David Mason was a science-fiction writer, who published in pulp fiction magazines.In this collection, you will find three short stories by this author, full of innovation, adventure and mystery.

The Complete Works of David MasonThis Complete Collection includes the following titles:--------1 - Something Will Turn Up2 - Garrity's Annuities3 - Road Stop4 - Placebo5 - The Fool6 - Rockabye, Grady7 - The long question8 - Pangborn's paradox

David Mason was born in Washington State, forty-odd degrees north latitude, and now lives on the Australian island of Tasmania, forty-odd degrees south latitude. That Pacific crossing is the work of a lifetime of devotion and change. The rich new poems of Pacific Light explore the implications of the light as well as peace and its opposing forces. What does it mean to be an immigrant and face the ultimate borders of our lives? How can we say the word home and mean it? These questi...

Language and landscape come alive in this remarkably colorful story of immigrants in southern Colorado. Among them are Greeks, Italians, Mexicans, Scots. Their struggle to survive is personal, yet they are caught up in larger events of American history in the second decade of the twentieth century, leading to the defining moment of the Ludlow Massacre in April 1914. David Mason’s novel also steps back from the story, questioning whether we can know the truth about it, asking us why we ...

Not your average spy story, here we have professionals, amateurs and incompetents competing. As the locations change, so the tale begins to warm up, then it boils.

In The Sound acclaimed poet David Mason collects his best shorter work of the past forty years, including lyrics like “Song of the Powers” and darkly brilliant narratives “The Collector’s Tale” and “The Country I Remember,” which Anthony Hecht called “a welcome addition to the best that is now being written by American poets.” A poet of love and history and nature, Mason forges a language that can reconnect us to the world.

This work traverses art and science, and explores how they can be integrated in life.The foundations of psychology, sociology, anthropology, biology and philosophy can be used to improve interpersonal effectiveness in life. These principles are presented through artistic images and literary artifacts in the form of human stories. The particular allegories are then analyzed from various artistic perspectives, literary themes, scientific bases, and philosophical principles.Art,...

‘Since its creation in 1831, the French Foreign Legion has become the stuff of myth, fiction and dreams... Anyone thinking of joining up would be well advised to read this book first’ - The Sun HeraldA real-life boy's own adventure, Marching With The Devil is an account of David Mason's five years in the infamous French Foreign Legion.David Mason graduated from the Australian National University with a law degree and an ho...

"Livewell’s lyrics, frequently set in his home city of Philadelphia, remind us that good poems are the guarantors of our pasts and of our places."—David Yezzi, author of More Things in Heaven: New and Selected PoemsDavid Livewell, whose first poetry collection Shackamaxon won the T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize, explores the difficult history of his hometown of Philadelphia and the many contradictions found in American lif...

An American President anxious about his re-election needs publicity. An American Indian Tribe is found who have not signed a treaty with the Government. He can't travel to the other side of the country; the Army won't help,he promotes a Midshipman to form an escort of Sailors, led by a clerk from the Dept., for Indian affairs who turns out to be the Widow of an Army Colonel......a tough cookie. A truly unusual and fascinating story.

This issue, we have original mysteries by Christina Hoag and Greg Herren (both courtesy of Acquiring Editor Michael Bracken), plus a crime tale by Greg Herren (courtesy of Acquiring Editor Barb Goffman). Our mystery novel is Annihilation by classic American mystery novelist Isabel Ostrander, whose detective fiction was influential in the early 20th century. Of course, there’s a solve-it-yourself puzzler by Hal Charles, too!On the science fiction and fantasy front, we have ...

This issue features a pair of original tales: a mystery from Kaye George (thanks to acquiring editor Michael Bracken) and a fantasy from Adrian Cole (written especially for this Halloween issue).On the mystery front, we have a pair of great modern tales by William Dylan Powell (thanks to acquiring editor Barb Goffman) and James Holding, plus a classic novel by British master A.E.W. Mason, who is best known for his tale of courage and cowardice in wartime, The Four Feathers...