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Atomgewicht 500 ist ein Science-Fiction-Roman von Hans Dominik aus dem Jahre 1934. Vor knapp 100 Jahren waren die Phänomene der Kernkraft und Radioaktivität bekannt, aber noch nicht vollständig erforscht und wissenschaftlich endgültig erklärt. Die Hoffnung auf eine friedliche, gefahrlose Nutzung als schier unerschöpfliche Quelle von Energie war groß, was sich auch in der zeitgenössischen phantastischen Literatur niederschlug. Unschuldig waren Wissenschaft und Forschung alle...

Atlantis ist ein Science-Fiction-Roman (oder auch utopisch-technischer Roman) des Autors Hans Dominik. „Atlantis” wurde erstmals 1925 veröffentlicht. Man schreibt das Jahr 2000. die politische Lage ist gespannt: Das vereinigte Europa steht amerikanischen und afrikanischen Machtblöcken gegenüber, ein kühnes Projekt soll durchgeführt werden, um einen breiten Seeweg zwischen dem Atlantischen und dem Pazifischen Ozean zu schaffen. Die amerikanische Gesellschaft New Canal Cy. be...

Professor Allgermissen löst das Problem der Gedankenübertragung. Forscher sind mit Hilfe von bestimmten Wellen in der Lage Gedanken zu lesen und zu beeinflussen. Politisch verfeindete Systeme machen sich die moderne Technik zu Nutze, um ihre Gegner auszuspionieren und gelangen somit an die unbeschränkte – im geheimen geführte – Macht. Professor wird jedoch wahnsinnig und stirbt daran. Einen Teil seiner Erfindung gelangt in die Hände des verbrecherischen Abtes Turi Chan, der...

In seinem amerikanischen Stahlwerk stellt James William Roddington eine Vielzahl 100 Meter lange Rohre mit einem Innendurchmesser von einem Meter her. Er verkauft seine Fabriken an einen übermächtigen Konkurrenten, aber von seiner Stahlproduktion möchte er sich nicht trennen – warum? Man munkelt von Riesenkanonen, die er in Auftrag hat. Roddington jedoch lässt die Rohre mit Schiffen zu einer Stelle des Pazifiks transportieren, an der der Meeresgrund durch ein Seebeben bei s...

Im Entscheidungskampf auf der Insel Coiba wird ein Atombrand verursacht. Trotz aller Versuche kann er nicht „gelöscht” werden. Vom Planeten Venus werden verschlüsselte Signale von deren ehemaligen Siedlern – den Uraniden – empfangen. Diese enthalten wertvolle Informationen über Techniken und Innovationen, die weit über das menschliche Wissen hinausgehen. Der letzte Uranide, der mit seinem Wissen die Erde noch retten könnte, ist jedoch tot. Die Suche nach dem „Erbe” beginnt....

Asymilacja i proces utożsamiania się człowieka z obcą ojczyzną ukazane z dwóch perspektyw: przez Nikolaja Brandeisa, który usilnie stara się nie być zaszufladkowany, oraz Pawła Bernheima, żyda, który utracił własną tożsamość.

„Romanowa” to na wskroś autentyczna powieść poruszająca problem alkoholizmu oraz współalkoholizmu. Pokazuje ona bezradność wobec nałogu oraz szkody, jakie wyrządza wszystkim żyjącym w otoczeniu alkoholika.

‘‘Ce fut lui, le premier, qui vit la première lueur. Un cri lui échappa, tandis que ses deux mains s’agitaient frénétiquement en l’air. Et, presque aussitôt, comme des étincelles qui crépitent de tous les côtés, d’autres cris s’éparpillèrent dans le silence, qui se reforma instantanément, plus lourd et plus épais.’’ L’extraordinaire énigme des trois yeux. Voulez-vous savoir les réponses?

When Sir Edward Leithen leaves London to spend Whitsuntide as a guest at Flambard, he has no idea of the extraordinary sequence of events about to unfold. Among the collection of fellow guests, some of whom he knows and some he doesn’t, is the extraordinary mind of Professor Moe, a scientist who decides to select some of the houseguests as subjects for his latest experiment. He declares that he can make sure they can see into the future, and the people he chooses – for vari...

Ernest Bramah was an English author who wrote popular books in many different genres including humor, detective fiction and science fiction. A lively and amusing collection of letters sent from a highly bemused Chinaman sojourning amongst the English barbarians in the first decade of the 19th century to his revered father back home, with a view to coming to grips with their inferior culture, which he singularly fails to do, resulting in much ’loss of gravity’. These are thi...

„The secret of the league” is a dystopian novel written by Ernest Bramah in 1907. It was first published as „What might have been: the story of a social war”, but later was republished in 1909 as „The secret of the league. „The Secret of the League” is kind of an underground oddity of a novel. It’s a prophetic-warning novel, science fiction before that term was coined, largely sociopolitical but also with some charming technical extrapolations. The story centers around one ...

