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A Judy Carmody, una joven experta en seguridad de sistemas, le han encargado un trabajo rutinario de control en una entidad financiera de California. Pero una noche descubre que unos piratas informáticos han sorteado los mecanismos de protección de datos y están vaciando las cuentas de todos sus clientes. Casi al mismo tiempo, una serie de expertos en nuevas tecnologías empiezan a aparecer muertos en extrañas circunstancias.

La vida de Judy está en peligro y tiene que esconderse para ponerse a salvo y poder seguir investigando. Al hacerlo, entra en contacto con el submundo de la piratería virtual, cuyos tentáculos alcanzan hasta las más altas esferas del poder, y descubre lo vulnerable e indefensa que está una sociedad en la que los ordenadores son ya parte inseparable de la vida cotidiana.

Superhackers no es una novela de ciencia ficción -porque habla de una realidad que ya está aquí- sino una historia apasionante de suspense que no deja ni un segundo de respiro al lector y que responde plenamente al calificativo de "ciberthriller". ... Read more

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Seventeen dark tales include Dean Koontz's "Nightmare Gang," in which a deadly gang leader recruits new members in an evil way, and Philip K. Dick's "The Fatherland," in which a young boy witnesses his father's terrifying transformation. Original. ... Read more

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Fine collection of horror/sci-fi hybrids!
There are some great, rather unknown stories to be found in this collection, as well as a couple that are well known within the genre, such as H.P. Lovecraft's "The Colour out of Space" and Richard Matheson's "Born of Man and Woman".
Dan Simmons' "Metastasis" takes the old vampire lore and gives it a great, icky twist (and kudos to Simmons for writing the most unsexy, revolting "love" scene ever put to paper), and features enough grotesque, memorable imagery to make it a winning, if not at least memorable, entry.
Dean Koontz's "Nightmare Gang" is probably one of his very few short stories ever published, and let me say it's a damn fine one, about a gang controlled by a telopathic madman. There's violence aplenty and unlike most of Koontz's work, the ending is anything but happy.
"Asleep in Armageddon" is one of Ray Bradbury's creepier tales, about an astronaut stranded on a deceptively harmless planet with more than a few ghosts in its rocks.
Clark Ashton Smith's "The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis" is a sinister, gothic science-fiction piece about a haunted tomb and the terrible things living within its walls. While the atmosphere Smith conveys is strong, it was a little too slow to do anything for me.
Goosebumps-style kiddie horror is to be found in Philip K. Dick's "The Father-Thing", about an alien taking over a young boy's father. This story is humorous but the ending feels abrupt and unfinished, and the story leaves no real lasting impression.
F. Paul Wilson's "Soft" tells the disturbing story of a nasty pathogen with some even nastier side-effects, and some of the imagery in the story will certainly stay with you for a while, as will the uncertain ending. Nice work.
David Morrell is an author I am not familiar with but his story "Orange is For Anguish, Blue for Insanity" is one of the best ones here, telling the tale of an art student and his descent into madness as he tries to divulge the mystery behind some very sinister paintings. The extra-terrestrial twist near the end is quite a surprise.
Clive Barker's "The Age of Desire" is easily the most twisted tale here, about an experimental drug and its effect on one man's libido. Truly revolting images come in spades in this well-written, humorously dark tale.
Isaac Asimov's "Hell-Fire" is a weak piece, blatantly anti-nuclear war and at all of a page-and-a-half in length, wasn't really necessary. Decidely well-intended but preachy.
While it inspired one of my favorite films of all time (John Carpenter's "The Thing") I can say quite honestly that Jown W. Campbell Jr.'s "Who Goes There?" is an over-long bore, lacking character and any sense of involvement. There is some rather interesting science on display involving the creature itself but on the whole this tale is an unremarkable one.
My favorite story here is unquestionably Robert Bloch's novella "It Happened Tomorrow". This impressive, inspried apocalyptic tale may not offer anytihng new as far as the plot is concerned--basically, it is about robots over-throwing humanity, not at all a new science fiction concept--but Bloch's writing is solid yet ambiguous, the way the tale unfolds can be quite gripping, the main character is likeable, and the ending is both sad, poetic, and triumphant. This is easily one of the best stories of its type.
There are other tales on display worth mentioning, but I think you get the jist of things. Not every story was exceptional but the ones thar are make this anthology a must for horror/sci-fi fans!

One Of The Best Short Story Collections Ever - Superb Horror/Science Fiction Hybrids
"Between Time And Terror" presents 15 tales from such stellar talents as Clive Barker, H.P. Lovecraft, Isaac Asimov, Dean Koontz and Clark Ashton Smith, all of them inhabiting the rich area of works that could be classed as both Horror and Science Fiction, with some of them leaning more heavily towards one side of the spectrum or another.Not a weak story in the bunch, with several major highlights, including "Born Of Man And Woman" by Richard Matheson, "Orange Is For Anguish, Blue Is For Insanity" by David Morrell and one of the best Really short short stories ever published (all of 2 pages!), Asimov's chilling "Hell-Fire".

