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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Because there were few adults in the crowd, and Colonel 'Biff' Hawton stood over six feet tall, he could see every detail of the demonstration. The children -- and most of the parents -- gaped in wide-eyed wonder. Biff Hawton was too sophisticated to be awed. He stayed on because he wanted to find out what the trick was that made the gadget work.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - He led the way into his quarters, motioned Ebor to a perch, and rang for his orderly. 'It was just a little remote-controlled apparatus, of course,' he said. 'The fledgling attempt, you know. But it circled this Moon here, busily taking pictures, and went right back to the planet again, giving us all a terrible fright. There hadn't been the slightest indication they were planning anything that spectacular.' 'None ' asked Ebor. 'Not a hint '.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Tangier is possibly the most cosmopolitan city in the world. In native costume you'll see Berber and Rif, Arab and Blue Man, and occasionally a Senegalese from further south. In European dress you'll see Japs and Chinese, Hindus and Turks, Levantines and Filipinos, North Americans and South Americans, and, of course, even Europeans-from both sides of the Curtain.Mack Reynolds was the first author to write an original novel based upon the 1966-1969 NBC television series Star Trek. The book, Mission to Horatius (1968), was aimed at young readers. While Reynolds' fiction spans an array of science fiction elements including time travel, alien visitation, world computers, Amazonian cultures, and intergalactic spy adventures, his radical interrogation of socioeconomic systems sets him apart from other science fiction writers.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - In the Platonic, Neopythagorean, Middle Platonic and Neoplatonic schools of philosophy, the demiurge is an artisan-like figure responsible for fashioning and maintaining the physical universe. The term was adopted by the Gnostics. Although a fashioner, the demiurge is not necessarily the same as the creator figure in the monotheistic sense, because the demiurge itself and the material from which the demiurge fashions the universe are both considered to be consequences of something else. Depending on the system, they may be considered to be either uncreated and eternal, or considered to be the product of some other entity.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - 'Hold on, there!' came a sharp challenge from the stairs behind and below me. 'What are you doing And what's that picture doing ' It was one of the Museum's guards. 'I was going to ask somebody that same question,' I told him as austerely as I could manage. 'What about this picture I thought there was a Böcklin hanging here.' The guard relaxed. 'Oh, I beg your pardon, sir. I thought you were somebody else--the man who brought that thing.' He nodded at the picture. 'Personally, I think it's plain beastly.' 'And the Museum has accepted it at last ' I asked. He shook his head. 'Oh, no, sir.' I, too, came close. There was no plate beneath the painting. But in the lower left-hand corner of the canvas were sprawling capitals, pale paint on the dark, spelling out the word GOLGOTHA. Beneath these, in small, barely readable script: I sold my soul that I might paint a living picture.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - The story is set in 2158 A.D., after the invention of a medicine called Anti-Gerasone, which is made from mud and dandelions and is thus inexpensive and widely available. Anti-Gerasone halts the aging process and prevents people from dying of old age as long as they keep taking it; as a result, America now suffers from severe overpopulation and shortages of food and resources. With the exception of the very wealthy, most of the population appears to survive on a diet of foods made from processed seaweed and sawdust. Gramps Ford, his chin resting on his hands, his hands on the crook of his cane, was staring irascibly at the five-foot television screen that dominated the room. On the screen, a news commentator was summarizing the day's happenings. Every thirty seconds or so, Gramps would jab the floor with his cane-tip and shout, 'Hell, we did that a hundred years ago!' Emerald and Lou, coming in from the balcony, where they had been seeking that 2185 A.D. rarity--privacy--were obliged to take seats in the back row, behind about a dozen relatives with whom they shared the house. All save Gramps, who was somewhat withered and bent, seemed, by pre-anti-gerasone standards, to be about the same age--somewhere in their late twenties or early thirties. Gramps looked older because he had already reached 70 when anti-gerasone was invented. He had not aged in the 102 years since. 'Next one shoots off his big bazoo while the TV's on is gonna find hisself cut off without a dollar--' his voice suddenly softened and sweetened--'when they wave that checkered flag at the Indianapolis Speedway, and old Gramps gets ready for the Big Trip Up Yonder.' He sniffed sentimentally, while his heirs concentrated desperately on not making the slightest sound. For them, the poignancy of the prospective Big Trip had been dulled somewhat, through having been mentioned by Gramps about once a day for fifty years.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Theoretically, you could find this type of humor anywhere. But only a topflight science-fictionist, we thought, could have written this story, in just this way. . . . Start here: It was quite by accident I discovered this incredible invasion of Earth by lifeforms from another planet. As yet, I haven't done anything about it; I can't think of anything to do. I wrote to the Government, and they sent back a pamphlet on the repair and maintenance of frame houses. Anyhow, the whole thing is known; I'm not the first to discover it. Maybe it's even under control. 'All of his work starts with the basic assumption that there cannot be one, single, objective reality', writes science fiction author Charles Platt.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - But this is a Fredric Brown story -- and you know that a perfect setup doesn't follow through in a Fredric Brown story. Something really and truly terrible is about to happen. Like, maybe the end of the world. Or worse!

