Collins/Jane's Modern Tanks is a compact guide to over 100 modern combat vehicles, including the most recent US, Russian and British tanks, drawing on information from the ultimate military authority, Jane's Information Group. There is also a special section on modern tank warfare.
These are [at least some of] the ways you can read NOVA: as a fast-action farflung interstellar adventure; as archetypal mystical/mythical allegory (in which the Tarot and the Grail both figure prominently); as modern myth told in the S-F idiom... the reader observes, recollects, or participates in a range of personal experience including violent pain and disfigurement, sensory deprivation and overload, man-machine communion, the drug experience, the creative experience - and inter-personal relationships which include incest and assassination, father-son, leader-follower, human-pet, and lots more! The balance of galactic power in the 31st century revolves around Illyrion, the most precious energy source in the universe. The varied and exotic crew who sign up with Captain Lorq van Ray know their mission is dangerous, and they soon learn that they are involved in a deadly race with the charismatic but vicious leader of an opposing space federation. But they have no idea of Lorq's secret obsession: to gather Illyrion at the source by flying through the very heart of an imploding star.
Augustus 1945. Een geheimzinnige B-29 vertrekt voor een eenzame en gevaarlijke vlucht naar Japan. Aan boord bevindt zich een bom. Het is de derde atoombom. die boven Osaka of Kyoto moet worden gedropt. Maar vlak bij het doel wordt de bommenwerper neergeschoten. Met zijn uiterst gevaarlijke lading en de gehele bemanning verdwijnt het vliegtuig in de diepte van de zee. Oktober 1993. Er heerst een nieuwe wereldorde. Niet Amerika, maar Japan is nu de leidende natie. Japan en Japanse bedrijven gaan in het Amerikaanse bedrijfsleven steeds meer de dienst uitmaken. Maar voor één man, de mysterieuze en sinistere Hideki Suma, gaat het te langzaam. Hij beraamt een moorddadig plan dat Amerika in één klap geheel van Japan afhankelijk moet maken ... Beroepsavonturier en geheim agent Dirk Pitt wordt door de CIA ingeschakeld om de strijd te beslechten in het voordeel van Amerika.
Nine stories: Profession; The Feeling of Power; The Dying Night; I'm in Marsport without Hilda; The Gentle Vultures; All the Troubles of the World; Spell my Name with an S; The Last Question (one of Asimov's most often requested stories); and The Ugly Little Boy (Asimov's own personal favorite).
The discovery of a major source of iridium near the diamond fields of South Africa was a deadly secret. For whoever controlled the supply of that rare metal so essential to strategic weapons development would have world power at his fingertips. But as newcomers gathered in the small mining town, Professor Reutemann, an East German scientist, found out that his 'unripe gold' was no secret-that the dangerous power might all too soon be turned against HIM... "His storytelling has a drive that is compulsive" Scotsman
Internationally renowned Science Fiction illustrator Chris Foss' first major monograph featuring his incredibly visionary creations which have graced scores of book covers, both genre and otherwise, and influenced movies such as Dune, Star Wars and Aliens among numerous others.
When CIA agent Chuck Rittersdorf and his psychiatrist wife, Mary, file for divorce, they have no idea that in a few weeks they'll be shooting it out on Alpha III M2, the distant moon ruled by various psychotics liberated from a mental ward. Nor do they suspect that Chuck's new employer, the famous TV comedian Bunny Hentman, will also be there aiming his own laser gun. How things came to such a darkly hilarious pass is the subject of Clans of the Alphane Moon , an astutely shrewd and acerbic tale that blurs all conventional distinctions between sanity and madness.
From the back cover: The story of the War of the worlds as it has never been told before. Mars was invading the earth! Giant, long-legged machines, operated by gruesome, octopus-like creatures, were moving over the globe, leveling all opposition, laying waste to cities and countryside, on the verge of horrifying triumph. This was the War of the Worlds as we know it. Now at last we can learn the story we do not know -- the incredibly enthralling, almost unbearably suspenseful story of a man and a woman from Victorian England who traveled through time and space to a startling and momentous rendezvous with the desitny in ---- The Space Machine
Alternate cover for ISBN10: 0-7221-2410-4 (ISBN13: 978-0-7221-2410-9) Includes the following short stories: - Travel by Wire! - Retreat from Earth - The Awakening - Whacky - Castaway - History Lesson - Hide and Seek - Second Dawn - The Sentinel - The Star - Refugee
An assassination is ordered-700 million years ago Bron is a chaos catalyst. He wreaks havoc and destruction as surely as a hurricane wherever he goes. Commando Central has planted an electrode transmitter-receiver deep inside his brain and infiltrated him into the Destroyer Spacefleet to prevent it from gaining absolute mastery of the galaxy. But Bron's own brand of chaos is lethally unpredictable. And when whole planets are annihilated by monster hellburner bombs set on course seven hundred million years ago from distant Andromeda, aimed directly at Bron himself, both sides realise that something more colossal, more threatening and infinitely more powerful is taking a hand in Bron's weird destiny... The Patterns of Chaos is SF in the grand style-a mighty tale of galactic intrigue and destruction.
Klasyka van de post-apocalyptische literatuur. Een cultroman van de meervoudige Hugo- en Nebula-winnaar. Een nucleaire oorlog heeft de wereld verwoest. In Noord-Amerika proberen overlevenden te overleven in kleine enclaves, resten van vroegere staten. Hell Tanner, een brute lid van een motorbende, krijgt de kans om zijn zonden te verzoenen. In het oosten is er een epidemie uitgebroken en iemand moet een vaccin van Los Angeles naar Boston brengen. Tanner begint aan de Alee van de Verdoemenis, waar hij moet omgaan met straling, de woede van de natuur, gemuteerde dieren en nog ergere mensen. De roman werd in 1968 genomineerd voor de Hugo-prijs. Op basis van het verhaal werd in 1977 een film gemaakt en het diende ook als inspiratie voor een nummer van de legendarische band Hawkwind.
Contents: · The Dead Past · nv Astounding Apr ’56 · The Foundation of Science Fiction Success · pm F&SF Oct ’54 · Franchise · ss If Aug ’55 · Gimmicks Three [“The Brazen Locked Room”] · ss F&SF Nov ’56 · Kid Stuff · ss Beyond Fantasy Fiction Sep ’53 · The Watery Place · ss Satellite Oct ’56 · Living Space · ss Science Fiction Stories May ’56 · The Message · vi F&SF Feb ’56 · Satisfaction Guaranteed [Susan Calvin (Robot)] · ss Amazing Apr ’51 · Hell-Fire · vi Fantastic Universe May ’56 · The Last Trump · ss Fantastic Universe Jun ’55 · The Fun They Had · ss The Boys and Girls Page Dec 1 ’51; F&SF Feb ’54 · Jokester · ss Infinity Science Fiction Dec ’56 · The Immortal Bard · vi Universe May ’54 · Someday · ss Infinity Science Fiction Aug ’56 · The Author’s Ordeal · pm Science Fiction Quarterly May ’57 · Dreaming Is a Private Thing · ss F&SF Dec ’55