Another massive standout is "In The Vaults Of Yoh-Vombis" by Clark Ashton Smith, a writer from the "Weird Tales" era (20s-30s), who epitomizes the ability to blend Horror, Fantasy and early Science Fiction, and who deserves to be remembered with as much acclaim as Lovecraft and Robert Howard, but sadly isn't.This story takes place on an inhabited Mars, where a joint team of human astronauts and Martians (members of a civilization that was apparantly once much more flourishing than it is when the story takes place) exploring mysterious ancient ruins on the red planet.

Dan Simmons's "Metastasis" uncovers the shocking truth of what Really causes cancer; in one scene that's particularly effective for setting up to make the revelations believable, the man who's come up with the central theory argues against a psychiatrist's more rational explanations with an observation about what is supposed to cause cancer, saying something to the effect of 'have you seen the Medical Associaton's list of what causes cancer?It's Everything we eat, breathe, drink, touch or do to have fun.That's just the same as saying they don't know.'This and other arguements the story's protagonist presents make it eerily believable that there are more malign forces at work, at least in the context of the story.

Like stated above, not a bad story in here, one of the alltime best anthologies and an essential compilation for anyone into either Horror or Science Fiction (or both, of course).Other writers in the book are Frank Belknap Long, John Shirley, John W. Campbell (with "Who Goes There?", the basis for the movie "The Thing From Outer Space" and its remake "The Thing"), F. Paul Wilson, Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, Phillip K. Dick, Robert Bloch and Arthur C. Clarke, all of whom contribute works I think you'll be glad to have in your collection.

Very good collection
Most of the stories in this collection of hybrid science fiction/horror are good, with a few standouts."The Colour out of Space" by H. P. Lovecraft is tough to get through but has some of the most genuinely creepy moments in the book."Who Goes There?" by John W. Campbell, Jr. (the basis for the two movies titled "The Thing" -- the creature is even referred to as "the Thing" in the story) is good but the science occasionally lost me; and at fifty-seven pages I would have liked a little more character development.(I could hardly tell one person from another.)"They" by Robert Heinlein, about a man who imagines everyone is out to get him, is intriguing."A Walk in the Dark" by Arthur C. Clarke explores the idea that humanity will never entirely forget the fear of darkness, and is very good."The Father-Thing" by Philip K. Dick is a scary one.

"Born of Man and Woman" by Richard Matheson didn't work for me; it's only four pages long and I spent the entire time trying to get used to the unconventional style.(It's written in a simplistic, childlike fashion that fits the subject but is still awkward.)The short-short story "Hell-Fire" by Isaac Asimov is hardly more than one page but still throws an interesting idea at you.David Morell's "Orange Is for Anguish, Blue for Insanity" is very good but strangely feels as though it could have been even better.It's about a painter who loses a friend to the study of a mad artist and wants to learn why.And finally, "The Age of Desire" by Clive Barker is truly disturbing.It mixes gore and sexuality in a way that I won't be forgetting any time soon.

The rest of the stories are decent but I'm less familiar with the authors.One side note: all of the writers featured here, as well as all of the main characters, are men.Overall I recommend this collection to both science fiction and horror fans.

Not bad; not great
Some of the short stories in this collection are very good."Soft" by F. Paul Wilson and "Metastasis" by Dan Simmons are excellent examples.Others like "The Vaults of Yoh Vombis" and "The man with a thousand legs" (sorry last reviewer) are exceedingly bad.My advice: if you find it on sale or used, pick it up and read a story or two in your spare time between novels. ... Read more

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Weinberg-McKinstry Hero Pulp Index
The full title of this book is the Weinberg-McKinstry Hero Pulp Index (2nd Ed.) and I am Lohr McKinstry, the co-author with Bob Weinberg.
This is an index to most of the single-character hero pulp magazines of the 1930s and '40s, titles like The Shadow and Doc Savage. Bob and I compiled these indexes from dozens of sources and collected them between covers for the first time.
This is the 35th anniversary of the index, and a third, updated edition is planned. Most of what needs to be updated is who wrote what. Some of the authors we credited for various stories may not have been who we thought they were (for instance, Laurence Donovan, who wrote a few Doc Savage novels, wasn't a pen name, but Paul Chadwick, who wrote some Secrer Agent X novels, was). The books themselves appeared under house-names, Kenneth Robeson and Brant House, in these examples.
If you can find one of these, buy it.
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ... Read more

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Another day, another fauna themed maniac bedevils Dr. Skull. This one starts by poisoning one of his godsons, Scorpion style.

The Scorpion, rather than a bunch of monsters, prefers henchmen armed with machine guns, so the Skull-Killers is forced into a few gun battles, making a few of the aforementioned mobsters life-challenged.

Using the daughter of a politican and Carol as bait, the Scorpion lures Jeff into his undeground lair, and a trap.

It all ends a bit more explosively than the Scorpion expected. ... Read more

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The best of the forgotten tales from the early days of Weird Tales magazine. ... Read more

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Drawing from information that was simply not available until recently, THE RENEGADE CELL explains this insidious disease as no other book has ever been able to do. ... Read more