A survey team searches for humanity’s future. Immortality becomes a problem with no escape. A mile-high wall hides a secret that has endured for ages. And a strange accident sends an ordinary man somewhere beyond the world he knows.
Lost Sci-Fi Books 126 thru 130 brings together five remarkable stories spanning the 1920s through the 1960s, featuring Philip K. Dick, Clifford D. Simak, Arthur C. Clarke, H. G. Wells and Edward W. Ludwig.
Survey Team by Philip K. Dick — Explorers searching for a new world face a discovery that changes everything they believed about their mission. Is this humanity’s brave new beginning—or has their journey taken them somewhere unexpectedly familiar?
Second Childhood by Clifford D. Simak — Humanity has conquered death, but living forever creates problems no one anticipated. When immortality becomes inescapable, one man begins searching for something eternal life cannot provide.
The Wall of Darkness by Arthur C. Clarke — For countless generations, a colossal wall has divided a planet, concealing whatever lies beyond it. Shervane dares to climb the mile-high barrier and discover the astonishing truth his world was never meant to know.
The Plattner Story by H. G. Wells — After a bizarre accident, Gottfried Plattner finds himself displaced from ordinary reality. He can see the people around him, yet they pass straight through him, unaware that he is even there.
Spacemen Die at Home by Edward W. Ludwig — For one man, an isolated spacecraft offers refuge. For another, it becomes a prison. Far from Earth, survival depends on more than simply keeping a ship flying.
From strange planets and other dimensions to the unexpected consequences of immortality, Lost Sci-Fi Books 126 thru 130 delivers five journeys into the mysteries and possibilities of classic science fiction.
