Five Classic Science Fiction Tales of Transformation, Temptation, Alien Worlds, and the Dangerous Desire to Change Destiny
What happens when the human body can be remade, desire becomes impossible to resist, and the past itself is suddenly within reach? Lost Sci-Fi Books 416 thru 420 brings together five imaginative stories in which ordinary boundaries disappear and the consequences quickly become anything but ordinary.
Transformation by Mary Shelley begins with a proud young man whose reckless choices lead to a bizarre bargain with a mysterious stranger—and a terrifying exchange he never imagined possible.
In The Irresistible Perfume by Harold Lawlor, science produces a fragrance with an extraordinary effect on anyone who encounters it. What appears to be an astonishing breakthrough soon creates complications its inventor never anticipated.
The Mercurian by Frank Belknap Long carries us to the hostile reaches of Mercury, where humanity encounters a strange native life-form in an environment unlike anything on Earth.
Fritz Leiber turns his attention to time itself in Try and Change the Past, where a man discovers that going backward is one thing—altering what has already happened is something else entirely.
And in A World To Die For by Sam Carson, the promise of another world becomes a journey into danger where survival may depend on understanding the truth before there is no way back.
From Mary Shelley, one of the earliest pioneers of science fiction, to celebrated masters Frank Belknap Long and Fritz Leiber, this collection spans generations of imaginative storytelling. Strange transformations, alien encounters, dangerous inventions and impossible second chances await in five stories rescued from science fiction’s remarkable past.
