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Eine Nachricht vom Mond offenbart, dass der verschollene Blasenflicker Hans Pfaall mit einem Ballon eben dorthin geflogen ist. Poes schrullige Sci-Fi-Geschichte war eine der ersten ihrer Art und erklärtes Vorbild für Jules Verne.

Hans Pfaall - diese frühe Science Fiction-Geschichte Edgar Allan Poes diente Jules Verne als Inspiration für seine Romane Von der Erde zum Mond und Reise um den Mond! Nur dass Hans Pfaall für diese Reise nicht aus einer Kanone abgefeuert wird - sondern in einem luftdichten Kautschukballon.

Orson Scott Card, Kevin J. Anderson, and Larry Niven have seen the future. Now you can, too. A constellation of the brightest lights in the science fiction and fantasy firmament have judged these authors to be the best, the brightest, the truest emerging stars in the field.

With The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 3, award-winning editor Neil Clarke provides a year-in-review and 27 of the best stories published by both new and established authors in 2017.

Keeping up-to-date with the most buzzworthy and cutting-edge science fiction requires sifting through countless magazines, e-zines, websites, blogs, original anthologies, single-author collections, and more - a task accomplishable by only the most determined and voracious readers. For everyone else, Night Shade Books is proud to introduce the latest volume of The Best Science Fiction of the Year, collecting the finest that the genre has to offer, from the biggest names in the field to the most exciting new writers.

The brutal struggle for power in post-nuclear America continues for the nine barons who rule the new world order. These emissaries of a long lost race are facing extinction from within their own ranks and from the rebel forces fighting to reclaim earth and expose the horrifying truth of mankind’s heritage. Computer programs from the world before the Skydark are being salvaged and use to power the cities and villes of the 22nd century. An enforcer turned renegade, Kane and his group learn of a mother load of tech hidden deep within the ocean of the western territories.

Written in 1835, this is a unique example of sci-fi wrtten by a man much better known for dark and fantastical horror. Intended by Poe to be a hoax, this tale describes a journey in a balloon that includes the view of the Earth from space and a volcanic, seething satellite.

Soy descendiente de una estirpe cuya imaginación y temperamento fácilmente excitable la destacó en todo momento; y desde la más tierna infancia di muestras de haber heredado plenamente el carácter de la familia. A medida que avanzaba en años, ese carácter se desarrolló con más fuerza y se convirtió por muchos motivos en causa de grave preocupación para mis amigos, y de acusado perjuicio para mí. Crecí con voluntad propia, entregado a los más extravagantes caprichos, y víctima de las más incontrolables pasiones.