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The "Golden Age of Science Fiction" Megapacks are designed to introduce readers to classic science fiction writers who might otherwise be forgotten. Lester del Rey (1915-1993) is most remembered today as one of the namesakes of Del Rey Books - but in the Golden Age he was an accomplished writer who got his start alongside (and sold to the same markets as) a young Isaac Asimov. This volume assembles 9 classic del Rey tales - more than 500 pages of...
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Poul Anderson (1926 - 2001) was an American science fiction author who began his career during one of the Golden Ages of the genre and continued to write and remain popular into the 21st century. Anderson also authored several works of fantasy, historical novels, and a prodigious number of short stories. He received numerous awards for his writing, including seven Hugo Awards and three Nebula Awards. This volume collects 8 classic stories:
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John Wood Campbell, Jr. (1910-1971) was an American science fiction writer and editor. As editor of Astounding Science Fiction (later renamed Analog Science Fiction and Fact) from late 1937 until his death, he is generally credited with shaping the Golden Age of Science Fiction. Isaac Asimov called Campbell "the most powerful force in science fiction ever, and for the first ten years of his editorship he dominated the field completely."
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Robert Moore Williams (1907-1977) was an American writer, primarily of science fiction. He wrote not only under his own name, but as John S. Browning, H. H. Hermon, Russell Storm and E. K. Jarvis (a house name shared with other writers). Rereading his work in preparation for assembling this volume, we were impressed by how well much of his fiction holds up today. His writing style is smooth and crisp, and he avoids scientific lectures, preferring...
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John Keith Laumer (1925-1993) was an American science fiction author. Prior to becoming a full-time writer, he was an officer in the United States Air Force and a diplomat in the United States Foreign Service. This collection containes 9 classic tales...more than 400 pages of great reading! Included are:
GREYLORN
THE FROZEN PLANET
GAMBLER'S WORLD
THE YILLIAN WAY
IT COULD BE ANYTHING
END AS A HERO
A BAD DAY FOR VERMIN
A TRACE OF MEMORY
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The "Golden Age of Science Fiction" Megapacks are designed to introduce readers to classic science fiction writers who might otherwise be forgotten. This volume assembles 2 novels and 4 shorter works - almost 500 pages of classic fiction - by 3-time Hugo Award-winner Clifford D. Simak. Included are:
TIME QUARRY [novel]
EMPIRE [novel]
THE STREET THAT WASN'T THERE [short story]
THE WORLD THAT COULDN'T BE [novelet]
HELLHOUNDS OF THE COSMOS [short...
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Charles V. de Vet wrote more than 50 short stories for science fiction magazines, beginning with "The Unexpected Weapon" for Amazing Stories in September 1950. After a several year hiatus, de Vet became active as a writer again in the late 1970s and early 1980s. This collection spans the length of his career, showcasing his talents for vivid characterization and exciting storytelling. Included in this volume are:
SPECIAL FEATURE
SEEDLING
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Homer Eon Flint was one of the pioneers of science fiction - publishing science fiction stories in pulp magazines before the term "science fiction" had even been coined. Unfortunately, he died violently - and mysteriously - at age 36, leaving behind a grieving widow and three young children. Prior to his shocking end in 1924, Homer's speculative fiction made him a leading contributor to the era's top pulp magazines. Hundreds of thousands of readers...
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Peter Schuyler Miller (1912-1974) was an American science fiction writer and critic. Miller wrote pulp science fiction beginning in the 1930s, and was considered one of the more popular authors of the period. His work appeared in such magazines as Amazing Stories, Astounding, Comet, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Marvel Tales, Science Fiction Digest, Super Science Stories, Unknown, Weird Tales, and Wonder Stories, among others. This volume...
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Kris Ottman Neville (1925-1980) was an American science fiction writer from California. At the top of his career, he virtually abandoned writing science fiction to pursue a career in chemistry, becoming a leading expert in epoxy resins. His writing remains some of the best of the era. Included in this volume are 9 classic stories:
HUNT THE HUNTER
FRESH AIR FIEND
EARTH ALERT!
SHE KNEW HE WAS COMING
MORAL EQUIVALENT
GENERAL MAX SHORTER
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P. (Peter) Schuyler Miller (1912-1974) was a technical writer with an MSc in chemistry, as well as a critic, amateur archaeologist, and author. He reviewed science fiction works in Astounding Science-Fiction from 1945 until 1975. He accumulated one of the largest private collections of science fiction books in his day (roughly 8,000 hardcovers and paperbacks). In 1963 he was presented with a special Hugo for his reviewing. He began as an author of...
