Chandler, A. Bertram / Чандлер, Бертрам - Собрание сочинений (225 произведений) [1945-2021, fb2/epub ENG]

The Hamelin Plague / Гаммельнская чума 1963, fb2, Monarch Books Glory Planet 1964, fb2, Avalon Books The Sea Beasts 2012, epub, ISBN: 978-1-4405-5313-4, Prologue Books The Bitter Pill 1974, fb2, ISBN: 0-85885-111-3, Wren (Australia) Frontier of the Dark 2012, epub, ISBN: 978-1-4405-5319-6, Prologue Books

Up to the Sky in Ships 1982, fb2 Nearly Complete Short Fiction 2020, epub, Jerry eBooks

The Golden Journey 1945, fb2 Giant Killer / Убийца Великанов (= Истребитель) 1945, fb2 One Came Back 1945, fb2 Special Knowledge 1946, fb2 Stability 1946, fb2 False Dawn 1946, fb2 Castaway 1947, fb2 Bad Patch 1947, fb2 Traveler's Tale 1947, fb2 New Wings 1948, fb2 The Tides Of Time 1948, fb2 Dawn of Nothing 1948, fb2 Preview Of Peril 1948, fb2 Terror of the Mist-Maidens 1950, fb2 Fire Brand! 1950, fb2 Raiders Of the Solar Frontier (= And All Disastrous Things) 1950, fb2 Reaping Time 1951, fb2 The 'Aphrodite' Project 1951, fb2 Frontier of the Dark 1952, fb2 Farewell to the Lotos 1953, fb2 Final Voyage 1953, fb2 Jetsam / Выброшенный груз 1953, fb2 Last Day 1953, fb2 Moonflowers and Mary 1953, fb2 The Forest of Knives 1953, fb2 Shadow Before 1954, fb2 The Wrong Track 1954, fb2 Late 1955, fb2 Moonfall 1955, fb2 As It Was In the Beginning 1955, fb2 Not Quite the Noblest 1956, fb2 Artifact (= The Last Citizen) 1957, fb2 Sense Of Wonder 1957, fb2 Sister Under the Skin 1957, fb2 The Beholders 1957, fb2 The Half Pair / Половина пары (= Одна из пары; Без пары; Разрозненность) 1957, fb2 The Principle 1957, fb2 The Cage / Клетка (= В клетке; Критерий разумности; Разумен тот…) 1957, fb2 Gift Horse 1958, fb2 The Explanation 1958, fb2 One Man's Ambition 1958, fb2 In the Box 1958, fb2 Fall of Knight 1958, fb2 SOS, Planet Unknown 1958, fb2 The Song 1958, fb2 Critical Angle 1958, fb2 The Underside 1958, fb2 What's in a Name? 1958, fb2 The Right Ingredients 1959, fb2 Precession 1959, fb2 Familiar Pattern 1959, fb2 The Idol (= Idol Hands) / Идол 1959, fb2 The Word 1959, fb2 The Habit / Привычка 1960, fb2 Seeing Eye 1960, fb2 All Laced Up 1961, fb2 Change of Heart 1961, fb2 The Long Way 1964, fb2 Naval Engagement (= The Left Hand Way) 1967, fb2 Two Can Play 1967, fb2 When I Was In the Zoo 1968, epub The Proper Gander 1970, fb2 Sea Change 1970, fb2 No Room in the Stable 1971, fb2 The Pied Potter 1971, fb2 The Hairy Parents 1975, fb2 Kelly Country 1976, fb2 A Clockwork Lemon 1982, fb2 Hindsight 1990, fb2

