Space Travel Fiction

This early novella by Clifford Simak includes many elements which have become staples in science fiction literature: alien invasion, time travel and the multiverse. The future entire Earth is threatened by the invasion of a phantasmal force known as the Black Horror, which appears to be impervious to all weapons developed by man. To where will Dr Silas White turn for the rescue of the planet?

In the far future the ruler of the world is losing as the rebels fight their way into his palace. He retreats upwards to the room where his newly developed time machine sits waiting. His plan is to jump back in time to recruit an unstoppable army which he’ll use to take back the entire world. Of course, plans don’t always come off without a hitch.

Residents of 1960 Chicago produce a radio show to leave in a time capsule for future generations to learn how wonderful 1960s man was. When the capsule is discovered by time travelers, they can hear only the despicable thoughts of the cast.

After spending the last century off-planet in the Kuiper Belt, exo-miner Quatrain Dyer awakens from stasis to an agonizing toothache and an unnerving sense of displacement. Why is he in his hive's old recspace? Why is all his gear still here? And why hasn't the reintegration team from CAGE Dynamics met him? The answers Quatrain discovers will turn his reality inside out