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The Day of the Triffids is a story about a man named Bill Masen who, along with the people he meets along the way, has to try to save the world as he knows it from the invasion of killer aliens called “triffids,” which crash-landed on Earth with…

A Canticle for Leibowitz is set in a Catholic monastery in the desert of the southwestern United States after a devastating nuclear war; the book takes place over the course of thousands of years as civilization attempts to rebuild itself.

False Dawn is a compelling story of Thea, a female mutant “Pirate”, and Evan who are thrown together by chance, striving to stay alive in a new twenty-first century world that can no longer support a vast human population due to war, disease, and…

Damnation Alley is a story about a man named Hell Tanner being pardoned for murder in exchange for going on a suicide mission from what was formerly Los Angeles to what was known as Boston before the war, across a nuclear wasteland where winds are…

A 1974 fanzine from Pittsburgh that serves as a bulletin for comic book news and events in the area. It was created and distributed by the Pittsburgh Comix Club to build a fan community and encourage people to participate in comic book culture.

Somnium, written in 1608 by Johannes Kepler, is one of the first space exploration stories. It includes actual astronomy information in a narrative manner.

Hard science fiction depicting the fall of Earth. Humans are forced to explore space and find a new home.

Vivid story taking place on an ocean planet whose inhabitants occupy cities built on islands of seaweed. These inhabitants are capable of interstellar travel as well as diplomacy with other intergalactic species.

Deadly Image follows a man transported from the 20th century to the future where man has become reliant upon machines and androids. This reliance could lead to complacency among the human race, allowing the androids to eventually take over, and they…

"The Emissary" is a novelette written by Jim Brown and first published in the July 1952 edition of Astounding Science Fiction. The story focusses on an alien taken captive by humans after humans invade the alien's home planet, Sirius A.

Machine "Intelligence" was a scientific article included in Astouding SF that discussed whether or not machines have the capacity for thought, and what qualifies as intelligence. This article is important to the collection because it provides…

Steve Austin, a secret agent, is on a mission to bring down a criminal organization that is using nuclear missiles for their financial gains.