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MASTER SPY OF THE RED PLANET Jery Delvin had a most unusual talent. He could detect the flaws in any scheme almost on sight-even where they had eluded the best brains in the ad agency where he worked. So when the Chief of World Security told him that he had been selected as the answer to the Solar System's greatest mystery, Jery assumed that it was because of his mental agility. But when he got to Mars to find out why fifteen boys had vanished from...
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The gifting of animals with human speech is scarcely an unique idea; the idea of a talking horse goes back at least to the siege of Troy, for certainly there must have been some dialogue amongst the Greek warriors enclosed in the wooden horse's belly. But we think you'll agree that Miss Smith's filly has something special. Incubus won every race but one. Yet though in this respect she matched Man o' War's record she wasn't actually a horse at all....
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Strange gods were worshiped on Mars. But were they so clever? They'd lost their own world.
"The ancient gods, our Fathers, rode down from the heavens in the Firebirds of the Sun. Coming into the world, they found no air for the breath of their souls. "How shall we breathe?" they asked of the Sun. And Sun gave them of His fire and beneath the earth they kindled the Blaze of the Great Wind. Good air roared from the womb of Mars our Mother, the ice...
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To translate writings, you need a key to the code-and if the last writer of Martian died forty thousand years before the first writer of Earth was born ... how could the Martian be translated...?
An expedition from Earth to Mars discovers a deserted city, the remains of an advanced civilization that died out 50,000 years before. The human scientists recover books and documents left behind, and are puzzled by their contents. Will they be able to...
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Nobody could figure out how Kettering had shot his realistic scenes on Mars. His movie was just too good to be true-and much too gruesome!
I remember it all so clearly. "Get the information and you can have anything you want," Myron Ferdinand told me. He stuffed his heavy pipe with five-dollar-an-ounce tobacco and blew a heavy cloud around his heavy face. "Fail to get it, and I'll wash you out of the whole industry."
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Like pioneers in Earth's past, Terry and his wife came to the red planet seeking their fortune. But others came too, ready to prove-
There was death above. The Martian Sand Vulture swooped and hissed and twitched its barbed, poisonous tail in the thin air.
There was death below. The man lay cradled in the pebbly sand. Red sand that matched the color of his hair and the color of the blood oozing slowly from the hole in his forehead and trickling...
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Two families fought for the title to Eros, and only one could win. One had to outsmart
the other- and both had to win over the unscrupulous United Ores Corporation. It was a problem worthy of a Solomon- and it had an ending even those embittered rivals could not foresee.
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Three Martian-duped Earth-men swing open the gates of space that for so long had barred the greedy hordes of the Red Planet.
"To Mars!" he repeated. "Have you gone crazy, Milton-or is this some joke you've put up with Lanier and Nelson here?"
Milton shook his head gravely. "It is not a joke, Allan. Lanier and I are actually going to flash out over the gulf to the planet Mars to-night. Nelson must stay here, and since we wanted three to go I...
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Science said it could not be, but there it was. And whoosh-look out-here it is again!
Spaceship crews should be selected on the basis of their non-irritating qualities as individuals. No chronic complainers, no hypochondriacs, no bugs on cleanliness-particularly no one-man parties. I speak from bitter experience. Because on the first expedition to Mars, Hugh Allenby damned near drove us nuts with his puns.
11) Mars Child
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The colony on the red planet had no need for heroes. It wanted people who knew how to solve the problem of simple survival. More than anything else it wanted independence form a doomed Earth-and it was in deadly danger of succeeding.
A gripping tale of adventure, survival, and defiance set on a future Mars.
12) The Fire People
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[...]"The first of the new meteors landed on the earth in November, 1940. It was discovered by a farmer in his field near Brookline, Massachusetts, shortly after daybreak on the morning of the 11th. Astronomically, the event was recorded by the observatory at Harvard as the sudden appearance of what apparently was a new star, increasing in the short space of a few hours from invisibility to a power beyond that of the first magnitude, and then as rapidly...
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A ray of fire, green, mysterious, stabs through the night to Dan on his ship. It leads him to an island of unearthly peril.
Jack Williamson was awarded the Grand Master by the Science Fiction Fantasy Writers of America, he is a member of the Science Fiction Hall of Fame, and he received the Stoker Award and World fantasy awards for life time achievements. He is the author of the Legion of Space series.
14) Enter the Nebula
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The greatest cracksman in the Galaxy-The Nebula ... mocked by a gay voice that called herself Andromeda, who led him into danger-and into the hands of his enemy!
Phil Hanley came out of the managing editor's office and strode savagely to his desk in the paper littered city room. It was one P.M., between editions, and the reporters and copy-desk men of the Martian Globe were taking things easy for the moment. Hanley slumped into his chair, kicked...
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Being, expelled from an air lock into deep space was the legal method of execution. It was also, the only way a man could, qualify for The Legion Of Lazarus. Hyrst had been, convicted and executed for a murder he did not, commit. Fifty years later, his body was unfrozen and revived. He was no longer quite the same man he had been, but he still intended to find out who had committed the murder and clear his name.
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Shakespeare could never have imagined a green Juliet. But, there are no barriers a great romantic love cannot scale.
Evelyn E. Smith is best-known as, the author of the Miss Melville mysteries. From 1952 to 1969, she wrote dozens of science fiction and fantasy short stories that appeared in magazines such as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Galaxy, Super Science Fiction, and Fantastic Universe. Her stories were witty, well written, often...
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Jerry Morgan, is a man with no future on Earth, he is offered a new life on Mars and he takes it. He starts out his new life on Mars on the wrong foot by meeting a princess and killing the fearsome-looking Martian he wrongly believes is menacing her. Which in actuality is the princess's beloved pet.
From there Morgan becomes, entangled in the politics of the Byzantine Martian royal court, spurns the advances of a would-be lover, and escapes, his...
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Being, trapped in the steaming h-l of Venus is no excuse for forgetting one's manners-but anyone abducted, marooned, tricked, kept from tea might well crack under the strain! A wonderful and amusing satire of the modern cosmetics industry.
Evelyn E. Smith is best-known as the author of the Miss Melville mysteries. From 1952 to 1969, she wrote dozens of science fiction and fantasy short stories that appeared in magazines such as The Magazine of Fantasy...
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Snaddra had, but one choice in its fight to afford to live belowground, underhandedly pretend theirs was an aboveboard society! Needless to say nothing is quite what it seems
Evelyn E. Smith is best, known as the author of the Miss Melville mysteries. From 1952 to 1969, she wrote dozens of science fiction and fantasy short stories that appeared in magazines such as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Galaxy, Super Science Fiction, and Fantastic...
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Elected a god, Zen the Omnipotent longed for supernatural powers-for he was also Zen the All-Put-Upon, a galactic sucker! Clearly Omnipotence wasn't everything.
Evelyn E. Smith is best known as the author of the Miss Melville mysteries. From 1952 to 1969 she wrote dozens of science fiction and fantasy short stories that appeared in magazines such as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Galaxy, Super Science Fiction, and Fantastic Universe....
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