BRIEFLY ABOUT THE AUTHORS: James BLISH is a famous American science fiction writer, the author of many novels, novellas and short stories, some of which Sovi...

Mitki is gradually regaining his mind, given to him by the Prxlians and lost as a result of an accident. Having realized himself, he tries to create a device...

The team, tired of boring space travel, discovers the hitherto undiscovered small planet Sirius-0. Only there are not entirely real inhabitants and objects o...

As soon as Charlie Dalton, an astronaut from Earth, landed on the second planet of the Antares system, he immediately committed a very serious crime - he kil...

At first, everything looked like a murder case, and this was already a pretty bad event. In the five years that Rod Caker had served as a police lieutenant o...

You lie there, freezing and sweating at the same time. Every now and then you turn inside out, causing your insides to ache and your throat to burn. But you ...

Well, you know what working on asteroids is. You sign a contract, say for a month, then fly there in the company of four guys just like you and spend almost ...

Pictures of worlds that are in some ways similar to the familiar, our world, and in some ways different from it, fantasies on the theme of parallel history, ...

The collection introduces the work of popular English and American science fiction writers. It included stories by famous writers Clifford Simak, Arthur C. C...

The fourth story in which Ed and Em Hunter appear. Its detective nature is somewhat questionable due to the lack of a clearly defined mystery, but the author...

Ed and Em work for a detective agency. Ed's first case is a wealthy client who wants to find out the value of an investment in a business. A body with a torn...