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WMG Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Dean Wesley Smith, famous for being one of the most prolific and wide ranging authors working today, draws on his library of science fiction short stories to produce this strangely twisted collection, Alien Vibrations.From two androids falling in lust on an alien planet to a story that spans generations, Dean's science fiction reads like no other. Here he takes you along on an alien first contact to a movie, then jumps you a thousand years into the...
Author
Publisher
WMG Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Dean Wesley Smith, famous for being one of the most prolific and wide ranging authors working today, draws on his library of science fiction stories to produce this collection of short stories from his famous jukebox series.Through the Jukebox collects five of the award-nominated and bestselling stories. The collection opens with "Jukebox Gifts," a story of four friends getting a chance to change their own pasts as a Christmas present. The collection...
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Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
This collection of short stories ranges through time and space from the Yucatán peninsula in the early years of the Spanish conquest to a bank office in late Victorian London. About half the stories feature Francis Bacon and other characters from his milieu. A bonus story brings you into the present, if not quite the present you’re used to.
Author
Publisher
Susan Hart
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
The Pied Piper of Spring - A galactic tinkerer is called to a small settlement on the planet known as Wesson, to take care of the rat population, which has exploded in the Spring. The inhabitants are pacifist vegetarians and when the tinkerer finds out how they have previously taken care of the problem, he is horrified.Two Idiots From Earth - A government official on a planet currently at war with earth, finds two supposed spies at a bar and suspects...
Author
Publisher
Susan Hart
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
The Refugee - A cowboy finds a downed balloon, he thinks, and is shocked when the inhabitant emerges and starts to yell at him in a strange language.Terran Spies On An Alien Planet - A government official on a planet currently at war with earth, finds two supposed spies at a bar and suspects they are Terran agents. They are pretty 'dense' and after grilling them for a period of time, he follows up on a couple of tips they give him and their supposedly...
Author
Publisher
Susan Hart
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Two Idiots From Earth - A government official on a planet currently at war with earth, finds two supposed spies at a bar and suspects they are Terran agents. They are pretty 'dense' and after grilling them for a period of time, he follows up on a couple of tips they give him and their supposedly real reason for being on the planet. However, things change suddenly for the official and his planet as the situation heats up.Weather Modification Sucks...
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Have you ever wondered what a UFO abduction is like from the alien's viewpoint? Can a machine provide comfort to a dying woman? What would it be like to fall into the hands of a get-rich-quick scheming extraterrestrial? All these questions and more are answered in this book of wonderfully crafted short stories by breakout author, J.J. Harlan.
If Ray Bradbury and Douglas Adams collaborated on writing, they'd present something like this incredible...
11) Apocalyptic Sci-Fi - 7 Science Fiction Short Stories by Philip K. Dick, Harlan Ellison, Frederik
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English
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Seven science fiction short stories from some of the best sci-fi authors of the 1940s, 50s and 60s.
12) Sci-Fi Killers - 14 Killer Science Fiction Short Stories by Philip K. Dick, Robert Silverberg, Ha
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English
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Fourteen Killer science fiction short stories from some of the best sci-fi authors of the 1940s, 50s and 60s.
13) Sci-Fi Inventions - 13 Science Fiction Short Stories by Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick, Murray Lein
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English
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Thirteen science fiction short stories from some of the best sci-fi authors of the 1940s, 50s and 60s.
14) Sci-Fi Asteroids - 8 Science Fiction Short Stories by Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury, Frederik Pohl
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English
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Eight science fiction short stories from some of the best sci-fi authors of the 1940s, 50s and 60s.
15) Sci-Fi Robots - 10 Science Fiction Short Stories by Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick, Robert Silverbe
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English
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Some of the earliest science fiction stories featuring robots from some of the best sci-fi authors of the 1950s and 60s.
16) Sci-Fi Space Colonies - 11 Science Fiction Short Stories by Philip K. Dick, Robert Silverberg, Ra
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English
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Eleven science fiction short stories from some of the best sci-fi authors of the 1940s, 50s and 60s.
17) Sci-Fi Wars - 9 Science Fiction Short Stories by Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury, Murray Leinster, F
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English
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Nine science fiction short stories from some of the best sci-fi authors of the 1940s, 50s and 60s.
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English
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Cast Spencer Tracy as Speed Kyle, master-builder of the hottest, fastest planes around. Then give the role of Cal Bradley, daredevil test pilot who pushes those planes to the limit, to a young hotshot like Tony Curtis. Add Grace Kelly as Speed's blond bombshell daughter who fears that Cal will go too far-and you've got a winner. And as far as Speed and Cal are concerned, winning is everything. Speed's company is bleeding cash, and they need money...
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Pilot Pete England used to think there was nothing more exciting in the world than flying off into the wild blue yonder. But lately the blue yonder hasn't been wild at all . . . it's been downright dull. Pete's like a jaded Clark Gable who's hungry for adventure-and he's about to get his fill. Pete has fallen into a rut, flying the same route-New York to D.C.-with the same passengers, day after day after day. He might as well be driving a bus . ....
20) Inky Odds
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Bat Conroy-cut him and he'd bleed ink, he's a born newspaperman. Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite, Eric Sevareid-the greatest American journalists of the 20th century all made their names as war correspondents, but none of them would have beat out Bat Conroy to a good story. Which makes it that much more mystifying-and aggravating-when an unknown writer, filing under the byline Perry Lane, scoops Bat on every story that comes along. Bat's always...
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