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Short stories to entice, boggle and thrill:
Future experiments. A one-of-a-kind travel agency. Space-marine trauma. And a decades-long war.
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Two Men In A BoatBoredom EscapesVoices In The MirrorThe Antarctican Land-Grab OffensiveDisobeyedDeath In The Time Of ParadiseShining StarThe Mortician's AlibiDeath Of A CEOPanic On The Streets Of LungerthraxDog's DayeFuture PrisonsAnd He Sadly DiedPopulated Entirely By Concrete Slabs...
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Short stories to beguile, confound and exhilarate:
A regenerated human. A celebrity cult. A maniac on the Moon.
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Intercepted
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Population One
Rules Of The Tribe
Blood Storm
The Memory Farm
NukeTheWorld.com
The Meat Wagon
Music For Robot Lovers
The Church Of Ollie Field's Double Chin
Symptoms Of A Disoccupied Mind
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Short stories to enrapture, astonish and elate:
A far-future terrorist attack. A father making ends meet. Scared kids making a name for themselves. A doomed Martian expedition.
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Every River Is A RoadT Is For TeetotalitarianThe Geyser TwirlAll The Right FriendsIt's Just Business, BabyMartian MiraclesThe End ManStar BuyWithout A SummitBunkerPickpocketSoilProtesterThe Stars Are CCTVThe Steel Moon
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Extra! Extra! Read all about it! The Empire State Building has vanished into thin air! Gone, too, are Grant's Tomb and Grand Central Station, and all hell is breaking loose in New York City! What's the story? One grizzled old newspaper reporter known simply as Pop-a role made for Walter Matthau-is on top of it . . . and better stay there, because his livelihood is on the line. If Pop fails to get to the bottom of the vanishing landmarks, his job will...
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Things are disappearing. Parts of buildings, parts of people, parts of the whole world-they're here today, gone tomorrow. Old Shellback-a character as crazy-smart as Christopher Lloyd in Back to the Future-thinks he needs glasses. But all he really has to do is open his eyes . . . and see the light. Or so says George Smiley-otherwise known as the Messiah. George claims that the reason things are vanishing is because he wants them to go away. He has...
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When it comes to big dreams and schemes, young Chuck Lambert would give Walter Mitty a run for his money. In fact, Chuck's biggest dream of all is really out of this world. Because he's got his eyes on a prize in the sky. Chuck wants to buy a planet of his own. . . . Madman Murphy, the King of Planetary Realtors, is more than happy to oblige. He's got a whole galaxy of planets for sale. All Chuck needs is money . . . and a lot of it. Eleven years...
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Think you know what's going on in the world? Think again. Long before Rod Serling took us into The Twilight Zone, L. Ron Hubbard brought us to The Crossroads-a place where thought-provoking twists and turns are delivered with plenty of wit and wisdom. Farmer Eben Smith is fed up with big government telling him how to run his life and his business. They pay him to bury his crops while folks starve in the streets, and he's not going to take it anymore....
8) The Tramp
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Penniless, homeless and virtually lifeless, the vagrant "Doughface" Jack is about to discover that where medical marvels meet the mysteries of the human mind, amazing things happen. Like one of the comic book X-Men mutants, The Tramp acquires a capability beyond his imagination and without equal on Earth. Riding the rails, Jack runs afoul of a local sheriff and ends up with a crushed skull. He's as good as dead until a savvy country doctor performs...
9) Greed
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Is Greed good? The future of Earth and all of mankind may hang on that one question. And George Marquis Lorrilard-a space age ace-pilot, adventurer and fortune-hunter to rival Hans Solo of Star Wars-is just the man to answer it. The world is divided between Asia and the United Continents-two great super powers locked in eternal warfare. But the balance of power is about to shift in Asia's favor. They have developed a top-secret weapon-the cohesion...
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Women. Liquor. Power. Women. Liquor. Power. That is Fanner Marston's mantra-his reason for being-and while he knows a little about the first and a lot about the second, he may well be on the verge of learning everything there is to know about the third. Power. He may, in fact, be about to uncover the key to gaining absolute control over the entire universe. The only problem is, Fanner is certifiably insane-a crazed Peter Lorre on a...
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Fanner Marston está a punto de descubrir la clave para conseguir el control absoluto del universo. El único problema es que está loco de atar: un enloquecido Anthony Quinn con muchos humos. Impulsado por la avaricia y el ansia de poder, lo único que le preocupa es llegar a la antigua ciudad de Parva y encontrar el gran secreto del poder absoluto. Pero está escrito en los muros de Parva… y no creerán lo que dice.
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Boldly go to worlds where no one has gone before. Explore exotic new worlds and fantastic tales that appeared in the pages of the most popular pulp fiction magazines of the 1930's and 1940's. The Collection includes: The Great Secret, If I Were You, International Book Awards Finalists: The Crossroads & A Matter of Matter, When Shadows Fall, Danger in the Dark, Greed, The Tramp, Beyond All Weapons and The Professor Was a Thief
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Family friendly Un-Adult-A-rated fun! Does size matter? Is bigger better? That's no small question to Tom Little-the circus midget with giant dreams. Tom may be king of the midgets, but he's got far grander ambitions-to become the muscleman at the top, the ringmaster. Now, drawing on some dark ancient secrets and mystic texts, he's about to get his wish. Imagine a pint-sized Mickey Rooney on steroids, trading up into a body like Burt Lancaster's....
14) If I Were You
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Family friendly Un-Adult-A-rated fun! Does size matter? Is bigger better? That's no small question to Tom Little-the circus midget with giant dreams. Tom may be king of the midgets, but he's got far grander ambitions-to become the muscleman at the top, the ringmaster. Now, drawing on some dark ancient secrets and mystic texts, he's about to get his wish. Imagine a pint-sized Mickey Rooney on steroids, trading up into a body like Burt Lancaster's....
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Star Trek's Captain Kirk has a kindred soul in Lars the Ranger, a commander of his own star fleet. But whereas Kirk's mission is to boldly go where no man has gone before, Lars is boldly going where other men are-in a desperate attempt to save his home planet . . . Earth. He's not exploring the final frontier. He is our last hope. Earth is way past global warming. It's totally fried-an environmental disaster-and most of its inhabitants have cut out...
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