12 Worlds of Alan E. Nourse
12 Worlds of Alan E. Nourse

Author: Alan E. Nourse

Publisher: Wildside Press LLC

Published: 2010-01-01

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1557426929

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This volume assembles 12 classic tales by Alan E. Nourse: "Bear Trap" originally appeared in Fantastic Universe, December 1957. "Circus," "The Dark Door," "Image of the Gods," "The Link," "Meeting of the Board," "My Friend Bobby," and "An Ounce of Cure" originally appeared in The Counterfeit Man: More Science Fiction Stories by Alan E. Nourse, published in 1963. "The Coffin Cure" originally appeared in Galaxy, April 1957. "Letter of the Law" originally appeared in If Magazine, January 1954. "The Native Soil" originally appeared in Fantastic Universe, July 1957. "PRoblem" originally appeared in Galaxy, October 1956.

The Bladerunner
The Bladerunner

Author: Alan E Nourse

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-04-12

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 1440566933

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Billy Gimp was a bladerunner . . . one of the shadowy procurers of illegal medical supplies for the rapidly expanding, nightmare world of the medical black market. Doc was a skilled surgeon at a government-operated hospital by day . . . and an underground physician by night, providing health care for the multitudes who could not - or would not - qualify for legal medical assistance. Trapped by Health Control Police, Billy Gimp knew he had to warn Doc that they were closing in on him. But something even more deadly than the law had already mad its first move . . . a new plague that Health Control could not handle!

Trouble on Titan
Trouble on Titan

Author: Alan E Nourse

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-04-12

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 1440566895

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The tenacious Colonel Benedict and his son, Tuck, are sent to Titan, Saturn’s fifth moon, to investigate reports of smuggling. Soon they discover that the less-than-friendly colony is hiding much more than just a smuggler. Together they dig up a scandalous case of interstellar sabotage and what the colonists reverently refer to as “THE BIG SECRET,” which could destroy Earth’s power supply - forever. Can the Colonel and Tuck resolve an age-old dispute between the Titan colonists and Earthly authorities before the clock runs out? Mankinds fate depends on it . . .

The Universe Between
The Universe Between

Author: Alan E Nourse

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-04-12

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1440566968

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Bob Benedict is one of the few scientists able to make contact with the invisible, dangerous world of The Thresholders and return - sane! For years he has tried to transport - and receive - matter by transmitting it through the mysterious, parallel Threshold. At first his efforts met only with failure and madness. But now The Thresholders have risen in fury. Somehow Bob Benedict must make one more trip into that land of peril and pacify them before they succeed in hurling his planet - piece by piece - into the oblivion of infinity.

Raiders From The Rings
Raiders From The Rings

Author: Alan E Nourse

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-04-12

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 1440566925

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“We have watched your plants for millennia.” The creature that spoke was barely three feet tall, with wrinkled gray skin and monstrous eyes . . . “Yours is a war of children. Only children would slaughter each other out of ignorance and fear. Only children would fail again and again to learn the lessons of their foolishness.” It was true. The underground people of Earth were united in terror and desperation against what they considered a frightful threat from the skies. They had sent a mighty armada into space, rushing in lethal orbit toward Mars. The Spacers - still really Earthmen themselves - were poised for the counter-blow. The great fleet at Asteroid Central had sufficient warheads to reduce earth to a cinder. “But we also know the greatness of your spirit, the precious spark which we cannont allow you to extinguish.” Now Ben Trefon understood that in the Black Belt of Power bequeathed to him by his father rested the final hope of the human race!

The Fourth Horseman
The Fourth Horseman

Author: Alan E Nourse

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-04-12

Total Pages: 548

ISBN-13: 1440566941

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Wilderness Patrol fficer Pamela Tate, scouting in the mountains of Washington, sees and touches a ground squirrel in the dusty path, blood trickling from its mouth. Forty-eight hours later she lies dead at her campsite, covered in mysterious welts and bruises. Across the lake, a boisterous camping party falls silent as they watch each other sicken and die in agony. A killer is loose. It has a foreign name. Yersinia Pestis. Plague. An unknowing nation harbors the deadly evil in its midst. While a few embattled survivors race to save the country, perhaps the world, the grim invader hides in a mother’s sigh, a child’s laugh, a lover’s whisper. Nothing can stop the death ride of . . . The Fourth Horseman.

Alien Zone II
Alien Zone II

Author: Annette Kuhn

Publisher: Verso

Published: 1999-12-17

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9781859842591

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Alien Zone II presents some of the exciting new voices in the current debates. It continues to pursue the critical and theoretical issues opened up in the earlier book and energetically explores fresh territory.

Worlds Apart
Worlds Apart

Author: Carl Darryl Malmgren

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 1991-07-22

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 9780253336453

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"[Malmgren] succeeds in formulating a typology of science fiction that will become a standard reference for some years to come." —Choice " . . . the most intelligently organized and effectively argued general study of SF that I have ever read." —Rob Latham, SFRA Review " . . . required reading for its evenhanded overview of so much of the previous critical/theoretical material devoted to science fiction." —American Book Review Worlds Apart provides a comprehensive theoretical model for science fiction by examining the worlds of science fiction and the discourse which inscribes them. Malmgren identifies the basic science fiction types, including alien encounters, alternate societies and worlds, and fantasy, and examines the role of the reader in concretizing and interpreting these science fiction worlds.