There is a real war between the residents of estates turned into fortresses and gangs of punks. And only once a year, on Armistice Day, hostilities are suspe...

Here is an author's collection of short stories from Clifford Simak, a master of the “humanitarian” SF genre! This time we will talk about strange and myster...

The hero - Daniels - as a result of a car accident, acquired paraabilities: - sometimes he is suddenly transported at the same point in space, to the distant...

Raccoon Valley is a run-down, farming region, located off the main roads. Newbie farmer Reginald Heath, after his arrival, the prosperity of a poor but pleas...

Riben Clay was a modest, reserved man; he was once even nicknamed the Van Gogh of the Cosmos. Year after year, Anson Lathrop followed Riben Clay's trail from...

In K. Simak’s story “The Fence,” powerful aliens take care of earthlings, provide them with everything they need and... keep them behind the fence. The earth...

People have learned to fly to the stars. They found a lot of good planets. Better than Earth. Much better. They built many ships. Everyone who wanted to flew...

Jerome Duncan, a science fiction writer, decided to go to Old Earth in search of local color and inspiration, and found the robot Philbert, who had lain in t...

They waited for five hundred years before taking action. Perhaps they delayed out of precaution or in the hope of finding some other way. Or maybe time count...

Henderson James illegally kept an animal called a poodle on Earth. The behavior of the poodle is subject to the law of self-preservation, which makes him fea...

We don't have cars because this one is enough for us. She answers questions. Our ancestors spent millennia making sure she would tell the truth. They didn't ...

The topic of sudden acquisition of supernatural abilities by ordinary people has been repeatedly raised in science fiction. What will happen if a weak-minded...