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The Golden Age of Science Fiction #2
The Golden Age of Science Fiction, Vol. II
This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty short stories by more than forty masters of science fiction. Many of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s.
Included within this work are stories by Ben Bova, Cordwainer Smith, Phillip K. Dick, Randall Garrett, Paul Ernst, Kurt Vonnegut, Harry Harrison, Jack Williamson, Lester Del Rey, Fredric Brown, Murray Leinster, Walter M. Miller, Jr., Andre Norton, H. Beam Piper, and many others.
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A Question of Courage, J.F. Bone
The Duelling Maching, Ben Bova
Keep Out, Frederic Brown
Indirection, Everett B. Cole
The Game of Rat and Dragon, Cordwainer Smith
The World Beyond, Raymond Cummings
Victory, Lester Del Rey
The Defenders, Phillip K. Dick
The Hammer of Thor, Charles Willard Diffin
The Planetoid of Peril, Paul Ernst
The Jupiter Weapon, Charles L. Fontenay
This World Must Die, H.B. Fyfe
Psichopath, Randall Garrett
The Man Who Hated Mars, Randall Garrett
Hawk Carse, Anthony Gilmore
The Helpful Hand of God, Tom Godwin
A Scientist Rises, D.W. Hall
Monsters of Mars, Edmond Hamilton
The Sargasso of Space, Edmond Hamilton
The K-Factor, Harry Harrison
The Misplaced Battleship, Harry Harrison
Walls of Acid, Henry Hasse
Old Rambling House, Frank Herbert
Made in Tanganyika, Carl Jacobi
Sight Gag, Lawrence Janifer
Get Out of Our Skies, E. K. Jarvis
Cubs of the Wolf, Raymond F. Jones
A Gift for Terra, Fox B. Holden
We Didn’t Do Anything Wrong, Hardly, Roger Kuykendall
The Great Potlatch Riots, Allen Kim Lang
Gambler’s World, Keith Laumer
No Great Magic, Fritz Leiber
The Ambulance Made Two Trips, Murray Leinster
The Leader, Murray Leinster
The Mississippi Saucer, Frank Belknap Long
Summer Snow Storm, Stephen Marlowe
The Attack From Space, S.P. Meek
The Great Drought, S.P. Meek
Death of Spaceman, Walter M. Miller, Jr.
The People of the Crater, Andre Norton
An Ounce of Cure, Alan Nourse
Image of the Gods, Alan Nourse
A Slave is a Slave, H. Beam Piper
Day of the Moron, H. Beam Piper
Pythias, Frederick Pohl
The Hunters, Joseph Samachson
The Judas Valley, Robert Silverberg
Project Mastodon, Clifford D. Simak
2BR02B, Kurt Vonnegut
The Pygmy Planet, Jack Williamson
This unexpurgated edition contains the complete text with errors and omissions corrected.
Included within this work are stories by Ben Bova, Cordwainer Smith, Phillip K. Dick, Randall Garrett, Paul Ernst, Kurt Vonnegut, Harry Harrison, Jack Williamson, Lester Del Rey, Fredric Brown, Murray Leinster, Walter M. Miller, Jr., Andre Norton, H. Beam Piper, and many others.
This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.
A Question of Courage, J.F. Bone
The Duelling Maching, Ben Bova
Keep Out, Frederic Brown
Indirection, Everett B. Cole
The Game of Rat and Dragon, Cordwainer Smith
The World Beyond, Raymond Cummings
Victory, Lester Del Rey
The Defenders, Phillip K. Dick
The Hammer of Thor, Charles Willard Diffin
The Planetoid of Peril, Paul Ernst
The Jupiter Weapon, Charles L. Fontenay
This World Must Die, H.B. Fyfe
Psichopath, Randall Garrett
The Man Who Hated Mars, Randall Garrett
Hawk Carse, Anthony Gilmore
The Helpful Hand of God, Tom Godwin
A Scientist Rises, D.W. Hall
Monsters of Mars, Edmond Hamilton
The Sargasso of Space, Edmond Hamilton
The K-Factor, Harry Harrison
The Misplaced Battleship, Harry Harrison
Walls of Acid, Henry Hasse
Old Rambling House, Frank Herbert
Made in Tanganyika, Carl Jacobi
Sight Gag, Lawrence Janifer
Get Out of Our Skies, E. K. Jarvis
Cubs of the Wolf, Raymond F. Jones
A Gift for Terra, Fox B. Holden
We Didn’t Do Anything Wrong, Hardly, Roger Kuykendall
The Great Potlatch Riots, Allen Kim Lang
Gambler’s World, Keith Laumer
No Great Magic, Fritz Leiber
The Ambulance Made Two Trips, Murray Leinster
The Leader, Murray Leinster
The Mississippi Saucer, Frank Belknap Long
Summer Snow Storm, Stephen Marlowe
The Attack From Space, S.P. Meek
The Great Drought, S.P. Meek
Death of Spaceman, Walter M. Miller, Jr.
The People of the Crater, Andre Norton
An Ounce of Cure, Alan Nourse
Image of the Gods, Alan Nourse
A Slave is a Slave, H. Beam Piper
Day of the Moron, H. Beam Piper
Pythias, Frederick Pohl
The Hunters, Joseph Samachson
The Judas Valley, Robert Silverberg
Project Mastodon, Clifford D. Simak
2BR02B, Kurt Vonnegut
The Pygmy Planet, Jack Williamson
This unexpurgated edition contains the complete text with errors and omissions corrected.
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First published February 14, 2010
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May 23, 2024"The Defenders" by Philip K. Dick - Americans and Soviets descend underground and leave surface robots to continue their fight for them but the robots conclude war is irrational and hoax the humans below into believing the surface of Earth is slag. A group of Americans discover the ruse and the robots seal the tube into the underground trapping them on the surface. The robots figure that by the time the humans can dig their way out their hatred will have decreased enough to allow them to collaborate.
"Old Rambling House" by Frank Herbert - Alien tax collectors are mentally conditioned not to leave their jobs unless they can get others to take their place so they trick Ted and Martha by offering to exchange a house worth over a hundred thousand dollars for their seven thousand dollar trailer.
"Sight Gag" by Lawrence Janifer - A Psi Operative survives an assassination attempt by telekinetically moving the bullets as they emerge from the assassin's gun.
"Old Rambling House" by Frank Herbert - Alien tax collectors are mentally conditioned not to leave their jobs unless they can get others to take their place so they trick Ted and Martha by offering to exchange a house worth over a hundred thousand dollars for their seven thousand dollar trailer.
"Sight Gag" by Lawrence Janifer - A Psi Operative survives an assassination attempt by telekinetically moving the bullets as they emerge from the assassin's gun.
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January 30, 2016
Great short stories and novellas from the Golden Age.
As with any compilation, some were great and others less so.
As with any compilation, some were great and others less so.
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