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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)
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Interstellar Two-Five [Dag Fletcher Galactic Series #2] [MultiFormat]
by John Rankine
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Dag Fletcher's first trip back with European Space was not going well. His six year military stint with I.G.O. had taught him that there were no simple missions. This just confirmed it. It was supposed to have been a straight-forward freight run--to get him back into the swing of things. And he wasn't even in the command slot for this one. So here they were, stranded on Pelorus, without enough power to get them off. It soon became clear that getting off the planet was the least of their problems... more info>> (Published: 1966)
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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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The Vort Programme [MultiFormat]
by John Rankine
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The Vort Programme. Robert Cain had no idea why he had been sent to enrol at Picton Polytech, but when a blue and yellow auto car dropped eight feet and nearly crushed him out of existence, he knew there was more to it than just a crash course in The Science of Mental Life for which he was registered. Who was trying to kill him and why? Why should ultra-sensitive receivers be hidden in the walls of his room? Who was programming the androids like the one which tried to throw him off his upper-flo... more info>> (Published: 1979)
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A Perfect Shade [Olympus Series Book#4] [MultiFormat]
by John R. Mason
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Kalais had his day carefully planned out. For once, he was determined not to let any distractions get in the way. Everything was going well, until a girl appeared on Lupercal's link platform. First impressions were all good; she was beautiful, liked trees, plants, seemed to like him. Although, for someone you've only just met, she seemed to know a little too much. Very odd. Lovely smile. Then something changed. What on Earth, had he done to make her run away like that, in floods of tears, back t... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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A Tale of Spring [MultiFormat]
by John R. Mason
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Arielle was doing her best to stay calm. Or at least trying to give that impression. After weeks of preparation she was here, at Lupercal. That, in its own way, was a relief all round. But for the goddess it was only the first step in a process which had been on hold for over two millennia. Her immediate challenge was just to make it through the night. Her mind was working overtime, the heat was stifling, things were starting to happen outside and, for the first time that she could remember, had... more info>> (Published: 2000)
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Binary Z [MultiFormat]
by John Rankine
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F. S. Hartley was making the best of a bad job. The rebuilding programme at his school was drawing on all his skills in crisis management. Today, the digger had just cut the main power line--again, the School Inspector was threatening the whole future with talk of 'comprehensive education' and 'mergers' with rival schools, the boiler room was filling up with water, and then, as ever, there was the distraction of Mrs Gleave. And, it was only 10:30 in the morning. But today was not going to be jus... more info>> (Published: 1969)
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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)
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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)
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Forgotten Rocket [MultiFormat]
by John Rankine
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Forgotten Rocket. Caster was a typical city of the age. Its people were inoculated every year with U4--a drug which prevented them from asking the questions which ought to be asked. Clint Pearson had worked out a system for missing the inoculation. Only he knew that things were badly wrong. Somehow they had to make a break in the circle and think again about what a community should be like. He found allies in an outlawed, underground group. Wayne Presbon--a massive youth with the Viking spirit a... more info>> (Published: 2002)
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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)
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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)
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In The Big House [MultiFormat]
by Anne James
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A bold experiment or merely a throwback to an antiquated system? Whichever, Beth found herself in the 'B' class. Cleverly avoiding the 'swot' tag, she got good marks and was nudging at the top spot. She had even managed to forge uneasy friendships with the leading lights of the group. The promise of the new term ran out just after nine--Beth had her name read out. Her osmosis into the 'A' class that morning was meant to show that the system worked. Beth only wished it applied to her. To survive ... more info>> (Published: 2004)
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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)
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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)
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Last Shuttle to Planet Earth [MultiFormat]
by John Rankine
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Seen from far enough off, a shanty town of flattened kerosene tins and mud daub can appear like some glittering Shangri-la. An observer at the Met Station of Earth's moon, if there was any hardy soul still batting on that ash heap, would see the sprawling, wheel satellite as the last triumph of Technical Man. Only the close observer would see the derelict sections, the areas where robot fault finders had finally jacked it in and let meteorite penetration have its way. Wirral City--ten thousand p... more info>> (Published: 1980)
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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)
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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)
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Moons of Triopus [MultiFormat]
by John Rankine
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In opposing the Triopus project, Grant Kirby was one by himself. Powerful commercial and political lobbies saw him as a threat and wanted him silenced. Was there in fact, a menace in the green planet or was he rationalizing his own growing disillusionment with Earth and its social pattern? Kirby himself only found the answer when the Triopusians entered the equation in a form nobody could expect. (Published: 1968)
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Never the Same Door [MultiFormat]
by John Rankine
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A man does not step into the same river twice. He never goes through the same door. To Kurt Yardley, this is amply borne out by the train of circumstance which follows the forced landing of his freighter Charib on the bleakly inhospitable plains of an unlisted planet. Life has evolved without a familiar organic base and is ready to defend itself against the encroachment of another species. Its very structure could bring unimaginable wealth to metal-hungry cultures and there are those on Charib w... more info>> (Published: 1967)
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One is One [Dag Fletcher Galactic Series #5] [MultiFormat]
by John Rankine
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Senior Controller Dag Fletcher was beginning to feel very angry with the whole pointless business. What had begun as a commercial and training flight aboard the old I.G.O. corvette Interstellar X had gathered such complications to itself that the mission was drifting towards a first class muddle. The planet looked bad enough. They were awkwardly placed in their makeshift silo. Land survey was not going to be a picnic. But he had to find a site and leave it equipped as the local consulate. Compli... more info>> (Published: 1968)
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Operation Umanaq [MultiFormat]
by John Rankine
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Operation Umanaq. After near bisection at the delicate hand of his ex-girlfriend and an all-stations call from the head of his own security unit labelling him an outlaw, Mark Chevron was a two-time loser. But despite everyone and everything being against him, he did have a tenuous line on the biggest operation ever mounted on the face of Earth. Crossing two continents and reaching deep into the permafrost of Polar Scientific Complex, he is thrown into the middle of a war waged with one of the st... more info>> (Published: 1973)
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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)
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Return to Olympus [Olympus Series Book #2] [MultiFormat]
by John R. Mason
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Nothing much had happened in the five years since the war with Chaos. They had won, just, but their homeworld had been the price--placed into stasis to prevent any repetition. Self-exiled to Earth, only a few of the survivors could now make the transformation back into the physical world and that was only to support Arielle with her annual Spring thing--it kept the place ticking over nicely, but was not essential. This was no future for any of them and underneath they all knew it. They were mere... more info>> (Published: 2006)
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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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