»Selbst wenn Sie gar nichts tun, sind Sie nach 232 Sekunden ein toter Mann. Selbst wenn Sie sich nicht von der Stelle rühren, läßt das Gebilde Sie nur so lange am Leben wie Ihren Vorgänger. Diese Zeitspanne wird...
The moon had finally been reached, and on it was found the most terrifying structure, that killed men over and over again, in torturous, unfathomable ways. Only a mad scientist and a suicidal maniac could explore it’s horrible secrets.
The...
From Robert Silverberg’s “Earthmen and Strangers” anthology, 1966:
When we meet the aliens, how will we communicate with them? A standard piece of s-f equipment is generally offered as the answer: the “thought-converter.” Most writers are...
El científico Ed Hawks ha creado el transmisor de materia, una máquina increíblemente poderosa que puede enviar a un hombre a la Luna al tiempo que crea un duplicado suyo aquí en la Tierra. Pero todos los voluntarios que son...
Martino was a very important scientist, working on something called the K-88. But the K-88 exploded in his face, and he was dragged across the Soviet border. There he stayed for months. When they finally gave him back, the Soviets had given him a...
The eponymous protagonist, Laurent Michaelmas, is an ex-hacker who had, early
in the computer era, left back doors in many key pieces of software which run
vital government & commercial computers. As a result, by the turn of...