Checkpoint Lambda


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As soon as he arrived to take over his command, Scott knew that something was wrong on Checkpoint Lambda. Scott realized that not only his life, but the existence of the Lambda depended upon his finding out what was wrong . . . for the charts indicated that it was headed on a collision course, and would be totally destroyed unless immediate measures were taken. But would he be able to act in time?




Sidewise in Time


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Ten selected short stories from the master of pulp, Murray Leinster - pen name of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, whose prolific career spanned the first six decades of the 20th Century. The Golden Age Masterwork of Sidewise in Time includes the Hugo Award-winning novella "Exploration Team". Full contents include: Sidewise in Time The Runaway Skyscraper The Mad Planet Politics Proxima Centauri First Contact A Logic Names Joe De Profundis If You Was a Moklin Exploration Team




The Pirates of Zan


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Because Bron Hoddan was a serious electronics engineer, he didn't want any part of his particular planetary heritage. For he was from Zan - and Zan's only occupation was spaceship piracy! So Bron went to Walden, the most civilized planet of them all. His first step to making himself a good reputation was to invent a machine that would save the government millions. But when instead he was seized and jailed as the most unspeakable criminal in Walden's history, he realized that there was only one way open to remedy this "civilized" disaster. And that was by putting into use some of Zan's old-fashioned buccaneering techniques!




The Last Space Ship


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Put yourself in the place of Kim Rendall, a handsome, idealistic young man living on a distant planet ruled by a super-efficient government. Here is industrialization carried to its illogical conclusion. Kim Rendall lives in the shadow of mechanized terror, for machines have taken over, and the disciplinary circuit keeps the inhabitants in check . . .




Operation: Outer Space


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In a society fuelled by advertising, a small group of people finance man's first interstellar flight by selling the television rights to their adventures.




The Greks Bring Gifts


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THE GREKS WERE PEOPLE-HATERS They came to Earth in their space ship, bearing fabulous gifts - such as machines that did any day job automatically, and fertilizer that made plants shoot up overnight. But they presented their gifts with contempt, and with a look in their eyes that made people feel "creepy". Still, because of the brave new world they promised, they Greks could be forgiven anything - until they left and people discovered the machines were breaking down. Then their only choice was to beg the Greks to come back, on their own terms. And they knew the terms would be hard...




Murray Leinster


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Will F. Jenkins, known to science fiction fans by his penname Murray Leinster, was among the most prolific American writers of the 20th century. "The Dean of Science Fiction," as he was sometimes known, published more than 1,500 short stories and 100 books in a career spanning more than fifty years. This biography, written by his two youngest daughters, chronicles Murray Leinster's private and literary life from his first writings for The Smart Set and early pulp magazines such as Argosy, Amazing Stories and Astounding Stories, through the golden age of science fiction in the 1930s through the 1950s, to his death in 1975. Included as appendices are his famous 1946 story "A Logic Named Joe" and 1954 essay "To Build a Robot Brain."




Space Gypsies


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The MARINTHA hurtled into space to discover the secret of the galactic ancestors of the human race. In the shattered rubble of great civilizations they discovered bizarre remnants of humanity beside whom they would battle the poisonous forces arrayed against all human life... Humanity's future hung in the starry balance!




The First Murray Leinster MEGAPACK ®


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This volume assembles 25 complete novels and short stories by Murray Leinster, published between 1919 and 1963. Included are such science fiction classics as "The Runaway Skyscraper," "Space Tug," and "Operation Terror," as well as rarities like "A Thousand Degrees Below Zero," "The Gallery Gods," and "Nerve." Also includes a biographical introduction and a selected bibliography. Complete list of contents: INTRODUCTION THE RUNAWAY SKYSCRAPER (1919) A THOUSAND DEGREES BELOW ZERO (1919) THE MAD PLANET (1920) THE GALLERY GODS (1921) THE RED DUST (1921) NERVE (1921) MORALE: A STORY OF THE WAR OF 1941-43 (1931) THE FIFTH-DIMENSION TUBE (1933) INVASION (1933) SPACE PLATFORM (1953) SPACE TUG (1953) THE INVADERS (1953) OPERATION: OUTER SPACE (1954) SAM, THIS IS YOU (1955) SCRIMSHAW (1955) THE MACHINE THAT SAVED THE WORLD (1957) THE MONSTER FROM EARTH'S END (1959) THE ALIENS (1959) LONG AGO, FAR AWAY (1959) THE LEADER (1960) THE AMBULANCE MADE TWO TRIPS (1960) PARIAH PLANET (1961) OPERATION TERROR (1962) TALENTS, INCORPORATED (1962) THE HATE DISEASE (1963) MURRAY LEINSTER: A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY And don't forget to search this ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see the 260+ entries in the MEGAPACK® series, covering science fiction, fantasy, horror, mysteries, westerns, author collections...and much, much more!




The Black Galaxy


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When Stellaris, the first human interstellar ship, unexpectedly hurtles off the earth, it takes the ship's designer, Rob Cantrell, his girlfriend and a skeleton crew with it into the furthest reaches of space. If only that was their biggest problem! With no star maps, killer aliens on their tail and a ship that was only half finished, their journey home is going to be quite the challenge!