Sam Merwin, Jr. (1910-1996) is one of those great «lost» authors. Equally adept and mystery and science fiction, he produced a significant body of work in both fields. In fact, this volume adds as a bonus two of his classic mystery stories, in addition to a selection of 7 science fiction stories. Included are:<P> JUDAS RAM<BR> THE AMBASSADOR<BR> THE FINAL FIGURE<BR> REEL LIFE FILMS<BR> A WORLD APART<BR> IT'S ALL YOURS<BR> TESTING<BR> AMY STOPS THE CLOCK (Bonus Mystery Story)<BR> DEATH FROM A FAMILY TREE (Bonus Mystery Story)<P> If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for «Wildside Press Megapack» to see more of the 280+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction – and much, much more!
The Timelines Keep Trying to Realign! Our neighboring timeline also had its 20th-century warfare. But Act II of their Last Great War, 1939-1945, lined up somewhat differently, with Russia, India, Spain, and Japan versus England, France, Germany, and the Reformed States of America. Now, in the decade following the War, the small university town of Hodag Crossing in the state of Minnemagantic, along with the rest of the world, is hunting down deathguards – the war criminals of Stalin's Eugenics Farms and India's Kali Camps. These include the college years of Clement Czarny, who has learned that all a vampire like him has to do to function in a world filled with crosses, sunlight, and the rest of it, is live like a saint. Meaning that, as a vampire, he must forgive. <P>Everything. <P>Whether it's a would-be Van Helsing who wanted to stake Clement himself, or a deathguard who helped kill millions.<P> Everything.<P> Even if it costs his own romance. And maybe that's what makes vampires unfit to live among normal, honest, righteous people.
What is the fate of the colonists who went out from Earth to settle the far planets beyond our universe? Space-ships have been unable to evoke radar responses from these planets, and in a novel as well-written as it is ingenious, one man starts out from Halsey's Planet to find the answer. If there is one… A satirical science fiction novel first published in 1954.
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 DEATH<BR> TODAY IS FOREVER<BR> TO REMEMBER CHARLIE BY<BR> TRADERS RISK<BR> ROUGH BEAST<P> If you enjoy this volume of classic stories, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for «Wildside Press Megapack» to see the 270+ other entries in this series, including science fiction, fantasy, mysteries, adventure, horror, westerns – and much, much more!
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 classic stories, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for «Wildside Press Megapack» to see the 270+ other entries in this series, including science fiction, fantasy, mysteries, adventure, horror, westerns – and much, much more!
Fritz Reuter Leiber, Jr. (1910-1992) was an American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. He was also a poet, actor in theater and films, playwright and chess expert. With writers such as Robert E. Howard and Michael Moorcock, Leiber can be regarded as one of the fathers of “sword and sorcery” fantasy (in fact, he coined the term). Moreover, he excelled in all fields of speculative fiction, writing award-winning work in fantasy, horror, and science fiction.<p> This volume assembles 10 classics, including the novel THE BIG TIME. Here are:<P> Later Than You Think<BR> The Wolf Pack<BR> The Moon Is Green<BR> The Big Time<BR> Bread Overhead<BR> The Night of the Long Knives<BR> The Creature from Cleveland Depths<BR> The Snowbank Orbit<BR> No Great Magic<BR> Spider Mansion<P> If you enjoy this volume of classic stories, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for «Wildside Press Megapack» to see the 270+ other entries in this series, including science fiction, fantasy, mysteries, adventure, horror, westerns – and much, much more!
