This new collection brings together thirty-four of Kit Reed's strong, original stories.

In the year 2100 a corrupt dictator rules the United States, but one soldier dares to defy authority and risk his life to overthrow tyranny.

Influential American science fiction writer Philip K. Dick was fascinated by the idea of nuclear warfare and the dire aftermath of such an event. This scenario preoccupied Dick throughout much of his career and served as the backdrop to many of his stories and novels. In the short story Second Variety, the human population has been decimated by nuclear war, and small tribes of survivors are forced to battle a species of lethal robot soldiers.

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This collection draws from Philip K. Dick's earliest short and mid-length fiction (including several previously unpublished stories) during the years 1952-1955, and features such fascinating works as 'The Eye of the Sibyl', 'The Little Black Box', 'The Electric Ant' and many others. Here, readers will find Dick's initial explorations of the themes he so brilliantly brought to life in his later work.

A collection of all of Isaac Asimov's robot stories, including some which have never before appeared in book form.

For eons, the Amplitur had searched space for intelligent species, each of which was joyously welcomed to take part in the fulfillment of the Amplitur Purpose.

In a futuristic military adventure a recruit goes through the roughest boot camp in the universe and into battle with the Terran Mobile Infantry in what historians would come to call the First Interstellar War