Walter S. Tevis

Orphan Beth Harmon overcomes her fears and shyness by learning to play chess and, over the years, improves her game to become a national champion and to play the world grandmasters. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

The Queen's Gambit

The man who fell to earth

A futuristic tale set in a world in which reading is forbidden, citizens are drugged from childhood on, and machines dominate humans focuses on two individuals who teach themselves how to read and think independently as they become the hope of humankind's salvation. Reprint.

Mockingbird

Vezir gambiti

Gambit królowej

Gambito de reina

Orphan Beth Harmon overcomes her fears and shyness by learning to play chess and, over the years, improves her game to become a national champion and to play the world grandmasters.

Ход королевы

Chelovek, upavshiĭ na zemli︠u︡

When she is sent to an orphanage at the age of eight, Beth Harmon soon discovers two ways to escape her surroundings, albeit fleetingly: playing chess and taking the little green pills given to her and the other children to keep them subdued. Before long, it becomes apparent that hers is a prodigious talent, and as she progresses to the top of the US chess rankings she is able to forge a new life for herself. But she can never quite overcome her urge to self-destruct. For Beth, there's more at stake than merely winning and losing.

رواية

مناورة الملكة

El Hombre que cayó a la tierra

The Colour of Money

David Fickling

The Man who Fell to Earth

Far from Home

O gambito da rainha

The future is a grim place in which the declining human population wanders, drugged and lulled by electronic bliss. It's a world without art, reading and children, a world where people would rather burn themselves alive than endure. Even Spofforth, the most perfect machine ever created, cannot bear it and seeks only that which he cannot have - to cease to be. But there is hope for the future in the passion and joy that a man and woman discover in love and in books, hope even for Spofforth. A haunting novel, reverberating with anguish but also celebrating love and the magic of a dream.

Robert Sheckley

Jay Lake

Darrell Schweitzer

Frederik Pohl

James C. Stewart

Pamela Sargent

George Zebrowski

Gardner Dozois

Lawrence Watt-Evans

Donald E. Westlake

Bruce Bethke

Cory Doctorow

Avram Davidson

Allen Steele

Keith Laumer

Ken Scholes

Carol Emshwiller

Grania Davis

Charles L. Fontenay

Sterling E. Lanier

Rick Raphael

Walter J. Sheldon

Brenda W. Clough

Everett B. Cole

The fifth volume in the Science Fiction Megapack series collects 25 tales of high adventure through other worlds and times, including 5 Hugo and Nebula Award-winners and nominees. Featured this time are: AGAPE AMONG THE ROBOTS, by Allen Steele THE STARSHIP MECHANIC, by Jay Lake and Ken Scholes PEACEMAKER, by Gardner Dozois OR ALL THE SEAS WITH OYSTERS, by Avram Davidson GRANDMA, by Carol Emshwiller THE GIFT BEARER, by Charles L. Fontenay I, ROBOT, by Cory Doctorow ALL RIGHTS, by Pamela Sargent THE EICHMANN VARIATIONS, by George Zebrowski MAY BE SOME TIME, by Brenda W. Clough CYBERPUNK, by Bruce Bethke MILLENNIUM, by Everett B. Cole JOIN OUR GANG? by Sterling E. Lanier GREYLORN, by Keith Laumer JUMPING THE LINE, by Grania Davis HE’S ONLY HUMAN, by Lawrence Watt-Evans THE WASONICA CORRECTION, by James C. Stewart CIRCUS, by Alan E. Nourse THE HATED, by Frederik Pohl CODE THREE, by Rick Raphael COST OF LIVING, by Robert Sheckley THIS IS KLON CALLING, by Walter J. Sheldon THE BIG BOUNCE, by Walter S. Tevis THE RISK PROFESSION, by Donald E. Westlake THE FIRE EGGS, by Darrell Schweitzer And don't forget to search this ebook store for "Megapack" to see other volumes in the series, from science fiction to ghost stories to mysteries...and many more!

The Fifth Science Fiction MEGAPACK ®

De misleider

The Big Bounce

Walter S. Tevis

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