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The «Golden Age of Science Fiction» Megapacks are designed to introduce readers to classic science fiction writers of the 1940s-1960s who might otherwise be forgotten. Carl Jacobi (1908-1997) is one such unjustly forgotten author.<P>The Ninth Golden Age of Science Fiction MEGAPACK™ presents no less than 19 classic science fiction stories by this great writer. Included in this volume are:<P> CANAL<BR> EXIT MR. SMITH<BR> GENTLEMEN, THE SCAVENGERS<BR> ...
| Автор | Carl Jacobi |
The «Golden Age of Science Fiction» Megapacks are designed to introduce readers to classic science fiction writers of the 1940s-1960s who might otherwise be forgotten. Dave Dryfoos (1915-2003), who produced a steady stream of frothy SF stories for the likes of Galaxy Science Fiction, Fantastic Adventures, Startling Stories, Imagination, Future Science Fiction, and others is one such unjustly forgotten author.<P>The Ninth Golden Age of Science Fiction MEGAPACK™ presents no less than 19...
| Автор | Dave Dryfoos |
P. (Peter) Schuyler Miller (1912-1974) was a technical writer with an MSc in chemistry, as well as a critic, amateur archaeologist, and author. He reviewed science fiction works in Astounding Science-Fiction from 1945 until 1975. He accumulated one of the largest private collections of science fiction books in his day (roughly 8,000 hardcovers and paperbacks). In 1963 he was presented with a special Hugo for his reviewing. He began as an author of fiction at 18 years old (“The Red Plague,” 1930)...
| Автор | P. Schuyler Miller |
"The Second Time Travel Megapack" collects 23 more tales of travel through time, by great modern and classic authors. Included are:<p> SEEMS LIKE OLD TIMES, by Robert J. Sawyer<BR> THE BUSINESS, AS USUAL, by Mack Reynolds<BR> THROUGH TIME AND SPACE WITH FERDINAND FEGHOOT: 18, by Grendel Briarton<BR> TIME WELL SPENT, by George Zebrowski<BR> THE DAY TIME STOPPED MOVING, by Bradner Buckner<BR> SAVING JANE AUSTEN, by Robert Reginald<BR> IN THE...
| Автор | Kristine Kathryn Rusch |
Frank Belknap (1901-1994), one of the early masters of fantasy and science fiction, friend of – and collaborator with – H.P. Lovecraft, produced hundreds of novels, short stories, and poems throughout his long and distinguished career. From fantasy and horror in Weird Tales to action-adventure science fiction in pulp magazines like «Planet Stories» and «Thrilling Wonder Stories» to more «nuts and bolts» science fiction in «Astounding Stories,» and also work in the romance and mystery fields, his...
| Автор | Frank Belknap Long |
Kris Ottman Neville (1925–1980) was an American science fiction writer from California. At the top of his career, he virtually abandoned writing science fiction to pursue a career in chemistry, becoming a leading expert in epoxy resins. His writing remains some of the best of the era. Included in this volume are 9 classic stories:<BR> HUNT THE HUNTER<BR> FRESH AIR FIEND<BR> EARTH ALERT!<BR> SHE KNEW HE WAS COMING<BR> MORAL EQUIVALENT<BR> GENERAL MAX...
| Автор | Kris Neville |
Arthur Leo Zagat was one of the most versatile pulp writers in the 1930s-1950s, the author of more than 500 short stories in many different genres. His work appeared in most of the top science fiction, mystery, and adventures magazines, including Astounding Stories, Planet Stories, Weird Tales, Thrilling Wonder Stories, Argosy, and many, many more. Wildside Press is preparing multiple volumes assembling his classic fiction, and we are pleased to kick off the line with a collection of his science...
| Автор | Arthur Leo Zagat |
Before his death in 2002, Dr. Lloyd Biggle, Jr. compiled a list of his early science fiction stories that he considered his finest works. His children, Kenneth Lloyd Biggle and Donna Biggle Emerson, have meticulously transcribed them from their original magazine and anthology publications and assembled this great «best of» collection – plus one previously unpublished work, «Alien By Any Other Name.» Included in this volume are: <P> BEACHHEAD IN UTOPIA<BR> HORNET'S...
