When Maxim, a space explorer from Earth, accidentally discovers a planet inhabited by humanoids who destroy his spaceship, he thinks of himself as a modern-day Robinson Crusoe. But after his experiences in the planet’s nightmarish military and...
In the 22nd century, interstellar travel is possible but expensive, so human efforts are concentrated on Isis, the only nearby Earth-like world. Isis is rich with life, but toxic, so people like Zoe are genetically engineered from before birth to...
A millennium into the future two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. Isaac Asimov’s Robot novels chronicle the unlikely partnership between a New York...
Bob Johansson didn’t believe in an afterlife, so waking up after being killed in a car accident was a shock. To add to the surprise, he is now a sentient computer and the controlling intelligence for a Von Neumann probe.
Bob and his copies have...
Jeff Winston, forty-three, didn’t know he was a replayer until he died and woke
up twenty-five years younger in his college dorm room; he lived another life.
And died again. And lived again and died again — in a...
Every five thousand years, a door opens between the dimensions. In one dimension lies the universe and all of its multitude of varied life forms.
In another exists an element made not of earth, air, fire or water, but of an anti-energy,...
In the late 1930s a new young talent began to make his mark on the science fiction scene with a succession of outstanding stories in the various SF magazines of the time. His name: Isaac Asimov. He was later to become world-renowned as the author of...
“The good thing is, no one will ever die again. The bad thing is, everyone will want to.”
A physicist receives a mysterious paper. The ideas in it are far, far ahead of current thinking and quite, quite terrifying. In a city of “fast ones,”...