Lloyd Biggle jr.
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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't ask for references, and that's where the trouble started… <P> Lloyd Biggle, Jr. (1923-2002) is most famous as a science-fiction writer who used genuine science while emphasizing human and cultural elements, especially art and music (he held a Ph.D. in Musicology.) His detective stories about Grandfather Bill Rastin in the fictitious Borg County, Michigan show this emphasis on the human element in a nostalgic, Norman Rockwell-esque world.
The Lloyd Biggle, Jr. MEGAPACK ®
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their original magazine and anthology publications and assembled this great «best of» collection – plus one previously unpublished work, «Alien By Any Other Name.» Included in this volume are: 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 NEST<BR> MATING INSTINCT<BR> THE MADDER THEY COME<BR> TRAVELING SALESMAN<BR> ESIDARAP OT PIRT DNUOR<BR> LESSON IN BIOLOGY<BR> ON THE DOUBLE<BR> THEY LIVE FOREVER<BR> WHO STEALS MY MIND…<BR> AN ALIEN BY ANY OTHER NAME<P> And if you enjoy this volume, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for «Wildside Press Megapack» to see all the 175+ other entries in this great series, covering science fiction, fantasy, horror, mysteries, westerns, classics – and much, much more!
The Fury Out of Time
"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's theory, that the capsule's port of origin lay in the distant future, seemed a plausible explanation. But while investigating, the capsule was accidentally dispatched again through time … only to reappear with an alien navigator, this time destroying a small French town. <P> One thing seemed imperative: a human operator must man the intricate controls of the capsule, riding it forward to its mysterious point of origin. And Bowden Karvel seemed the perfect choice to make the trip…"
Ordeal by Terror
"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 caught a glimpse of a trap door closing over her head as she slid rapidly down the incline into darkness."
A-Z Publications has provided Adelle Gernyan with a great salary and office but the mundane work assigned her doesn’t merit such treatment. Annoying colleagues, spying maintenance men and a mysterious boss add to the puzzle of her strange job. Adelle’s boredom changes to terror when she is trapped under her office building with her fellow employees. Subjected to hunger, sleep deprivation, deadly traps and the horrors of armed attack, Adelle doesn’t know that she has become part of a vicious experiment on the human mind labeled only as “The Telo-um Test”… a test with death as its final grade.
This is a griping suspense story from an acknowledged master of mystery and science fiction, Lloyd Biggle, Jr.
Watchers of the Dark
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 these worlds might somehow halt the rampage. A superb science fiction novel by a master of the genre!
The World Menders
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!
Silence is Deadly
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's Jan Darzek's mission to find out…
Monument
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.
The Rule of the Door and Other Fanciful Regulations
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 closets. Their doors were structural monstrosities, fully two feet thick, that functioned strangely. They were hung with a strange type of hinge none of the carpenters had ever seen before. And the doors opened inward. Who ever heard of a closet with a door that opened inward? There were eleven of them, and the central closet was left unfinished and doorless…
The Still, Small Voice of Trumpets
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 than 400 years! So what's a poor IPR agent to do…? Classic science fiction!