| Автор | Lloyd Biggle jr. |
The 43rd Golden Age of Science Fiction MEGAPACK® again focuses on pulpsmith Chester S. Geier's science fiction, collecting 3 novels and 17 short stories from the pages of such classic pulp magazines as Planet Stories, Amazing Stories, and Fantastic Advelntures. Included are:<P> MINIONS OF THE TIGER<BR> FOREVER IS TOO LONG<BR> NOT AS PLOTTED<BR> HIDDEN CITY<BR> TREASURE DERELICT<BR> MINER CRISIS ON IO<BR> TIME OUT OF MIND<BR> LIGHT OF...
| Автор | Geier |
Katherine MacLean (born January 22, 1925) is an American science fiction author best known for her short fiction of the 1950s, which often examined the impact of technological advances on individuals and society. This volume collects 8 of her classic science fiction stories:<P> Contagion<BR> Pictures Don’t Lie<BR> The Snowball Effect<BR> The Man Who Staked The Stars<BR> The Carnivore<BR> Games<BR> The Natives<P> If you enjoy this volume of...
| Автор | Katherine MacLean |
When David Farley came to New York City, he was a hungry man. In all ways. The job he landed proof-reading junk mail quelled one form of hunger; David was a small man, anyway, and rice, beans and pasta dishes were his forté since college. And being a careful man, conservative in his tastes and habits, he thrived in his poverty, living cheaply, but proudly. One room, hot plate, bath down the hall. With autumn came the chance to apply for a job at a real magazine; sf fiction, major...
| Автор | A.R. Morlan |
Roger Dee was the pseudonym of Roger D. Aycock (6 December 1914 – 5 April 2004), an American author who wrote primarily science fiction. His tales were always well written, clever, and entertaining, and this selection of 13 stories is typical of his work. Included are:<P> WAILING WALL<BR> PET FARM<BR> CONTROL GROUP<BR> ULTIMATUM<BR> CLEAN BREAK<BR> THE ANGLERS OF ARZ<BR> ASSIGNMENT'S END<BR> PROBLEM ON BALAK<BR> THE WHEEL IS...
| Автор | Roger Dee |
Richard Wilson (1920–1987) was a Nebula Award winning American science fiction writer and fan. He was a member of the Futurians, and was at his most prolific in the 1950s – though he continued writing throughout his entire life. This volume focuses primarily on his science fiction (24 stories and a poem) from the 1950s and 1960s.<P> Included in this volume are:<P> THE MAN WITHOUT A PLANET<BR> THE HOAXTERS<BR> IF YOU WERE THE ONLY—<BR> DOUBLE TAKE<BR> ...
| Автор | Richard Wilson |
Cosmic Fusion was originally written between January 1973 and September 1982, a mammoth 300,000-word epic novel of «science fiction, sex, and death.» Unpublished due to an editorial change at the original publishing company, Eklund has now revised it for its first publication. As he writes in his introduction: «Cosmic Fusion was intended to be the book that broke me out of [science fiction's midlist]. It was the Big Ambitious Novel I was going to write because I wanted to write it…» So here...
| Автор | Gordon Eklund |
Humans have surgically, genetically, and chemically bio-engineered dogs and apes until they are sentient, then gone ahead and destroyed their society with another world war. The story is told from the point of view of Hungor Beowulf IV, a descendent of the first sentient dog-person. Hungor leads his people in a nomadic lifestyle at first, but finally finds one surviving human, Roger Stren, whose experiments have extended the lifespan of the dog-people to 50+ years – and allowed him to survive...
| Автор | Lester Del Rey |
William P. McGivern, a popular and prolific science fiction writer in the 1940s and 1950s (under his own name as well as the pseudonyms Gerald Vance and P.F. Costello), later achieved fame as a noir and hardboiled mystery author of such classics as «The Big Heat.» The First William P. McGivern Science Fiction Megapack collects 25 of his early science fiction stories, including: <P> JOHN BROWN'S BODY<BR> THE VISIBLE INVISIBLE MAN<BR> THE DYNAMOUSE<BR> ...
