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i need to know a science fiction book for 6th grader or fantasy so HELP!! i need it to do a book report so pleaz HELP
Susan Cooper’s “The Dark Is Rising” series are all great books. They are about a family of children, their uncle, and Will Stanton, a neighbor’s child. The second book in the series (enjoyable even if you skip the first) is also a Newbery Honor Book and a Carnegie Medal Honor Book. There is also some discussion about whether J.K. Rowling used some of the ideas in this book when she wrote Harry Potter.
A quick description of the second book (titled “The Dark is Rising”) from Amazon: On his eleventh birthday, Will Stanton discovers he is the last of the Old Ones, dedicated to fighting the forces of evil. Will searches for the six magical signs that will be needed for the battle between the Dark and the Light.
Amazon has a young reader’s fantasy and adventure section. There are a lot of good books on the list, including Half Magic, Magic Tree House books (if you prefer something extra short), the Narnia series, A Wrinkle in Time, etc.
If you prefer science fiction to fantasy, Robert Heinlein wrote a great young adult series. Have Space Suit –Will Travel is probably the easiest to find, but all of the stories are good.
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Vortex Modern Wall Decor Ultra Modern Abstract Metal Art by: Jon Allen $275.00 This hyper space metallic composition emanates from the center of an epiphany. This piece has a depth of dimension that suggests growth or expansion. The lumen-dynamics of Jon Allen Metal Art are created by the brushed and polished textures that move with its observer. Interest and curiosity are drawn by the crested Highlights magnified under direct illumination. This work is very easy to hang wit… |
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John Stephens (Genesis II) Art Poster Print – 16×20 $5.22 John Stephens (Genesis II) Art Poster Print – 16×20… |
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Repo! The Genetic Opera $6.99 Likening Repo! The Genetic Opera to its predecessors, Little Shop of Horrors and Rocky Horror Picture Show, conveys this film’s high camp and operatic bursts of song, but does little to describe how absolutely bizarre Repo! is. Like Rocky Horror, Repo! was written for stage performance by Darren Smith and Terrance Zdunich, who stars as a Graverobber, dolled up in vampiric makeup to resemble… |
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Labyrinth [Blu-ray] $12.97 Sarah (a teenage Jennifer Connelly) rehearses the role of a fairy-tale queen, performing for her stuffed animals. She is about to discover that the time has come to leave her childhood behind. In real life she has to baby-sit her brother and contend with parents who don’t understand her at all. Her petulance leads her to call the goblins to take the baby away, but when they actually do, she realiz… |
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Repo! The Genetic Opera [Blu-ray] $12.98 Likening Repo! The Genetic Opera to its predecessors, Little Shop of Horrors and Rocky Horror Picture Show, conveys this film’s high camp and operatic bursts of song, but does little to describe how absolutely bizarre Repo! is. Like Rocky Horror, Repo! was written for stage performance by Darren Smith and Terrance Zdunich, who stars as a Graverobber, dolled up in vampiric makeup to resemble… |
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Farscape – Season 4, Collection 1 $2.05 In its fourth season, Farscape is as much dramatic and romantic fun as it’s ever been and it’s even more stylish than ever before. A pity, then, that this season is also the show’s last, following its abrupt cancellation by the Sci-Fi Channel. If at times the tone seems a little lighter here than in its gloriously doom-laden predecessor, that is because its story arc is the first half of what was … |
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Hot Tub Time Machine (Unrated) [Blu-ray] $17.25 Hot Tub Time Machine hits the bull’s-eye: it’s a rude, crude comedy with enough smarts and emotional sweetness to make it completely entertaining. Seeking to bring some youthful optimism back to their failed, miserable lives, three middle-aged guys–Adam (John Cusack), Nick (Craig Robinson), and Lou (Rob Corddry)–go to a mountain resort where they spent some of their wildest days (reluctantly dra… |
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2001: A Space Odyssey [Blu-ray] $8.37 When a monolith is found on the moon, astronauts equipped with a superintelligent computer attempt to find its origins…. |
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Max Headroom: The Complete Series $30.83 “Able to boast his own international talk show, music videos, countless endorsements and merchandising, the puckish Max Headroom became more than just… |
Sturgeon, Theodore
Sturgeon’s Law
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IT by Theodore Sturgeon (Plus Other Stories HC No DJ) - $5.99 |
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Theodore Sturgeon/ THUNDER AND ROSES (1957, 1st Ed.) $39.97 |
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Sturgeon, Theodore VENUS PLUS X (1968) NEAR MINT vintge $5.99 |
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The Dreaming Jewels-Theodore Sturgeon *Science Fiction* $1.99 |
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EASTON PRESS..More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon $24.99 |
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The Dreaming Jewels by Theodore Sturgeon $4.31 |
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F & SF Aug 1956 – Theodore Sturgeon, Mack Reynolds $9.95 |
