Mark Philips was the pseudonym used for SF collaborations between Randall Garrett and Laurence M. Janifer. As Mark Philips, they produced SF three novels featuring FBI agent Kenneth J. Malone. The stories originally appeared in shorter versions in Analog Science Fiction magazine in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
The Highest Treason is presented here in a high quality paperback edition.
Mark Philips was the pseudonym used for SF collaborations between Randall Garrett and Laurence M. Janifer. As Mark Philips, they produced SF three novels featuring FBI agent Kenneth J. Malone. The stories originally appeared in shorter versions in Analog Science Fiction magazine in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
One way to hide an ex-officio agency of the United States Government was to label it truthfully -- The Society For Mystical And Metaphysical Research.
War on any scale was outlawed, along with boom-and-bust economic cycles, and prudery -- but no change was more startling than the face of New York, where the Empire State Building has become the Tower of Zeus!
Heist Job on Thizar is presented here in a high quality paperback edition.
The great merchantship Naipor settled her tens of thousands of tons of mass into her landing cradle on Viornis as gently as an egg being settled into an egg crate, and almost as silently. Then, as the antigravs were cut off, there was a vast, metallic sighing as the gigantic structure of the cradle itself took over the load of holding the ship in her hydraulic bath.
Randall Garrett's 1963 novel (originally published under the pseudonym "Darrell T. Langart" weaves together three storylines:
...After a Few Words... is presented here in a high quality paperback edition.
How rarely science-fiction writers succeed in creating a wholly alien culture may be judged from any adequate study of an earthly culture of a time or place which does not form part of our direct heritage.
The Escape is presented here in a high quality paperback edition
Fleet Captain Joshua Coffin leads a cast of characters fleeing an unforgiving and unyielding Earth, to settle a colony around a far-away star.
Set in a dystopian future where America has become a police state, "Security" shows us just how important our freedoms and rights are.
At the advent of the modern space age an enterprising company has set up a mining endeavor on an out-world.
The Man Who Meant To Kill A Martian
A speculative novelette predicting some changes in the world 200 years into the future from the year 1871, written by a noted Dutch scientist, originally published in the Dutch language, the author hiding himself behind the pen name of "Dr. Dioscorides". The story begins as the narrator settles into his comfortable chair and ponders the predictions made by Roger Bacon, the 13th-century scholar, that actually came true by the 19th century: telescopes, self-propelled vehicles, bridges across spans without intermediate supports, devices to navigate without navigators, ships that can be controlled by a single man at great speeds.
The book has no illustrations or index.
This early work by Philip K. Dick was originally published in 1952 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Skull' is a short story about a man sent back in time to assassinate a man who would later change the world. Philip Kindred Dick was born on December 16 1928, in Chicago, Illinois
