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John Russell Fearn
For cinema projectionist Sid Elbridge, it seems that things can’t get much worse. First, circumstantial evidence has made him the prime suspect in the police investigation of a robbery at…
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From top to bottom the Brant Building became insubstantial, like the illusion of a dream world. It hung transparent, incredible, for a moment with the figures of people momentarily visible…
After many years spent in wars and struggle, mankind had achieved a perfect civilization. But this Utopia was going directly against the adaptive strain Nature had developed. In earlier times…
This first book publication of three exciting novelettes from science fiction’s Golden Age includes: LAST CONFLICT, in which an artificial storm of incredible violence–a storm that destroys London and all…
It came originally from the merciless, frost-bound wilderness of the night side of Mercury, the hellish planet nearest to the Sun. But when space explorer Harry Dagenham brings a long-dead…
When a young scientist discovers how to foreshorten space by using higher dimensions, it opens up the possibilities for almost instantaneous interstellar travel, initially using unmanned probes. The first probe…
Gordon Fryer, a young, unemployed engineer, finds a post as a scientific guinea pig and assistant to an elderly scientist, Dr. Royd. But the result of Royd’s experiment predicts the…
Forsythe reeled back into the missile’s instrument room, his skull torn with blinding pain. Sight and hearing had been destroyed in those few seconds. He was only a shell of…
Maria Black, Head of Roseway College for Young Ladies during World War II, and a textbook solver of crimes, finds herself faced with a problem after her own heart when…
Dr. Brutus Lloyd is no more than four feet ten inches tall, an amazingly gnome-like man. He’s not a dwarf, simply vest-pocket size. His head has a brow like a…
Science fiction author Stanley G. Weinbaum died from cancer at 33 in December 1935. Short though his career was, his scientific imagination, smooth characterizations, and pervasive humor completely revolutionized the…
Another Wildside paperback original, continuing this new series collecting the early pioneering pulp magazine novelettes of John Russell Fearn, presenting the first-ever reprinting ofEarth’s Mausoleum,
Metamorphosis,andDark Eternity…
John Russell Fearn (1908-1960) was an extremely orlific and popular British writer, who began in the American pulps, then almost single- handedly drove the post-World War II boom in British…
Maria Black is faced with murder in the cinema when a stranger is found to be dead. Assuming her role of detective, she becomes Black Maria - the crime solutionist…
Maria Black, headmistress-detective, is invited to the engagement celebrations of an ex-pupil - and becomes involved in the apparent suicide of the prospective bridegroom, Keith Robinson. Maria has soon uncovered…
A FICTION HOUSE PRESS REPRINT: An outlaw of space, she was, with the strength of ten men. Here is an interplanetary story that will fill you with enthusiasm. She whipped…
John Russell Fearn,Philip Harbottle
On a train trip to Scotland with his chief clerk Martin Lee, London financier Morgan Dale is suddenly confronted by his embittered ex-Secretary, whom he’s recently sacked. Janice Elton had…
BEFORE EARTH CAME launches a new series collecting the early pioneering pulp magazine novelettes of John Russell Fearn, with the first-ever reprinting of Before Earth Came and Subconscious. Both stories…
A posthumous collaboration between John Russell Fearn and his biographer Philip Harbottle, and based on Fearn’s last written notes, Chameleon Planet picks up the saga directly following the ending of…
This is the first unabridged book edition of a classic pre-war serial from the pages of Amazing Stories. It’s a cosmic saga of super-science from a bygone era of science…
SF Author Stanley G. Weinbaum died from cancer at 33, in December 1935. Short though his career was, his scientific imagination, smooth characterization, and humor completely revolutionized the field, and…
Many of his John Russel Fearn’s fans don’t know that he was also a writer in other genres, especially crime and detective fiction. This volume contains some of his best…
From outside the universe comes a terrifying threat. A colossal spaceship materializes in the void, crewed by master scientists who have only one aim: the total destruction of the Earthly…
In cars, trains, buses and tube, the one topic of conversation was the black sky and mysterious disappearance of dust. It was remarkable, too, how incredibly well washed and neat…
John Russell Fearn,E C Tubb
In the tradition of the Ace Doubles (flip one book over to read the other side), here’s the twenty-ninth Wildside Double: MANTON’S WORLD: A CLASSIC SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL, by John…
E C Tubb,John Russell Fearn
In the tradition of the old Ace Doubles (flip one side over to read the second book), here’s the twenty-sixth Wildside Double: STAR HAVEN: A SCIENCE FICTION TALE, by E…