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Wormhole technology has revealed that our sun will die in 5,000,000 years. A race of superbeings, the fabulous Xeelee, owners of the universe, are thought to be responsible. The bizarre and wealthy cult, the Superet, funds two projects aimed at combatting the force that will murder the sun.

In Skin Folk, with works ranging from science fiction to Caribbean folklore, passionate love to chilling horror, Nalo Hopkinson is at her award-winning best spinning tales like "Precious", in which the narrator spews valuable coins and gems from her mouth whenever she attempts to talk or sing. In "A Habit of Waste", a self-conscious woman undergoes elective surgery to alter her appearance; days later she's shocked to see her former body climbing onto a public bus.

In a galaxy on the edge of cosmic oblivion, one girl must embrace a power she never summoned and fulfill a destiny she never chose. An action-packed, coming-of-age fiction series about a girl who must navigate her way through a purpose she never knew existed. Book One in The Hesaurun Ring Series kickstarts the epic scifi thriller that'll have listeners clutching their seats in suspense and excitement.

Forced to sacrifice herself by disappearing into Earth's distant past to preserve humanity's future and escape a galactic menace even she cannot resist, Valerie begins a new life 7,000 years in the past. She feels safe in this realm until confronted by an alien resource seeker drone determined to reveal the secret of Earth's riches to those that would covet them. The vile thing is quickly destroyed by the awesome power of the five rings, but not soon enough...

Il professor Albert Wilmarth, insegnante di letteratura inglese presso la Miskatonic University, è anche un appassionato studioso del folklore del New England. In seguito ad alcuni suoi articoli sul giornale locale, che tendono a mettere in ridicolo voci di apparizioni di "strani esseri" nei boschi del Vermont, egli viene contattato dallo studioso Henry Akeley, che afferma di aver avuto un contatto ravvicinato con entità aliene sulle colline del Vermont.

Secondo l'"Enciclopedia della Fantascienza" ""A Martian Odyssey" fu il primo tentativo di descrivere la vita su un altro pianeta come un complesso di equilibri biologici, ecologici ed etici, con approfondimento e credibilità, ben lontani dalla descrizione di mostri e mutazioni spesso demenziali che erano la linea generale seguita dagli altri autori del periodo." Tutto ciò vale anche per le altre storie interplanetarie di Stanley Weinbaum, che molti considerano fondamentali per l'evoluzione della fantascienza moderna, e in particolare per questo "I mangiatori di loto".