Charles L. Harness Knihy

The third volume in the publisher's resuscitation of Harness contains four short novels, three previously published and the fourth new.

Book by Charles L. Harness

Contents: · The Rose · na Authentic #31 ’53 · The Chessplayers · ss F&SF Oct ’53 · The New Reality · nv Thrilling Wonder Stories Dec ’50

Transported back in time to shortly before the Civil War, William Reynolds finds himself and his time-traveling abilities in the thick of a Confederate plot to use Edgar Allen Poe to win the war for the South

World-saver, or world-breaker? The treaty that ended the civil war decreed that the men of science and the followers of the gods would split all of society between them. Yet Guild apprentice Pol was torn between the logic of science and the lure of faith, unaware that destiny had already chosen a very special role for him to play. For Pol was about to encounter a woman of unique power, the mistress of a mysterious, forbidden castle, who would lead him down the pathways of prophecy to a strange and frightening new world...

L'Aire Nodale : un lieu terrifiant où la matière née de la Profondeur s'ouvre à la vie dans d'atroces convulsions ; le centre géométrique des Douze Galaxies qui forment l'univers, le commencement et la fin du temps et de l'espace... C'est là que la planète Terreur doit subir l'annihilation, pour expier les crimes atroces de sa population maudite. Et c'est là que James Andrek a rendez-vous avec son destin. Chassé de l'anneau galactique par Obéron, l'orgueilleux souverain des mondes habités, Andrek va se retrouver au coeur du plus diabolique des complots, pion impuissant d'une lutte opposant les religions d'Aléa et de Ritornel. Entre la doctrine du hasard capricieux et celle de l'éternel retour, ce n'est pas seulement le sort de la planète Terreur qui est en jeu, mais aussi celui des Douze Galaxies... Chef-d'oeuvre d'imagination, L'anneau de Ritornel a élevé le space opera au rang d'Art Majeur : un univers de terreur et de beauté à ranger aux côtés des meilleurs textes de Cordwainer Smith et d'Alfred Bester.

From the distant dipoles of the universe, two telepathic computers, Largo and Czandra, known as Control, rule over life on all civilized planets. And now, with Project Cancelar, Control has formulated a plan for achieving immortality...a plan which requires as fodder the collapsing of the universe and the destruction of all life. And there is nothing the humans can do. But there is another force in the universe, hidden in the abyss of the Silent Quarter...plotting destruction of Control. A force that is about to be demolished! Before it expires, it launches from its depths a magic ring, an elixir, and a man and a woman in love - riding within the living spirit of a remarkable spaceship to do battle against the cumulative technology of the entire universe.