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Mitt i tillvaron händer det något obehagligt. Till synes utan förklaring. Men samtidigt är det något som gäckar, strax under den vanliga mänskliga kontaktytan. Dunkla begär, en dju ...

The Hanging Stranger is a science fiction novella by Philip K. Dick, first published in 1953. After a hard day's work at his basement, Ed Loyce starts his Packard and drives in the ...

Tony and the Beetles is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick, first published in 1953.  Tony and the Beetles takes place far in the future when Earth's enormous colonial ...

Piper in the Woods is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick, first published in 1953.  Earth maintained an important garrison on Asteroid Y-3. Now suddenly it was imperil ...

Second Variety is a science fiction novella by Philip K. Dick, first published in 1953. "The claws were bad enough in the first place—nasty, crawling little death-robots. But when ...

Mr. Spaceship is a science fiction novella by Philip K. Dick, first published in 1953. Humanity is at war with "Yuks," an alien life form which does not use mechanical spaceships n ...

The Defenders is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick, first published in 1953.  The terrible destruction of total nuclear war between the Western and Eastern Blocks has ...

The Crystal Crypt is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick, first published in 1954. In the Crystal Crypt, taken from the 1954 Planet Stories, the war between Mars and Te ...

The Skull is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick, first published in 1952. Conger agreed to kill a stranger he had never seen. He wasn't concerned about getting the wro ...

Thin Edge is a science fiction novella by Randal Garrett, first published in 1963. There are inventions of great value that one type of society can use—and that would, for another ...

Equation of Doom is a science fiction novella by Randal Garrett, first published in 1957 under the pen-name Gerald Vance.  They grounded Ramsey’s ship on a hostile planet hoping he ...

The Eyes Have It is a science fiction novella by Randal Garrett, first published in 1964. In a sense, this is a story of here-and-now. This Earth, this year ... but on a history-li ...

The Asses of Balaam is a science fiction novella by Randal Garrett, first published in 1961, under the pen-name David Gordon.  The remarkable characteristic of Balaam's ass was tha ...

Dead Giveaway is a science fiction novella by Randal Garrett, first published in 1959. Logic's a wonderful thing; by logical analysis, one can determine the necessary reason for th ...

Cum Grano Salis is a science fiction novella by Randal Garrett, first published in 1959, under the pen-name David Gordon. “Just because a man can do something others can’t does not ...

...Or Your Money Back is a science fiction novella by Randal Garrett, first published in 1951, under the pen-name David Gordon. There are lots of things that are considered perfect ...

Två noveller i en! Det som finns under marken Katten tassade omkring en stund med svansen nedsänkt och öronen strukna bakåt. Den krökte rygg, fräste och gav ifrån sig ett djupt och ...

The Judas Valley is a science fiction novella by Randal Garrett and Robert Silverberg (under the pen-name “Gerald Vance”) first published in 1962. Fifty-nine men and one love inter ...

Milo knäppte sakta upp knapparna i jeansshortsen. Michaël tittade triumferande på honom, som om han vunnit. Men Milo log tillbaka. Han skulle vinna det här, oavsett vad som hände. ...

Jacobs första minne utspelar sig i Lindome, 1952, då han står mitt i vägen framför en tutande lastbil. Hans betraktelser från sin uppväxt varvas med minnen av släkten och särskilt ...

A Spaceship Named McGuire is a science fiction novella by Randal Garrett, first published in 1961. The basic trouble with McGuire was that, though "he" was a robot spaceship, never ...

The Penal Cluster is a science fiction novella by Randal Garrett (under the pen-name “Ivar Jorgensen”), first published in 1957. Tomorrow's technocracy will produce more and more t ...

I Lars Gustafssons författarskap är nyfikenheten ledstjärna. I bok efter bok lyckades han både utforska och bevara den gåta som vi kallar existensen. "Fantastiska berättelser" saml ...

"Vishetslärarna" vill inordna godhetsdriften bland de mänskliga passionerna.Visdomens frukt är godhet, säger den vise kung Salomo vid det fruktbärande besöket av den sluga drottnin ...

Ulf Erikssons noveller rör sig fritt mellan vitt skilda platser: en lägenhet högst upp i en av Hötorgsskraporna i Stockholm, den baskiska separatiströrelsens Spanien och inbördeskr ...