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The first and shortest version was published in Beyond Fantasy Fiction in July 1954 under the title "No More Stars" with the pseudonym Charles Satterfield. It first appeared in book form in 1963 with Badge of Infamy as "Two Complete Novels" in a Galaxy paperback original. The first book-length version was published in 1973 by Ace Books. Computer engineer Dave Hanson is transported from Earth to a world where the rules of science and physics are replaced...
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"Police Your Planet" by Lester Del Rey. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks...
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Great collection of action short stories by Lester Del Rey from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here: "Let 'Em Breathe Space!", "Dead Ringer", "Pursuit", "No Strings Attached", "The Dwindling Years", "Earthbound", "...And It Comes Out Here", "Operation Distress", and "Spawning Ground".
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He lived simultaneously in the present, deep past, and far future -- and death threatened each life!
Was it possible that Mike Strong, assistant professor of logic at Kane University, had the rare ability to carry memories of other lives back and forth with him? In one life, he was the wealthy husband of a world famous acress ... In another, he was a big-time criminal, adored by beautiful women ... In another, he was one of the survivors after the...
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The Company, a powerful, efficient, and thoroughly monstrous insurance organization, controlled the entire world. It scientifically regulating every aspect of life: war, epidemics, one-a-day food pills and test-tube sex...all through the use of its patented, terrifying human deep-freeze vault. Claims Adjuster Wills, a great believer in the Company, has second thoughts when he meets beautiful Rena, whose radical father lies frozen in one of the Company's...
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The "Golden Age of Science Fiction" MEGAPACK™ eBook anthologies are designed to introduce readers to classic science fiction writers who might otherwise be forgotten. Lester del Rey - one of the all-time greats of the science fiction world - had been well on his way to becoming forgotten before Wildside Press began its reprint program of his classic short fiction. This second volume of his collected short stories includes 10 more great science fiction...
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When Pete Mason's father is badly hurt in a space mining accident, eighteen-year-old Pete suspects that the injury was no accident - that it was caused by his family's rivals, Rachel Barry and her children. Even so, when Pete receives an urgent call for help from Jane, Rachel's oldest daughter, he risks his life to save her, only to find that Jane's uncle has taken advantage of the opportunity to jump Pete's new mining claim. Pete is furious; he refuses...
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Leif Svensen's neighbor, come to warn him that the farmers were going to take violent action against his dog for killing their livestock, mentioned that he'd seen an angel the night before. "Big blonde woman on a white horse, singing loud enough to raise the dead, about a hundred feet up in the air."
Then, on his way to find his madcap twin, Leif met a stranger who knew his name and who spoke of "the Fimbulwinter already upon us." Fimbulwinter! The...
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"Badge of Infamy" by Lester Del Rey. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that...
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Amazing Stories Volume 147 is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are four short stories by three different authors: "Imitation of Death" and "And there was Light" by Lester Del Rey, "Call Him Savage" by Howard Browne, and "License To Steal" by Louis Newman.
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Amazing Stories Volume 153 is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are four short stories by different authors: "Absolutely No Paradox" by Lester Del Rey, "Turn Backward, O Time!" by Walter Kubilius, "Survival of the Fittest" by Gene L. Henderson, and "The Deadly Thinkers" by William Gray Beyer.
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Musaicum Books presents to you this meticulously edited Lester del Rey collection.
Badge of Infamy
The Sky Is Falling
Police Your Planet
Pursuit
Victory
... And It Comes Out Here
Let'em Breathe Space
Operation Distress
Dead Ringer
No Strings Attached
The Dwindling Years
Earthbound
13) Nerves
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In a nuclear plant in Kimberly, workers are nervous when a congressional committee comes for a surprise inspection. A few minor problems come up during the inspection, but the plant continues to run at full capacity-at least at first. Half-way through the inspection, one of the converters has a major failure. Jorgenson and his team had been trying to use a new isotope in the giant reactors, but the unstable isotope causes disaster to strike. The reactor...
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Del Rey wrote the original (and much longer) version of this novella many years earlier, was unable to place it and only hauled it from the trunk when Horace Gold in mid-1950 solicited something for his new magazine. THE WIND BETWEEN THE WORLDS is at least in conception a standard ASTOUNDING problem-solving story (interstellar matter transmitter is sabotaged; Earth and alien ports are in danger, resourceful engineer-protagonist figures out the solution)...
15) Pursuit
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Wilbur Hawkes is missing the last seven months of his life. Something happened during that time, he's certain of it. Something important, important enough that people are trying to kill him to make sure he doesn't remember what it was. Can Hawkes avoid pursuit long enough to figure out why he's a hunted man, and even if his memory does return will it be enough to save him?
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Eighteen men and two women in the closed world of a space ship for five months can only spell tension and trouble-but in this case, the atmosphere was literally poisoned. Five months out from Earth, we were half-way to Saturn and three-quarters of the way to murder. At least, I was. I was sick of the feuding, the worries and the pettiness of the other nineteen aboard. My stomach heaved at the bad food, the eternal smell of people, and the constant...
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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. Lester del Rey (1915-1993) is most remembered today as one of the namesakes of Del Rey Books - but in the Golden Age he was an accomplished writer who got his start alongside (and sold to the same markets as) a young Isaac Asimov. This volume assembles 9 classic del Rey tales - more than 500 pages of...
19) Boiling Point
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In a moment he was through the cloud barrier and into the darkness. Earth was below the horizon today, but he saw Mars, clear and sharp against the backdrop of space. They wouldn't have done a fool thing like this to him on Mars, he thought. They weren't shorthanded there. But here, on Venus, the stepchild of space, the U.N. appropriation was bestowed grudgingly, and the technical staff was no more than skin-deep. Stasek scowled and thought of his...
20) Fifth Freedom
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"Fifth Freedom" is a classic science fiction story originally published in John W. Campbell's Astounding Science-Fiction, May 1943 issue.
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