The Plotters

by Alexander Blade

I came from a far planet to learn the Earth's secrets. But I found other things, too -- and friends like Beth. She stared at me thoughtfully. "You know, Marko, I'm a little afraid of you." "Of me? But why?" "Well," she hesitated, "it's hard to say. But when a man jumps into a pool and swims so much faster than one of our country's best swimmers, and then picks up that swimmer and throws him fifty feet without the slightest effort . . ." That was where the trouble started.

28 pages, Hardcover

First published June 14, 2010

About the author

"One of the longest-lasting Ziff-Davis House Names, originally the personal pseudonym of David Vern [...]. The name was later used by Howard Browne, Millen Cooke, Chester S Geier, Randall Garrett with Robert Silverberg (who also wrote solo under the name), Roger P Graham (Rog Phillips), Edmond Hamilton, William L Hamling, Heinrich Hauser, Berkeley Livingston, Herb Livingston, William P McGivern, David Wright O'Brien, Louis H Sampliner, Richard S Shaver, Don Wilcox and Leroy Yerxa. A large number of stories were published as by Blade, most in Amazing and Fantastic Adventures and some in Imagination, Imaginative Tales and Science Fiction Adventures. The name was last used by John Jakes for "The Deadly Mission" [...]."

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