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In this nightmarish tale, a third-rate detective is faced with an impossible crime, as bodies are turning up without their brains and without any indication of how the organs were removed. His only lead--an attractive landlady--becomes more than a lead and drives him into a world of terror, where his sanity is questioned and he must stop the monster before she does more evil. "Or should he join her? Does he even have a choice, or will he just ...

This collection of award-winning science fiction includes a story that was a finalist for the Hugo Awards and one that was voted one of the 10 greatest science fiction stories to appear during the 1990s. In the title piece, a geologist has downloaded the memories of his deceased mentor into a robot's electronic brain. Together, they bore through the crust and mantle to the very core of the planet Earth. Their work is complicated by a mysteriou...

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Includes 12 science fiction stories that comprise various genres, from mystery to science fiction to autobiographical fiction. This book contains a Sherlock Holmesian mystery, a Walter Mitty-like escape into the world of software, and a Cthulhu Mythos tale in the Lovecraft tradition.

This volume of science fiction thrillers contains a novel and seven short stories centered on the semi-autobiographical character Sandor Courane. The collection' s feature novel, "In the Wolves of Memory, " paints a world where Earth' s governing body, the Representatives, has relinquished control to an increasingly intelligent and self-aware computer known as TECT. Deemed a social misfit and banished from Earth to Planet D for his inability t...

These thirteen tales twist the conventions of science fiction, mystery, horror, humour, and adventure into one gripping collection. In 'Green Ice' unassuming Mr Ino is assigned to recover a missing extraterrestrial artefact, believed to be from the icy moon of Europa. 'The Devil's Hop Yard' is a sequel to H P Lovecraft's classic 'The Dunwich Horror'. The perils of being a too-avid book collector are illustrated in 'Whatever Happened to Nick Ne...

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