They come and they go, these parlour games played on fancy boards and with fancy counters, tiles or whatever. Mah Jong had its day, as did Monopoly. Now Scrabble is all the rage — and I, for one, will be rather relieved to see it superseded by some other ingenious method of wasting time. It's ... dangerous. Oh, I admit that the conditions were just right—but I'm not altogether convinced that the pentagram was essential, not for the actual calling, that is. There's always the chance, and not overly slim, either, that some desperate, point hungry player might stumble again upon that literally unholy combination of vowels and high scoring consonants. (Frankly, I shouldn't mind doing it again myself just once; just once and with proper safeguards.) We were three nights out from Liverpool when I saw the game for the first time. I'd left the bridge at 8 p.m., as usual, and had made my usual rounds; then, on my way back to the officers' flat, I looked into the Smoking Room. There were three of them playing Scrabble — the others, with the Old Man, were playing cards. There was Mrs Wade, a middle-aged school-mistress, Mrs Haldane, the widow of an Australian businessman, and Mr Whitley. who was supposed to be an author of sorts—although I've yet to see anything of his in print. Mrs Wade and Whitley were quarrelling violently. "It is a verb!" Whitley was saying. "Mind you," he went on virtuously, "I wouldn't use it as such. I have too much respect for syntax. But it is a verb. "It's not, I'm telling you. Oh, here's the Chief Officer, What do you think, Chief?" "What's it all about?" I asked. "Oh, you play the game like a crossword puzzle. Whoever starts does so in the middle, using as many tiles as possible—there a bonus of 50 points if you use all seven. Then the others build up and down and out from the original word — but it must be words, real words …" . . .

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HIS UNIFORM was new, too new, all knife-edged creases, and the braid and buttons as yet un-dimmed by time. It sat awkwardly upon his chunky body—and even more awkwardly his big ears protruded from under the cap that was set too squarely upon his head. Beneath the shiny visor his eyes were gray (but not yet hard), and his face, for all its promise of strength, was as yet unlined, had yet to lose its immature softness. He stood at the foot of the ramp by which he had disembarked from the transport that had carried him from the Antarctic Base to Port Woomera, looking across the silver towers that were the ships, interplanetary and interstellar, gleaming in the desert. The westering sun was hot on his back, but he did not notice the discomfort. There were the ships, the real ships—not obsolescent puddle-jumpers like the decrepit cruiser in which he, with the other midshipmen of his class, had made the training cruise to the moons of Saturn. There were the ships, the star ships, that span their web of commerce from Earth to the Centaurian planets, to the Cluster Worlds, to the Empire of Waverley, to the Shakespearian Sector and beyond. (But they're only merchantmen, he thought, with a young man's snobbery.) He wondered in which one of the vessels he would be taking passage. Merchantman or not, that big ship, the one that stood out from her neighbors like a city skyscraper among village church steeples, looked a likely enough craft. He pulled the folder containing his orders from his inside breast pocket, opened it, read (not for the second time, even), the relevant page.  . . . you are to report on board the Interstellar Transport Commission's Delta Orionis . . . He was not a spaceman yet, in spite of his uniform, but he knew the Commission's system of nomenclature. There was the Alpha class, and the Beta class, and there were the Gamma and Delta classes. He grinned wryly. His ship was one of the smaller ones. Well, at least he would not be traveling to Lindisfarne Base in an Epsilon class tramp. Ensign John Grimes, Federation Survey Service, shrugged his broad shoulders and stepped into the ground car waiting to carry him and his baggage from the airport to the spaceport. . . .

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Добавлено: Chandler, A. Bertram - Frontier of the Dark - 2012.epub (retail eBook) (роман, в релизе есть рассказ с тем же названием) Реконструкция: Добавлен цикл Christopher Wilkinson, создана соответствующая папка. Туда перемещены (переименованные) романы The Coils of Time и The Alternate Martians, ранее числившиеся как standalone (источник: isfdb). fb2 файлы изменены - там прописано название цикла и номер. Добавлены 01 Chandler, A. Bertram - The Coils of Time (Christopher Wilkinson) - 2012.epub 02 Chandler, A. Bertram - The Alternate Martians (Christopher Wilkinson) - 2012.epub (retail eBook оба)

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Замена: 03 Chandler, A. Bertram - The Ship from Outside (John Grimes Rimworld) - 1963.fb2 заменен на новую версию; восстановлена структура (разбиение на главы), исправлены все ошибки, которые удалось заметить. Добавлено: 01 Chandler, A. Bertram - Empress of Outer Space (Empress Irene) - 1965.epub Chandler, A. Bertram - Bring Back Yesterday (Rim Worlds) - 1961.fb2 Chandler, A. Bertram - The Bitter Pill - 1974.fb2 Chandler, A. Bertram - Gift Horse - 1958.fb2 (рассказ) Chandler, A. Bertram - When I Was In the Zoo - 1968.epub (рассказ)

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