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1) Firebird
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The world is moving towards alternative energy. Two giant laboratories, one in France, one in Texas, are engaged in a contest to give mankind a limitless source of energy-fusion, the energy source of stars. In France, the European Union is constructing the colossal ITER project. At CFRC, the Controlled Fusion Research Center near Austin, a scientists have constructed a machine they call Prometheus to challenge ITER. When the director of the Austin...
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To a world surfeited with the majesty of advancing accomplishment war had come-and gone. It had left but five million survivors scattered across the planet...
John Russell Fearn (1908–1960) was a British author and one of the first British writers to appear in American pulp science fiction magazines. Always a highly prolific author, he published not only under his own name, but also as Vargo Statten and other pseudonyms including Thornton Ayre,...
3) Interlink
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It's hard being a cop. It's even harder being a space cop. And it's especially difficult being a space cop when your fiancée is a space pirate! John Russell Fearn (1908—1960) was a British author and one of the first British writers to appear in American pulp science fiction magazines. Always a highly prolific author, he published not only under his own name, but also as Vargo Statten and other pseudonyms including Thornton Ayre, Polton Cross,...
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One glorious, horrifying night in the middle of World War II finds a group of musicians fusing into a gestalt consciousness shaped by Beethoven's artistry, a cosmic mind that will redeem all the brutality of war. The Paul Di Filippo Presents series showcases the best in modern science fiction and fantasy stories, personally selected by one of the most acclaimed authors and critics in the field.
6) Chaos
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A young man's Physics experiment runs amok and destroys Atlantis. John Russell Fearn (1908–1960) was a British author and one of the first British writers to appear in American pulp science fiction magazines. Always a highly prolific author, he published not only under his own name, but also as Vargo Statten and other pseudonyms including Thornton Ayre, Polton Cross, Geoffrey Armstrong, John Cotton, Dennis Clive, Ephriam Winiki, Astron Del Martia...
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Barry Blake wife refuses to divorce him so he can marry his lover, so he poisons her drink, and as she dies she hurls her glass through her hotel window. It lands in the back seat of an open car, and by a twist of fate causes a traffic accident that will kill her murderer...glass nemesis! John Russell Fearn (1908—1960) was a British author and one of the first British writers to appear in American pulp science fiction magazines. Always a highly...
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Black Cat Weekly 16 is a special holiday issue, featuring three holiday-themed mysteries for your reading pleasure. We didn't have any holiday science fiction or fantasy stories on tap this time, but we will definitely try to do better next year. (Decembers are always a bit chaotic at Wildside Press-we also have to get out the year-end royalties for hundrds of authors.) If you are a fan of classic science fiction, you'll appreciate "The Star Sneak,"...
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At the turn of the twentieth century, nobody played better banjo than the hermit Daner Johnson, who just might have sold his soul for the privilege. When eleven-year-old Charlie Poole, tired of mill-boy life, seeks apprenticeship, he discovers an occult world of myth and legend and strange premonitions. Will the succeeding years bring glory or sorrow-or equal measures of both? The Paul Di Filippo Presents series showcases modern masterpieces of science...
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It was a pleasant little town in the Northeast. It had never been hurricane country. When they heard that Diane was coming, they couldn't really believe it would harm them. And the hurricane itself didn't touch them.
But the rains caused by the hurricane ravaged their little town as viciously as the worst artillery attack could have done.
This is a powerful and tremendously graphic novel of people trapped in that town: and how they learned what...
11) Air Kwatz
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This tale is part in a long series of "Kwatz" stories, a sort of elemental pantheon of Spritz, which Ron Cross has been working on during the last couple of years. Air Kwatz," like all of his work, rather defies introduction. Suffice to say that what follows is highly original, beautifully rendered, and happily irreverent.
13) Black Cat Weekly
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Welcome to Black Cat Weekly #37.
Another hefty issue is in hand, featuring novels and novellas by some of the greats of the mystery and science fiction fields. And, as expected, our acquiring editors have found some true gems. Michael Bracken has selected an original suspense tale from from N. M. Cedeño, Barb Goffman has a mystery from the always-superb Janice Law, and Cynthia Ward has Naomi Kritzer's "Evil Opposite"-a great alternate-universe tale...
14) Cosmic Saboteur
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They told him he hated Earth, beating him until he nearly died-for he must be convinced! It was all part of his indoctrination as a cosmic saboteur!
15) Last Conflict
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To men of ruthless ambition, Science can be a very powerful ally. But too much power is dangerous for those who can't control it.... Classic pulp science fiction by a British master!
18) Face in the Sky
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There couldn't be a Face in the sky. Not a living one. But there was, and when it spoke, an awe-stricken world rushed to obey its command!
19) Fifth Freedom
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"Fifth Freedom" is a classic science fiction story originally published in John W. Campbell's Astounding Science-Fiction, May 1943 issue.
20) The Last Hours
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This new powerhouse controlled the energy of the sun-but it could not control its own power to destroy...
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