“What I am writing is really on the order of L. Ron Hubbard… I would never have come up with what I do.” ─Phillip K. Dick“Unexpected twists, keeps you guessing as to what will happen next."─SFsite.com"A super-writer of the Golden Age of Science Fiction."─A.E. Van VogtBoldly go to worlds where no one has gone before. Explore exotic new worlds and fantastic tales that appeared in the pages of the most popular fiction magazines. The collection includes: The Great Secret, If I Were you, The Crossroads, A Matter of Matter, When Shadows Fall, Danger in the Dark, Greed, The Tramp, Beyond All Weapons, The Professor Was a Thief and 17 more short stories.THE GREAT SECRET: Driven by greed and a lust for power, all Fanner Marston cares about is reaching the ancient city of Parva, where lies the Great Secret to universal domination.IF I WERE YOU: Tom Little, a circus midget with giant dreams is about to get them answered by drawing on an ancient dark secret—which could prove fatal.THE CROSSROADS: Off to sell his produce in the big city, a farmer comes to a crossroads where he falls into a break in the space/time continuum creating havoc in different worlds.WHEN SHADOWS FALL: Earth is on the brink of extinction. Its fate lies in the hands of three individuals who are in conflict, leaving the supreme power of words as the only hope for survival.DANGER IN THE DARK: Billy Newman accumulates enough gold to buy a tropical island. But his lucky streak runs out in spades, when he angers the terrifying island god, Tadamona.GREED: Can greed be good? The future of Earth and all mankind hangs on this question; as a space age, ace-pilot sets out to change forever the fate of Earth and the stars.THE TRAMP: A tramp, endowed with amazing mental abilities after an operation, has the power to save lives, make the old young and unfortunately for some, kill at a glance.A MATTER OF MATTER: A small time real estate swindler in a galactic economy is selling planets you can’t even sit down on—it’s a matter of negative matter.BEYOND ALL WEAPONS: When fugitives return to Earth from outer space to exact retribution on their foe they come face to face with mankind’s pitiless enemy—TIME.THE PROFESSOR WAS A THIEF: Faced with loosing his job to the publisher’s unscrupulous son-in-law, “Pop,” a senior reporter, scoops a story so incredible it saves both the paper and his future.
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