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - 'Did you ever wonder at the lonely life the bird in a cuckoo clock has to lead --' wrote the editor of Fantastic Universe in January, 1954, blurbing this tale '-- that it might possibly love and hate just as easily as a real animal of flesh and blood Philip Dick used that idea for this brief fantasy tale. We're sure that after reading it you'll give cuckoo clocks more respect.'.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - For an instant you think it is temporary blindness, this sudden dark that comes in the middle of a bright afternoon.It must be blindness, you think; could the sun that was tanning you have gone out instantaneously, leaving you in utter blackness Then the nerves of your body tell you that you are standing, whereas only a second ago you were sitting comfortably, almost reclining, in a canvas chair. In the patio of a friend's house in Beverly Hills. Talking to Barbara, your fiancee. Looking at Barbara -- Barbara in a swim suit -- her skin golden tan in the brilliant sunshine, beautiful. . . .

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Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - A short story by Kurt Vonnegut originally written in 1953. It was first published in Galaxy Science Fiction magazine in January 1954. The title is the protagonist's euphemism for dying.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - While in search of enemy subs, Laskell surfaced his one-man submarine off the Florida coast. He tuned his radio to the Miami station just in time to hear the 8 o'clock news. The grim announcement that he had expected was quick to come . . . .

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - A cyclone hits Kansas and whirls away Dorothy and her little dog Toto to the magical Land of Oz, where wild beasts talk, silver shoes have magic powers, and good witches offer protection with a kiss. But Dorothy has made an enemy of the Wicked Witch of the West. With her new friends the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Cowardly Lion, they brave many dangers in search of the Wonderful Wizard in his Emerald City at the heart of Oz to ask him to grant each of them what they most desire - only to find that they already possess it. Published at the dawn of the twentieth century, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz immediately captivated child and adult readers alike. This new edition includes many of W. W. Denslow's original illustrations, and the introduction considers both the famous MGM film version and recent literary theory in a fascinating discussion of this children's classic.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - With no more room left on Earth, and with Mars hanging up there empty of life, somebody hit on the plan of starting a colony on the Red Planet. It meant changing the habits and physical structure of the immigrants, but that worked out fine. In fact, every possible factor was covered -- except one of the flaws of human nature. . . .

