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The Golden Age of Science Fiction #3
The Golden Age of Science Fiction, Vol. III
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 Phillip K. Dick, Randall Garrett, Harry Harrison, Murray Leinster, Walter M. Miller, Jr., H. Beam Piper, Clifford Simak, Robert Silverberg, Jack Williamson, and many others.
This collection includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.
The Anglers of Arz, Roger D. Aycock
The Cuckoo Clock, Wesley Barefoot
Zen, Jerome Bixby
Say Hello for Me, Frank Coggins
The Guardians, Irving Cox
Martians Never Die, Lucius Daniel
Foundling on Venus, John and Dorothy De Coucy
Vital Ingredient, Charles De Vet
The Skull, Phillip K. Dick
The Eye of Allah, Charles W. Diffin
Tree, Spare that Woodman, Dave Dryfoos
Service With a Smile, Charles L. Fontenay
The Monster, Randall Garrett
The Last Supper, T.D. Hamm
The Passenger, Kenneth Harmon
Goodbye Dead Man!, Tom W. Harris
The Velvet Glove, Harry Harrison
Prelude to Space, Robert W. Haseltine
Tight Squeeze, Dean C. Ing
The Jameson Satellite, Neal R. Jones
A Matter of Importance, Murray Leinster
The One and the Many, Stephen Marlowe
Shepherd of the Planets, Alan Mattox
Planet of Dreams, James McKimmey
Stolen Brains, S.P. Meek
The Hoofer, Walter M. Miller Jr.
PRoblem, Alan Nourse
The Return, H. Beam Piper & John G. McGuire
Time and Time Again, H. Beam Piper
The Day of the Boomer Dukes, Frederick Pohl
The Hohokam Dig, Theodore Pratt
Make Mine Homogenized, Rick Raphael
Revolution, Mack Reynolds
Spawn of the Comet, H. Thompson Rich
Runaway, Joseph Samachson
DP, Arthur Dekker Savage
Pirates of the Gorm, Nat Schachner
Gone Fishing, James H. Schmitz
Alien Offer, Al Sevcik
Forever, Robert Sheckley
The Hour of Battle, Robert Sheckley
The Happy Unfortunate, Robert Silverberg
The Street That Wasn’t There, Clifford D. Simak & Carl Jacobi
The Delegate from Venus, Henry Slesar
The Big Fix, George O. Smith
Vortex Blaster, E.E. “Doc” Smith
The Planet of Dread, R.F. Starzl
Sweet Their Blood and Sticky, Albert F. Teichner
Homesick, Lyn Venable
The Meteor Girl, Jack Williamson
Included within this work are stories by Phillip K. Dick, Randall Garrett, Harry Harrison, Murray Leinster, Walter M. Miller, Jr., H. Beam Piper, Clifford Simak, Robert Silverberg, Jack Williamson, and many others.
This collection includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.
The Anglers of Arz, Roger D. Aycock
The Cuckoo Clock, Wesley Barefoot
Zen, Jerome Bixby
Say Hello for Me, Frank Coggins
The Guardians, Irving Cox
Martians Never Die, Lucius Daniel
Foundling on Venus, John and Dorothy De Coucy
Vital Ingredient, Charles De Vet
The Skull, Phillip K. Dick
The Eye of Allah, Charles W. Diffin
Tree, Spare that Woodman, Dave Dryfoos
Service With a Smile, Charles L. Fontenay
The Monster, Randall Garrett
The Last Supper, T.D. Hamm
The Passenger, Kenneth Harmon
Goodbye Dead Man!, Tom W. Harris
The Velvet Glove, Harry Harrison
Prelude to Space, Robert W. Haseltine
Tight Squeeze, Dean C. Ing
The Jameson Satellite, Neal R. Jones
A Matter of Importance, Murray Leinster
The One and the Many, Stephen Marlowe
Shepherd of the Planets, Alan Mattox
Planet of Dreams, James McKimmey
Stolen Brains, S.P. Meek
The Hoofer, Walter M. Miller Jr.
