Lloyd Biggle jr.

Sinister, invisible forces of a secret mental weapon known only as The Dark are threatening the entire Primores galaxy, several transmitting leaps away from Earth. By the time a bizarre Mr. Smith comes to detective Jan Darzek's New York office, whole planets have been lain waste. Darzek is offered a million dollars by Smith to accept a job that will almost certainly be fatal: identify the incredible power that is about to overwhelm the few remaining planets in the beleagered galaxy, so that...

Branoff IV is a planet famous for its aristocratic culture and mistreatment of its indigenous population. When Cedd Farrari and a team of Cultural Survey experts are sent to Branoff IV to help bring about a shift to democratic goverment, the world seems an ideal candidate for political change. But all is not as it seems… A thrilling science fiction novel from the author of All the Colors of Darkness!

The IPR Bureau (whose motto is «Democracy imposed from without is the severest form of tyranny») works to bring newly discovered planets up to the point where they have a planetary democratic government and then induct them into the galactic federation. Unfortunately, the planet Furnil offers problems. The continent of Kurr has a well-entrenched monarchy, and the citizens seem little inclined to change. In fact, they immerse themselves in art rather than politics…and have been doing so for more...

This volume collects 9 classic science fiction stories by Lloyd Biggle, Jr. Included are: «The Rule of the Door,» «Petty Larceny,» «On the Dotted Line,» «Judgement Day,» «Secret Weapon,» «The Perfect Punishment,» «A Slight Case of Limbo,» «D.F.C.,» and «Wings of Song.» Also included is the original 1967 introduction by the author. In «The Rule of the Door»: The owner had a positive mania for closets and doors. Along one entire wall of that spacious living room were closets, large, window-less...

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their original magazine and anthology publications and assembled this great «best of» collection – plus one previously unpublished work, «Alien By Any Other Name.» Included in this volume are: 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&apos;S...

"The object arrived without warning, tearing a spiral path of devastation across the rural landscape. After the explotion, searchers sifted through the immense pile of debris … to discover a fantastically instrumented capsule, and a strangely human pilot, stone dead. <P> Bowden Karvel&apos;s theory, that the capsule&apos;s port of origin lay in the distant future, seemed a plausible explanation. But while investigating, the capsule was accidentally dispatched again through time …...

His name was Vladislav Kuznetsov, and he had been a twenty-one-year-old student at Mount Harwell College in Mount Harwell, Ohio. On a Friday afternoon, March 24, 2001, he succumbed to a sudden attack of spring fever and cut his classes for a stroll in a public park near the campus. Even after fifty years and several hundred centuries, he remembered it as vividly as though it had happened an hour before. <P> It was a warm, fresh day with a promise of spring–the first really pleasant day...

Twenty agents of the Galactic Sythesis are missing on the Silent Planet of Kamm – the victims, it seems, of the most powerful death ray the universe has ever known. But how could the primitive technology of the Kammians have produced such a weapon? And why would they unleashed its power against the Sythesis? It&apos;s Jan Darzek&apos;s mission to find out…

"The top drawer of the second cabinet felt empty as she began to pull it open, but she never saw its interior. The floor dropped from under her. As she fell, she clutched wildly at the handle of the cabinet’s drawer, but her grip had been too loose. It slipped through her fingers, and for an instant she fell into nothingness. Then she landed on a steep incline of smooth metal. Her feet hit first and instantly shot out from under her, and she fell backward with a thud that stunned her. She...

?My missing person did not hunt, fish, or engage in any type of sport that one would do in a Louisiana fishing village. And after a cursory look at what was called Pointe Nueve, I doubted a decent antique could be found to buy in the entire collection of rusty, metal-roofed buildings. At least I knew not to expect to find a body there. The alligators would have taken care of that weeks ago. OK, so I can be wrong once in a while…?<P>Louisiana antique dealer Marc DeVarney, a well-respected...

In the first place, Grandfather Rastin never should have bought that house in Wiston. It happened several years ago, when he was only about seventy-eight, but even so he was old enough to know better. He admits that himself. <P> In the second place, he should have asked his tenants for references. <P> He did buy the house, and he didn&apos;t ask for references, and that&apos;s where the trouble started… <P> Lloyd Biggle, Jr. (1923-2002) is most famous as a science-fiction...

Monument is a science fiction novel about destructive tourism – a serious subject, but as usual with Biggle, handled in a lighter vein, and at times frankly humorous. A classic science fiction novel from the author of ALL THE COLORS OF DARKNESS.

When the Universal Transmitting Company finally perfected a matter transmitter capable of sending a person instantly from terminals scattered throughout the United States to any major city in foreign countries, it seemed like man&apos;s ultimate conquest of time. Opening day in New York City was a tremendous success, with throngs of travelers crowding into the terminal. But on the second day of operations, two women failed to arrive at their destinations and could not be traced. The UTC called...