The Puppet Masters: Heinlein's classic tale of alien invasion and possession.
"Attack from space! Lock your doors. Never enter a dark place. Be wary of crowds. A man wearing a coat is an enemy. Shoot! <...
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"This is a fascinating collection of four unusual science fiction short stories, written by the outstanding author of stories of the future. Robert Heinlein gives free rein to his stimulating imagination in the superb stories about the unexplored realms of the mind and the fascinating possibilities o...
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"The message had seemed simple, yet it was more complex than Don Harvey could have imagined, He was being called from Earth to an alien world for reasons unknown - save only that his life depended. But setting out for Mars and getting there in good shape turned out to be a lot more complicated than Don ever would have guessed possible.
"It was trouble enough being inexplicably hounded by Earth's secret police. But when he was hijac...
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"The message had seemed simple, yet it was more complex than Don Harvey could have imagined, He was being called from Earth to an alien world for reasons unknown - save only that his life depended. But setting out for Mars and getting there in good shape turned out to be a lot more complicated than Don ever would have guessed possible.
"It was trouble enough being inexplicably hounde...
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"The place is Earth - an Earth just beyond the horizon, free of poverty, pain, disease. This is the story of some people who live in that near-perfect world. This is the story of the discontented ones who want to change Utopia through the modern techniques of science or the age-old tactic of revoluti...
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Introduction by Joe Haldeman for this Gregg Press edition.
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This is one of Heinlein's classic novels from the 1950s. An out-of-work (and, truthfully, not so great) actor, Lorenzo Smythe, is hired to act as a double for one of the Solar System's leading politici...
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"'Bomb warning. Third bomb warning. This is not a drill. Take shelter at once. Any shelter. You are going to be atom-bombed in the next few minutes. So get the lead out, you stupid fools, and quit listening to this chatter! TAKE SHELTER! '
"For Hugh Farnham this warning was something he had long expected, and for which he had carefully prepared. But not even the wisest man could have taken precautions against the...
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" Friday is the story of a female "artificial person", the eponymous Friday, genetically engineered to be stronger, faster, smarter, and generally better than normal humans. Artificial humans are widely resented, and much of the story deals with Friday's struggle both against prejudice and to conceal her enhanced attributes from other humans. The story is set in a Balkanized 21st century, in which the nations of the North American continent have been split up into a number of smaller sta...
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" Friday is the story of a female "artificial person", the eponymous Friday, genetically engineered to be stronger, faster, smarter, and generally better than normal humans. Artificial humans are widely resented, and much of the story deals with Friday's struggle both against prejudice and to conceal her enhanced attributes from other humans. The story is set in a Balkanized 21st century, in which the nations of the North American continent have be...
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"A broke young American answers an ad in a French newspaper, and finds a job escorting the lusty queen of an endangered star-civilization through a faraway dimension filled with golems and horned ghosts, dragons and dangers galore."
" The horned ghosts . . . The cold water gang . . . Igli the golem . . . They were the first of the perils Scar Gordon faced on the Glory Road . . ....
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"Members of the Families were ordinary human beings, no different from neighboring Smiths or Browns, except for one disturbing trait: they were extraordinarily long-lived.
"In the ultra-civilized year of 2125 A. D. This distinction was intolerable. Hounded for a secret they did not knowingly possess, the Families were forced to choose - torture and extinction by their jealous, short-lived fellow men . . . Or flight from Eart...
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"Hugh had been taught that, according to the ancient sacred writings, the Ship was on a voyage to faraway Centaurus. But he also understood this was actually allegory for a voyage to spiritual perfection. Indeed, how could the Ship move, since its miles and miles of metal corridors were all there was of creation? Science knew that the Ship was all the Universe, and as long as the sacred Convertor was fed, the lights would continue to glow and the air would flow, and the Creator's Plan wo...
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"Hugh had been taught that, according to the ancient sacred writings, the Ship was on a voyage to faraway Centaurus. But he also understood this was actually allegory for a voyage to spiritual perfection. Indeed, how could the Ship move, since its miles and miles of metal corridors were all there was of creation? Science knew that the Ship was all the Universe, and as long as the sacred Convertor was fed, the lights would continue to glow and the air would flow, and the Creator's Plan wo...
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"Requiem contains many new works by the Grand Master. Most of it has never been published in book form, including two major novellas -- 'Destination Moon,' which was made into the famous George Pal film, and 'Tenderfoot in Space.' There are also tributes from such luminaries as Arthur C. Clarke and Tom Clancy as well as an introduction by Virginia Heinlein. "; 7 ¾" - 9 ¾" Tall
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In 1939 Robert Heinlein appropriated the quintessential science fiction title - "If This Goes On --". He established a reputation as one of the finest science fiction authors ever. That novella, plus the short stories 'Coventry' and 'Misfit', set a few years after have been collected in this volume.
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Only the best and brightest - the strongest and the most courageous - ever managed to become Space Cadets. They were the elite guard of the solar system, accepting missions others feared, taking risks no others dared, and upholding the peace of the solar system for the benefit of all.
" But before Matt could earn his rightful place in the ranks, his mettle would be tested in...
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"It's easy to stow away on an intergalactic spaceship if you're a smart lad like Max Jones. But it's quite another thing when the spaceship touches down on an unknown planer after passage through a time warp. . . perhaps, in an unknown century. Especially when the spaceship's pilot dies, and his charts and tables are destroyed. Now survival was up to Max!"; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall
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"It's easy to stow away on an intergalactic spaceship if you're a smart lad like Max Jones. But it's quite another thing when the spaceship touches down on an unknown planer after passage through a time warp. . . Perhaps, in an unknown century. Especially when the spaceship's pilot dies, and his charts and tables are destroyed. Now surviv...
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" The epic saga of an earthling, born and educated on Mars, who arrives on our planet with superhuman powers and a total ignorance of the mores of man. His name is Valentine Micha...
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