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Description In the year 2126, scientists Arcot and Morey chase a sky pirateโand invent the technology to travel through space. In the second story, the heroes travel to Venus and make first contact with an alien species. Finally, they must defend the solar system from invaders whose own star has long since gone dark. Originally published separately as โPiracy Preferredโ in Amazing Stories June 1930 edition, โSolariteโ in Amazing Stories November 1930, and โThe Black Star Passesโ in Amazing
Description Fritz Leiber is most famous for his โFafhrd and the Gray Mouserโ stories, but he also wrote in many other genres. Between 1950 and 1963 he wrote a number of short stories that appeared in Galaxy magazine, including one in the same universe as The Big Time and the Change War stories (โNo Great Magicโ).
Description The first published novel by a black American author combines real-life stories, including his own story of escaping slavery and recollections he heard while helping others escape, with abolitionist agitprop, revealing ephemera from the newspapers of the time, and sympathetic (if somewhat melodramatic) characters. What emerges from this collage is an indictment of slavery and of American hypocrisy about liberty that found an enthusiastic and enraged audience when it was published in
Description Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge is one of P. G. Wodehouseโs less famous characters. He first appears in Love Among the Chickens in 1906 and then continues to make appearances in another 19 short stories until as late as 1966, making him Wodehouseโs longest running character. Ukridge is an inveterate opportunist, and these stories chronicle his exploits as a young man: his trials and tribulations as one who is destined for greatness, if the rest of the world would only cooperate.
Description Carol Milford grows up in a mid-sized town in Minnesota before moving to Chicago for college. After her education, during which sheโs exposed to big-city life and culture, she moves to Minneapolis to work as a librarian. She soon meets Will Kennicott, a small-town doctor, and the two get married and move to Gopher Prairie, Kennicottโs home town. Carol, inspired by big-city ideas, soon begins chafing at the seeming quaintness and even backwardness of the townsfolk, and their
Description Satan has returned to Earth for a sightseeing visit in the form of the American billionaire Henry Wondergood. Accompanied by his faithful demon butler Toppi they head for Rome, but are sidetracked by an unforeseen accident and end up at the home of the inscrutable Thomas Magnus and his divine daughter Maria. As Satan begins to discover the meaning of being a man, the satanic aspects of mankind become ever more apparent to him. Leonid Andreyev was a Russian author active in the