lives in a big red brick house. He has important stone work and not a minute of free time. He also doesn’t like...

“Skeleton Team”, “Night Shift”, “Everything to the Limit”... Collections of short stories have always occupied a special place in the work of Stephen King. “...

You will never guess how the terrible big fire in the estate ended. Don't even try to write a Nicholas Nickleby novel. And it is unlikely that you will be ab...

Since ancient times, people have encountered many incomprehensible, mysterious and therefore frightening things around them: where do the red, bloody rains c...

An unsurpassed master of short stories, Robert Sheckley ushered in a new era in fantasy literature. After him, writing science fiction in the old way became ...

“Computer” boys and girls. Boring “yuppies” who suddenly decided to leave the security of their “home corporation” and become free. But... what is freedom? D...

A story about what a blessing it is to have a dog. And also about the funny adventures of one restless puppy.

The fifth volume of “US Literary History” traces the features of the development of realism in American literature of the early 20th century (1901–1920) and ...

This book contains multi-genre works by perhaps one of the most unusual creators in the entire history of literature - Oscar Wilde. An outrageous thinker and...