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FANGS OF THE WOLF WORLDAt one time Race Cargill had been the best Terran Intelligence agent on the complex and mysterious planet of Wolf. He had repeatedly imperiled his life amongst the half-human and non-human creatures of the sullen world. And he had repeatedly accomplished the fantastic missions until his name was emblazoned with glory.But that had all seemingly ended. For six long years he'd sat behind a boring desk inside the fenced-in Terran...
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Originally published in 1960, here is an enthralling science alien planet puzzle from Hugo Award winning writer Mark Clifton. When Eden, the Earth colony eleven light years away, goes silent and fails to answer any communications from the mother planet, Earth's government goes into a panic. Has something tragic happened on a world already proven to have no intelligent, dangerous lifeforms? Or, are the colonists purposely disregarding the messages...
3) Space Prison
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A ship heading from Earth to Athena, a planet 500 light years away, is suddenly attacked by the Gerns, an alien empire in its expansion phase. People aboard are divided by the invaders into Acceptables and Rejects. The Acceptables would become slave labor for the Gerns on Athena, and the Rejects are forced ashore on the nearest 'Earth-like' planet, called Ragnarok. The Gerns say they will return for the Rejects, but the Rejects quickly realise that...
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AN ENTIRE GALAXY WAS IN DANGER! Somewhere, somehow, the first moves had been made-there was a pattern beginning to emerge. Someone, or something, was on the way to wresting supreme power over all the planets currently controlled by Mankind-and the Interstellar Corps seemed helpless to meet this threat. No 'normal' man could hope to penetrate the vast conspiracy of it all. But... the Corps did have one man who wasn't normal, a man who possessed a very...
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THE ROBOT ROAD TO FARAWAYHis was a dream few spacemen ever saw come true. Alan Kemp was an obsessed man-driven by the realization of a dream into the black emptiness between the stars.In a rebuilt, second-hand, obsolete ship, Kemp and his three comrades took off-determined to set up a shuttle between the planets at the Rim of the galaxy.But trouble-in the form of two lost colonies, one inhabited by giant mechanical insects and the other ruled by the...
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Three men, each driven by secret reasons, volunteered to take the strangest trip since the beginning of time: GORDON-filled with a need for power, enough power to wipe out the memory of an earlier terrible shame. LOCKWOOD-to whom life was worth very little without Susan-maybe it was worth nothing at all. STANTON-a man haunted by the knowledge that a special and mysterious fate awaited him. Behind them were their pasts. Ahead of them-infinity. In this...
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Twelve horrifying tales for the demon in you collected by the man who wrote Stories from the Twilight Zone. ROD SERLING'S FAVORITE STORIES-THE WITCH-there was the little girl who always wanted to be a witch. She tried everything she could think of but she never made it until she learned to hate everybody-including herself...AND THE WARLOCK WHO WAITED AND WAITED… "It was a wonderful attack, Captain. Nothing human could have lived through it-nothing...
8) The Weans
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Nothing has so completely stirred the imagination of the entire civilized world as the recent discovery of a civilization, lost for more than 5,000 years, of the Weans of the Great West, or Salt, Continent. Now for the first time this fascinating story of the expeditions of Kenya's greatest scientists is told-in terms comprehensible to the general reader.Who were these Weans, whose eastern coast was guarded by a ferocious giantess, who worshipped...
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CAUTION! You are about to enter a world...where all engineering ingenuity has been employed for public spectacles of torture and deathwhere the stock market operates with pari-mutuel machineswhere a court clerk transcribes testimony on punch cards, then feeds it to a jury machinewhere the dream real-estate development of today has become a cracked-concrete savage jungleIn this world, young lawyer Charles Mundin battles a great combine of corporate...
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Earth was helpless after the atomic holocaust-ready prey for the worst threat of all, the invaders from an alien galaxy…WAS MAN DOOMED FOREVER TO SENDING MESSAGES BY SMOKE SIGNALS? The Earth, after the atomic holocaust, had reverted to a strange kind of barbarism where men could build space ships but could not communicate except by the most primitive means. So it was a sickening shock to Lord Clane Linn when he captured one of the alien invader's...
11) Dr. Strangelove
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…U.S. GENERAL RUNS AMUCK……H-BOMBERS ATTACK RUSSIA…PRESIDENT AND RED PREMIER IN HOT-LINE STRUGGLE TO SAVE WORLD… Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, more commonly known as Dr. Strangelove, is a 1963 political satire black comedy that satirizes the Cold War fears of a nuclear conflict between the USSR and the USA. The novel, written by Peter George, is based on a screenplay by Stanley Kubrick, Peter George...
12) Wolfbane
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"WE'RE GOING TO FIND OUT MORE, AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO FIGHT! It was enough to curdle the blood. Haendl was proposing to fight-against the invulnerable, the almost godlike Pyramids! Haendl stood up. "Tropile, that's what this is all about!" He gestured around him. "Guns, tanks, airplanes-it's going to be us against them. Never mind the Sheep; they don't count. It's going to be Pyramids and Wolves, and the Pyramids won't win. And then-" He was glowing,...
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