The Planetary Series

Stanley G. Weinbaum

If youre going to launch a series dedicated to the very best science fiction and fantasy writers of the century, it makes sense to start with Stanley G. Weinbaum. The Planetary Series includes ten stories set on worlds of Earths solar system following several centuries of human exploration and settlement. It features a host of fascinating alien creatures, including birdlike Martians (features in A Martian Odyssey and its sequel Valley of Dreams) and The Red Peri and the Venusian trioptes (in Parasite Planet, The Lotus Eaters). Written in the 1930s, the planetary stories were consistent with scientific understanding of the solar system at that time, as well as consistent with science fiction ideas of the planets, most notably a warm and wet jungle-like Venus. Even today, the collection remains a highly readable and enjoyable, a great example of early science fiction that exhibits the finest pulp virtues: fast action, colorful settings and characters, and terrific storytelling.

The Port of Peril

Otis Adelbert Kline

When Vernia, empress of Reabon, mightiest land of all Venus, was kidnapped by the strange marauders of the sea and was taken to their hidden port, it presented the Earthman, Robert Grandon, with his greatest challenge. Grandon goes on a quest to save her, a quest that will put him on challenges, and against enemies beyond everything he had came across before. And out of this comes a tale of action in which event follows event at unparalleled speed, and always against a background of the most fantastic creatures and horrible men. The Port of Peril, Otis Adelbert Klines concluding novel of Venusian adventure, amply demonstrates his high skill with fast-action science-fiction. It continues the fantastic adventures of Robert Grandon as he encounters the Huitsenni, a weird, buccaneering race.

The Prince of Peril

Otis Adelbert Kline

The second of the three Grandon of Venus novels. When the man who was Harry Thorne on Earth offered to swap bodies with a native of Venus, it was because he was bored with comfort and security, and craved excitement. And that was what he got more than he would have bargained for when he found that he had taken over the assassin-haunted role of a prince of a beleaguered throne in a land of ferocious beasts and inhuman foemen. With the help of the fellow interplanetary traveler Vorn Vangal he got to know the planet and the rules of it. Otis Adelbert Kline, whose work is often compared to that of Edgar Rice Burroughs, has created in The Prince of Peril another interplanetary swordplay and fantastic adventure to stand alongside his fast-selling The Planet of Peril and The Swordsman of Mars.

The Prison Healer. Próby żywiołów

Lynette Noni

Napisane po mistrzowsku powieści Lynette Noni to lektura obowiązkowa dla wszystkich wielbicieli fantasy! Sarah J. Maas   Siedemnastoletnia Kiva Meridan od dziesięciu lat walczy o przetrwanie w owianym złą sławą ciężkim więzieniu Zalindov, gdzie pracuje jako uzdrowicielka. Kiva podtrzymuje przy życiu umierającą Zbuntowaną Królową, która musi wziąć udział w próbie przetrwania przeznaczonej dla najbardziej niebezpiecznych przestępców serii wyzwań związanych z czterema żywiołami: powietrzem, ogniem, wodą i ziemią. Pewnego dnia Kiva otrzymuje zaszyfrowaną wiadomość od bliskich, a w niej krótkie polecenie: Nie daj jej umrzeć. Przybywamy. Kiva wie, że śmiertelnie chora królowa nie ma szansy sprostać wyzwaniom, więc zgłasza się na jej miejsce. Jeśli jej się powiedzie, obie odzyskają wolność. Problem w tym, że nikt jeszcze nie przeżył próby przetrwania.

The Prison Healer. Tom 2. Złota klatka

Lynette Noni

Lynette Noni to mistrzyni opowieści. Must read dla wszystkich, którzy kochają fantasy! Sarah J. Maas   Mroczny i zagadkowy drugi tom trylogii The Prison Healer.   Kiva Meridan zamienia jedną klatkę na drugą, gdy z ciężkiego więzienia trafia do najeżonego niebezpieczeństwami pałacu. Wyszła z opresji obronną ręką. Przetrwała pobyt w Zalindovie, a do tego sprostała wyzwaniom, którym nie miała prawa podołać. Teraz musi nie tylko przeżyć, ale i dokonać zemsty. Przez dziesięć lat pragnęła tylko wrócić do rodziny i ukarać ludzi odpowiedzialnych za jej nieszczęście. Gdy jednak uciekła z Zalindovu, jej misja ogromnie się skomplikowała. Kiva rozpoczyna nowe życie w stolicy, gdzie się dowiaduje, ilu cierpień doświadczyli jej bliscy i jak bardzo zmieniły się ich przekonania. Wkrótce wychodzi na jaw, że nie tylko wrogowie, ale i członkowie rodziny mają przed nią tajemnice.

The Radium Seekers

Fenton Ash

Early science fiction, a cult classic, an enjoyable adventure. The story opens when our hero and his friends go to South America to look for radium, which has anti-gravity properties, and battle with a race of cruel Inca-type people who use the radium to fly, and disguise themselves as giant birds and terrorize the locals. The Radium Seekers is a fairly good novel written by Frank Aubrey. Francis Henry Frank Atkins (18471927) was a British writer of pulp fiction, in particular science fiction aimed at younger readers, writing at least three Lost-World novels along with much else. He wrote under the pseudonyms Frank Aubrey and Fenton Ash.

The Raid of Le Vengeur

George Griffiths

The Raid of Le Vengeur is a mind game of scientists, so to speak. This is a story about dueling military scientists in Britain and France. They are trying to figure out how to unite in a race to learn how to improve their military power with the help of submarines. This story promises to be fascinating.

The Revenge of the Robot and Other Tales

Otis Adelbert Kline

Rebels on the red planet! An Earthman Harry Thorn exchanges personalities with an ancient Martian and pursues a vicious criminal (another Earthman who had been sent earlier) who seeks to destroy Martian civilization. Theres also a race of yellow aliens apart from the hot-looking humanoids, and these guys have a death-ray which becomes important to the conflict. Follow Thornes amazing adventures on this distant world as he attempts to fulfill his obligations. The Swordsman of Mars novel is one of the five planetary romances written by Kline in the 1930s. Considered by many to be the only true equal of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Otis Adelbert Kline was a master of the sword and planet genre. His adventure novels became science-fiction classics.