Bücher von Isaac Asimov

In 1947, Piers Anthony picked up an issue of Astounding Science Fiction, and was transported to a world of fantasy and possibility. More than sixty years later, he has become one of the most prolific authors of fantasy and science fiction. Collected here are ten of Piers Anthony's favorite Golden Age stories, featuring Isaac Asimov, Theodore Sturgeon, Walter M. Miller, Jr., Jack Williamson, Gary Jennings, and more.

From his studies of historical records Immanuel Velikovsky has concluded that close encounters between the Earth and the planet Mars and Venus occurred at about 1500 B.C. and 775 B.C. He believes that these near collisions are responsible for many of the events described in Biblical texts and in other ancient writings. Although Velikovsky's views have not been generally accepted in the scientific community, public interest in them has continued for almost three decades

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Hurling limericks at each other, a dozen at a clip, they charge from the lists (the list includes a gross of limericks by each). It is a brilliant confrontation in one of the English language's oldest and most demandingly rigid traditions.

From the use of metals by prehistoric man to the alchemical experiments of medieval and renaissance man to the complex chemical skills of contemporary man, Asimov traces the development of this building block of our technological world.