The novel tells the prophetic story of man’s harnessing of the newly-discovered power of the atom, how this power nearly destroys civilization in a catastrophic war and foreshadows nuclear warfare years before research began and describes the chain reactions involved and the resulting radiation. It is presented as a history of the important events of the 20th century, jumping back and forth amongst narratives of different eyewitnesses and major players in those events. „The...

This book was written in 1899, and is one of the last science-fiction books Wells wrote before his turn towards social realism in his writing. In this dystopian novel, Graham falls into a coma-like sleep, a sleep that he wakes from some 203 years in the future. But times have changed. Due to the wise investments of a board of trustees, Graham’s money has compounded into the greatest fortune the world has ever seen, and the trustees have used it to virtually enslave the enti...

Like „The Time Machine”, this book may be considered as a further romance of the fourth dimension. „The Wonderful Visit” was paid by an angel, who by some accident, had got out of the angel into the human world, where his is accidentally shot by a vicar. The angel had trouble adjusting to life in a small English town. „The Wonderful Visit” is an 1895 novel by H. G. Wells. With an angel – a creature of fantasy unlike a religious angel – as protagonist and taking place in con...

Dedicated to all schoolmasters and schoolmistresses and every teacher in the world, this re-interpretation of the Book of Job is one of the author’s finest discussion novels. Written in 1918, this is the story of Job Huss, the headmaster of a progressive school. It is saturated with the ideas of educational reform and of the teaching of world history as the basis for a common civilization and is one of his most ambitious dialogue narratives. Essentially it is a modernized p...

Bert Smallways is the unlikely protagonist, a kind of Edwardian Mod, not interested in a steady career, always looking for a good time, riding his proto-scooter down to Brighton at the weekends. When Bert is accidentally scooped up by a German fleet, on its way to launch a surprise attack on the United States, he finds himself with a front row seat to the greatest war that has ever been – the war in the air! This new war is to be a different sort of war than all the wars th...

Decades ahead of his time, H.G. Wells leaps beyond the bounds of conventional imagination to tell the story of the Time Traveler. A seminal and hugely imaginative work of early science fiction, H.G. Wells’s „The Time Machine” is the first and greatest modern portrayal of time-travel and definitely a spiritual ancestor of every time travel story since. The book introduces a scientist who uses a Time Machine to be transferred into the age of a slowly dying earth. Humans have ...

One of the most famous science-fiction stories ever written, „The War of the Worlds” helped launch the entire genre by exploiting the concept of interplanetary travel. Thirty-five million miles into space, a species of Martians sets eyes on planet Earth. With their own planet doomed for destruction, the Martians prepare to invade. Their weapons are ready and their aim is ruthless. The war of the worlds is about to begin. „The War of the Worlds” describes the fictional 1895 ...

This is a short novel about a nineteen century Englishman who falls in a deep sleep only to awake over two hundred years later. The World has changed beyond recognition, and „The Sleeper” finds himself in a remarkable predicament – he has become the owner of the entire planet. However, his awakening profoundly shakes this state of affairs, and he suddenly finds himself at the very center of revolutionary social upheavals and a struggle for the ultimate power. But when he co...

„The Shape of Things to Come” is one of the great classics of science fiction. Originally written in 1929, this masterly work of science fiction has already confirmed H G Wells’ status as a remarkable soothsayer, and provides glimpses of what is perhaps yet to come. The book is written as a sort of historical account. It tells of how a world state could be considered an answer to Earth’s problems. After a large plague wipes out much of humanity, a dictatorship takes over, t...

Herbert George Wells is a huge name in the world of literature. He is known as the king of Science Fiction stories. He was an accomplished teacher, a best-selling novelist, a historian and a journalist, however, he established his name in the world through his passion for writing and will be remembered forever as „Father of Science Fiction”. „The King Who Was a King – The Book of a Film” is a fascinating treatise on the development of film written by H. G. Wells and first p...

Depicting one man’s transformation and descent into brutality, H.G. Wells’s „The Invisible Man” is a riveting exploration of science’s power to corrupt. In this tale of psychological terror, a young scientist must live in the personal hell created by his own experiments. Using himself as the subject, the scientist discovers the key to invisibility; yet, he is unable to reverse the results. He successfully carries out this procedure on himself, but begins to become mentally ...

On a deceivingly beautiful island in the South Seas exists the sinister kingdom of Doctor Moreau. Edward Prendick is shipwrecked in the Pacific. Rescued by Doctor Moreau’s assistant he is taken to the doctor’s island home where he discovers the doctor has been experimenting on the animal inhabitants of the island, creating bizarre proto-humans...The main plot, a shunned biologist, Dr. Moreau, attempting to create a new species of animals by combining biological elements of ...

What happens when science tampers with nature? Mr. Bensington and Mr. Redwood create a new food material, Herakleophorbia, later called Boomfood, they hope will have beneficial uses to mankind. They come up with a substance that causes flora, fauna, and people to become giants. At first, there are giant nettles, mushrooms – but then it ramps up, with giant rats that can take down and eat horses and wasps so large one could hear them half a mile off. In the end it becomes a ...