Space Travel Fiction

No science fiction author was more highly regarded than Grand Master Clifford D. Simak, winner of numerous honors. One of the genre's premier literary artists, Simak explores time travel and time engines; examines the rituals and superstitions of galactic travelers who have long forgotten their ultimate purpose; and even takes fascinating detours through World War II and the wild American West in a wondrous anthology that no science fiction fan should be without.

In the late 20th century, private-eye James “Jimmy” Nash boards a plane bound for a new life. What he doesn't expect is to find himself on an alien world billions of light-years from his home. In the far future, Pandrusa, a fearsome warrior with a reputation across the galaxy, completes another mission for the eminent Grand Order of Oberon. On his return, he is brought to a desolate planet where he encounters a private detective lost in time. Two worlds collide as Jimmy Nash is pulled into the life of Pandrusa and a galactic-wide struggle between order and chaos.

Michelangelo Fazio, autore di tre racconti di fantascienza, capace di coniugare divulgazione scientifica e racconto, introduce il lettore nel mondo delle leggi dello spazio-tempo e della relatività di Einstein. La comicità di Fazio e la sua passione per la scienza trovano collocazione ideale in queste storie brevi ambientate in mondi fantastici.

"Where am I?" The first thought that crosses your mind when you wake. In the total darkness, there comes a voice. She could be your only hope for survival. She could be your captor, your manipulator. One man's search for the truth will take him to the depths of inner space. One man's fight for survival will take us all to the edge of extinction....

Marooned in an alien body on an alien world. It is the 25th century. The planet's most ambitious project is Starmind, an Islamic research institute that transfers the minds of volunteers, called Ansibles, across gulfs of space and time to make first contact with other sentient beings in the universe. Each of the Ansible stories follows one team of brave minds across the void. These are their reports, their transcripts, the only accounts of what they have found.

Major Logan Ryvenbark is no ordinary soldier of fortune. While he's tough as nails, deadly with all number of weapons, and highly skilled in a number of areas of combat, he's also genetically engineered to be a super-soldier. When he and his men take on a contract from the powerful intergalactic CEO Belen Morganthal to scope out the planet Sandeling, he knows that it isn't going to be your average guns-for-hire gig - but what he doesn't know is just how perilous the mission is actually going to be.

Copilots Msizi and Tariro are testing a newly constructed wormhole jump that presumably leads to unsettled habitable worlds. Then an explosion sends them off course, far from where they started and with little chance of ever making it back. Now they’re stranded on their new home for the diaspora. It’s called Malcolm X-b. But they’re beginning to wonder how many light-years from civilization they really are.

Tom Whills is a first-generation Star Wars fan and proud of it. So when he and his best friend, Danny, build a time machine, Tom's one wish is for a glimpse of the original production. But in 1975, Tom's infiltration of an early ILM production meeting sets the entire history of Star Wars on a disastrous course. In five episodes, the Journal of Tom Whills tells the story of a Star Wars production gone off the rails as time-traveling fans try desperately to get their beloved film back on track.

This early novella by Clifford Simak includes many elements which have become staples in science fiction literature: alien invasion, time travel and the multiverse. The future entire Earth is threatened by the invasion of a phantasmal force known as the Black Horror, which appears to be impervious to all weapons developed by man. To where will Dr Silas White turn for the rescue of the planet?

Residents of 1960 Chicago produce a radio show to leave in a time capsule for future generations to learn how wonderful 1960s man was. When the capsule is discovered by time travelers, they can hear only the despicable thoughts of the cast.

Året är 2192 och Diah Lubis är den personliga kocken till prinsessan Irulan Ramahandran från det malaysiska rymdriket. Utrustad med en bärbar maskhålgenerator reser Diah genom tid och rum för att lära sig att göra de bästa och mest exotiska rätterna i solsystemet. Under sin jakt på kulinarisk perfektion möter Diah drakar, troll och förändrade tidslinjer. Kommer Diah och hennes lojala vän, Finkerbelle Moderfen, att lyckas med sina uppdrag?

Nate Taylor and the crew of the Vanguard face their greatest challenge yet as they venture into the heart of a mysterious cosmic anomaly—the Enigma Expanse. This uncharted region of space defies all known laws of reality, and its secrets are as dangerous as they are alluring. When an ancient signal pulls them deeper into the Expanse, Nate must navigate fractured realities, confront a rogue robotic entity with a corrupted mission, and grapple with his own doubts and fears.

The Whirl Wind Man is told through oldest brother Jimmy Huey's vantage point and eyes. Several decades pass over two small-town brothers' seemly endless games, one of which lasts and leads to the discovery of the first time travel vessel, a fleeting space-time travel meeting, and befriending an alien being. Conflict endures between family and brothers over keeping a secret and outgrowing the first time travel vessel.

The students of Ms. Maybee's class used to think history was boring, but that was before time started to get twisted! When a spaceship carrying Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin leaves 1969 - and lands in 1869 Texas - cowboy Nat Love decides to trade in his horse for a trip to the moon. Can siblings Doc and Abby untwist history and get everyone back where they belong? Houston, we have a problem!

After spending the last century off-planet in the Kuiper Belt, exo-miner Quatrain Dyer awakens from stasis to an agonizing toothache and an unnerving sense of displacement. Why is he in his hive's old recspace? Why is all his gear still here? And why hasn't the reintegration team from CAGE Dynamics met him? The answers Quatrain discovers will turn his reality inside out

In possession of a portable wormhole generator, Diah Lubis travels through time and space to make the most scrumptious dish ever made in the solar system. Will Diah achieve her magical and ultimate dreams? It is the year 2192, and Diah Lubis is the personal chef of Princess Irulan Ramahandran of the Malaysian Space Empire. Equipped with a portable wormhole generator, Diah travels through time and space to learn the best and most exotic dishes of the universe. During her quest, Diah encounters dragons, trolls, and changed timelines.

A charming rogue, Dan Courtney is learning fast that it takes more than a little charm to lay the groundwork for a railroad. Particularly when the plan is to build it across some of the roughest and most dangerous territory on earth. Courtney's been hired to survey the land that would link up the Uganda Railway to the Anglo-Egyptian railroad. Running through desert, jungle and mountains, this is one line—and story—with more twists and turns than the New York City subway system.

The Queen of Space written by Joseph Slotkin: Helen LaTour had the best hip wriggle in galactic Burleyque. In fact, it was so good she hipped herself smack into another dimension! I was relaxin' with my second Plutonian Stinger in the dignified atmosphere of Charley's Venusian Retreat when there was this strange noise outside the dive, like a flock of hot jets hittin' the atmosphere. Right after a character comes bustin' through the door.