Raymond Gallun
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Ed Dukas was writing letters. Someone or something was also writing-unseen but at his elbow. It was perhaps fifteen minutes before he noticed. Conspicuous at the center of the next blank sheet of paper he reached for, part of a word was already inscribed: "Nippe... " The writing was faint and wavering but in the same shade of blue ink as that in his own pen. Ed Dukas said "Hey?" to himself, mildly. The frown creases between his hazel eyes deepened....
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The creatures that people this exciting story of Mr. Gallun, may seem at first blush to be impossible monstrosities. Yet, on consideration, we must realize that they are not so far-fetched. Even in our picayune little corner of the universe, we find in the insect kingdom a form of life that has survived through every possible earth catastrophe in the last 40,000,000 years. With their skeletons on the outside of their bodies instead of on the inside,...
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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!
10) Big Pill
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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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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...
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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.
13) Duel on Syrtis
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SERAPIS CLASSICS EDITION INCLUDES BONUS STORIES BY ROGER DEE, JIM WANNAMAKER & RAYMOND GALLUN!
Bold and ruthless, he was famed throughout the System as a big-game hunter. From the firedrakes of Mercury to the ice-crawlers of Pluto, he'd slain them all. But his trophy-room lacked one item, and now Riordan swore he'd bag the forbidden game that roamed the red deserts... a Martian!