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Twisted, Ray Bradbury & Theodore Sturgeon, Good Book $2.75 |
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THE WORLDS OF THEODORE STURGEON-collection of 9 stories $4.95 |
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signed, Venus Plus X by Theodore Sturgeon, Gregg $80.00 |
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Sturgeon is Alive and Well… by Theodore Sturgeon HC $10.00 |
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THRILLING WONDER 2/49 RAY BRADBURY THEODORE STURGEON $9.50 |
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THEODORE STURGEON – Aliens 4 – 1959 – 4 stories $4.95 |
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Without Sorcery by Theodore Sturgeon HC DJ 1st $45.00 |
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NEW To Marry Medusa – Sturgeon, Theodore 9780375703720 $10.37 |
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A Touch of Strange by Theodore Sturgeon (1978) $3.00 |
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NEW Venus Plus X – Sturgeon, Theodore 9780375703744 $10.37 |
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Starshine by Theodore Sturgeon (1972) $5.00 |
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Sturgeon in Orbit by Theodore Sturgeon (1978) $3.00 |
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COMPLETE STORIES THEODORE STURGEON VOLS 1 – 9 1ST HC DJ $499.95 |
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Starshine by Theodore Sturgeon (1977) $3.00 |
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SUPERNATURAL THRILLERS #1 VG- (THEODORE STURGEON)MARVEL $3.99 |
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X Minus One Old Time Radio This unique old time radio CD collectible features 3 digitized reels of classic X Minus One radio broadcasts and over 72 Minutes of total running time on 1 CD. Episodes included are; No Contact, Nightfall, Zero Hour. Take a journey back through radio broadcasting history with this large audio library of OTR memorabilia. The golden age of old time radio has been rescued, digitized, and packaged int… |
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The Fabulous Idiot (read by Theodore Sturgeon) Theodore Sturgeon reads from his More Than Human; Picture of author on back. Colour charcoal illustration on front…. |
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The Theodore Sturgeon Audioplays: Mr. Costello, Hero / The Stars Are the Styx $14.99 Theodore Sturgeon was an American science fiction author. He sold his first story in 1938 to the newspaper McClure’s Syndicate, which bought much of his early work; his first genre appearance was “Ether Breather” in Astounding Science Fiction a year later. Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, his stories appeared in genre science fiction magazines as well as general-interest publications such as Argosy… |
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Star Trek – The Original Series, Episode 34: Amok Time [VHS] $4.00 Easily one of the best episodes from the original Star Trek series, “Amok Time” was written by the novelist Theodore Sturgeon, who came up with a story about a Vulcan mating cycle that occurs every seven years and drives the normally stolid, logical, pointy-eared humanoids wild. When Spock (Leonard Nimoy) is suddenly caught in the grip of pon farr, a crazy-making urge to mate, he sets a cours… |
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Star Trek – The Original Series, Episode 17: Shore Leave [VHS] $9.00 “Shore Leave” was written by a literary giant in science fiction, Theodore Sturgeon. The story concerns a break in the action for the Enterprise crew, nearly all of whom beam down to the surface of an Eden-like planet for shore leave, where they find that everyone’s wish comes true. Individuals from crew members’ pasts turn up, fantasies of romance or heroism are instantly realized–and if it all … |
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Dimension X: The Complete Old Time Radio Series [Audio DVD] $1.99 Finally, you may now experience the awe and wonder of science fiction’s finest Theater of the Imagination! Here are all 48 episodes of the classic science fiction series, “Dimension X” . . . digitally remastered into DVD Audio! Thrill to exciting stories by such sci-fi masters as Ray Bradbury, Robert A. Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick, Theodore Sturgeon, and many others.These are among the … |
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Case and the Dreamer: Volume XIII: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon $23.10 James Blish called him the “finest conscious artist science fiction ever produced.” Kurt Vonnegut based the famous character Kilgore Trout on him. And such luminaries as Harlan Ellison, Stephen King, and Octavia Butler have hailed him as a mentor. Theodore Sturgeon was both a popular favorite and a writer’s writer, carving out a singular place in the literary landscape based on h… |
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More Than Human $7.95 First published in 1953, this most celebrated of Sturgeon’s works won the International Fantasy Award, as has been touted as “a masterpiece of provocative storytelling” (The Herald Tribune). A group of remarkable social outcasts band together for survival and discover their combined powers renders them superhuman…. |
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The Perfect Host $2.49 A boy witnesses a horrible tragedy as a mad woman jumps from a hospital window and vanishes. The boy, his father, and a nurse will never be the same. For something has changed in each of them. A secret that was hiding in a mad woman, but is now loose. A dark fantasy classic about possession, desire and death. … |
Le Guin, Ursula K.
