Mieke Meuldrager-Ezelin Knihy

Een door uitgeverij Meulenhoff samengestelde verzameling verhalen uit het oeuvre van Theodore Sturgeon.Bevat:Xanadu (Orig. The skills od Xanadu)Het gedenkteken (Orig. Memorial)De wessenflinkel (Orig. Shottle bop)Op het scherp van het ontleedmes (Orig. Occam's scalpel)Meneer Costello, held (Orig. Mr. Costello, hero)Begaafd (Orig. Talent)De hemel zag zwart van de schepen (Orig. The sky was full of ships)Donder en rozen (Orig. Thunder and roses)De nachtmerries van parallel X (Orig. The incubi of Parallel X)De hurkel is een gelukkig dier (Orig. The hurkle is a happy beast)De teddybeer van de professor (Orig. The professor's Teddy-Bear)Er bestaat geen afweer (Orig. There is no defense)Jong geleerd (Orig. Like young)

The third volume in the publisher's resuscitation of Harness contains four short novels, three previously published and the fourth new.

Contains:Agglomeratie (Build-Up)Dertien Man naar Centaurus (Thirteen to Centaurus)Nul: Nu (Now: Zero)Paspoort naar de Euwigheid (Passport to Eternity)Opname 12 (Track 12)Tijd van Verloop (Time of Passage)Pendule (Escapement)Overbelasting (The Overloaded Man)De Wachtvelden (The Waiting Grounds)

In contrast to Ballard's earlier novel The Drowned World, The Burning World describes a world in which water is scarce. After an extensive drought, rivers have turned to trickles and the earth to dust, causing the world's populations to head toward the oceans in search of water. The drought is caused by industrial waste flushed into the ocean, which form an oxygen-permeable barrier of saturated long-chain polymers that prevents evaporation and destroys the precipitation cycle. Since the novel was published neustonic plastic islands covering measurable percentages of the Pacific Ocean have been discovered.