Harry Harrison was born in Stamford, Connecticut in 1925 and lived in New York City until 1943, when he joined the United States Army. He was a machine-gun instructor during the war, but returned to his art studies after leaving the army. A career first as a commercial illustrator and later as art director and editor for various picture, news, and fiction magazines fitted him only for a lifetime residence in New York, so he changed it for the freelance writer's precarious existence and moved his family to Cuautla, Mexico. Since then he has lived in Kent, Camden, Italy, Denmark, Spain and Surrey; he has now returned to his native land, but he has not ceased to wander. He rationalizes this continual change of residence as essential research, when in reality it is an incurable case of wanderlust that enables him to indulge all his enthusiasms: travel, skiing, practising Esperanto, and making an annual pilgrimage to the Easter Congress of the British Science Fiction Association.

Książę Ason z Myken, Egipcjanin Iteb i Aias z Byblos, uciakając z Atlantydy przed wybuchem wulkanu i przed Atlantydami, dostają się na wyspę Yerni, dzisiejszą Wielką Brytanię.Niespodziewane pojawienie się ekspedycji Atlantydów sprawia, że uciekinierzy, zaprzyjaźnieni z tubylcami, postanawiają zjednoczyć plemiona Yerni, gdyż tylko wtedy mają one szansę w walce z najeźdźcami. Najlepszym na to sposobem wydaje się zbudowanie potężnego kamiennego symbolu nowych czasów…Powieść jest efektem współpracy doskonałego pisarza i światowej sławy archeologa. Tak być nie musiało, ale mogło…

Książę Ason z Myken, Egipcjanin Iteb i Aias z Byblos, uciakając z Atlantydy przed wybuchem wulkanu i przed Atlantydami, dostają się na wyspę Yerni, dzisiejszą Wielką Brytanię.Niespodziewane pojawienie się ekspedycji Atlantydów sprawia, że uciekinierzy, zaprzyjaźnieni z tubylcami, postanawiają zjednoczyć plemiona Yerni, gdyż tylko wtedy mają one szansę w walce z najeźdźcami. Najlepszym na to sposobem wydaje się zbudowanie potężnego kamiennego symbolu nowych czasów…Powieść jest efektem współpracy doskonałego pisarza i światowej sławy archeologa. Tak być nie musiało, ale mogło…

The Daleth Effect was the key to the stars—and Israeli scientist Arnie Klein, its discoverer, knew that the great powers of the world would stop at nothing to control it. Arnie “defected” to tiny, tough Denmark in the hope of being able to carry on his work peacefully.A dramatic, “impossible” rescue of stranded Russian astronauts by a space-going submarine breaks the news to the world, and the squeeze play is on—with Arnie and his adopted country the focus of espionage, blackmail, and frank menace, culminating in the first act of space piracy and a bitterly ironic finale.

Speed never hurt anybody—it's the sudden stop at the end. It's not how much change that signals danger, but how fast it's changing....

Every short story in this wonderfully varied collection has one thing in common: each features some alteration in history, some divergence from historical reality, which results in a world very different from the one we know today. As well as original stories specially commissioned from bestselling writers such as James Morrow, Stephen Baxter and Ken MacLeod, there are genre classics such as Kim Stanley Robinson’s story of how World War II atomic bomber the Enola Gay, having crashed on a training flight, is replaced by the Lucky Strike with profoundly different consequences.

Being an interstellar trouble shooter wouldn’t be so bad … if I could shoot the trouble!

7th Edition of the famous horror series — The Pan Book of Horror Stories, an anthology edited by Herbert Van Thal.