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1) Empire
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In a future time, the solar system is powered by one energy source, controlled by one huge organisation, which has plans to use this control to dominate the planets. Unknown to them, a couple of maverick scientists accidentally develop a completely new form of energy supply and threaten the corporation's monopoly. Naturally, the corporation can't allow this to happen... A stunning story about the manipulation of pure energy, climaxing in interstellar...
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The paper had gone to press, graphically describing the latest of the many horrible events which had been enacted upon the Earth in the last six months. The headlines screamed that Six Corners, a little hamlet in Pennsylvania, had been wiped out by the Horror. Another front-page story told of a Terror in the Amazon Valley which had sent the natives down the river in babbling fear. Other stories told of deaths here and there, all attributable to the...
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Sherwood was a man who did not want to be found. He secretly left the last space station. Now he was marooned on a remote planet with a spaceship that was going nowhere and surrounded by diamonds. Half of him wanted to remain safely castaway until he died. The other half longed for a miraculous rescue. Could that miracle be the black, unmarked craft that was gliding toward him?
The Shipshape Miracle, a Science Fiction Classic, was written by Clifford...
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The "Golden Age of Science Fiction" Megapacks are designed to introduce readers to classic science fiction writers who might otherwise be forgotten. This volume assembles 2 novels and 4 shorter works - almost 500 pages of classic fiction - by 3-time Hugo Award-winner Clifford D. Simak. Included are:
TIME QUARRY [novel]
EMPIRE [novel]
THE STREET THAT WASN'T THERE [short story]
THE WORLD THAT COULDN'T BE [novelet]
HELLHOUNDS OF THE COSMOS [short...
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Clifford Donald Simak was an American science fiction writer. He won three Hugo Awards and one Nebula Award. The Science Fiction Writers of America made him its third SFWA Grand Master, and the Horror Writers Association made him one of three inaugural winners of the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement.
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Hellhounds of the Cosmos
Message From Mars
The Street That Wasn't There
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Tales of nostalgia and loss in a world overrun by technology Hank is walking home from the bar when the Model T pulls alongside him. It's been decades since he saw a car this old, and the sound of it takes him right back to his twenties. The door is open, and when he climbs in, the car takes off-without a driver. Before he knows what's happened, Hank is right back at Big Spring Pavilion, where he spent his youth drinking bootleg whiskey and chasing...
12) The Visitors
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An enormous, mysterious box descends upon smalltown Minnesota, spelling trouble for the world, in this classic adventure from a Science Fiction Grand Master.
Forestry student Jerry Conklin is fly-fishing when something huge lands on his car, crushing it into the earth. It looks like a big black box-about fifty feet high and two hundred feet long-and the object stirs up quite a commotion among the townspeople of Lone Pine, Minnesota. One of them...
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