Bøger af Philip Harbottle

This new collection by E.C. Tubb, a past master of science fiction, presents five classics of the genre: Secret Weapon - The secret military installation on the moon, with its missile capability to strike at aggressors on Earth, was a Sword of Damocles keeping world peace. But there was another secret weapon ranged against it...Forbidden Fruit - The Venusian fruits contained an element which altered the human metabolism so that it became indispensable. Once the fruit was eaten a man could never return to Earth. Yet to pay for the expensive imported Earth food was to walk into an economic mantrap...Third Party - Two warring alien races fight another chapter of their interstellar struggle operating incognito on the Earth...The Give-Away Worlds - The problem wasn't to find new planets. It was to find people to settle on them-and stay alive!The Seekers - It was a strange thing they found on the surface of the uninhabited planet: an artefact that granted anyone who beheld the realization their innermost desires...

Collected for the very first time are five long-lost vintage science fiction stories by a master of the genre.THE TROUBLEMAKERCurt Gregson is a Martian colonist who has saved for 10 years to raise his fare back to Earth. But when he breaks his leg in an accident he misses his flight and is denied a refund. Medical bills plunge him into debt, at a crippling rate of interest. Bankrupt, he is caught in an economic trap working for the corporations which import essential materials from Earth. Embittered, he embarks on a fight to break the power of the corporations...but is the trap worse than what lies outside?PERACA spaceship doctor is about to retire and return to Earth with his fiancée who has completed her teaching contract on a colonized planet. Whilst still in space, she contracts Perac, a rare and fatal incurable disease. The rules for dealing with cases of Perac are harsh and inviolable: total isolation and immediate destruction of the affected person and their body ejected into space...CONFESSIONALIt was a beautifully simple form of religion-the planet's natives simply projected all their evil thoughts and their Leader fought the tangible evidence conjured up. But-add a party of Earth tourists ...GIGOLOAll the off-world colonists wanted was to get back home to Mother Earth. The yearning and nostalgia became so intense that it almost developed into a national neurosis. Or so it seemed ...UNWANTED HERITAGEThe tiny garrison on Venus had two objectives in view-survival and conquest. If they could survive the alien environment for five years, Earth would send colonists-but the Venusians had other ideas about conquest ...

CLIMATE INCORPORATED tells an engrossing story of the worldwide repercussions when the secret of climatic control is misused by ruthless men. JOHN RUSSELL FEARN'S powerful science fiction novel is supported by another sparkling selection of brand new stories of fantasy and the supernatural by favourite authors, including:BRIAN BALL, SYDNEY J. BOUNDS, JOHN GLASBYPlus other classic stories by FREDERICK H. CHRISTIAN and E. C. TUBBAnother not-to-be-missed Cosmos Books paperback original!