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Genre/Form: | Science fiction |
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Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Forrest J Ackerman |
ISBN: | 0553201875 9780553201871 |
OCLC Number: | 8185050 |
Description: | xxii, 561 pages ; 18 cm. |
Contents: | Out around Rigel / Robert H. Wilson -- Born of the sun / Jack Williamson -- The eternal cycle / Edmond Hamilton -- The Roger Bacon formula / Irvin Lester and Fletcher Pratt -- A baby on Neptune / Clare Winger Harris and Miles J. Breuer -- Inflexure / Horace L. Gold (writing as Clyde Crane Campbell) -- Futility / S.P. Meek -- The cubic city / Louis Tucker -- The Prince of Liars / L. Taylor Hansen -- The ship that turned aside / Green Peyton (writing as G. Peyton Wertenbaker). The emotion meter / W. Varick Nevins III -- The face in the abyss / A. Merritt -- The red peri / Stanley G. Weinbaum -- The eternal man / D.D. Sharp -- Old faithful / Raymond Z. Gallun -- Nymph of darkness / Catherine L. Moore and Forrest J. Ackerman -- Twilight / John W. Campbell, Jr. (as Don A. Stuart) -- Omega / Amelia Reynolds Long -- A scientist rises / Harry Bates and D.W. Hall. |
Series Title: | Bantam Books science fiction anthology |
Responsibility: | edited by Forrest J. Ackerman. |
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"A Scientist Rises" by D.W. Hall - A scientist is researching how to expand and contract atoms when a foreign agent breaks into his lab. The agent is killed and the scientist decides the world is not yet ready for his work so he destroys his device and uses his method on his own body. The scientist...
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"A Scientist Rises" by D.W. Hall - A scientist is researching how to expand and contract atoms when a foreign agent breaks into his lab. The agent is killed and the scientist decides the world is not yet ready for his work so he destroys his device and uses his method on his own body. The scientist grows steadily into the sky until he towers five hundred feet and his body evaporates.
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