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Eric Frank Russell

    6 gennaio 1905 – 28 febbraio 1978

    Eric Frank Russell è stato un autore britannico celebrato per i suoi romanzi e racconti di fantascienza. Gran parte della sua opera iniziale apparve nelle pionieristiche riviste pulp americane, dove esplorò temi complessi con una voce distintiva. Oltre alla fantascienza, Russell si dedicò anche all'horror e scrisse intriganti articoli di saggistica su argomenti non convenzionali. La sua scrittura è riconosciuta per la sua profondità intellettuale e la sua portata immaginativa.

    Design for Great-Day
    Exiles
    La caccia
    Schiavi degli invisibili
    Galassia che vai
    Wade Harper, investigatore
    • Exiles

      3 Novellas

      • 159pagine
      • 6 ore di lettura

      Second in the series of classic SF novellas edited by Ben BovaGypsy by Poul Anderson...And Then There Were None by Eric Frank RussellProfession by Isaac Asimov

      Exiles
      3,8
    • Design for Great-Day

      • 256pagine
      • 9 ore di lettura

      When a strange starship appears mysteriously on a distant alien world, bearing only a single human and his bee-like extraterrestrial companion, the powerful warlord of that world laughs at the stranger's preposterous demand: End an all-out war with an interstellar rival, or face devastating consequences. But James Lawson, emissary from an intergalactic federation of advanced race, means every word he says, and has the power to back them up—whatever the cost.Cover Art by Gary Ruddell

      Design for Great-Day
      3,6
    • A band of shipwrecked spacemen making their way across a world so fierce that all Earth's jungles tame by comparison...A future euthanasia agency with a double-barreled scientific secret...The unexpected problem of a lone astronaut with an entire ocean world to himself...These are some of the science-fiction premises that Eric Frank Russell has cooked up in his new collection of novelettes and stories. SOMEWHERE A VOICE is a book worthy of the brilliant talents of the author of THE SPACE WILLIES and SENTINELS FROM SPACE.Somewhere A VoiceU-TurnSeat of OblivionTielineDisplaced PersonDear DevilI Am Nothing

      Somewhere a voice
    • Bruna Science Fiction - 41: Wesp

      • 192pagine
      • 7 ore di lettura

      The war has raged for nearly a year and Earth desperately needs an edge to overcome the Sirian Empire's huge advantage in personnel and equipment. That's where James Mowry comes in. Intensively trained, his appearance surgically altered, Mowry secretly lands on one of the Empire's planets. His mission: to sap morale, cause mayhem, tie up resources, and wage a one-man war on a planet of 80 million--in short, to be like the wasp buzzing around a car to distract the driver...and causing him to crash. "I'd have given anything to have written Wasp."--Terry Pratchett.

      Bruna Science Fiction - 41: Wesp
      4,0
    • Science Fiction Stories 40

      • 126pagine
      • 5 ore di lettura

      Enthält folgende Stories: Eric Frank Russell: Maschinenwelt Michael G. Coney: Kommunikationsproblem Clifford D. Simak: Live von Stella IV Norman Spinrad: Die Super-Show

      Science Fiction Stories 40
      3,5
    • De kosmische bondgenoot

      • 180pagine
      • 7 ore di lettura

      Scout-Officer John Leeming knew from the very start that his reconnaissance mission deep into enemy territory would likely be a one-way trip. But, after he crash-lands on a far distant planet and becomes a prisoner of ruthless aliens, he knows he can't just give up. Armed with only a piece of wood, a coil of copperlike wire, his quick wits, and an imaginary ally called Eustace, Leeming embarks on a brilliant campaign to gain his freedom--and undermine the alien war effort, too. This original, full-length version of one of Russell's most popular stories, "Plus X," is amusing, adventurous, fast moving, and razor sharp. Poking fun at bone-headed and inflexible bureaucrats and institutions, it ranks among his very best work. Also known as "The Space Willies" when published as part of an Ace Double: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

      De kosmische bondgenoot
      3,9
    • De grote uittocht

      • 195pagine
      • 7 ore di lettura

      Toen Johannes Blieder per ongeluk de revolutionaire uitvinding deed waarmee de sterren binnen bereik kwamen, vond er prompt een ware uittocht van de planeet af plaats. Grote en kleine groepen mensen, avonturiers en gelukzoekers maar vooral onwelkome sekten en minderheden, vlogen uit toen ze eindelijk de kans geboden kregen om een eigen paradijs te stichten, ergens in het wijde heelal. Meer dan zestienhonderd verre planeten werden in bezit genomen door zulke groepen Aardbewoners. Het overhaaste vertrek van al deze mensen ontwrichtte de Aardse samenleving, waardoor er een eind kwam aan de ongebreidelde kolonisatiedrift. Maar dan, na vierhonderd jaar zonder onderling contact, vindt de Oude Aarde dat de tijd gekomen is om de ontvluchte kinderen van de planeet weer aan de borst te klemmen en zij stuurt een armada van ruimteschepen vol soldaten, ambtenaren en abassadeurs uit om de 'kolonies' tot één verenigd koninkrijk te smeden. Tijdens die vierhonderd eenzame jaren hebben de nieuwe werelden wel geleerd op eigen benen te staan. En de vier hemelsbreed van elkaar verschillende planeten die door een van deze schepen vol bemoeials worden aangedaan, moeten dan ook niets hebben van de oude, zelfvoldane Aarde, en ze laten dat kernachtig voelen...

      De grote uittocht
      3,9
    • Mensen, Martianen, machines

      • 191pagine
      • 7 ore di lettura

      Een ruimteschip, bemand met mensen en Marsbewoners, bezoekt andere hemellichamen.

      Mensen, Martianen, machines
      3,5
    • Negen verhalen:Aan het eind van de regenboogDe avond valtRichting Grote DagDe zetel der verdoemdenEerste persoon enkelvoudDe getuigeVierenveertig kamelen en een dromedarisMetamorfMana

      Aan het eind van de regenboog
      3,4
    • Duiveltjelief

      • 160pagine
      • 6 ore di lettura

      Contains: DE DENKER (The Ponderer, 1962) DUIVELTJELIEF (Dear Devil, 1950) LEST BEST (Early Bird, 1957) SPIRO (Spiro (Ventures of the Martian Mimics)

      Duiveltjelief
      3,5
    • Unterwegs in die Welt von morgen

      • 351pagine
      • 13 ore di lettura

      Menschen, Marsianer und Maschinen/New York 1999 - 2 SF-Romane - bk118; Verlag "Das Beste"; Eric Frank Russell/Harry Harrison; Paperback; 1991

      Unterwegs in die Welt von morgen
    • Seelen-Transfer

      Von Menschen im All Und von Fremden auf Terra vier klassische SF-Storys

      Seelen-Transfer
    • Plus X

      • 125pagine
      • 5 ore di lettura
      Plus X
    • Science Fiction Stories 19

      • 141pagine
      • 5 ore di lettura

      Enthält folgende Stories: Eric Frank Russell: Der X-Faktor Robert Bloch: Schwarzer Lotos Arthur C. Clarke: Der Traum von Comarre

      Science Fiction Stories 19