One unemployed young man inherits a room from his uncle (a former policeman), and also some food in the refrigerator. Only the inheritance turns out to be no...

In orbit around the Earth, attached to a research satellite, hang transparent balls in which live people who, for various reasons, have not found a place on ...

One day Mr. Manning disappeared without a trace. His interests were space and time. Before his disappearance, he had the feeling that he was under pressure t...

This short dialogue between two souls expresses all the consequences of a sudden cry at night.

A middle-aged man walks around Manhattan and thinks different thoughts. Suddenly he sees the shadow of a huge zeppelin moored to a mast on the Empire State B...

Velcro is a red super kitten with an IQ of about one hundred and sixty who has learned to understand human speech. Velcro was now a man in almost every respe...

The first books “Swords and Black Magic” and “Swords Against Death” of the most famous epic by Fritz Leiber, one of the fathers of “sword and sorcery” fantas...

The collection of works by the most famous masters of science fiction in the USA and England includes stories that have not been republished in the country f...

The first international grandmaster tournament with computer participation. It combines infallible machine logic and error-prone, but extraordinary and perve...

The future grandmaster of science fiction, Fritz Reuther Leiber Jr., was born into a family of actors - emigrants from Germany, grew up in a theatrical envir...