Sometimes the world that we live in can be discouraging. In fact, if you let it beat you down it can be a little depressing. Without constantly renewing your mind, it can get the best of you. How does one stay upbeat and positive in the midst of a negative world? Using inspirational quotes can help uplift even the most negative situation.
A good inspirational quote can spur your mind on toward greater achievement. In fact it can inspire you to do wonderful things with your life. Without something to guide us, we will often-times feel lost.
Inspirational quotes are usually by wise people who have accomplished a lot in their life. These quotes give us the inspiration to try and accomplish as much with our life. Here is a great quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson. “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
What does this mean exactly? In my opinion it means that we should not follow the crowd. The easy way is to float through life meaninglessly. Most of us just kind of go with the flow and end up wherever the masses do. However, a select flew go in the opposite direction of the masses and achieve greatness.
This brings to mind another quote by Emerson, “The mass of men worry themselves into nameless graves while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality.” This quote inspires me to move forward into greatness. We should always put the other person first. Never worry about what other people think or about the outside world. Focus only on the goal and you will be remembered in a great way.
Sometimes we get caught up in the rat race and forget to stop and smell the roses. We have to take time to enjoy the world that we’re in before it’s too late. This inspirational quote by Ursula Le Guin sums it up beautifully. “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” We can’t take life to seriously…we’ll never get out alive.
Many of us go through life timidly. We’re afraid to bother someone or what others might think. Our mental boundaries keep us shackled into a limited existence. Through the use of inspirational quotes, we can break free from the bonds of the masses.
If we surround ourselves with beautiful inspirational quotes like the ones above, we can’t help but have a better attitude. Equipped with a better attitude, you’ll feel like you’re ready to take on the world. If you have this attitude for a prolonged period of time, things will start to happen for you in a big way.
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Ursula K. Le Guin – Reading from her new novel, LAVINIA
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STEERING THE CRAFT – by Ursula K. Le Guin (1998, PB) $17.99 |
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Steering the Craft by Ursula K. Le Guin (1998, Paper… $10.00 |
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Jane on Her Own NEW by Ursula K. Le Guin $6.39 |
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THE DISPOSSESSED, Ursula K. Le Guin, 1974 HC/DJ BCE $4.00 |
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ALWAYS COMING HOME- URSULA K. LE GUIN First Pbck Ed $3.50 |
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A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin, Hebrew $48.00 |
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LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS Ursula K Le Guin UNREAD HC/DJ $19.95 |
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Tales from Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin (2001) Signed $99.00 |
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GOOD Always Coming Home by Ursula K. Le Guin (1985) PB $1.49 |
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Blue Moon over Thurman Street by Ursula K. Le Guin $10.95 |
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Myth and Archetype i, Ursula K. Le Guin, Very Good Book $97.52 |
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The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin (2001) $4.00 |
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Catwings by Ursula K. Le Guin $12.95 |
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Unlocking the Air: Stories, Ursula K. Le Guin, Good Boo $4.99 |
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The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin, Good Book $4.99 |
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Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin BCE HC/DJ (1974) $5.00 |
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Armer: Uses of Music in Uttermost Parts / Falletta (2 CDs) $31.98 … |
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The Lathe of Heaven [VHS] $24.95 “Antwerp!” For science fiction fans, the long-awaited VHS and DVD release of The Lathe of Heaven is a dream come true. This haunting adaptation of Ursula K. Le Guin’s genre-classic novel was broadcast but once on PBS in 1980 before rights and other legal snafus relegated it to the archives. Reportedly PBS’s most requested program, the made-for-TV film was at last rebroadcast in 2000. Set in Portla… |
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Lathe of Heaven [VHS] $1.99 For Ursula Le Guin’s devoted following, the 2002 remake of the 1980 film based on her novel may not be the stuff dreams are made of. This new adaptation omits some of the original’s most memorable developments (the racially equalized “grays” and the alien invasion). Lucas Haas stars as George Orr, a “little lost boy” haunted by his dreams, which, he claims, alter the present unbeknownst to anyone … |
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Earthsea $6.87 Originally broadcast as Legend of Earthsea in December 2004, the Sci-Fi Channel’s four-hour miniseries of Earthsea rides the coattails of the Lord of the Rings trilogy with its quest-driven story of humble blacksmith Ged (Shawn Ashmore), a wizard-to-be who is mentored by the magical Ogion (Danny Glover) as he seeks to preserve the realm of Earthsea from the evil King Tygath (Sebastian Roché). Ged… |
