Damon Knight was a force of nature in the field of science fiction. He moved to New York City when he was 17 to live with science-fiction fans, writers, and editors. He started the Science Fiction Writers of America. With his wife Kate Wilhelm, he influenced generations of writers at writers workshops.
53 Электронные книги Damon Knight
Brian Aldiss & Harry Harrison: Hell’s Cartographers
What motivates great science fiction writers? Why did they choose the genre? Where do they get their ideas? In this illuminating volume, six of the field’s bestselling authors present lively personal …
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Philip K. Dick & C. L. Moore: Space Science Fiction Super Pack
‘Space Science Fiction’ was launched in may of 1952. During it’s impressive run it published many of Science Fiction’s top writers. Collected here in this massive six hundred-plus page anthology are …
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Damon Knight: The Worshippers
Destiny reached out a hand to Algernon Weaver—but he was a timid man, at first. But on the strange world of Terranova, there was much to be learned—of destiny, and other …
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Damon Knight: Special Delivery
All Len had to hear was the old gag: ‘We’ve never lost a father yet.’ His child was not even born and it was thoroughly …
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Damon Knight: The Earth Quarter
The Niori permitted refugees from Earth to
live in their cramped little ghetto conditionally:
that they do so peacefully. But there will always
be patriotic fanatics, like Harkway and Rack,
who …
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Damon Knight: Hell’s Pavement
A voice in your brain warning you away from that one drink too many, or the crime of violence, guiding your every move from birth to death — that’s the Analogue Machine, a terrifying and ingenious …
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Damon Knight: for Anything
We call it a gismo.That’s right, a gismo.A bit difficult to describe. Like a cross, I suppose, without the top part. Sort of two arms on a stand.What happens is this. You hang something on one arm. …
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Damon Knight: Natural State
A collection of cutting-edge SF stories from one of the grand masters of science fiction, including:Rule Golden To protect the galaxy, Aza-Kra came from a world where violence and cruelty ceased to …
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Damon Knight: Beyond the Barrier
He reached for Churan’s throat and his hands closed on air……yet the alien had not moved. With a chill of terror, Naismith realized that his arm had passed completely through the ugly, …
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Damon Knight: Mind Switch
Time Switch at the Zoo.One day Martin Naumchik, reporter for Paris Soir, visited the Berlin Zoo. He was standing outside the spacious cage housing the newly-acquired Brecht Biped, Fritz, when the …
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Damon Knight: Double Meaning
The fate of the Earth Empire hung in the balance — and Security Commissioner Spangler knew it was up to him to find the monster, the Rithian Terror, as some called it. Seven Rithians had landed on …
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Damon Knight: World without Children and The Earth Quarter
Alien Ghetto.The men of Earth were spread thin across the galaxy — and little welcome where they did appear. They lived on sufferance, disliked by their hosts and intent on spreading hatred to the …
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Damon Knight: Man in the Tree
Gene Anderson was born in Oregon, in the twilight post-war years, into the most ordinary circumstances imaginable.Gene is endowed with powers. He can look into the other worlds that are all around …
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Damon Knight: CV
Sea Venture, CV for short, is the largest ocean-going vessel ever built by man. It is not a ship but a huge sea habitat housing a scientific research station, an entire city of two thousand permanent …
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Damon Knight: Observers
Mc Nulty’s Disease has escaped the Sea Venture and is now epidemic on land. The disease kills only a few of its victims…but no one knows what long-term effects it has on those who survive. For the …
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Damon Knight: Reasonable World
Plague…or paradise? 2005 A.D. Six years have passed since the alien Symbionts invaded Sea Venture, Earth’s largest ocean habitat. Now, despite the government’s best attempts at quarantine, the …
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Damon Knight: Why Do Birds
It’s the early 21st century. Ed Stone says he’s been in suspended animation since the 1930s. He says he was kidnapped by aliens. He says they sent him forth on a mission: to convince the nations of …
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Damon Knight: Humpty Dumpty: An Oval
Humpty Dumpty is a breakthrough work for this acknowledged master of the fantastic, an intriguing, entertaining, and immensely appealing novel of a man trying to make sense of a world gone mad. The …
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Damon Knight: Far Out
What would you do if little men in purple uniforms filled your living room with impossible machinery? A machine made it possible to bury your crimes in the future?You were abandoned on an asteroid …
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Damon Knight: In Deep
Take a step forward and fall suddenly into a creeping blob of protoplasm, then discover that your three companions have fallen with you and your bodies have been digested by the ‘thing’.Watch a man …
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Damon Knight: Off Centre
The room was quiet; the man in front of the mirror was the only living things there, and he was too horrified to utter a sound.In the mirror, five faces stared back at him: one young and ruddy, which …
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Damon Knight: Turning On
Brilliant invention, a rich sense of humour, an equal facility for describing ideas and technologies — these are the ingredients of Knight’s extraordinary talent as an SF writer. This collection of …
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Damon Knight: Rule Golden
