M. P. Shiel

Dieser Band enthält folgende Science Fiction Romane: Raumschiff TERRA NOVA und das Erbe der Sterne (Alfred Bekker) Commander im Niemandsland (Alfred Bekker) Das Riesen-Atom (Malcolm Jameson) Die violette Wolke (M.P.Shiel) Ein Sohn der Sterne (Fenton Ash) Die große Kuppel auf Merkur (Arthur Leo Zagat) Der Schiffsarzt ist ein Echsenmensch (Alfred Bekker) Die telosianische Zweikopfkatze (Alfred Bekker) Die Mission der zerfallenden Sphäre (Alfred Bekker) Im Jahr 2234 übernimmt Commander Willard J. Reilly das Kommando über die STERNENKRIEGER, ein Kampfschiff des Space Army Corps der Humanen Welten. Die Menschheit befindet sich im wenig später ausbrechenden ersten Krieg gegen die außerirdischen Qriid in einer Position hoffnungsloser Unterlegenheit. Dem ungehemmten Expansionsdrang des aggressiven Alien-Imperiums haben die Verteidiger der Menschheit wenig mehr entgegenzusetzen, als ihren Mut und ihre Entschlossenheit. Alfred Bekker ist ein bekannter Autor von Fantasy-Romanen, Krimis und Jugendbüchern. Neben seinen großen Bucherfolgen schrieb er zahlreiche Romane für Spannungsserien wie Ren Dhark, Jerry Cotton, Cotton reloaded, Kommissar X, John Sinclair und Jessica Bannister. Er veröffentlichte auch unter den Namen Neal Chadwick, Henry Rohmer, Conny Walden, Sidney Gardner, Jack Raymond, Jonas Herlin, Adrian Leschek, John Devlin, Brian Carisi, Robert Gruber und Janet Farell

In the Calle Las Gabias - one of those by-streets of Lisbon below St. Catherine - there occurred one New Year a little event in the Synagogue there worth a mention in this history of Richard, Lord of the Sea.

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Prince Zaleski, an exiled Russian nobleman, inhabits a half-ruined abbey in Wales, where he spends most of his time smoking cannabis and opium, reading from his library of medieval books, or admiring his collection of rare curios dating from ancient antiquity. His retirement from the world is occasionally interrupted by his friend Shiel, who comes to seek Zaleski's help in solving mysteries that have baffled the greatest minds in Britain: In "The Race of Orven," Zaleski must unravel a case involving a burglary, a murder, a floating phantasm, and three severed fingers. In "The Stone of the Edmundsbury Monks," the prince races against time to solve the mystery of a jewel from the Crusades that may cause a man's death. And in the final story in the collection, "The S.S.," an inexplicable wave of thousands of apparent suicides puts Zaleski to the ultimate test and leads to a deeply disturbing conclusion. [Source

Published in 1901, M. P. Shiel's The Purple Cloud is an early "last man" science fiction novel. Foretold by a priest as being against the will of God, Adam Jeffson's Arctic expedition unleashes a terrible fate on the world - a mysterious purple cloud that spreads far into the heavens and across the earth. Jeffson returns to the horror of finding the entire crew dead onboard his ship, and, as he gradually realizes, the entire population of the planet has been wiped out. Descending into a madness, he burns cities, declares himself a monarch with no subjects, attempts to create an enormous golden palace for God and for himself. But everything changes as he discovers he is not the only person left, stumbling upon a naked young woman without any knowledge of the world that once stood.