C. L. Moore

Facsimile Reproduction Of The 1952 First Edition

Judgment Night

Jirel of Joiry

C. J. Cherryh

75th Anniversary Edition! Among the best-written and most emotionally complex stories of the Pulp Era, the tales of intergalactic smuggler Northwest Smith still resonate strongly 75 years after their first publication. From the crumbling temples of forgotten gods on Venus to the seedy pleasure halls of old Mars, Northwest Smith blazes a trail through the underbelly of the solar system in 13 action-packed stories you won't soon forget.

Northwest of Earth

Northwest Smith

Joanna Russ

Zenna Henderson

Judith Merril

Wilmar H. Shiras

Mildred Clingerman

Doris Pitkin Buck

¿Quién no se ha preguntado por la existencia de otros mundos y ha imaginado cómo descubrirlos? Escritos en la primera mitad del siglo XX, los cuentos de Judith Merril, Zenna Henderson, Joanna Russ, Doris Pitkin Buck, Wilmar H. Shiras, C. L. Moore y Mildred Clingerman muestran posibles vías para llegar a ellos. Ya sea a través de viajes que desafían el valor de sus protagonistas, la convergencia de dimensiones en la cotidianidad del hogar, las mutaciones genéticas o los pueblos escondidos, estas escritoras nos sugieren que hay universos distintos que se tocan, que multiplican el presente pero también las posibilidades del futuro. Mundos alternos es el primer tomo de ¡El futuro es mujer! , una antología editada por la académica Lisa Yaszek que reúne cuentos de veinticinco escritoras estadounidenses que encontraron en la ciencia ficción un espacio de libertad para jugar con la sorpresa y el asombro, pero también para experimentar, disentir y confrontar temas sociales y políticos de su presente. A lo largo de cuatro décadas, estas autoras no solo contribuyeron a edificar un género literario desde sus cimientos sino que lo transformaron al desarrollar personajes complejos, replantear la relación entre hombres y mujeres, humanos y alienígenas, y preguntarse cómo la ciencia y la tecnología podrían reconfigurar el género, el sexo, la maternidad y la supervivencia posibilitando nuevas formas de vivir. Dividida en tres tomos temáticos que reagrupan la antología de Yaszek, Almadía presenta esta colección por primera vez en lengua castellana gracias a la traducción del colectivo Falsos Amigos.

Selección de cuentos escritos por las pioneras de la ciencia ficción del siglo XX a partir de ¡El futuro es mujer!

Mundos alternos

In a post-nuclear war America controlled by Comus, the communications network/police force, double agent Howard Rohan is caught between the orders of Comus and the demands of revolutionaries determined to destroy America's totalitarian system

Doomsday Morning

Robert Silverberg

Thimiroi, a time-traveling tourist who interferes with the course of history, acquires some unusual tenants whose arrival presages an ominous event

In Another Country

Among the best-written and most emotionally complex stories of the Pulp Era, the tales of intergalactic bootlegger Northwest Smith still resonate strongly more than 75 years after their first publication. From the crumbling temples of forgotten gods on Venus to the seedy pleasure halls of old Mars, the thirteen stories in Northwest of Earth blaze a trail through the underbelly of the solar system. The quick-drawing smuggler of the spaceways who would become the model for countless science fiction heroes, Northwest Smith is SF's original outlaw.

Comus, the communications network/police force, has spread its web of power all across an America paralyzed by the after-effects of limited nuclear war. But in California, resistance is building against the dictatorship of Comus and Andrew Raleigh, president for life. For now Raleigh is dying and the powers of Comus are fading. It's the perfect time for the Californian revolutionaries to activate the secret weapon that alone can destroy America's totalitarian system and re-establish democracy.Yet Comus too has powers at its disposal, chief among them Howard Rohan. A washed-up actor until Comus offers him a second chance, Rohan will head a troupe of players touring in the heart of rebel territory.Howard Rohan, double agent, caught between the orders of Comus and rebels demands. Which side will he choose? Who will he play false - himself, or the entire country?

Catherine Lucille Moore (1911-1987) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer. She was one of the first women to write in the genre and paved the way for many other female writers in speculative fiction. This volume collects two of her longer short works with the theme of time travel. In "Greater than Gods," a scientist and inventor working on a way to select the sex of unborn children opens up two possible futures for the human race. But when both potential futures begin to communicate with him, he finds his choice will determine the future of the whole human race in ways he never anticipated. In "Trysts in Time," a bored adventurer sets off through time . . . and finds more than he bargained for in a beautiful woman who keeps reappearing throughout all of history!

2 Time Travel Tales

Greater Than Gods and Trysts in Time

Off-center Control Rod Program (digital Computer Program K)

Soil Survey of Weakley County, Tennessee

Catherine Lucile Moore, die Grand Old Lady der amerikanischen Science Fiction und Fantasy, wurde 1911 geboren und war die erste Autorin der USA, die regelmäßig für Genre-Magazine schrieb. Ihre Erzählung Shambleau erschien 1933 in Weird Fiction und war ein voller Erfolg, der sie augenblicklich bekannt machte. Es folgten alljährlich ein bis zwei weitere Erzählungen, später in Zusammenarbeit mit dem SF-Autor Henry Kuttner entstanden, den sie 1940 heiratete. C. L. Moores schriftstellerisches Werk ist schmal, aber gewichtig. Sie setzte Maßstäbe, vor allem in der meisterhaften Schilderung und Charakterisierung nichtmenschlicher Lebewesen. Ihr Einfluss auf die jüngere Schriftstellergeneration ist allenthalben spürbar - so bei Tanith Lee und Roger Zelazny, Terry Carr und John Varley, um nur einige Namen zu nennen. In diesem Band - mit einem Vorwort von Lester del Rey und einem Nachwort der Autorin und ergänzt um Illustration des Wiener Künstlers Johann Peterka - sind die zehn besten Novellen von C. L. Moore vereint, vom Apex-Verlag in einer durchgesehenen Neu-Ausgabe veröffentlicht.

