Egon Friedell (1878-1938) war ein österreichischer Schriftsteller, Kulturphilosoph, Religionswissenschaftler, Historiker, Dramatiker, Theaterkritiker, Journalist, Schauspieler, Kabarettist und Conférencier. Aus dem Buch: "Aber der Zeitreisende war durch die Abenteuer seiner Fahrt in die Zukunft mißtrauisch und nüchtern geworden. Er verwies auf die großen Gefahren einer solchen Unternehmung. Zunächst sei es völlig unsicher, ob er nicht in eine Eisperiode gelangen und sogleich bei seiner Ankunft jämmerlich erfrieren würde, denn die einzelnen Abschnitte des Jura ließen sich bei dem heutigen Stande der Wissenschaft nur mit einer Genauigkeit von zwei- bis dreimalhunderttausend Jahren berechnen. Also sei vielleicht das Turmzimmer seines Laboratoriums, in dem die Zeitmaschine steht, bei seiner Landung ein Eisblock und er mitten drin! (Ich brauche wohl kaum daran zu erinnern, daß sich die Zeitmaschine nur in der Früherspäterdimension bewegt, der Ort, an dem sie sich befindet, aber stets der gleiche bleibt.) Ja, wer verbürge ihm, ob er überhaupt auf Festland träfe? Wisse man denn auch nur annähernd, wie die Gegend von Richmond in der Jurazeit ausgesehen habe? Vielleicht war sie ein Golfstrom, vierhundert Meter unter dem Meeresspiegel. Vielleicht aber auch das Kerngebiet eines aktiven Kraters."

2284: World Society, Iaian Vernier's Memoir is a fascinating study of mankind. Written as a work of fiction, it looks at the human condition 200 years in the future. Predicting the outcome of today's social policies, 2284 is a cultural anthropology study that adds to Itzkoff's extensive writing on the topic. Iaian Vernier writes in 2284 of the revolutionary internationalism that has been established in Nairobi, Africa. He chronicles the disasters that almost destroyed the twenty-first-century world. He describes in anecdote and philosophical depth the new scientific and secular world that has been established to bring peace, equality, ethnic diversity and democracy to humanity, while scrutinizing the plans for demographic stability that will sustain humanity into the future. In the twenty-third century, the forbidden rationality of the scientific minds of the twenty-first century have been unleashed.

Seal Books / Bantam Canadian edition, 1979. Paperback. Adventure novel about a group of teenagers stranded on a planet of mutants, genetically manipulated beings, and out-of-control robots. There is a sequel, "Heart of Red Iron" (1989).

Olaf, a name handed down for centuries since the time of King Olof Skotkonung of Sweden, is given to several characters with Swedish ancestry. The discovery of a mysterious substance with properties previously untapped is passed on from one generation to another. Over time, the Olafs find out more and more about the potential for this special rock. Their research is slowed down by finding a more useful substance, gold. The gold and its value tend to overshadow everything else as the Olafs use their riches for a variety of purposes. The study of the special rock, however, continues to yield some rather surprising results. Some come with unexpected perils involving everything from government intelligence agencies to small time hoodlums. Curl up and follow the adventures of Olaf's stone!

A mature alien woman judge sees an amphibious human woman, obviously a slave, displayed in a tank in front of a sex palace. And so an interstellar plot of murderous proportions involving many races and planets, galactic corporations, exploitive sex and horrible slavery is revealed.

MEET PRANDRA AND KHRENG... They eat for the same bowl, could and preen -- then travel across Time, down through Space, to the most bizarre and dangerous worlds in the Galactic Federation. Even to Solthree, where they are met with some alarm... A starcat and rabbi tale, with dragons

"Another World" from Benjamin Lumley. Opera manager and solicitor (1811-1875).

1 Tauf Aleph (1981) novelette 22 Sunday's Child (1977) novella 65 The Military Hospital (1971) short story 80 Gingerbread Boy (1961) short story 95 Blue Apes (1981) novelette 131 Phantom Foot (1959) short story 148 A Grain of Manhood (1959) short story 160 Ms & Mr Frankenstein (1975) poem 164 Was/Man (1978) poem 166 Son of the Morning (1972) novella

An interstellar alien corporation run by aliens was thwarted in its plans to exploit genetically altered slaves. Now, in an attempt to keep it's case from ever coming to court, a judge is murdered on Khagodis--the planet where the amphibious human slaves were first bred--and the man who first broke the slave ring must find a way to bring these villains to justice.

Enoch Strone is a book-loving rustic loner who lives in a remote hand-built cabin. He works as a mechanical engineer in the industrial town of Gascester. One evening he meets a poor factory girl, Milly, who has been abandoned by her friends during a walk in the woods. On the same day he is accosted by the Reverand Martinghoe who introduces Strone to his beautiful, widowed, wealthy sister Lady Malingcourt. Strone is bewitched by her lovely singing and the seductive manners of the jaded upper class widow.