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Searching for his mother, a young bear finds his own independence.

A pair of geese build a nest and raise their goslings until they all fly south together.

Deathworld centers on Jason dinAlt, a professional gambler who uses his erratic psionic abilities to tip the odds in his favor. While visiting the planet Cassylia, he is challenged by a man named Kerk Pyrrus (an ambassador of the planet Pyrrus) to turn a large amount of money into an immense sum by gambling at a government-run casino. He succeeds and survives the planetary government''s desperate efforts to take back the money. Bothered that he may finally have met someone superior to him, he decides to accompany Kerk to Pyrrus, despite being warned that it is the deadliest world ever colonized by humans.

The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, probably written in 1610-1611, and thought to be one of the last plays that Shakespeare wrote alone.

These sellected SF stories are set in a near future and cover an assortment of social systems including anarchy, communism, technocracy, syndicalism, meritocracy, various forms of socialism, and an extrapolation of free-enterprise economics, People''s Capitalism. Reynolds'' heroes seek to improve their societies by direct revolutionary action. Contents: - Revolution - Combat - Freedom - Subversive - Mercenary - Ultima Thule - Black Man''s Burden - Border, Breed nor Birth - Frigid Fracas - Status Quo - Dogfight - 1973 - Potential Enemy - Off Course - After Some Tomorrow - Happy Ending - Unborn Tomorrow - I''m a Stranger Here Myself - Summit - Medal of Honor - Gun for Hire - Farmer - Mercenary - The Common Man - Expediter - Spaceman on a Spree - Adaptation

The storyline follows the adventures of Homer Crawford, a charismatic leader of the Reunited Nations African Development Project, Sahara Division team. He is an American black and an ex-Marine with a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Michigan who speaks Arabic, Esperanto, French, Tamabeq, Songhoi, and Swahili. The central themes of these stories are the subversion of a society''s status quo in the name of socioeconomic progress and the continual search for a better society.

Musaicum Books presents to you this meticulously edited Mack Reynolds collection. This book has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Content: Ultima Thule Black Man''s Burden Border, Breed nor Birth Frigid Fracas Status Quo Dogfight - 1973 Potential Enemy Off Course After Some Tomorrow Happy Ending Unborn Tomorrow I''m a Stranger Here Myself Summit Revolution Combat Medal of Honor Gun for Hire Freedom Farmer Mercenary Subversive The Common Man Expediter Spaceman on a Spree Adaptation

This book edition has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The plot of "Adaptation" is set far in the future where social experiments need to bring long-lost space colonies to contemporary levels of technology. In "Ultima Thule" the main focus is on fragility of society and its relation with the technological progress. Both stories are written as an allegory of everlasting argument - which society is better: capitalist or communist?

e-artnow presents to you this meticulously edited Harry Harrison collection. Contents: - Deathworld - The Stainless Steel Rat - Planet of the Damned - The Repairman - The Misplaced Battleship - The Ethical Engineer - Toy Shop - Arm of the Law - The Velvet Glove - The K-Factor - Navy Day

Jason is kidnapped by the self-righteous Mikah, who is determined to bring him back to the planet Cassylia, ostensibly to be tried for his various crimes but really (Cassylia does not want Jason returned, since his huge winnings have been spent and the planet has used the incident to promote the "honesty" of its casino) to help Mikah''s movement to overthrow the government, which they consider corrupt. Jason forces a crash-landing on a planet where the human population has regressed. The technology is extremely primitive and knowledge is split up among many small clans, each one jealously monopolizing what it knows. Jason uses his ingenuity to survive, trading his knowledge for protection and power in one of these clans. He eventually allies with a clan which has the knowledge of electricity. He creates innovations and machinery for the clan, in the process devising a crude device that signals his location to a spaceship piloted by his Pyrran girlfriend, Meta. AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY Harry Max Harrison (1925 - 2012) was an American science fiction author, known, among other, for his character The Stainless Steel Rat and for his novel Make Room! Make Room! (1966). The latter was the rough basis for the motion picture Soylent Green (1973). Long resident in both Ireland and the United Kingdom, Harrison was involved in the foundation of the Irish Science Fiction Association, and was, with Brian Aldiss, co-president of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group. Jason is kidnapped by the self-righteous Mikah, who is determined to bring him back to the planet Cassylia, ostensibly to be tried for his various crimes but really (Cassylia does not want Jason returned, since his huge winnings have been spent and the planet has used the incident to promote the "honesty" of its casino) to help Mikah''s movement to overthrow the government, which they consider corrupt. Jason forces a crash-landing on a planet where the human population has regressed. The technology is extremely primitive and knowledge is split up among many small clans, each one jealously monopolizing what it knows. Jason uses his ingenuity to survive, trading his knowledge for protection and power in one of these clans. He eventually allies with a clan which has the knowledge of electricity. He creates innovations and machinery for the clan, in the process devising a crude device that signals his location to a spaceship piloted by his Pyrran girlfriend, Meta.

Après le long sommeil, un ourson se réveille. Sa mère est partie. Il est l''heure d''affronter la vie. Ce récit voisin de la documentation est rehaussé d''excellentes illustrations.