E. C. Tubb
1) Dead weight
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Sam Falkirk, Captain of the World Police and stationed at the World Council building in New York, has a special interest in investigating the sudden and inexplicable death of Angelo Augustine, the brother of his girl friend. A messenger employed by the Council, Augustine was also a spy in the pay of Senator Rayburn, a fanatical Nationalist who is fighting both to retain his power and to destroy the Orient before they, as he believes, turn against...
2) Stardeath
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Ships occasionally disappeared in hyperspace, regrettable sacrifices to the luxury of faster than light travel. But now one of the lost ships has been found and the wreckage is enough to terrify even the most cold-blooded witness. The lucky ones on the lost ship are dead. The others have been turned inside-out in gruesome parody of human beings and they are still alive. Disgraced Captain Kurt Varl is chosen to command a suicide mission to discover...
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From the cold, misty shores of Britain, which the Emperor Claudius had invaded, Atilus Cindras was taken as a boy slave to work and fight for the greater glory of the Roman Empire. Eventually, he was sent to a gladiator school, and there trained to fight-and perhaps die-in the arena. But Atilus survives the years of decadent slaughter, and gradually gains power and riches as he navigates through the steamy politics of ancient Rome under the Emperor...
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Wilson, an unwanted waif of the generation-long war of unity, spends his boyhood in forced labour and persecution. Rebelling, he is sent as a convicted murderer to the newly colonised penal world of Stellar. He survives to win promotion in the Stellar Legion, the most brutal military system ever founded. Laurance, Director of the Federation of Man, is afraid of the thing he has helped create, and tries to dissolve the Stellar Legion. He pits his wits...
6) The Warbirds
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WHO ARE THE WARBIRDS?
Misfits mostly. Men who sought in the rush and tide of battle, an outlet for violent emotion. Society condemned them, yet admired their necessity. Cultures shunned them - yet gladly used their services. Wars there were, and wars there would be, but technology had forced war to become a thing apart.
Nations, planets, dared not to fight. Gone were the days of indiscriminate killing. The dross from atomic piles was too plentiful,...
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Stanson's scheme was audacious in its scope: highjack a space liner, kill the passengers and crew, and then live off the rich pickings for years to come. They won't even have to leave the well-stocked craft-and the security forces can never locate them in the void between the worlds. But Leahry, another ex-con, knows that everything has to go "just right" for the plan to succeed; and when things begin to go awry, the only option is to flee the ship...
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As a young boy Atilus Cindras had been taken from Britain to Rome as a slave, and trained in the gruesome arts of the gladiators. Fueled by his hatred for Rome, he'd risen to the top of his killing trade with his fierce and deadly skill, and won the coveted Rudis, the wooden sword that gave him his freedom. But he wants more from Rome than this, and gambles all of his money on a commercial venture that fails. Now deeply in debt, he's pulled into a...
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World-Wide Investigations on Madison Avenue, New York, is the world's largest detective agency. Headed by Mike Lantry, the agency will take any case, anywhere, at any time--including some strange dealings in even stranger parts of the world. But Lantry--shrewd, tough, and quick with his fists--never gives up until a case is solved. Murder, kidnapping, extortion, robbery, smuggling, you name it, and World-Wide has dealt, will deal, or is dealing with...
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A new collection of six tales of dark fantasy by a master storyteller. What happens when an occult scholar obtains an ancient grimoire and uses it to summon up the Devil? ... Three tramps find a metal vessel akin to Aladdin's Lamp and release a Jinn who grants them a wish they might come to regret... The excavation of an ancient dolman releases an imprisoned evil... Could anyone trust the proprietor of the strange little shop who claimed to be a dealer...
11) Atilus the Slave
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Set against the immense decadence of Imperial Rome, the story of Atilus depicts the glory, the spectacle, and the blood-lust of the gladitorial games in all their savagery. In the third year of the reign of Claudius, a young boy, Atilus Cindras, watches in terror as the Roman legions plunder, rape, and route the proud Icení warriors of Britain. When they leave, they take the young men with them as slaves--and Atilus is among them. Trained first as...
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Three days after asking the Captain of the Earth mothership to land his party of colonists on the planet Hyperon, Commander Williams has reason to worry. He's assumed that there'll be records left by the 500 original settlers that'll tell him what's happened to the men and women who were dropped here a decade ago. But there ARE no records--none that make any sense--and the colonists have just vanished, abandoning homes, equipment, and personal belongings....
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Trapped in an economic rat-race, Kevin Blake had little going for him but an over-active imagination-an attribute which brought him to the notice of Paul Trevainen. Trevainen made Kevin an offer he couldn't resist: find a billionaire's daughter, bring her back to Earth, and collect a dazzling reward.
The only trouble? Crystal was wilful, stubborn, and worst of all, hard to find.
The quest would force Kevin to become an advocate in an alien court,...
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Continuing his quest to return home-the lost, legendary planet Earth-Earl Dumarest befriends a young man who claims to come from Nerth. Could this be New Earth, Dumarest wonders? Or even the original planet Earth?
And so Dumarest comes to Nerth...where he discovers that the Cyclan, his greatest enemies, are already there-along wtih more mysteries.
16) Incident on Ath
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An art collector seemed an unlikely prospect for information on the galactic coordinates of the forgotten planet Earth. But Earl Dumarest never overlooked any clue--and when he defended an art devotee named Sardia, he was unexpectedly rewarded by the sight of the painting she sought. For in its sky was the unmistakable features of cratered Luna, Earth's equally fabled satellite. Sardia said the painter of the picture lived on a planet called Ath--and...
17) The Green Helix
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More than a dozen spaceships have disappeared into hyperspace, never to return. The lost vessels include the Jason, the Starbird, and the Invincible. Everyone assumes they fell victim to some kind of mechanical failure.
The mystery deepens when the Invincible turns up drifting in space six months after it vanished. The ship's engines are undamaged, the hull intact-yet no trace remains of its crew or its 200 passengers. Where have they gone?
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As guardian of the Universe's freedom from the domination by the Cyclan, Earl Dumarest is ruthlessly hunted by their agent, Cyber Broge, as he searches for the fortune necessary to finance his epic quest for the legendary, lost Terra -- the planet of his birth. Hunter and fugitive, predator and victim, Earl Dumarest lands on the planet Zakym.
Zakym is a cadaverous, twin-sunned world where the spectres of the dead daily claim the lives of the living;...
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The Cyclan was the greatest concentration of intelligence in a thousand worlds - and yet Earl Dumarest continued to elude it. For too long. Bochner was the greatest hunter of a hundred worlds - a man more than wise to the wiles of beasts and men. And now he was on the trail of the most dangerous and most challenging quarry of his career: Earl Dumarest. While Dumarest searched for lost Terra, the Cyclan and Bochner searched for him. Of all the nightmare...
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The Fourth Science Fiction Megapack selects 25 more modern and classic science fiction stories, by talented authors new and old. Authors in this volume include: Mary A. Turzillo, E.C. Tubb, Murray Leinster, Philip K. Dick, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Jason Andrew, Henry Kuttner, Cynthia Ward, George H. Scithers and John Gregory Betancourt, Milton Lesser, John Russell Fearn, Harry Harrison, Isaac Asimov, Ayn Rand, and many more
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