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 moreComplete contents"Zora and the Land Ethic Nomads," by Mar...

Here are twenty-five stories of fantasy and science fiction selected from the pages of Wildside Press's Fantasy Adventure anthology series, selected by its editor, Philip Harbottle. Throughout its run of thirteen issues FA presented both original stories and classic reprints by veteran British SF and fantasy writers, including Sydney J. Bounds, John Russell Fearn, John Glasby, Philip E. High, and E. C. Tubb. They were soon joined by newer writers, most notably Eric Brown, and the series be...

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 the cause of these disasters....

In a distant future, a mysterious figure from a forgotten era lives out his rigid beliefs in military dominance and absolute control. Observed closely by those around him, his obsession with war and power creates an unsettling atmosphere, offering a haunting glimpse into humanity's darker tendencies.

This issue, we have novels from J.J. Connington (a Golden Age mystery) and E. Hoffmann Price (a classic Weird Tales fantasy), plus our usual wide variety of short stories. Acquiring Editors Michael Bracken and Barb Goffman have selected tales by Aeryn Rudel and Janice Law, plus we have even more great stories from Dan Leicht, Tom Easton, Larry Tritten, Philip E. High, and E.C. Tubb. Rounding things out is a solve-it-yourself puzzler by Hal Charles.Here’s the complete lineu...

This issue, we have a pair of Golden Age novels—one mystery, one fantasy—from two of the greats, Edgar Wallace (who created King Kong, among other things) and H. de Vere Stacpoole (author of The Blue Lagoon). But the short stories are no slouches, either: tales by modern greats like Robert Lopresti and Joseph S. Walker (thanks to Acquiring Editors Michael Bracken and Barb Goffman), and Ron Miller, alongside newcomers like KB Willson and Sarah EA Hart. Plus we have classics by John S. Glasb...

Tony defies his parents and joins the Service, a mysterious force recruiting Earth's disaffected youth. But why are they teaching such primitive survival skills?

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 against its commander, Hogarth, ...

Venus was a horror-world, a place of teeming, nightmare danger, yet with the danger went wealth, and in the Hotlands rested a secret. To find the secret was one thing: to get out alive was another matter.E.C. Tubb wrote the long-running Dumarest space opera series, as well as many other fine science fiction novels during his long career.

From the author of "Lucifer," now adapted into the film "57 Seconds" starring Josh Hutcherson and Morgan Freeman —Published together for the very first time, five long-lost vintage science fiction stories by a master of the genre.THE TROUBLEMAKERCurt Gregson is a Martian colonist who has saved for 10 years to raise his fare back to Earth. But when he breaks his leg in an accident he misses his flight and is denied a refund. Medical bills plunge him into debt, at a crippling ...

This collection brings together the first six titles in E. C. Tubb's epic SF saga, Dumarest, containing:The Winds of GathDeraiToymanKalinThe Jester at ScarLallia

The youngster was full of romance of space and admiration for his hero. But the hero couldn’t share his feelings.