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Satellite 54-Zero [MultiFormat]
by Douglas R. Mason
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Satellite 54-Zero. Bauchman was a small god in his own way--the richest man of the richest planet the worlds had ever known. Certainly he had a great deal of power--and he used it wisely. After all, there was that research sphere, presumably serving mankind. Or if not mankind, whom? Bauchman, of course. But what could Bauchman, the most powerful man in the known universe, possibly want that he did not have? Bauchman wanted to be God. (Published: 1971)
Words: 56349 - Reading Time: 160-225 min.
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BAZOZZ ZZZ DZZ--And Other Short Stories [MultiFormat]
by Douglas R. Mason
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What is BAZOZZ ZZZ DZZ? The answer--a collection of bizarre, disturbing, out of this world short stories written by one of the most influential SF writers of the last forty years. Stories where the hero doesn't always get the girl! This collection of stories first appeared in the classic American and British SF magazines of the 60's and 70's--the Golden Age of SF. (Published: 2003)
Words: 45887 - Reading Time: 131-183 min.
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Dilation Effect [MultiFormat]
by Douglas R. Mason
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After millennia of probing into the galaxy, the long retreat had begun. Centaur was a temporary plug in the dyke that kept out the flood of marauding extra-terrestrials. But her crew of two had their own problem when the Time Beacons began to fail. Still, life has to be lived out, wherever or whenever consciousness is, at the level of the situation that exists there. Ava Mallam and Bob Dogood had a complex maze to tread in sorting out the angles of twin lives in counterpoint. And meanwhile, time... more info>> (Published: 1971)
Words: 54047 - Reading Time: 154-216 min.
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Euphor Unfree [MultiFormat]
by Douglas R. Mason
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Euphor Unfree. Russ Playfer tangled with the Establishment when he criticised computer justice. He was in trouble again when he intervened in a move to assassinate Debra Gilbert--a personable experimental psychologist. He had a hard row to hoe, but, aided by a plump Welsh stripper and a stranded sailor, he stood in the way of the Empire Earth organisation in its fantastic bid to set up a new type of world domination. Fast-moving and full of twists, this is another angle on the possible futures f... more info>> (Published: 1977)
Words: 58789 - Reading Time: 167-235 min.
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From Carthage Then I Came [MultiFormat]
by Douglas R. Mason
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There was no hiding place in Carthage either physically or mentally. And the power crisis didn't help the situation. The monitoring complex had a big reserve setup, but the authorities were making stringent economies right now. Every last watt had to accounted for and the president had to have his life giving quota. Today, the sky darkened by the fastest twilight experienced in Carthage and Gaul Kalmar and his companion hurried along in a violet darkness which transformed the city into a Breughe... more info>> (Published: 1966)
Words: 54316 - Reading Time: 155-217 min.
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Horizon Alpha [MultiFormat]
by Douglas R. Mason
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Horizon Alpha. Gunnar Holt was different. He was a throwback, head and shoulders taller than his fellow humans on Horizon Delta. For a long time it had kept him out of trouble with the androids, programmed to control those of shorter dimensions. It meant that Gunnar could roam at will, pretty much; and he was curious. Still, his was a very lonely world--he had on one with whom to exchange any exciting discovery he might make. Until, one day, Gunnar met a man. A very old man, just on the verge of... more info>> (Published: 1971)
Words: 54972 - Reading Time: 157-219 min.
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In the Eye of the Storm [MultiFormat]
by Douglas R. Mason
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In the Eye of the Storm. When the Roman peace was a memory and the Conqueror's peace a distant murmur, the land was in limbo. There was an uneasy calm and the jackals were in. It was a waiting time, with a swirl of undercurrents and secret power moves. There was space enough, as ever, for a man and a woman to make a life. But for a hardened warrior and a Thane's new bride? Garth acted out his destiny as Rider in Thane Ordlaf's household. Then, a swing of chance, a savage Northmen's raid and a la... more info>> (Published: 2001)
Words: 57444 - Reading Time: 164-229 min.
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Landfall is a State of Mind [MultiFormat]
by Douglas R. Mason
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Rick Massey, newly-appointed as executive on the space freighter Zenobia, finds that there are more than simple navigational problems ahead. The ship is carrying the daughter of the fabulously powerful chairman of a commercial empire as his representative in a very delicate piece of trade negotiation. Other interests are determined that it will not succeed--there is a fifth column on board. Massey starts off prepared to dislike the girl, but is reluctantly brought to see that she is a very smoot... more info>> (Published: 1968)
Words: 58553 - Reading Time: 167-234 min.
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Matrix [MultiFormat]
by Douglas R. Mason
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Paradise City had come of age in its own right. Complexity born of complexity had given it a mind of its own, which could be served well enough by the androids who had been created to relieve the inhabitants of the boring routines of admin. Now the time was ripe for the human element to be phased out as being no longer able to contribute anything of importance. Joe Dill, in spite of a clear veto, had gotten himself a technical education and saw further into the long term aims of the tin brain th... more info>> (Published: 1970)
Words: 55947 - Reading Time: 159-223 min.
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Mission to Pactolus R [MultiFormat]
by Douglas R. Mason
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Mission to Pactolus R. In the troubled politics of the Rim, the Inter Galactic Organisation's peace-keeping force had a hard row to hoe. Adam Dalton, trading in and out of Outer Galactic Alliance space in his small starship had a clearer view than most of the problems. When asked to revert to I.G.O. service to pull an ill-fated expedition to Pactolus R.--deep in O.G.A. space, he was reluctant to say the least. But pressure was put on. When he agreed, the chain reaction was fast and deadly. The S... more info>> (Published: 1978)
Words: 46940 - Reading Time: 134-187 min.