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - If you had to give your life so that you could live it over again -- would you Could you Should you.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - 'Hold on, there!' came a sharp challenge from the stairs behind and below me. 'What are you doing And what's that picture doing 'It was one of the Museum's guards.'I was going to ask somebody that same question,' I told him as austerely as I could manage. 'What about this picture I thought there was a B cklin hanging here.'The guard relaxed. 'Oh, I beg your pardon, sir. I thought you were somebody else--the man who brought that thing.' He nodded at the picture. 'Personally, I think it's plain beastly.''And the Museum has accepted it at last ' I asked.He shook his head. 'Oh, no, sir.'I, too, came close. There was no plate beneath the painting. But in the lower left-hand corner of the canvas were sprawling capitals, pale paint on the dark, spelling out the word 'GOLGOTHA.' Beneath these, in small, barely readable script: 'I sold my soul that I might paint a living picture.'.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Whitefoot had spent the winter in Farmer Brown's sugar-house. He had forgotten the meaning of fear. He'd looked on that sugar-house as his. It wasn't until Farmer Brown's boy came over to prepare things for sugaring that he got a real fright.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - 'A Confession' -- an essay by Leo Tolstoy on his religious thoughts -- shows the great author in process of looking for answers to profound questions that trouble all who take them on: 'What will come of my life ' and 'What is the meaning of life ': these are questions whose answers were an absolute requirement for Tolstoy. In the course of the essay, Tolstoy shows different attempts to find answers on the examples of science, philosophy, eastern wisdom and the opinions of his fellow novelists. . . . finding no workable solution in any of these, Tolstoy recognizes the deep religious convictions of ordinary people as containing the key to true answers.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Written in 1906, BEFORE ADAM is a bit of a departure from London's other novels. Still an adventure novel, this one revolves around the dreams of a young boy, dreams that involve racial memories and the knowledge of his prior existence as a manlike creature named Big Tooth living in prehistoric times. 'These are our ancestors, and their history is our history. Remember that as surely as we one day swung down out of the trees and walked upright, just as surely, on a far earlier day, did we crawl up out of the sea and achieve our first adventure on land.'.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - 'Under the Greenwood Tree' (1872) preceded 'The Return of the Native' and 'Far from the Madding Crowd,' as the first of Thomas Hardy's novels set in Wessex. A holiday tale of charm and appeal, 'Under the Greenwood Tree' was Hardy's second novel. The book brought him his first taste of literary and public success. The warmly-remembered holiday and love story told in 'Under the Greenwood Tree' is sure to please readers today. Full of nostalgia and evocative scenes, 'Under the Greenwood Tree' evokes Hardy's sense of place, time, and human relationships, with little of the darkness found in Hardy's later, great works such as 'Jude the Obscure' and 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles.'.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - In addition to his great 'Wessex Novels,' Thomas Hardy wrote 'Wessex Tales' (1896), a collection of six stories written in the 1880s and 1890s that, for the most part, are as bleakly ironic and unforgiving as the darkest of his great novels -- 'Jude the Obscure.' But this great novelist began and ended his writing career as a poet. In-between, he wrote a number of books that many readers find emotionally-wrenching, but which are considered among the classics of 19th Century British literature, including 'Far from the Madding Crowd,' and 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles.' Readers will experience Hardy's uncompromising, unsentimental realism in 'Wessex Tales,' and for those seeking a taste of the Dorset poet and novelist, they represent an ideal start.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - We arrived at last at a wide cavern with an arched domelike roof. An aperture in the midst let in the light of heaven; but this was overgrown with brambles and underwood, which acted as a veil, obscuring the day, and giving a solemn religious hue to the apartment. It was spacious, and nearly circular, with a raised seat of stone, about the size of a Grecian couch, at one end. The only sign that life had been here, was the perfect snow-white skeleton of a goat, which had probably not perceived the opening as it grazed on the hill above, and had fallen headlong. Ages perhaps had elapsed since this catastrophe; and the ruin it had made above, had been repaired by the growth of vegetation during many hundred summers. The rest of the furniture of the cavern consisted of piles of leaves, fragments of bark, and a white filmy substance, resembling the inner part of the green hood which shelters the grain of the unripe Indian corn. We were fatigued by our struggles to attain this point, and seated ourselves on the rocky couch, while the sounds of tinkling sheep-bells, and shout of shepherd-boy, reached us from above. At length my friend, who had taken up some of the leaves strewed about, exclaimed, 'This IS the Sibyl's cave; these are Sibylline leaves.' On examination, we found that all the leaves, bark, and other substances, were traced with written characters. What appeared to us more astonishing, was that these writings were expressed in various languages: some unknown to my companion, ancient Chaldee, and Egyptian hieroglyphics, old as the Pyramids. Stranger still, some were in modern dialects, English and Italian. We could make out little by the dim light, but they seemed to contain prophecies, detailed relations of events but lately passed; names, now well known, but of modern date; and often exclamations of exultation or woe, of victory or defeat, were traced on their thin scant pages. . . .