Erzählungen

SHAMBLEAU UND ANDERE GESCHICHTEN

Nysa appeared mysteriously with a request of Northwest Smith... excerpt The thick Venusian dark of the Ednes waterfront in the hours before dawn is breathless and tense with a nameless awareness, a crouching danger. The shapes that move murkily thru its blackness are not daylight shapes. Sun has never shone upon some of those misshapen figures, and what happens in the dark is better left untold. Not even the Patrol ventures there after the lights are out, and the hours between midnight and dawn are outside the law. If dark things happen there the Patrol never knows of them, or desires to know. Powers move thru the darkness along the waterfront to which even the Patrol bows low. Thru that breathless blackness, along a street beneath which the breathing waters whispered, Northwest Smith strolled slowly. No prudent man ventures out after midnight along the waterfront of Ednes unless he has urgent business abroad, but from the leisurely gait that carried Smith soundlessly thru the dark he might have been some casual sightseer. He was no stranger to the Ednes waterfront. He knew the danger thru which he strolled so slowly, and under narrowed lids his colorless eyes were like keen steel probes that searched the dark. Now and then he passed a shapeless shadow that dodged aside to give him way. It might have been no more than a shadow. His no-colored eyes did not waver. He went on, alert and wary. He was passing between two high warehouses that shut out even the faint reflection of light from the city beyond when he first heard that sound of bare, running feet which so surprised him. The patter of frantically fleeing steps is not uncommon along the waterfront, but these were-he listened closer-yes, certainly the feet of a woman or a young boy. Light and quick and desperate. His ears were keen enough to be sure of that. They were coming nearer swiftly. In the blackness even his pale eyes could see nothing, and he drew back against the wall, one hand dropping to the ray gun that hung low on his thigh. He had no desire to meet whatever it was which pursued this fugitive. But his brows knit as the footsteps turned into the street that led between the warehouses. No woman, of whatever class or kind, ventures into this quarter by night. And he became certain as he listened that those feet were a woman's. There was a measured rhythm about them that suggested the Venusian woman's lovely, swaying gait. He pressed flat against the wall, holding his breath. He wanted no sound to indicate his own presence to the terror from which the woman fled. Ten years before he might have dashed out to her-but ten years along the spaceways teaches a man prudence. Gallantry can be foolhardy sometimes, particularly along the waterfront, where any of a score of things might be in close pursuit. At the thought of what some of those things might be the hair prickled faintly along his neck.

Nymph of Darkness

Jirel of Joiry, the first of the great female warriors, the beautiful commander of the strongest fortress in the kingdom, would face any danger to defend her beloved country. She wielded her bright sword against mighty armies, the sinister magic of evil sorcerers and fearsome castles guarded by the dead, even daring to descend into Hell itself... Northwest Smith, the scarred and weathered outlaw, the legendary hero of the spaceways, forced to confront the terrible mysteries, the terrifying, mythic monsters of the universe... Jirel of Joiry and Northwest Smith are C.L. Moore's greatest creations and she used them not only to spin spellbinding tales but also to explore the mysteries of the human psyche.

Black Gods and Scarlet Dreams

A gripping tale of the planet Mars and the terrible monstrosity that called its victims to it from afar--a tale of Northwest Smith...Excerpt Over time-ruined Illar the searching planes swooped and circled. Northwest Smith, peering up at them with a steel-pale stare from the shelter of a half-collapsed temple, thought of vultures wheeling above carrion. All day long now they had been raking these ruins for him. Presently, he knew, thirst would begin to parch his throat and hunger to gnaw at him. There was neither food nor water in these ancient Martian ruins, and he knew that it could be only a matter of time before the urgencies of his own body would drive him out to signal those wheeling Patrol ships and trade his hard-won liberty for food and drink. He crouched lower under the shadow of the temple arch and cursed the accuracy of the Patrol gunner whose flame-blast had caught his dodging ship just at the edge of Illar's ruins.Presently it occurred to him that in most Martian temples of the ancient days an ornamental well had stood in the outer court for the benefit of wayfarers. Of course all water in it would be a million years dry now, but for lack of anything better to do he rose from his seat at the edge of the collapsed central dome and made his cautious way by still intact corridors toward the front of the temple. He paused in a tangle of wreckage at the courtyard's edge and looked out across the sun-drenched expanse of pavement toward that ornate well that once had served travelers who passed by here in the days when Mars was a green planet.

The Tree of Life

Robert E. Howard

H. P. Lovecraft

A collection of Robert E. Howard's Cthulhu Fiction featuring stories about Howard's Cthulhu Mythos scholar John Kirowan along with classic Howard characters Bran Mak Morn and Kull the Conqueror, and others.

C. L. Moore

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