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    The First Science Fiction MEGAPACK®: 25 Modern and Classic Science Fiction Tales
    The First Science Fiction MEGAPACK®: 25 Modern and Classic Science Fiction Tales
    The First Science Fiction MEGAPACK®: 25 Modern and Classic Science Fiction Tales
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    The First Science Fiction MEGAPACK®: 25 Modern and Classic Science Fiction Tales

    By Robert Silverberg, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Fredric Brown and

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    Hours of great reading await, with tales from some of the 20th century's most renowned science fiction authors, Here are 25 science fiction stories (plus a bonus short-short):


    UNKNOWN THINGS, by Reginald Bretnor

    CAPTIVES OF THE FLAME, by Samuel R. Delany

    EXPEDITER, by Mack Reynolds

    ONE-SHOT, by James Blish

    SHIPWRECK IN THE SKY, by Eando Binder

    ZEN, by Jerome Bixby

    LANCELOT BIGGS COOKS A PIRATE, by Nelson Bond

    SENTIMENT, INC., by Poul Anderson

    THE ISSAHAR ARTIFACTS, by J. F. Bone

    THE NEXT LOGICAL STEP, by Ben Bova

    YEAR OF THE BIG THAW, by Marion Zimmer Bradley

    EARTHMEN BEARING GIFTS, by Fredric Brown

    HAPPY ENDING, by Fredric Brown and Mack Reynolds

    LIGHTER THAN YOU THINK, by Nelson Bond

    RIYA'S FOUNDLING, by Algis Budrys

    ACCIDENTAL DEATH, by Peter Baily

    AND ALL THE EARTH A GRAVE, by C. C. MacApp

    DEAD RINGER, by Lester del Rey

    THE CRYSTAL CRYPT, by Philip K. Dick

    THE JUPITER WEAPON, by Charles L. Fontenay

    THE MAN WHO HATED MARS, by Randall Garrett

    NAVY DAY, by Harry Harrison

    THE JUDAS VALLEY, by Robert Silverberg & Randall Garrett

    NATIVE SON, by T. D. Hamm

    JUBILEE, by Richard A. Lupoff

    FINAL CALL, by John Gregory Betancourt


    And don't forget to check out all the other volumes in the Megapack series! Search on "Wildside Megapack" in this ebook store to see the complete list...covering more science fiction volumes, plus adventure stories, military, fantasy, ghost stories, westerns, and much more!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWildside Press
    Release dateMar 26, 2013
    ISBN9781434443946
    The First Science Fiction MEGAPACK®: 25 Modern and Classic Science Fiction Tales
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    Robert Silverberg

    <p>Robert Silverberg has won five Nebula Awards, four Hugo Awards, and the prestigious <em>Prix Apollo.</em> He is the author of more than one hundred science fiction and fantasy novels -- including the best-selling Lord Valentine trilogy and the classics <em>Dying Inside</em> and <em>A Time of Changes</em> -- and more than sixty nonfiction works. Among the sixty-plus anthologies he has edited are <em>Legends</em> and <em>Far Horizons,</em> which contain original short stories set in the most popular universe of Robert Jordan, Stephen King, Ursula K. Le Guin, Gregory Benford, Greg Bear, Orson Scott Card, and virtually every other bestselling fantasy and SF writer today. Mr. Silverberg's Majipoor Cycle, set on perhaps the grandest and greatest world ever imagined, is considered one of the jewels in the crown of speculative fiction.</p>

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