Results for "Greenberg, Martin H."

This collection of the best short stories of Mark Clifton makes these fine tales readily available for the first time in two decades.

Winner with Frank Riley of the 1955 Hugo Award for They’d Rather Be Right,Clifton has for a variety of reasons unrelated to the quality of his writing all but...

A reprint of the issue of Astounding Science Fiction that is widely considered to be the first great issue under the editorship of John W. Campbell, Jr.

Astounding Science Fiction as edited by Campbell was the pre­mier magazine of the golden age of American science fiction. This special reprint...

In “The Horror of the Heights,” aviator Joyce-Armstrong continually asks, “And where, pray, is Lt. Myrtle’s head?” At 43,000feet, beset by creatures of an air jungle, Joyce-Armstrong, to his immense regret, learns exactly what happened to Myrtle’s head. In “The American’s Tale” a quiet Englishman...

Boucher, a Catholic writer with catholic interests and enthusiasms, wrote short mysteries delving into “religion, opera, football, politics, movies, true crime, record collecting, and an abundance of good food and wine along with clues and puzzles and deductions.”—Francis M. Nevins, Jr., from his...

Other stories in this anthology are “Old Man Henderson,” “The Hunter,” “Underground Movement,” “The Forest of Zil,” and “From the Government Printing Office.”

In most of the stories Neville writes of loneliness, isolation, alienation, intol­erance of anything or anyone different, and of insanity...

Personal, often controversial, glimpses of the real world of sci­ence fiction by some of its most prominent citizens.

The book presents a rare opportunity for the reader of sci­ence fiction to share in the creative process with nine highly original and creative writers: Philip José Farmer emphasizes...

These stories are funny! The 29 Turnbuckle tales offered here mix black humor with “formula” crime stories in a hilarious twist to the hard-boiled detective tale.

Turnbuckle’s cockeyed reconstructions of a murder exasperate his logical and long-suffering sidekick, Ralph, but they lead to a solution...

From the pulp magazines devoted to stories of the Wild West emerged a few genuine craftsmen with a deep understanding of human nature: Wayne D. Overholser, author of more than 100 novels and 400 stories, was one of these writers.

Overholser’s stories fulfill the require­ments of the Western genre...

In these 23stories, Brown never rails to surprise and delight. Time after time the reader anticipates the ending only to discover that once more the author has proved too clever. Yet Brown never “cheats,” never feeds false clues, and his endings are always plausible. His imag­ination is by turns...

A balanced, topical account of the PLO and its statelike relationships with several key nations in the global arena.

The eight essayists examine the incentives prompting the organization to seek ties with various states as well as the benefits derived from these international bonds. The nations...