Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Science Fiction - Time Travel

Drew knows there are two rules to using the time portals. One, be precise in thought. Two, never visit the future.

On his second practice run, a stray thought of wanting to see life 1000 years in the future lands him, along with Oz, the Emperor, Aisha, and Wick in 3416. San Francisco is in ruins. The Embarcadero is gone, the Bay Bridge is a broken skeleton, and the city has been overtaken by a dark wizard named Tobias. The only one who can destroy his power and his hold over the elfin citizens of Saint Francis is a clumsy, sword-wielding fifteen-year-old boy, the wizard Hagar and his...

Primitive literacy is redundant. Mere words are expelled. We inaugurate a world of pure presence. The mind, that intrudes itself between ourselves and those memories too terrible to know, must keep us moving beyond the grasp of their claw. To control the flow, it will be necessary that political order be imposed always temporarily. The state shall enjoy direct, creative access to the real.It's the end of the twenty-third century. Earth has violently self-destructed. Venusia, an experimental off-world colony, survives under the enlightened totalitarianism of the Princeps Crittendon regime....

H. Beam Piper sold "Crossroads of Destiny" to "Fantastic Universe Science Fiction, " which published it in their July 1959 issue. "No wonder he'd been so interested in the talk of whether our people accepted these theories " they said of the story. We aren't at all certain what they meant by that, but you'll probably have a clue.

The blurb for "Hunter Patrol" ("Amazing Stories, " May 1959 -- a collaboration with John J. McGuire) is equally oblique:...

Are you weary of hearing about the 2016 US Presidential race? Afraid of what will become of America if your chosen candidate doesn't prevail? Do you believe the world is doomed regardless of who claims the Oval Office throne--er, chair?

Refresh your spirit and allay your fears by laughing along with what Mark Twain might have written about today's political falderal.

"Solidly entertaining." Publishers Weekly

WINNER 2016 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Gold Medal for Science Fiction & Fantasy.
WINNER Summer 2016 NABE Pinnacle...