| Автор | Gerald Vance |
Here are 6 modern and classic science fiction novels we hope you will enjoy:<P> Wolfbane, by Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth<BR> Slave Planet, by Laurence Janifer<BR> Preferred Risk, by Frederik Pohl and Lester del Rey<BR> The Rat Race, by Jay Franklin<BR> Champagne Caesar, by Jay Franklin<BR> Rememory, by John Gregory Betancourt<P> If you like this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for «Wildside Press Megapack» to see...
| Автор | Mack Reynolds |
Frederik Pohl was one of the greatest science fiction writers of all time, with a career that spanned 7 decades (and won him every major award in the field). Included are ten of his classic novels and short stories:<P> PLAGUE OF PYTHONS<BR> THE DAY OF THE BOOMER DUKES<BR> MY LADY GREENSLEEVES<BR> THE TUNNEL UNDER THE WORLD<BR> PYTHIAS<BR> SEARCH THE SKY (written with C. M. Kornbluth)<BR> THE HATED<BR> THE KNIGHTS OF ARTHUR<BR> ...
| Автор | Frederik Pohl |
Robert Franklin Young (1915–1986) was an American science fiction writer born in Silver Creek, New York. Except for the three and a half years he served in the Pacific during World War II, he spent most of his life in New York State. Although his career spanned more than thirty years, and he wrote fiction until he died, he remained little known by the public, in the United States as well as abroad. He started publishing in 1953 in Startling Stories, then Playboy, The Saturday Evening Post, and...
| Автор | Robert F. Young |
Starting with the February, 1946 issue, every issue of the <i>Captain Marvel Adventures</i> comic book included a 2-page short story by «Eando Binder» (Otto O. Binder). All featured Lt. Jon Jarl of the Space Patrol. These juvenile space operas – designed to appeal to kids – featured the daring adventures of a two-fisted young member of the Space Patrol. In a solar system where seemingly every planet and moon can support life (and the asteroid belt harbors numerous space pirates and...
| Автор | Eando Binder |
"The Mad Scientist Megapack" assembles 23 tales of Scientists, their Creatures, and Experiments both Diabolical and Dangerous! Included are:<P> MYSHKIN, by David V. Reed<BR> A LIGHT THAT SHAMED THE SUN, by C. J. Henderson<BR> INCOMPLETE DATA, by H.B. Fyfe<BR> THE CORPSE ON THE GRATING, by Hugh B. Cave<BR> COSMIC TELETYPE, by Carl Jacobi<BR> MONSTER KIDNAPS GIRL AT MAD SCIENTIST'S COMMAND!, by Lawrence Watt-Evans<BR> GREAT MINDS, by...
| Автор | Lawrence Watt-Evans |
The «Golden Age of Science Fiction» MEGAPACK™ ebook anthologies are designed to introduce readers to classic science fiction writers who might otherwise be forgotten. David H. Keller (1880-1966) is one such unjustly forgotten author.<P> Included here are 9 science fiction stories, representing some of Keller's best science fiction work:<P> A BIOLOGICAL EXPERIMENT<BR> FREE AS THE AIR<BR> THE FLYING FOOL<BR> THE IVY WAR<BR> THE YEAST MEN<BR> ...
| Автор | David H. Keller |
George Oliver Smith (1911–1981) (not to be confused with George H. Smith) was an American science fiction author. Smith was an active contributor to Astounding Science Fiction during the Golden Age of Science Fiction in the 1940s. His collaboration with the magazine’s editor, John W. Campbell, Jr., was interrupted when Campbell’s first wife, Doña, left him in 1949 and married Smith.<P> Smith continued regularly publishing science fiction novels and stories until 1960. His output greatly...
| Автор | George O. Smith |
John Wood Campbell, Jr. (1910–1971) was an American science fiction writer and editor. As editor of Astounding Science Fiction (later renamed Analog Science Fiction and Fact) from late 1937 until his death, he is generally credited with shaping the Golden Age of Science Fiction. Isaac Asimov called Campbell «the most powerful force in science fiction ever, and for the first ten years of his editorship he dominated the field completely.»<P> Included in this volume are ten of his classic...
| Автор | John W. Campbell Jr. |