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World War II veteran Edward Bond's recuperation from a disastrous fighter plane crash takes a distinct turn for the weird when he encounters a giant wolf, a red witch, and the undeniable power of the need-fire, a portal to a world of magic and swordplay at once terribly new and hauntingly familiar. In the Dark World, Bond opposes the machinations of the dread lord Ganelon and his terrible retinue of werewolves, wizards, and witches, but all is not...
2) Android
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Androids were obviously not human… so they claimed
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Bradley looked at the Director's head. His stomach tried' to crawl up into his throat. He felt suddenly dizzy. He knew that he was betraying himself, and that would be absolutely fatal.
He reached into his pocket, pulled out a pack of cigarettes and a few coins, and let the coins drop, as though by accident, to the airfoam carpet.
"Oh-oh," he said, and immediately crouched down to recover...
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1939 Retro-Hugo Awards Best Novella nominee A titan of the genre, Henry Kuttner, weaves a spellbinding tale of a time-traveling archaeologist in one of the most fantastic adventures ever conceived. Kent Mason is an archaeologist hopelessly lost in the desert. When he stumbles into the ruins of the ancient city of Al Bekr, he unknowingly steps into a time portal and finds himself flung into into the greatest adventure of his life. Originally written...
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Ten classic sci fi and horror stories by "one of the major names in science fiction." (The New York Times) From Hugo-nominated Henry Kuttner, one of the twentieth century's most respected science fiction writers, comes a collection of stories described as "just about as good as the modern magazine science-fantasy story can get" (J. Francis McComas and Anthony Boucher). These ten science fiction stories include: "Or Else," "Home is the Hunter," "By...
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From the renowned, Hugo-nominated titan of science fiction comes a collection of his best short stories. In seventeen classic stories, Henry Kuttner creates a unique galaxy of vain, protective, and murderous robots; devilish angels; and warm and angry aliens. These stories include "Mimsy Were the Borogoves"-the inspiration for New Line Cinema's major motion picture The Last Mimzy-as well as "Two-Handed Engine," "The Proud Robot," "The Misguided Halo,"...
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From "Avengers Of Space"-"Then he was in the temple, empty save for the alter and its dreadful tenant.As Shawn raced forward he felt a blast of power rush out to meet him, the mighty thoughts of Droom tearing at his brain.Blazing agony blinded him.A thousand fingers of steel seemed to be plucking, tearing, wrenching his head, pulling it apart bit by bit.The flames within the alter were blinding. Staggering,he kept on, hearing the bellowing of the...
13) The Ego Machine
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This is a classic science fiction short story by Henry Kuttner. It tells the story of a talking robot who takes on personalities of historical figures for an experiment. He calls upon the British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli and Ivan the Terrible. This work is part of our Vintage Sci-Fi Classics Series, a series in which we are republishing some of the best stories in the genre by some of its most acclaimed authors, such as Isaac Asimov, Marion...
14) Hydra
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A unique tale of the fourth dimension, a dangerous experiment in occultism, and the ghastly horror that reached back from that other plane of space
15) Atomic!
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When the hour of balance comes, mankind may no longer be the dominant race. That's why we keep such a close watch on all the Rings. From time to time we work them over with flame-throwers. Only atomic power, of course, would quiet that seething life permanently-which is no solution. We've got Rings enough right now without resorting to more atom bombs. It's a hydra-headed problem without an answer. All we can do is watch, wait, be ready....
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Two legendary masters of science fiction and fantasy come together in this landmark anthology, filled with gems from the Weird Tales era and beyond. During the weird fiction boom that gave birth to H.P. Lovecraft's Necronomicon and Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian, Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore produced some of the most enduring pieces of speculative fiction in the genre's history: the sagas of Jirel of Joiry, Northwest Smith of Earth, Galloway...
17) The Eyes of Thar
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She spoke in a tongue dead a thousand years, and she had no memory for the man she faced. Yet he had held her tightly but a few short years before, had sworn eternal vengeance-when she died in his arms from an assassin's wounds.
He had come back, though he knew what to expect. He had always come back to Klanvahr, since he had been hunted out of that ancient Martian fortress so many years ago. Not often, and always warily, for there was a price...
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Jerry Vanning trailed the fugitive Callahan into the swampy wastes of Venus, Hell-Kingdom of the fabled War-Gods. He reached his goal walking with the robot-strides of a North-fever slave. Henry Kuttner was an editor and writer who held vast influence in the early days of genre publishing. His short stories were published in magazines such as Weird Tales, Astounding Science Fiction, and Startling Stories.
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In this comprehensive collection, Henry Kuttner is back with Galloway Gallegher, his most beloved character in the stories that helped make him famous. Gallegher is a binge-drinking scientist who's a genius when drunk and totally clueless sober. Hounded by creditors and government officials, he wakes from each bender to discover a new invention designed to solve all his problems-if only he knew how it worked... Add in a vain and uncooperative robot...
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