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John Russell Fearn
The human-occupied planets in the Solar System, Earth and Mars, are suddenly threatened with a space-borne plague that rusts and destroys all metals. If the disease continues unchecked, all of…
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Betty Shapley was a local beauty, for whose charms three young men fell heavily. But she never expected that her coquetry would lead to the sudden and horrifyingly brutal death…
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…
Baffling robberies from locked rooms, cunning crimes and mysterious murders…these were all part of the stock-in-trade of Miss Victoria Lincoln, private detective. Called in to investigate the case of the…
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…
When financier Emerson Drew’s hired killer pushes scientist-inventor Rajek Quinton down an abandoned mineshaft, Drew and his conspirators believe that the way’s clear to exploit Quinton’s amazing new invention, which…
When Milly Morton, confidential secretary to industrialist Mortimer Bland, deliberately smashes several astronomical plates created by Anton Drew, she does more than express her pique against Bland’s Chief Scientist. She…
When rising young artist Clive Hexley, R.A., vanishes, his friends suspect foul play. Chief-Inspector Calthorp of Scotland Yard is called upon to look into the disappearance, and his investigations lead…
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…
When Ralph Black, chain store magnate, is found shot by his own gun in his locked library in his palatial home, the New York Police Department pronounces it suicide. However…
Harry Perrivale’s expedition into the African jungle is destined to be singularly ill-fated. Accompanied by native bearers, his wife Rita, and trader Caleb Moon, he hopes to find the legendary…
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…
Something is wrong in England. In and around the London area, people are suddenly becoming bad-tempered, with a rapid increase in crime and murder, and a clear decline in self-respect…
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…
The Dictator of Earth and his retinue have been banished into deep space on a 1,000-year voyage of no return to Alpha Centauri. The spacecraft has been completely automated to…
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,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…
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…
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…
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…