Edward Paul Wellen (1919-2011) wrote primarily short stories throughout his long career, primarily in both the mystery field, but also (especially early in his career) in science fiction magazines. This is the second collection of his science fiction stories we have published, and it’s another good one. Included are:<P> ORIGINS OF GALACTIC LAW<BR> THE BIG CHEESE<BR> ROOT OF EVIL<BR> THE VOICES<BR> THE WORLD IN THE JUKE BOX<BR> THE SUPERSTITION SEEDERS<BR> THE ENGRAMMAR AGE<BR> UTTER SILENCE<BR> ARMY WITHOUT BANNERS<BR> SWEET DREAMS<BR> DR. VICKERS' CAR<BR> NOTE FOR A TIME CAPSULE<BR> OLD HAT<BR> IOU<BR> DEADLY GAME<P> If you enjoy this volume of classic mysteries, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for «Wildside Press Megapack» to see the 270+ other entries in this series, including science fiction, fantasy, mysteries, adventure, horror, westerns – and much, much more!
Someone has taken the original document of the U.S. Constitution and substituted another. The substitute is identical, just as old, and equally authentic – except it has been signed by Aaron Burr! It contradicts history, but it is real and there for everyone to see! <P> Such a crime calls for out-of-this-world detective work. There must be alternate Americas – and one of them must be an American union that Burr helped shape. With a few impossible coins, the path is indicated…and the search for THE WHENABOUTS OF BURR begins! It's a hunt through all the alternate-universe Americas that might have been – with Alexander Hamilton to point the way and Aaron Burr to block it! <P>A classic science fiction novel combining future, past, and present in a super-science history mystery! Features a new introduction by Michael Kurland.
Stanley Grauman Weinbaum (1902-1935) was an American science fiction writer. His career in science fiction was short but influential. His first story, «A Martian Odyssey», was published to great (and enduring) acclaim in July 1934, but he would be dead from lung cancer within eighteen months. Included in this volume are:<P> THE DARK OTHER<BR> A MARTIAN ODYSSEY<BR> VALLEY OF DREAMS<BR> THE IDEAL<BR> PYGMALION'S SPECTACLES<BR> THE WORLDS OF IF<BR> THE POINT OF VIEW<BR> GRAPH<BR> SHIFTING SEAS<P> And don't forget to search this ebook store for «Wildside Press Megapack» to see the 260+ entries in the MEGAPACK® series, covering science fiction, fantasy, horror, mysteries, westerns, author collections…and much, much more!
Homer Eon Flint was one of the pioneers of science fiction – publishing science fiction stories in pulp magazines before the term «science fiction» had even been coined. Unfortunately, he died violently – and mysteriously – at age 36, leaving behind a grieving widow and three young children. Prior to his shocking end in 1924, Homer's speculative fiction made him a leading contributor to the era's top pulp magazines. Hundreds of thousands of readers thrilled to his tales of life beyond Earth as well as his mysteries, humor, and even horror. Many of the short stories in this volume, plus the short novel «The Planeteer,» were unpublished during Homer Eon Flint's lifetime. We are thankful to Vella Munn for allowing us to publish them alongside his more famous pulp novels and stories. Here, then, are 22 classic works plus Vella Munn's biography of her grandfather. For anyone interested in the roots of science fiction, this is a must-have volume!<P> GRANDFATHER LOST: THE STORY OF HOMER EON FLINT, by Vella Munn<BR> THE PLANETARY PIRATE<BR> THE PLANETEER<BR> THE MAN IN THE MOON<BR> THE NTH MAN<BR> THE BLIND SPOT<BR> THE DEVOLUTIONIST<BR> THE EMANCIPATRIX<BR> THE GREATER MIRACLE<BR> THE LORD OF DEATH AND THE QUEEN OF LIFE<BR> BUY A LIBERTY BOMB!<BR> THE FLYING BLOODHOUND<BR> GOLDEN WEB CLAIM <BR> LUCK<BR> THE STAIN IN THE TABLE<BR> STEAL ME IF YOU CAN<BR> NO FOOL<BR> THE BREAKER MENDS<BR> THE MAN WHO TOOK PARIS<BR> THE PERFECT CURIOSITY<BR> THE PEACOCK VEST<BR> THE MISSING MONDAYS<BR> THE MONEY-MILER<P> If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for «Wildside Press Megapack» to see more of the 260+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction – and much, much more!