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Encased in the 700 pound spacesuit, Barlow was rolled into the first rocket to the moon-and he expected to die.
He was on a mission to promote peace and his life would be the sacrifice. In bravado he claimed, "To me, the only important thing is that I'm the first man into space. That's enough for anyone to know."
But standing on the vast, lonely expanse of the moon would life-his life-mean more?
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"Nothing around those other suns but ashes and dried blood," old Dunbar told the space-wrecked, desperate men. "Only one way to go, where we can float down through the clouds to Paradise. That's straight ahead to the sun with the red rim around it." But Dunbar's eyes were old and uncertain. How could they believe in his choice when every star in this forsaken section of space was surrounded by a beckoning red rim?
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Amazing Stories is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are eight stories by Bryce Walton: "Martian Nightmare", "The Last Laugh", "In His Image", "The Ultimate World", "Mary Anonymous", "Prisoner of the Brain-Mistress", "Savage Galahad", and "Last Call".
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With the bipper the Special Police Agency could get anything out of anyone. It burns them out completely in the process, but that is for the good. They are erased and won't do any meddlesome thinking again. They will do routine work like every other Egghead and never make a mistake for 20 years. Except for the blind. Their brain waves are different and they can't be bipped.
But what does this all mean for Fred? And why does he care so much?
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"Well, hi, hillbilly." Kurt's grin shone as big and bright as the sun-gold letter L on his velour turtleneck. It was his same arrogant, sneering grin as always, except for the slight tint of embarrassment from having fallen.Matt nodded warily and said nothing. He didn't trust his voice. His throat felt tight, and his chest ached with anxious pressure as he watched the big four-letter athlete casually slapping dust out of his Levis.He tailed me, Matt...
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Bryce Walton was a prolific short story writer as well as a popular novelist. He began his career writing for the science fiction pulp magazines, and later moved into the more respectable (and higher paying) mystery short story and Young Adult book fields.
Wildside Press has been working to reissue many of his classic works. Here, then, are four of his action-adventure novels aimed at the Young Adult market (they are quite readable for adults, too):...
10) The Victor
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Under the new system of the Managerials, the fight was not for life but for death! And great was the ingenuity of-The Victor.
14) The Floater
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They called it "the basketball" because of it's shape. It was a sort of mechanical embryo and men entered to test their limits.
Normal human beings can take a couple of hours of it usually. They like it. Every human being to some extent likes to return to the womb. But after a couple of hours most human beings start going to pieces, short-circuiting. Except Barton...
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This Science Fiction anthology contains 15 sci-fi classics from American author Bryce Walton. Included science fiction classics in this collection: By Earthlight • Dark Windows • Dreamer's World • Freeway • Has Anyone Here Seen Kelly?• Security • Strange Alliance • The Chasm • The Happy Herd • The Highest Mountain • The Recruit • The Victor • Thy Name Is Woman • To Each His Star • War Game
16) Last Call
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A soldier of the Disciplinary Corps hadn't cracked up in all the years of Captain Morrow's service. Bronson was the first ... Bronson who reckoned he was one of the rare beings who had heard THE CALL from Mars.
17) Strange Alliance
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In a rural town, an arrogant university professor finds himself wandering through the woods, his hands covered in blood,and his memories foggy. He encounters one of his female students, who is being pursued through the woods by one of the locals. Disdainful of the ignorant, superstitious "peasants" in town, professor and student discover something they have in common and form an instant bond before deciding to leave the small town together-until the...
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Welcome to our second volume of Detective stories! This is a grab-bag volume with contributions by many top mystery authors from the mid-20th Century pulp and digest magazines. There's something to appeal to every taste, from noir to crime to even holiday capers and a Christmas tale by Johnson McCulley (creator of Zorro). Included are:
DEAD MEN DON'T MOVE, by Thomas Thursday
ALIBI-WITH SOUND, by Robert Wallace
HOW? WHEN? WHO?, by Fletcher Flora
HELL'S...
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Jungle stories have been a part of popular literature since Tarzan swung out of the trees in 1913. We aren't including "Tarzan of the Apes" or any of its numerous sequels - which are easily available elsewhere - and are focusing on standalone tales, plus a rival of Tarzan's...Jan of the Jungle! Here are tales of Jungle vudu, adventure, and mystery stories sure to entertain. Included are:
THE CALL OF THE SAVAGE, by Otis Adelbert Kline
AN ELEPHANT...