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - From 'White and Yellow': San Francisco Bay is so large that often its storms are more disastrous to ocean-going craft than is the ocean itself in its violent moments. The waters of the bay contain all manner of fish, wherefore its surface is plowed by the keels of all manner of fishing boats manned by all manner of fishermen. To protect the fish from this motley floating population many wise laws have been passed, and there is a fish patrol to see that these laws are enforced. Exciting times are the lot of the fish patrol: in its history more than one dead patrolman has marked defeat, and more often dead fishermen across their illegal nets have marked success.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - The kettle began it! Don't tell me what Mrs. Peerybingle said. I know better. Mrs. Peerybingle may leave it on record to the end of time that she couldn't say which of them began it; but, I say the kettle did. I ought to know, I hope! The kettle began it, full five minutes by the little waxy-faced Dutch clock in the corner, before the Cricket uttered a chirp. As if the clock hadn't finished striking, and the convulsive little Haymaker at the top of it, jerking away right and left with a scythe in front of a Moorish Palace, hadn't mowed down half an acre of imaginary grass before the Cricket joined in at all!

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - As vacation time approached, Dick and Doc had become as hard as nails and as active as a couple of manus, which you will know, if your education has not been neglected, is the ape-word for monkeys. Then it was that the big surprise came in a letter that Dick received from his mother. Tarzan of the Apes had invited them all to visit him and spend two months on his great African estate! The boys were so excited that they talked until three o'clock the next morning and flunked in all their classes that day.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Few authors, not even with the exception of Rudyard Kipling, have covered so wide a field in their fiction as has Mr. Burroughs. His maiden effort, which was published in the old ALL-STORY in 1912, dealt with the adventures of an American who made a trip to Mars and the things he saw there. Then he took a flier into the African jungle in his Tarzan tales, wrote some red-hot romance around a Central European kingdom, and turned his attention to a hero who was the brutalized product of a Chicago slum. Him he regenerated to such an extent that every reader we have, seemingly, voiced a raging demand for a sequel to THE MUCKER that should make that gentleman happy! And in this splendid novel, THE GIRL FROM FARRIS'S, Mr. Burroughs has found yet another and really serious field, though he has given you as remarkable a heroine as you might expect. For the Girl was a member of 'the oldest profession in the world,' and the hero was foreman of the grand jury. Now go on with the story! -- The Editor.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - In Edwardian era London, Gabriel Syme is recruited at Scotland Yard to a secret anti-anarchist police corps. Syme meets an anarchistic poet at a party and they debate the meaning of poetry. The poet argues that revolt is the basis of poetry. Syme demurs, insisting the essence of poetry is not revolution but law.We can't discuss the book's denoument here in the cover copy, but this title tempts us. Let us instead say that the book gave us an inevitable and moving experience as the investigators finally discovered who Sunday is.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - 'There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.' Holmes's eyes fairly glittered as he spoke, and he put his hand over his heart and bowed as if to some applauding crowd conjured up by his imagination. 'Criminal cases are continually hinging upon that one point. A man is suspected of a crime months perhaps after it has been committed. His linen or clothes are examined, and brownish stains discovered upon them. Are they blood stains, or mud stains, or rust stains, or fruit stains, or what are they That is a question which has puzzled many an expert, and why Because there was no reliable test. Now we have the Sherlock Holmes' test, and there will no longer be any difficulty.'.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - These are the tales of Mowgli, the lost boy raised by wolves in the jungles of India, brought up on a diet of Jungle Law, loyalty, and fresh meat from the kill, and they have captivated children and adults alike for generations. There is no better place to learn the life of the wolf pack and the natural order -- the natural justice -- of life in the jungle. And who could ever forget Mowgli's enemy, Shere Khan, the bragadocious Bengal tiger To say nothing of Rikki-tikki-tavi, the mongoose In this first volume, we learn how Mowgli came to be raised in the jungle, and how the wolves secured his safety. . . .