Five startling and provocative voyages into the future, by one of the most respected authors in science fiction — Rule Golden, Natural State, The Dying Man, Double Meaning and The Earth …
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Damon Knight: Futurians
The Futurian Society was founded in 1938 by thirteen science fiction fans; it never numbered more than twenty, including wives, girl friends and hangers-on; yet out of this small group came seven of …
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Damon Knight: Turning Points
Culled from the most imaginative and provocative minds of the pas thirty years, these pieces demonstrate the vitality and diversity, the excitement and commitment of the writers who helped make …
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Damon Knight: In Search of Wonder
In the decade from 1951 to 1960, Damon Knight was the outstanding critic of science fiction books. Knight’s reviews were not mere statements of his personal preferences — his skillful essays analysed …
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Damon Knight: World and Thorinn
Thorinn went down. He had little choice, since his own father had hurled him into a well.Yet the world was shifting in those days, and Thorinn was to go deeper than his father had ever dreamed; …
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Damon Knight & Kate Wilhelm: Better than One
A collection containing two short stories ("Semper Fi" and "Baby, You Were Great"), seven poems, and autobiographical …
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Damon Knight: Damon Knight SF Gateway Omnibus
Author, editor, critic, fan: few people have had such a great and varied impact on modern SF as Damon Knight. From membership of seminal SF group the Futurians, through years of incisive reviews and …
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S. H. Marpel & Damon Knight: Damon Knight: Golden Age Space Opera Tales
Damon Francis Knight (September 19, 1922 – April 15, 2002) was an American science fiction author, editor and critic. He is the author of ‘To Serve Man’, a 1950 short story adapted for The Twilight Z …
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Damon Knight: Doorway to Kal-Jmar
Two men had died before Syme Rector’s guns to give him the key to the ancient city of Kal-Jmar—a city of untold wealth, and of robots that made desires instant commands.
Damon Knight was a writer …
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Damon Knight: A Likely Story
If you discovered a fantastic power like this, you’d use it benevolently, for the good of the entire human race—wouldn’t you? Sure you would!
A comedy by the author of ‘To Serve Man, ‘ this …
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Damon Knight: Star Beast and two more stories
Three Classic Short Stories from The Golden Age of Science Fiction. Featured here: "The Star Beast", "The Third Little Green Man", and "The Worshippers", all by Damon …
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Damon Knight: Special Delivery and two more stories
Three Classic Short Stories from The Golden Age of Science Fiction. Featured here: "Special Delivery", "The Earth Quarter", and "The Avenger", all by Damon …
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Damon Knight: Doorway to Kal-Jmar and two more stories
Three Classic Short Stories from The Golden Age of Science Fiction. Featured here: "Doorway to Kal-Jmar", "The Beachcomber", and "A Likely Story", all by Damon …
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Damon Knight: Masters of Evolution
SHOWDOWN WITH MONSTERS!Alvah Gustad was typical of New York City’s twenty million …
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Damon Knight: Turning Points: Essays on the Art of Science Fiction
SFWA Grandmaster Damon Knight edits and contributes to this incredible collection of essays on writing, reading, and the nature of science fiction, written by all the greatest science fiction writers …
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Damon Knight: One Side Laughing: Stories Unlike Other Stories
One of science fiction’s preeminent writers for more than forty years, Damon Knight has always been considered a master of the short …
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Damon Knight: Late Knight Edition
A time travel expedition through the stories of SFWA Grandmaster Damon Knight. Here are six of his stories and two essays, including a story never before published.Includes Damon’s analysis of …
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Damon Knight: God’s Nose
SFWA Grandmaster Damon Knight selects some of his favorite …
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Damon Knight: Charles Fort: Prophet of the Unexplained
*With an introduction by R. Buckminster Fuller.*Charles Fort devoted his life to attacking one of the modern world’s most sacred cows: traditional science, with all its authority and all its …
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Damon Knight & Kate Wilhelm: Better Than One
In their only book collaboration, two of science fictions most beloved, award-winning, married writers tackle the same science fiction story premise to get two incredibly different results, and …
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Damon Knight: Rule Golden and Other Stories
Another excellent collection of SFWA Grandmaster Damon Knight’s always-excellent stories—five novellas in this case, generally circling around "the great unsolved problem of politics: how to …
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Damon Knight: Doorway to Kal-Jmar
Two men had died before Syme Rector’s guns to give him the key to the ancient city of Kal-Jmara city of untold wealth, and of robots that made desires instant commands. Damon Knight was a writer, …
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Damon Knight: The Damon Knight Science Fiction MEGAPACK®
The Damon Knight Science Fiction MEGAPACK® showcases the early pulp magazine work of Damon Knight, one of the most acclaimed and influential voices in the science fiction field from the 1950s onward. …
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Eve Fisher & Hal Charles: Black Cat Weekly #138
This issue, we have original mysteries from Eve Fisher (courtesy of Acquiring Editor Michael Bracken), Tony Rothman, and Michael Mallory (courtesy of Acquiring Editor Barb Gof …
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