PRoblem, Alan Nourse
The Return, H. Beam Piper & John G. McGuire
Time and Time Again, H. Beam Piper
The Day of the Boomer Dukes, Frederick Pohl
The Hohokam Dig, Theodore Pratt
Make Mine Homogenized, Rick Raphael
Revolution, Mack Reynolds
Spawn of the Comet, H. Thompson Rich
Runaway, Joseph Samachson
DP, Arthur Dekker Savage
Pirates of the Gorm, Nat Schachner
Gone Fishing, James H. Schmitz
Alien Offer, Al Sevcik
Forever, Robert Sheckley
The Hour of Battle, Robert Sheckley
The Happy Unfortunate, Robert Silverberg
The Street That Wasn’t There, Clifford D. Simak & Carl Jacobi
The Delegate from Venus, Henry Slesar
The Big Fix, George O. Smith
Vortex Blaster, E.E. “Doc” Smith
The Planet of Dread, R.F. Starzl
Sweet Their Blood and Sticky, Albert F. Teichner
Homesick, Lyn Venable
The Meteor Girl, Jack Williamson
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May 23, 2024"Shepherd of the Planets" by Alan Mattox - Spacemen feed a planet's natives and when they translate their language they realize they are saying a variant of the first line of the Lord's Prayer.
"Runaway" by Joseph Samachson - Plato dreams of being a stowaway on a rocket to another planet but gets caught. The reader learns at the end of the story that he isn't human but an android.
"Prelude to Space" by Robert W. Haseltine - The protagonist is interviewed by an alien seeking to ascertain whether Earth is ready to join a galactic federation of peaceful worlds.
"Vital Ingredient" by Charles De Vet - Orville is inadvertently killed by aliens who give him a new body which requires more food than he can consume.
"Goodbye Dead Man!" by Tom W. Harris - After Danny loses all his money in a card game he gives the victor radioactive coins to slowly poison him.
"The Passenger" by Kenneth Harmon - A woman on a space liner is devoured by a spider-like creature that works in the bowels of the ship.
"Planet of Dreams" by James McKimmey - George builds a gun to kill Loveral who has prevented the people from working.
"The Skull" by Philip K. Dick - Conger is sent back in time to assassinate a cult leader but he becomes his target.
"Homesick" by Lyn Venable - Five men make a thirty-year junket into space and come back allergic to Earth.
"The Cuckoo Clock" by Wesley Barefoot - Jim has been made into a Cuckoo parent by an Incubus.
"Runaway" by Joseph Samachson - Plato dreams of being a stowaway on a rocket to another planet but gets caught. The reader learns at the end of the story that he isn't human but an android.
"Prelude to Space" by Robert W. Haseltine - The protagonist is interviewed by an alien seeking to ascertain whether Earth is ready to join a galactic federation of peaceful worlds.
"Vital Ingredient" by Charles De Vet - Orville is inadvertently killed by aliens who give him a new body which requires more food than he can consume.
"Goodbye Dead Man!" by Tom W. Harris - After Danny loses all his money in a card game he gives the victor radioactive coins to slowly poison him.
"The Passenger" by Kenneth Harmon - A woman on a space liner is devoured by a spider-like creature that works in the bowels of the ship.
"Planet of Dreams" by James McKimmey - George builds a gun to kill Loveral who has prevented the people from working.
"The Skull" by Philip K. Dick - Conger is sent back in time to assassinate a cult leader but he becomes his target.
"Homesick" by Lyn Venable - Five men make a thirty-year junket into space and come back allergic to Earth.
"The Cuckoo Clock" by Wesley Barefoot - Jim has been made into a Cuckoo parent by an Incubus.
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March 5, 2015
I LOVE short sci-fi, and this huge old collection is solidly enjoyable
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