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Pitman's Progress [MultiFormat]
by Douglas R. Mason
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Pitman's Progress. Chris Pitman's liked his aged American convertible. He knew he was taking a risk running it along country lanes, but he wanted to avoid the motorway. Minding his own business, he became entangled in a scene which is played out every day in all corners of the planet--a hill, a fast sports job, another slower car on the blind-side. He felt he was still conscious, that nothing had really changed. Except, from a new viewpoint, he could still see himself in the car. And the severed... more info>> (Published: 1976)
Words: 61209 - Reading Time: 174-244 min.
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Ring of Violence [MultiFormat]
by Douglas R. Mason
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Violence breeds violence. A chain reaction. An ever widening circle of inevitable cause and effect. As an observer, in one of the small communities in a desert of ash left by a new wave of volcanic disturbance, Boyd Lassen could condemn it. But events pushed him into accepting the attitudes of mind that are its root cause. He is condemned and left for dead. He makes a fantastic journey in a resurrected earth-moving machine. Finally, he sets out with the nucleus of a new community to found his ow... more info>> (Published: 1968)
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The Darkling Plain [MultiFormat]
by Douglas R. Mason
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In the wasteland of thirteenth century Wirral, Wallasey, the old Island of Strangers, was a forgotten corner of a struggling kingdom. Some liked it that way. Safe, out of reach of the King's law. A tough-minded man like Sir Guy of Barndon could run his affairs in any way he chose. If he believed that power was the only law, there was no one to make an effective argument against the proposition. Certainly, it was unlikely that a wandering scribe, who answered to the name of Edward, son of Siward,... more info>> (Published: 1979)
Words: 51719 - Reading Time: 147-206 min.
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The End Bringers [MultiFormat]
by Douglas R. Mason
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Mike Finnigan was a natural-born trouble-maker. This put him very much at odds with his world for a starter. Because his world was geared not to allow trouble for its inhabitants. Specifically, humans wore a built-in wristband which monitored their emotional state at all times. Came trouble, and zoom! An android with a soothing shot, ready to solve all problems. It never seemed to occur to any android that a human could be so damn contrary that they might not like to have all problems solved. Or... more info>> (Published: 1973)
Words: 60007 - Reading Time: 171-240 min.
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The Janus Syndrome [MultiFormat]
by Douglas R. Mason
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Search of an identity had more problems for Dr. Mark Brant than for most. Programmed at a deep level as an agent and then talked into accepting a dangerous mission, which on the surface level he knew he was being two-faced even to himself. The double-headed symbol of Lados might have been coined for him and it was on that troubled planet that the layers of consciousness were peeled away to leave him in possession of a simple core of self. But what does he do with this knowledge? (Published: 1969)
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The Omega Worm [MultiFormat]
by Douglas R. Mason
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Visiting a scene of his childhood Mark Savage was minding his own business and soaking up what nostalgia could be found on the automated landscape. When Barbara Lisle appeared at his elbow, barefoot and in an operating shift he was off on a sequence as bizarre as any he had followed as a top security hand in European Space. (Published: 1976)
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The Phaeton Condition [MultiFormat]
by Douglas R. Mason
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The Phaeton Condition. Once upon a future century, a young man with both feet firmly planted on the ladder of Establishment success discovered that the powers that be--the powers he served--were plotting to lock the planet into a suicidal course for their own profit. For the earth was in the same condition as Phaeton's sun-chariot in the myth--hurtling towards destruction. So, Tom Lockhart had a choice to make. He could pretend not to know what he knew, and protect himself from those who would c... more info>> (Published: 1973)
Words: 59807 - Reading Time: 170-239 min.
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The Resurrection of Roger Diment [MultiFormat]
by Douglas R. Mason
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The Museum was not very popular. After all, who wanted to see what life had been like in the old days? When people got bent and stiff with age (ghastly) and kids had diseases. (That's what they called it when you were ill.) Of course you knew the living, moving recreation of scenes from ancient life weren't real people--only androids--but still, they were so realistic it was sort of morbid. Aside from teaching history, it was a puzzle why Central Control kept the Museum going. Still, it made you... more info>> (Published: 1972)
Words: 51739 - Reading Time: 147-206 min.
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The Typhon Intervention [MultiFormat]
by Douglas R. Mason
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For many centuries, Earth Planet had been under observation from the dying world of Typhon. There was nothing the Typhonians did not know about its physical properties and the life style of its people. From where they stood, they reckoned it was gift-wrapped as a new home for their ancient race. The takeover would bring death or enslavement to the existing population, but then they were only primitives, hardly counted as human by Typhonian standards! Colonel Andrew Mackay and his special duty se... more info>> (Published: 1981)
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Tower of Rizwan [MultiFormat]
by Douglas R. Mason
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Dave Pitman was at rock bottom in emotional stasis. After a gruelling mission, that left his ship in a heap of charred ash, he took the co-pilot slot in the I.G.O. frigate Diomed to fill time that no longer meant anything to him. He was on search and destroy mission--mopping up the remnants of the broken and dispersed O.G.A. armada. On the remote planet of Pactolus, with its frail delicate people and their fantastic turban cult, he began to recharge his psychic batteries and experience a resurge... more info>> (Published: 1968)
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Tuo Yaw [The Collection] [MultiFormat]
by Douglas R. Mason, John Rankine
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Tuo Yaw is a collection of possibilities played out in alternative landscapes. Time shifts, paranormal happenings, bio-mechs, mind control, battles with state and authority. This collection encompasses the range of writing for which Douglas R. Mason has become renowned. "In these future worlds, there has to be room for the hope of love and for the human spirit to stick its head over the parapet. There are Rubicons to cross. Each one prepares his little boat to make the journey. Love is the great... more info>> (Published: 2003)
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