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MAN INVENTS

MAN DISCOVERS

MAN DEVELOPS

...AND MAN DESTROYS

Out of the innocence of discovery and that fulfilling moment when theory becomes a workable reality, a monstrous horror grows. Grows, multiplies, and degenerates until it reaches the ultimate terror.

Terror spawned in a laboratory intended to create a new generation that is stronger, brighter, and longer-lived.

Horror nurtured in a public relations office on the day the first interplanetary life is discovered.

Only such masters of science fiction as James Blush and Robert Silverberg could have brought such a startling reality to the havoc wreaked by a test tube and a conference table.

The Flame of Iridar

From out of the gloom in the dungeon where Chandar, Prince of Orin, awaited a tortured death, Sarkong the Enchanter shimmered into reality. His emerald eyes gleamed with an inhuman lustre as, with a soundless command, and without a touch, he mysteriously released the chains which bound Chandar. The prize Sarond the offered Chandar was freedom, the price..the timeless struggle between tow oposing forces... a man who used the secret powers of the universe for his own schemes... a man who vowed to stop him by his own strength and wits.

Peril of the Starmen

Five inhabited planets has been shattered to nothingness by the Oligarchs of Brionmar. the sixth was to be Earth...

The people of Earth welcomed the smiling and friendly starmen of Brionmar with gracious approval. The starmen asked only one favor-- "Let us make a geological survey of your planet's surface."

Who would suspect the true purpose of the survey--Who would stop the countdown to the destruction of Warth which began the monent the starmen landed?

Doomsman

THE MAN ESKALYO was a threat to the America State system.

THE YOUTH MONTOYA was abducted by the Seekers and taken to the School for Assassins. What better person could they find to kill Eskalya than his own son?

THE MAN MONTOYA began to doubt... doubt the system... the School... But he had been trained--brain-programmed-to kill! Sould Montoya strike the bloody blow that would kill the father he barely remembered?

Telepower

THE BOUNDARY

The soldiers protected the city--but could not enter it. they were not allowed past the boundary. They were apart--separate... bred only for battle. They were repulsive to the citizens they protected from daily menace.

Belsone was a soldier who began to experience a strange new feeling. Somone was in his mind, talking to him of the city... telling hom things none of the soldiers knew. But when the silent voice ceased cajoling, there was the command. Go to the city... Pass the Boundary.

Special Delivery

EARTH HAD BEEN SILENTLY, STEALTHILY INVADED.

No Earthman was aware of the attack. No man or woman realized alen races walked among them... or knew that the strange packages everyone received through the mail contained the weapons which would destroy their planet. Earth had been silently invaded, but can you fight something you can't see?

Star Gladiator

SURVIVAL to Jonath Gri was merely a word droning incessantly in the ancient rits from mother Earch.

SURVIVAL become a bloody reality in the dreaded arena of the Star Games.

Parents slaughtered by the Star Guards, his fiance abducted tall Jonnath was captured and thrown into the blood-soaked arean to fight for the amusement of the citizens of the Ten Star Complex. Weaponless and naked, he had to fight against the most treacherous animals to be found on 50 planets--the most advanced weaponry developed on untold worlds.

Weaponless? There is one weapon of unlimited power.. Revenge.

WHAT MYSTERIOUS POWER EMANATED FROM THE BEJEWELED CROWN OF STARS THAT RULERS OF THREE PLANETS FRANTICALLY SOUGHT ITS POSSESSION?

THE PORTALS OF THE UNKNOWN HAD OPENED WIDE, THEN HAD CLOSED, LEAVING A HORROR OF MONSTROUS PROPORTIONS.

The figure's eyes seemed lidless and sheathed with a thin film like a snake. But they were so penetratingly malignant that they pierced deep into the man's brain, mercilessly exploring all that was there -- laying his thought bare like a visual scalpel that mad ehim scream every time it was moved.

It was not human.

For the William Tenn devotees who have long awaited paperback publication of his novels--here is one of his most famous:

A LAMP FOR MEDUSA mythology or reality? Gods... or leering mortals? Life... or death?

One of the newer writers--and one to be watched--He's already garnered a loyal following with his novel, STAR GLADIATOR.

THE PLAYERS OF HELL an immortal... with a mission; a spellmaster... greedy for power; a thief... with strength and cunning

But what strength, what power could conquer the forces of magic?

Ladies' Day

Amnesia imprisoned his mind, Horror clutched his emotions, when he discovered the world was 160 years older--but he wasn't.

The year 2121 found life changed drastically, due to man made catastrophes. Man made? No, man destroyed! And strangely, women were... different.

This Crowded Earth

Seven years of being the ideal man as far as the new society was concerned go thim nothing but the promise of present and future frustration. Seven seconds of madness, of attmepted self-destruction, brought him--to near paradise. As a reward for bucking the system, the system itself has provided him wtih a life of luxury and leisure in a world where neither was thought to exist. Why?

BLANK SPACE

Time stands still in this innocent-looking are of country-side. Things happen there that can't happen. The legendary and mythological have reality there--but the very existence of the real is severely threatened. No one has ever returned from there.

Into this Blank Space walked 7 very real people -- determined to learn why.

YOU ONLY DIE TWICE

A pretty dancer collapsed and died in the street. But an autopsy revealed she had actually dies 72 hours before.

A sailor returned from shore leave to a nuclear submarine--but he was not the same man who left. In fact, he was not a man at all...

Was there no one who realized the danger to earth these signed revealed?

Mind Control

Someone--something had infected the minds of a group of unrelated people with an identical terror. A girl unnaturally kept from the world by a psychotic mother. A man imprisoned for many years... A socialite who enjoyed life's pleasures.

Something had invaded their minds. Something evil...

If There Is No Money...

...What is there to steal?

If the inhabitants have no endocrine gland systems how can there be crimes of passion?

And if there was no crime whatsoever on Albazar I, why was Hautley Quicksilver, licensed criminal extraordinary, called there?

He had no answer until he arrived at the planet... or where it should have been. For Albazar I disappeared before his eyes.