Leigh Brackett was the undisputed Queen of Space Opera and the first women to be nominated for the coveted Hugo Award. She wrote short stories, novels, and scripts for Hollywood. She wrote the first draft of the Empire Strikes Back shortly before her death in 1978. Assembled here in this 200,000 word collection are fifteen of Brackett's most memorable stories. If you enjoyed this book, you'll want to search on Positronic Publishing Super Pack to see all of our Super Packs. Included here are: The Stellar Legion The Dragon-Queen of Jupiter A World is Born Child of the Sun Outpost on Io Citadel of Lost Ships The Blue Behemoth Thralls of the Endless Night The Dancing Girl of Ganymede Black Amazon of Mars Shannach--The Last The Ark of Mars Last Call from Sector 9G So Pale, So Cold, So Fair The Road to Sinharat

Over 500 pages of pulse pounding, glorious, golden age adventures from you favorite writers such as Ray Bradbury, Leigh Brackett, and Manly Wade Wellman.

Neal "Storm" Cloud failed his Lensman exam, But life has a strange way of making heroes of even those who sometimes fail. Cloud's family is tragically killed when a misguided attempt to blow out a vortex lands one of the fragments right on his house. Devastated by the loss of his family, Cloud takes a leave of absence from the Radiation Lab where he works studying the vortices. As he drives he is struck with an idea for "blowing out" a vortex. It is slightly technical (Smith explains it so it can be easily followed), but the general idea is that Cloud's brain works so fast that he can calculate exactly where the center of the vortex will be at a moment in time and how big an explosive is needed, then hit it with a bomb that is set at the exact strength to actually extinguish the vortex instead of blowing it apart and making more vortices. As it continues the book tells of Cloud's new job as the universe's one and only vortex blaster. This job takes him from planet to planet where he blows out vortices, matches wits against drug dealers and gangsters, meets new life forms, and acquires a crew for his small scout ship. His adventures are many and varied, and the lifeforms he meets are strange and interesting.

Marion Zimmer Bradley is best known for her science fantasy series set in the Darkover universe and as the author of 'The Mists of Avalon.' A World Fantasy Award winner, her fiction is both memorable and powerful. This collection includes four novels and eleven short stories that helped make Bradley's reputation as one of the best writers the science fiction and fantasy field ever produced. 200,000 words and more than 500 pages of top notch science fiction and fantasy. Included are: 'Falcons of Narabedla,' 'Death Between the Stars,' 'The Dark Intruder,' 'The Door Through Space,' 'Black & White,' 'Treason of the Blood,' 'Jackie Sees a Star,' 'The Planet Savers,' 'The Stars Are Waiting,' 'Exiles of Tomorrow,' 'The Colors of Space,' 'The Crime Therapist,' 'Year of the Big Thaw,' 'The Wild One,' 'The Wind People.'

Included in one massive volume are thirty-seven stories by some of the greatest science fiction writers who ever lived as well as many new up and coming authors. More than 750 pages of great fiction. The Cold Calculations by Michael A. Burstein They Twinkled like Jewels by Philip Jose Farmer Lingua Franca by Carole McDonnell Dawn of Flame by Stanley G. Weinbaum Don't Jump by Jamie Wild Youth by Isaac Asimov Digger Don't Take No Requests by John Teehan Lighter than You Think by Nelson Bond Garden of Souls by M. Turville Heitz The Variable Man by Philip K. Dick Starwisps by Edward J. McFadden III Gorgono and Slith by Ray Bradbury I Was There When They Made the Video by Cynthia Ward The Perfect Host by Theodore Sturgeon That Universe We Both Dreamed Of by Jay O'Connell The Lake of Light by Jack Williamson Lies, Truth, and the Color of Faith by Gerri Leen Hopscotch and Hottentots by Lou Antonelli No Place to Hide by James Dorr Industrial Revolution by Poul Anderson The Visitor by Ann Wilkes Travel Diary by Alfred Bester Encounter in Redgunk by William R. Eakin The Second Satellite by Edmond Hamilton The Indecorous Rescue of Clarinda Merwin by Brenda W. Clough Lost Paradise by C. L. Moore Siblings by Warren Lapine Gun for Hire by Mack Reynolds The Answer by H. Beam Piper Pythias by Frederik Pohl Arm of the Law by Harry Harrison The Good Neighbors by Edgar Pangborn The Intruder by Emil Petaja The Six Fingers of Time by R. A. Lafferty An Ounce of Cure by Alan Edward Nourse The Hoofer by Walter M. Miller, Jr. The Stellar Legion by Leigh Brackett Year of the Big Thaw by Marion Zimmer Bradley"

Stark’s mind veered away from the incredible thing that was about to happen. It spoke words to him, hurried desperate words of sanity, about the electrical patterns of the mind, and the sensitivity of crystals, and conductors, and electro-magnetic impulses. But that was only the top of his brain. At base it was still the brain of N’Chaka that believed in gods and demons and all the sorceries of darkness. Only pride kept him from cowering abjectly at Berild’s feet....FROM THE BOOKS.