Nebula nominee Ross Rocklynne’s awe inspiring cosmic masterpiece, People of the Darkness is a science fiction classic of “vast, nebula-like beings and follows their life courses through billions from galaxy to galaxy.” (The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction) Into the Darkness (1940) Daughter of Darkness (1941) Abyss of Darkness (1942) Revolt of the Devil Star (Variant Title: Rebel of the Darkness) (1951)

Everything your rulers never wanted you to know and you were afraid to ask… Ten classic stories from the birth of modern science fiction writing The Golden Age of Science Fiction, from the early 1940s through the 1950s, saw an explosion of talent in SF writing including authors such as Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, and Arthur C. Clarke. Their writing helped science fiction gained wide public attention, and left a lasting impression upon society. The same writers formed the mould for the next three decades of science fiction, and much of their writing remains as fresh today as it was then. Collected in one giant volume, here is the very best of the golden era. The stories include: • A.E. van Vogt, ‘The Weapons Shop’ • Isaac Asimov, ‘The Big and the Little’ • Lester del Rey, ‘Nerves’ • Fredric Brown, ‘Daymare’ • Theodore Sturgeon, ‘Killdozer!’ • C.L. Moore, ‘No Woman Born’ • A. Bertram Chandler, ‘Giant Killer’

Инопланетяне с первого взгляда обнаружили, что Земля практически мертва. Но живые существа еще бродят по ее поверхности. Найти среди них разумных и помочь им — вот цель для посланцев космоса. Трудная задача…

В сборник вошли рассказы зарубежных авторов XX века, издающиеся на русском языке впервые. Роман О. Ганштейна «Электрополис» воспроизводится по тексту единственной публикации в журнале «Вокруг света» (г. Ленинград, 1929, №№ 27–33)