Prologue Books

The Portal in the Picture

Ashley — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 15:30:34 +0000

The Portal in the Picture

by Lewis Padgett & C.L. Moore

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Under Eddie Burton’s management, the ambitious starlet Lorna Maxwell seemed headed for the top of Broadway’s glamorous world of make-believe. And then she vanished—through a wall where there was no door. Eddie found himself plunging after her into a city beyond reality. In that weird twin city to New York, Eddie became a hunted fugitive while his girl friend turned up as an ever-present face and all-pervading voice that awed and mystified the inhabitants. And Eddie learned that between him and a return to his natural home stood her new manager, a mysterious figure who ruled by a tyrannical combination of super-scientific miracles and brute force.

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Tomorrow and Tomorrow

Ashley — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 15:21:45 +0000

Tomorrow and Tomorrow

by Lewis Padgett & C.L. Moore

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Tomorrow and Tomorrow begins a hundred years after the Hiroshima A-blast. We meet Joseph Breden, a nuclear physicist chosen as one of the guardians at Uranium Pile Number One. As a member of the Global Peace Commission regulating atomic power, Breden knows his job is vital. But he is troubled with dream—horrifying dreams which suggest he overthrow his duties and permit an explosion! He recognizes a psychological breakdown. But why? Was he driving himself to destruction? Or someone else?

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The Fairy Chessmen

Ashley — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 15:17:12 +0000

The Fairy Chessmen

by Lewis Padgett & C.L. Moore

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Robert Cameron, trained in applied psychology, finds himself being driven insane by a strange, unfathomable force. As an experienced psychometrician he fights the terrifying hallucinations (a doorknob opens a blue eye and looks at him). He, too, knows his job is vital. American, dug into great, shielded cavern-cities, has been at war for decades with the European Falangists, a war planned by technicians and fought by robots. Now a new Falangist weapon has appeared to break the stalemate. And it is up to Cameron to find the man to provide the solution—before his own mind collapses under the weird and terrible madness!

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The Well of the Worlds

Ashley — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 15:15:08 +0000

The Well of the Worlds

by Henry Kuttner

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When the curiously exotic millionairess Klai Ford started telling him about ghosts in a uranium mine, Sawyer knew he’d better be ready for anything in his investigations.
But he didn’t count on being drawn into a passage between dimensions and tossed adrift in a world of islands floating in the sky, where strange brutelike creatures were attacking the cities in a vast struggle for power.
Lost in this new world, Sawyer realized that the key to everything lay in the mysterious Well of the Worlds—and that the future of the universe lay in its secret.

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The Universe Between

Ashley — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 15:11:36 +0000

The Universe Between

by Alan E. Nourse

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Bob Benedict is one of the few scientists able to make contact with the invisible, dangerous world of The Thresholders and return—sane! For years he has tried to transport—and receive—matter by transmitting it through the mysterious, parallel Threshold. At first his efforts met only with failure and madness. But now The Thresholders have risen in fury. Somehow Bob Benedict must make one more trip into that land of peril and pacify them before they succeed in hurling his planet—piece by piece—into the oblivion of infinity.

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The Fourth Horseman

Ashley — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 15:09:42 +0000

The Fourth Horseman

by Alan E. Nourse

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Wilderness Patrol Officer Pamela Tate, scouting in the mountains of Washington, sees and touches a ground squirrel in the dusty path, blood trickling from its mouth. Forty-eight hours later she lies dead at her campsite, covered in mysterious welts and bruises.
Across the lake, a boisterous camping party falls silent as they watch each other sicken and die in agony.
A killer is loose. It has a foreign name. Yersinia Pestis. Plague. An unknowing nation harbors the deadly evil in its midst.
While a few embattled survivors race to save the country, perhaps the world, the grim invader hides in a mother’s sigh, a child’s laugh, a lover’s whisper. Nothing can stop the death ride of…
The Fourth Horseman.

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The Bladerunner

Ashley — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 15:08:28 +0000

The Bladerunner

by Alan E. Nourse

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Billy Gimp was a bladerunner…one of the shadowy procurers of illegal medical supplies for the rapidly expanding, nightmare world of the medical black market. Doc was a skilled surgeon at a government-operated hospital by day…and an underground physician by night, providing health care for the multitudes who could not—or would not—qualify for legal medical assistance.
Trapped by Health Control Police, Billy Gimp knew he had to warn Doc that they were closing in on him.
But something even more deadly than the law had already mad its first move…a new plague that Health Control could not handle!

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Raiders from the Rings

Ashley — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 15:06:49 +0000

Raiders from the Rings

by Alan E. Nourse

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“We have watched your planets for millennia.”
The creature that spoke was barely three feet tall, with wrinkled gray skin and monstrous eyes…
“Yours is a war of children. Only children would slaughter each other out of ignorance and fear. Only children would fail again and again to learn the lessons of their foolishness.”
It was true. The underground people of Earth were united in terror and desperation against what they considered a frightful threat from the skies. They had sent a might armada into space, rushing in lethal orbit toward Mars. The Spacers—still really Earthmen themselves—were poised for the counter-blow. The great fleet at Asteroid Central had sufficient warheads to reduce earth to a cinder.
“But we also know the greatness of your spirit, the precious spark which we cannont allow you to extinguish.”
Now Ben Trefon understood that in the Black Belt of Power bequeathed to him by his father rested the final hope of the human race!

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Rocket to Limbo

Ashley — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 15:05:00 +0000

Rocket to Limbo

by Alan E. Nourse

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The crew of the starship Ganymede were afraid their chief was losing his mind.
Commander Walter Fox had explored and opened up more colony-worlds than any other man alive—yet it was rumored that he still believed there were other intelligent beings in the galaxy.
Now as the ship grounded on unfamiliar terrain, the crew realized that the routine flight to Vega had been interrupted—and their worst fears were true…
They had landed on Wolf IV—the one planet from which no man had ever returned alive.

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Trouble on Titan

Ashley — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 15:03:08 +0000

Trouble on Titan

by Alan E. Nourse

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The tenacious Colonel Benedict and his son, Tuck, are sent to Titan, Saturn’s fifth moon, to investigate reports of smuggling. Soon they discover that the less-than-friendly colony is hiding much more than just a smuggler. Together they dig up a scandalous case of interstellar sabotage and what the colonists reverently refer to as “THE BIG SECRET,” which could destroy Earth’s power supply—forever.
Can the Colonel and Tuck resolve an age-old dispute between the Titan colonists and Earthly authorities before the clock runs out? Mankinds fate depends on it…