Bears Discover Fire is the first short story collection by the most acclaimed science fiction author of the decade, author of such brilliant novels as Talking Man and Voyage to the Red Planet. It brings together nineteen of Bisson's finest works for the first time in one volume, among them the da...
The evolution of the ultimate badguy: one of the most popular Star Wars characters ever comes to life in this spin-off from Episode II.
Korben Dallas stars as the main protagonist in the Movie-go-Book, act-rom-com-dram-scifi-thriller, that is known as The Fifth Element. It is just an ordinary day for Korben Dallas, but just as his life gets worse, an angel falls from the sky. Leeloo A.K.A The Fifth Element is on a mission to stop...
I have read almost all the works of the Master—Isaac Asimov, the works of Frank Herbert (and indeed, several of his sons), Robert Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, Frederik Pohl, William Gibson, Octavia Butler, Ursula K. LeGuin, et al. I am a sci-fi head. Yet few works have moved me as deeply, as...
Or dreams. Orville collected stamps. His big brother, Wilbur, collected dreams. That made it hard to know what to get Wilbur for his birthday. He would be twelve soon. Then Orville saw the magazine. WONDER TALES for BOYS. The perfect thing for a dreamer! “Happy Birthday,” he said. W...
Vacant lots in Brooklyn are grim, unappealing stretches of rubble grown over with nameless malevolent, malodorous plants; littered with roach-spotted household junk; and inhabited by scabrous, scrofulous, scurrying things you wouldn’t want to look at unless it were out of the corner of an eye, in...