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Der Science-Fiction-Klassiker endlich auch als Hörbuch. Millionen Jahre in der Zukunft: Die Sonne ist auf das Hundertfache ihrer Größe angewachsen. Erde und Mond stehen still und haben sich einander bis auf wenige tausend Kilometer angenähert. Im immerwährenden Sonnenlicht der Tagseite hat sich ein gewaltiger Dschungel aus fleischfressenden Pflanzen entwickelt. Was auf der in ewige Dunkelheit getauchten Nachtseite ist, weiß niemand. Dies ist die Geschichte von Gren, der sich mit seiner Gefährtin aufmacht, dieses Rätsel zu lösen - und sich auf seiner Reise unzähligen Gefahren stellen muss.

Thomas C. Squire, creator of the hit documentary series Frankenstein Among the Arts, one-time secret agent and founder of the Society for Popular Aesthetics, is attending an international media symposium in Sicily. It is here that he becomes involved with lovely, but calculating Selina Ajdina. Alongside the drama of the conference is the story of Squire's private life—the tale of his infidelity, the horrifying circumstances surrounding his father's death, and the threatened future of his ancestral home in England.

Grand Master Brian W. Aldiss wrote his wonderfully strange and gripping novella The Saliva Tree, as a tribute to H. G. Wells, the immortal author of The Time Machine and War of the Worlds, and it was honored with a Nebula Award. Included alongside this classic tale of creeping alien terror are nine other sparkling gems of short fiction—from the grisly baby steps of a novice serial killer, to the travels of a history professor through alternate worlds, to the journey of a young widow who has both a murderer and a monster vying for her attention.

In a future where the Earth has been savaged by overpopulation and over-farming, robots are considered more valuable than humans, and sand must be altered to create artificially fertile soil. Ex-convict Knowle Noland, the hallucinating sea captain of the Trieste Star, finds himself wrapped up in a plot to incite a global war that will wipe out millions. War, it seems, is the only way to drastically reduce the population and create a better world for those who survive.