The 10th Science Fiction MEGAPACK®

David Gerrold · Lawrence Watt-Evans · Jay Lake · Pamela Sargent · Keith Roberts

Aug 2015 · Wildside Press LLC

About this ebook

Welcome to the 10th Science Fiction MEGAPACKTM! This time we present 30 stories (including several full-length novels) by some of the biggest and best in the science fiction field, plus 2 poems and the first (of 3) installments in our first novel serial. From David Gerrold's "The Martian Child" (winner of the Hugo Award, Nebula Award, Locus Award, and HOMer Award) to brand new works published here for the first time by David Gerrold and Lawrence Watt-Evans to modern masterpieces by Pamela Sargent and Jay Lake to classics by E.E. "Doc Smith" and Alan E. Nourse -- we have everything a science fiction fan could want. Almost 1,500 pages of great reading!

Fiction:

TORQUING VACUUM, by Jay Lake
COLLECTORS, by Pamela Sargent
VICTORY, by Lester del Rey
THE TREE OF LIFE, by C. L. Moore
YE OLDE RESIGNATION, by Rhys Hughes
FACE TO FACE, by Adrian Cole
BEYOND THE THUNDER, by H. B. Hickey
CAPTIVES OF THE THIEVE-STAR, by James H. Schmitz
THE DEEPS, by Keith Roberts
MADMEN MUSTERED, by Connor Freff Cochran
EXILE FROM SPACE, by Judith Merril
THROUGH TIME AND SPACE WITH FERDINAND FEGHOOT: THE CHAIRMAN DANCES, by David Gerrold
THE FROZEN PLANET, by Keith Laumer
THE TAIL-TIED KINGS, by Avram Davidson
THE GRAIN KINGS, by Keith Roberts
HIS MASTER'S VOICE, by Randall Garrett
BACK TO JULIE, by Richard Wilson
BRIGHTSIDE CROSSING, by Alan E. Nourse
THE SECRET OF THE SCARAB, by Ron Goulart
REINVENTING CARL HOBBS, by James Glass
THE OLD SHILL GAME, by H.B. Fyfe
NOTES TOWARD A NEW TRAIT AS REVEALED BY CORRELATION AMONG ITEMS OF THE MMMPI, by M. Purrzillo, U. R. A. Ferball, and C. Kitirun
THE SLEEPER IS A REBEL, by Bryce Walton
THE TEACHER FROM MARS, by Eando Binder
NIF'S WORLD, by Lawrence Watt-Evans
A MAN OBSESSED, by Alan E. Nourse
FIRST LENSMAN, by E.E. “Doc” Smith
REINCARNATE, by Lester del Rey
THE MAN WHO LIVED FOREVER, by R. DeWitt Miller and Anna Hunger
THE MARTIAN CHILD, by David Gerrold

Poetry:
I’VE NEVER SEEN, by Hannes Bok (poem)
THOUGHT AND SPACE, by Ray Bradbury

Novel Serial:
FIREBIRD, by Tony Rothman (part 1 of 3)

If you enjoy this MEGAPACKTM, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see the 240+ other entries in this series, including science fiction, fantasy, mysteries, adventure, horror, westerns -- and much, much more!

Ratings and reviews

My title says it all. It WAS worth the 74p I spent on it but £1 would be an excessive price.

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About the author

David Gerrold was barely out of his teens when he wrote the script "The Trouble With Tribbles" for the classic television series "Star Trek". Nominated for a Hugo Award, it was listed by "Playboy" magazine as one of the 50 Greatest Television Episodes of All Time. And in a 1997 FOX TV special it ranked as the most popular science fiction episode on television of all time. He has written dozens of novels and twice has been nominated for both the Hugo and the Nebula awards. His novelette "The Martian Child" won the SF triple crown: the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and the Locus Readers Poll as Best Novelette. In addition to novel writing, he has written television scripts for "Babylon 5", "Tales from the Darkside", and "The Twilight Zone". He served as a story editor/producer for the first season of "Star Trek: The Next Generation". A frequent guest at SF conventions here and in Europe, he began a charity in 1988 in which money earned from charging one dollar for autographs -- plus profits from the sale of other SF memorabilia -- is donated to AIDS Project Los Angeles. Born and raised in Massachusetts, Lawrence Watt-Evans has been a full-time writer and editor for more than twenty years. The author of more than thirty novels, over one hundred short stories, and more than one hundred and fifty published articles, Watt-Evans writes primarily in the fields of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and comic books. His short fiction has won the Hugo Award as well as twice winning the Asimov's Readers Award. His fiction has been published in England, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Poland, France, Hungary, and Russia He served as president of the Horror Writers Association from 1994 to 1996 and after leaving that office was the recipient of HWA's first service award ever. He is also a member of Novelists Inc., and the Science Fiction Writers of America. Married with two children, he and his wife Julie live in Maryland. Jay Lake was born in Taiwan on June 6, 1964, and was raised there and in Nigeria. He graduated from the University of Texas in 1986. During his lifetime, he published over 300 short stories and nine novels including Kalimpura, Calamity of So Long a Life, and The Last Plane to Heaven. He received several awards including the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in Science Fiction in 2004. He was also the subject of a documentary called Lakeside - A Year with Jay Lake, which follows his fight against cancer, and is scheduled for release in 2014. He died from colon cancer on June 1, 2014 at the age of 49.