The chartered Zarathustra Company had it all their way. Their charter was for a Class III uninhabited planet, which Zarathustra was, and it meant they owned the planet lock stock and barrel. They exploited it, developed it and reaped the huge...
First published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 1958Published in Store of Infinity collection of science fiction short stories by Robert Sheckley in 1960 by Bantam...
The return of Simak's favorite themes--including esp, robots & religion--in a thoughtful, gentle, delightfully original treatment. On the remote planet End of Nothing, a colony of advanced robots has established project Vatican-17: the building...
THIS IS NOT A GAME is a novel built around the coolest phenomenon in the world.That phenomenon is known as the Alternate Reality Game, or ARG. It's big, and it's getting bigger. It's immersive and massively interactive, and it's spreading...