Showing results by author "James Gordon" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

Twenty-four of the greatest science fiction stories of all time in this fourth sci-fi short story collection, including works by Jerry Dunham, Emmett Dowell, James Causey, Gordon Randall Garrett, James A. Cox, Phyllis Sterling Smith, Richard A. Sternbach, Robert Sheckley, E. G. Von Wald, Keith Laumer, Jerome Bixby, Frederik Pohl, Roger Dee, Arnold Marmore, James H. Schmitz, Lester del Rey, Cordwainer Smith, Ray Bradbury, and Philip K. Dick.

As Annie Guevara becomes the embodiment of the sacred scroll, the forces of nature are bent to her will, and she unleashes the Final Cataclysm upon the world, wherein all life must be destroyed. Caesar, Galton, Fiero, and Lady Adelaide regroup in San Pedro, Belize, and a plan is hatched to attempt to stop Annie's devastating judgment, but when death claims one of the remaining four, things go in an unforeseen direction, plunging the group headlong into danger as cities and nations collapse around them.

Caesar, Galton, and Fiero set sail aboard the inter-island freighter the Lucky Lady, and their search for the Sacred Scroll leads them to the Bermuda Triangle, the gateway to a captivating underwater paradise filled with beautiful women. As the fate of the world still hangs in the balance, the heroic trio band together to stop the destruction before the powers of the scroll are unleashed.

Caesar Guevara finds himself back in a rundown L.A. neighborhood following the death of his daughter and a bitter divorce. When all seemed hopeless, an unexpected visitor offers him a chance to find his way back. What begins as a spirited hunt for a precious artifact in the jungles of Peru eventually mushrooms into a crisis of epic proportion. After the ancient tribal artifact is removed from a newly discovered temple, the four elements are unleashed with devastating results, and a full-blown war erupts between the forces of good and evil.

The acclaimed screenwriter of such Hollywood cult classics as The Thing with Two Heads and Bigfoot turns his creative talent to this epic sword-and-sorcery adventure. Armed with sharp steel and iron resolve, the deposed Queen Sheela sets out for the mysterious Southern Lands to raise an army of allies to liberate her people.

An anthology of short stories of spaceships, aliens, and the outer worlds by classic Science Fiction authors, from the Golden Age to the New Wave Era. This compilation includes stories by William Bender, Jr., Ray Bradbury, G. Gordon Dewey, Charles E. Fritch, Edward W. Ludwig, James V. McConnell, Stanley Mullen, Robert Silverberg, Jerry Sohl, Henry Slesar, and L.J. Stecher Jr.