When Tom Nile’s genetic structure was determined, it varied from the human norm only in one respect. Most of us have minds like sieves, through which our recollections of the past constantly leak away; but Tom came into the world incapable of...
Consider the poor mailman of the future. To “sleet and snow and dead of night”—things that must not keep him from his appointed rounds—will be added, sub-zero void, meteors, and planets that won’t stay put. Maybe he’ll decide that for...
De sa tour d’Oulan-Bator, Gengis II Mao IV Khan règne, en ce XXIe siècle, sur le monde entier. Sur ce qu’il en reste. En 1991, une éruption cataclysmique du Cotopaxi a assombri le ciel pour des semaines. A la faveur de la terreur...
In 1492, Columbus discovered America and in 1992 Claude Regan had to make it happen again!
The U.S. needed a shot in the arm as the 20th Century went into its last decade--and a World's Fair celebrating 500 years of American civilization might...
Prévoir l'avenir. Un vieux rêve de l'humanité.
Irréalisable scientifiquement ? Voire. Car les progrès des méthodes prévisionnelles, statistiques et autres, confondues dans un art baptisé stochastique,...
In the twenty-first century, a battered world is ruled by a crafty old tyrant, Genghis II Mao IV Khan. The Khan is ninety-three years old, his life systems sustained by the skill of Mordecai Shadrach, a brilliant young surgeon whose chief...