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The Golden Age of Science Fiction MEGAPACK™ series showcases great science fiction authors whose work might otherwise be forgotten. This time we focus on Alan E. Nourse, medical doctor and science fiction author, who paid his way through med school with his writing. He may be most famous as the author whose title was "borrowed" for the movie Bladerunner...though the movie was based on Philip K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" Nourse...
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The "Golden Age of Science Fiction" Megapacks are designed to introduce readers to classic science fiction writers of the 1940s-1960s who might otherwise be forgotten. Winston K. Marks (1915-1979) is one such unjustly forgotten author.
Included here are 12 science fiction stories, published between 1953 and 1959, representing some of his best work:
THE WATER EATER (1953)
UNBEGOTTEN CHILD (1953)
...SO THEY BAKED A CAKE (1954)
BACKLASH (1954)
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The 43rd Golden Age of Science Fiction MEGAPACK® again focuses on pulpsmith Chester S. Geier's science fiction, collecting 3 novels and 17 short stories from the pages of such classic pulp magazines as Planet Stories, Amazing Stories, and Fantastic Adventures. Included are:
MINIONS OF THE TIGER
FOREVER IS TOO LONG
NOT AS PLOTTED
HIDDEN CITY
TREASURE DERELICT
MINER CRISIS ON IO
TIME OUT OF MIND
LIGHT OF LIFE
THE WORLD BEYOND
PLANET OF CREATION
THE...
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Raymond Zinke Gallun (1911 - 1994) was among the earliest pulp fiction writers who specialized in science fiction, and he sold many stories to magazines in the 1930s under his own name and several pseudonyms (such as Dow Elstar, E.V. Raymond and William Callahan). His first novel, "People Minus X" (included here) was published in 1957, followed by his second, "The Planet Strappers," in 1961 (also included here). He was honored with the I-CON Lifetime...
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Richard Wilson (1920-1987) was a Nebula Award winning American science fiction writer and fan. He was a member of the Futurians, and was at his most prolific in the 1950s - though he continued writing throughout his entire life. This volume focuses primarily on his science fiction (24 stories and a poem) from the 1950s and 1960s.
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THE MAN WITHOUT A PLANET
THE HOAXTERS
IF YOU WERE THE ONLY-
DOUBLE TAKE
MARY HELL'S
THE...
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The "Golden Age of Science Fiction" Megapacks are designed to introduce readers to classic science fiction writers of the 1940s-1960s who might otherwise be forgotten. Horace B. Fyfe (1918-1997) is one such unjustly forgotten author. Included here are 16 science fiction stories plus one novel, published between, representing some of his best work:
D-99 (novel)
LET THERE BE LIGHT
MANNERS OF THE AGE
LUNA ESCAPADE
THE OUTBREAK OF PEACE
FEES OF...
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Stanley Grauman Weinbaum (1902-1935) was an American science fiction writer. His career in science fiction was short but influential. His first story, "A Martian Odyssey", was published to great (and enduring) acclaim in July 1934, but he would be dead from lung cancer within eighteen months. Included in this volume are:
THE DARK OTHER
A MARTIAN ODYSSEY
VALLEY OF DREAMS
THE IDEAL
PYGMALION'S SPECTACLES
THE WORLDS OF IF
THE POINT OF VIEW
GRAPH
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William Campbell Gault (1910-1995) was an American writer. He wrote under his own name, as well as (among others) the pseudonyms Roney Scott, Larry Sternig, and Will Duke. He is probably best remembered for his sports fiction, particularly the young-readers' novels he began publishing in the early 1960s. Gault was also an acclaimed mystery writer. He was not limited to sports and mysteries, though-he also wrote a substantial body of science fiction....
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Chester S. Geier (1921-1990) was a U.S. author and editor whose first work, "A Length of Rope" appeared in Unknown in April 1941. Editor Ray Palmer recruited him to write for the Ziff-Davis group of pulp magazines, where he became a frequent contributor to Amazing Stories and Fantastic Adventures, and less frequently to mystery and western pulps. He published under his own name and several pseudonyms, including Guy Archette, Alexander Blade, P F Costello,...
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