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Child, it was, of the now ancient H-bomb. New. Untested. Would its terrible power sweep the stark Saturnian moon of Titan from space ... or miraculously create a flourishing paradise-colony?
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The hero of the novel is Ed Doukas, who is the nephew of the scientist whom everyone blames for the destruction of the Moon (though it's never clear if the scientist is actually guilty); this uncle survived, because he had left the Moon the day before the experiment. Soon, the government learns of the survival of the uncle, and he goes underground. Ed soon finds himself a pariah due to his relation to his uncle. As the story proceeds, there begins...
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THE PLANET STRAPPERS started out as The Bunch, a group of student-astronauts in the back room of a store in Jarviston, Minnesota. They wanted off Earth, and they begged, borrowed and built what they needed to make it. THE PLANET STRAPPERS got what they wanted - a start on the road to the stars, but no one brought up on Earth could have imagined what was waiting for them Out There!
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Amazing Stories Volume 123 is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are six short stories by different authors: "Eyes That Watch", by Raymond Z. Gallun, "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes" by Dorothy De Courcy & John De Curcy, "Who Goes There?" by Charles H. Davis, "Happy Rain Night" by Dean Evans, "Meet Me in Tomorrow" by Guy Archette, and "Sword of Fire" by Robert Emmett McDowell.
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Raymond Zinke Gallun (1911 - 1994) was among the earliest pulp fiction writers who specialized in science fiction, and he sold many stories to magazines in the 1930s under his own name and several pseudonyms (such as Dow Elstar, E.V. Raymond and William Callahan). His first novel, "People Minus X" (included here) was published in 1957, followed by his second, "The Planet Strappers," in 1961 (also included here). He was honored with the I-CON Lifetime...