DATE DECISIVE: 2042.This is the year the 2 leading men of the Solar Empire—Perry Rhodan and Reginald Bell—must receive another biological cell shower without fail if they are to avoid a tragic end to their existence within a very few days. But the planet Wanderer has lived up to its name in a most ironic and alarming fashion—it has wondered away completely! Pel, as Wanderer the Planet of Eternal Life is also known, must be found pell-mell, for in disappearing from space it has taken with it the 'fountain of youth'.Now Rhodan and Reggie must make a—DIMENSION SEARCH! Views: 137
In this journalistic tour de force, bestselling author Edward Klein, a friend of Jacqueline Onassis's for many years, takes us behind the public image to give us a story that has never been told before. For this myth-shattering portrait, Klein has amassed a wealth of exclusive information from private documents and correspondence; FBI files; and hundreds of interviews with Jackie's friends, the associates of Aristotle Onassis, and people familiar with her longtime companion, the mysterious diamond merchant Maurice Tempelsman. Many people break their silence here for the first time.Much more than a portrait of a famous celebrity, JUST JACKIE: HER PRIVATE YEARS captures the essence of a captivating woman whose passion for wealth was matched only by her deep need for privacy.From the Paperback edition. Views: 136
In this provocative, classic metaphysical thriller, a group of suburban amateur actors plagued by personal demons and terrors explore the pathways to heaven and hell Certain inhabitants of Battle Hill, a small community on the outskirts of London, are preparing to mount a new play by the neighborhood's most illustrious resident, the writer Peter Stanhope. Each actor struggles with self-absorption, doubt, fear, and sin. But "the Hill" is not like other places. Here the past and present intermingle, ghosts walk among the living, and reality is often clouded by dreams and the dark fantastic. For young Pauline Anstruther, who is caring for an aging grandmother and frightened by the specter of a doppelgänger who gets closer with each visitation, the prospect of heaven exists in the renowned playwright's willingness to bear the burden of her terror. For eminent historian Lawrence Wentworth, the rejection of his desire pulls him deeper inside himself, leaving him... Views: 136
SUPERINTENDENT MACDONALD, C.I.D., studied his fellow-passengers on the Vienna plane simply because he couldn’t help it, because he hadn’t conditioned himself to being on holiday. The distinguished industrialist he recognised: the stout man he put down (quite mistakenly) as a traveller in whisky. The fair girl was going to a job (he was right there) and the aggressive young man in the camel coat might be something bookish. Macdonald turned away from his fellow-passengers deliberately; they weren’t his business, he was on holiday—or so he thought.Against the background of beautiful Vienna, with its enchanting palaces and gardens, its disenchanted back streets and derelicts of war, E. C. R. Lorac constructs a detective story with ail its complexities; an exciting and puzzling new crime story. Views: 135
COVER BLURB:
Some authors you like and some authors you love. From the day I first read Needle I new thar Hal Clement was an author I loved. I heard at one of Joe Green's fabled pre-launch parties of an unpublished Hal Clement novel. I had to read it and, having read it, had to publish it. Here it is: Left of Africa.
Some writers write a few great etories and a lot of bad ones. One writer in a hundred hits the beat of your own different drummer and makes you want to read every word he has ever written. For me, Heinlein is one of these special writers, so is Larry Niven, so is Hal Clement.
Left of Africa was written before Cycle of Fire and after Mission of Gravity. It is not science fiction. It is a juvenile historical adventure. But it has that same breath of pure reason that makes Hal Clement's science fiction great.
Hail Clement has written all too little. I find myself going back to Needle, to Mission of Gravity, again and again. Here is something by Hal Clement that you have never read before. Read and enjoy.
Left of Africa is about, among other things, a scientific discovery, one of the most basic scientific discoveries of all time. People have called Arrowsmith science fiction for less, but what we have instead is clesely reasoned, scientifically accurate fiction, another breed of cat but just as enjoyable in its own way.
This book is a cooperative effort. Publisher and audior as well as illustrator, printer, typesetter and distributor, will receive equal shares of whatever profits materialize. If this book is sucsecessful, we hope to unearth more unpublished manuscipts by favouite authors. We appreciate your and suggestions. Views: 134
PERRY RHODAN—dead? Has the Peacelord passed on to his reward? It sure looks that way after the atomic holocaust loosed on Grautier. If so, the interregnum governors of Earth agree that the world must not yet know. It would be too great a blow for the home planet of the young solar to absorb at this stage of its development. Meanwhile, in the weird other-plane of the Druufs, strange things are happening. Deep things. You might even say—cavernous. It all takes place in... CAVES OF THE DRUUFS Views: 134
THE PHANTOM-WOOWER - Thomas Lovell Beddoes
THE CRAWLING HORROR - Thorp McClusky
THE OPENER OF THE WAY - Robert Bloch
Night Gaunts - H. P. Lovecraft
IN AMUNDSEN’S TENT - John Martin Leahy
THE THING ON THE DOORSTEP - H. P. Lovecraft
THE HOLLOW MAN - Thomas Burke
IT WILL GROW ON YOU - Donald Wandrei
THE HUNTERS FROM BEYOND - Clark Ashton Smith
THE CURSE OF YIG - Zealia Brown Bishop
GREEGHEE - Ray H. Zorn
THE CAIRN ON THE HEADLAND - Robert E. Howard
THE TRAP - Henry S. Whitehead
The Dweller - H. P. Lovecraft
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From Publishers WeeklyMaster mystery writer Block has dabbled in his time in many genres, and early in his career, back in 1971, he published a handful of paperback erotic novels under a pseudonym; this is one of them. He wanted, he says, to have fun with an epistolary novel, and this is written entirely in the form of letters by a fired magazine editor, Larry Clarke, to his former wife, his previous employers, his previous wife's lover and so on. Block's knack of keeping things moving was prodigious even then, and the novel is a rapid and often amusing read, in which Larry Clarke takes sharp potshots at all and sundry, to often delicious effect. The erotic part is less successful, however; Larry (Clarke or Block) was under the impression, common to pornographers, that women crave anal penetration, which makes some of the sex scenes rather distasteful and far from aphrodisiac in effect. It's an interesting glimpse, nonetheless, of the early skills of one of our great noir stylists. (Feb.) Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information, Inc.Review“Block is one of the best!” —The Washington Post Views: 132
Winner of the William Faulkner Award for best first novel—The Origin of the Brunists tells the tale of the rise of a religious cult in a small coal-mining town. Views: 132
A thrilling tale from the author who inspired Alfred Hitchcock!The Club of Friends may not have liked Alexander Skeat very much, but no one should meet his Maker so violently, so mysteriously...Though Skeat may have been the first, he wouldn't be the last. Found dead in London with no wounds but a small incision beneath his shoulder, Skeat's demise was written off by many at first. But when the gentlemen of the Club of Friends thought more about the account of the policeman who found him - of the black, winged creature hulking over Skeat's body - they realized there must be more to the crime than they'd imagined. It takes little time for panic to stretch across London, Europe, and the world as its attacks range wider and occur with greater frequency. Is it really "the Bat," as it becomes known, that obliterates the Albert Memorial? Common science seems helpless, but then, this is no common beast! Views: 132
