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The City of the Sun is a dialogue between «a Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller and a Genoese Sea-Captain,» The book describes a theocratic society where goods, women and children are held in common. It also resembles the City of Adocentyn in the Picatrix, an Arabic guide to magical town planning. In the final part of the work, Campanella prophesies – in the veiled language of astrology – that the Spanish kings, in alliance with the Pope, are destined to be the instruments of a Divine Plan: the final victory of the True Faith and its diffusion in the whole world.

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Decrypting a 500 year-old document from a distant planet is like looking for a needle in a haystack. You can see some of the themes from Dune in their infancy here.

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Mercury is a lush, hot world. Mel Grey and a group of pioneers and prisoners are working hard to make the planet habitable for man kind. But there are those who would have the world all for themselves. Romance and adventure await Mel Grey on this savage planet!

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What will the final evolution be, and will we recognize it when it arrives? A thought provoking story on the ultimate destination of all life.

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Keith Laumer was well-known for his science fiction action and adventure stories. «It Could Be Anything» shows us a different side of his talent. In this original, thought-provoking story he explores and redefines the meaning of meaning.

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One man, alone, could not stand off the irresistible march of nothingness. One man, all alone, simply couldn’t do it.

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A surreal dreamscape in which the narrator wanders through his garden in the moonlight and sees strange and bizarre things.

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A lighthouse keeper engages upon a peculiar fantasy in which a robed, bearded man is piloting a mystical white ship which appears when the moon is full, walking out across the water on a bridge of moonbeams to join him, and together they explore a mystical chain of islands unlike anything that can be found on Earth.

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In a dream, the countryside is, every year, ravaged by terrible hill people who kidnap citizens and perform cruel rituals at a Sabbath.

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An entity haunts a dilapidated house near a cemetery, and because it cannot be perceived by the five senses, it earns itself the term unnamable.