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Lathe of Heaven $2.00 For Ursula Le Guin’s devoted following, the 2002 remake of the 1980 film based on her novel may not be the stuff dreams are made of. This new adaptation omits some of the original’s most memorable developments (the racially equalized “grays” and the alien invasion). Lucas Haas stars as George Orr, a “little lost boy” haunted by his dreams, which, he claims, alter the present unbeknownst to anyone … |
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The Left Hand of Darkness $8.00 Genly Ai is an emissary from the human galaxy to Winter, a lost, stray world. His mission is to bring the planet back into the fold of an evolving galactic civilization, but to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own culture and prejudices and those that he encounters. On a planet where people are of no gender–or both–this is a broad gulf indeed. The inventiveness and delicacy with wh… |
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A Wizard of Earthsea (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 1) $5.62 Often compared to Tolkien’s Middle-earth or Lewis’s Narnia, Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea is a stunning fantasy world that grabs quickly at our hearts, pulling us deeply into its imaginary realms. Four books (A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, and Tehanu) tell the whole Earthsea cycle–a tale about a reckless, awkward boy named Sparrowhawk who becomes a wizard’s ap… |
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The Dispossessed $4.21 Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. he will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred that have isolated his planet of anarchists from the rest of the civilized universe. To do this dangerous task will mean giving up his family and possibly his life. Shevek must make the unprecedented journey to the utopian mother planet, Anarres, to… |
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In recent years, science fiction movies have made a big comeback in Hollywood and I, for one, consider that a very good thing.
I like to be surprised when I go to the movies. I like to see things that I’ve never seen before and I like to be confronted by virtual realities that I did not even think possible. That’s why science fiction movies are my cup of tea.
They traditionally cover a wide range of subjects and themes, including several that are uniquely their own. Today’s trend in science fiction puts a premium on special effects, backed by today’s cutting-edge technology that can make even the most bizarre scenes seem realistic, such as alien life forms, spectacular battles in outer space, time travel or traveling to other worlds at the speed of light.
Often, science fiction films are purely speculative in nature and are peppered with recurring themes involving science and technology. Other prevalent themes in sci-fi movies are mysticism, magic, the occult and the supernatural, which are also key elements of fantasy or occult/religious movies. In fact, quite a number of films blur the line between these genre, such as Forbidden Planet, Chronicles of Riddick, and the Star Wars series.
It’s hard to define precisely what makes a science fiction film because the genre has no universally accepted definition. In fact, science fiction may vary from viewer to viewer in that what is sci-fi to me may be fantasy or horror to you.
If you’ve been a long-time fan of Hollywood, then you know that science fiction has come a long way. There was a time when special effects meant putting a toy spaceship at the end of a string and waving it in front of a camera or having someone dress up as an orangutan and terrorizing an entire city. Certainly, the special effects in science fiction movies have evolved from the downright laughable to today’s breath-taking and awe-inspiring treatments that seem truly realistic. Some of the great milestones in this regard are marked by films such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, the Star Wars films, Star Trek: The Motion Picture and The Matrix.
Of course, science fiction films just seem to be getting better by the year, as evidenced by such recent hits as “Lord of the Rings”, “I, Robot” and “Superman Returns.”
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Alien Autopsy: Fact Or Fiction [VHS] $2.69 … |
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Alien Autopsy: Fact or Fiction? [VHS] $2.22 … |
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According to Occam’s Razor $3.99 Director Philippe Mora has one of the most unusual careers in the history of cinema, ranging from critically praised documentaries on the 1930s to schlock horror like Howling III: The Marsupials to the respectful movie made from Whitley Strieber’s book about alien abduction, Communion. But According to Occam’s Razor has to be the oddest of the lot. It’s part home movie, part wide-eyed speculation … |
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Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet DVD (1965) – A Pulp Science Fiction Adventure Starring Basil Rathbone and Faith Domergue. $4.99 Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet is a space traveling, alien world exploring escapade full of creepy creatures and (now vintage) futuristic technology. A captivating picture, this is full blown sixties sci fi at its “far out” best. The sexy Faith Domergue, originally discovered by Howard Hughes, costars along with Basil Rathbone as scientists on their way to Venus. When they arrive, however, they … |
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Black Man’s Burden (with linked TOC) $0.99 Black Man’s Burden appeared in the December 1961 and January 1962 issues of Analog Science Fact & Fiction.The turmoil in Africa is only beginning—and it must grow worse before it’s better. Not until the people of Africa know they are Africans—not warring tribesmen—will there be peace……. |
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Encounter on the Moon: Fact… or Fiction? (Classified) $0.01 Chronicles the Apollo 11 mission which culminated in America’s first moon landing and investigates the possibility that the United States government covered up reports by the astronauts of a UFO sighting…. |
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Next Door, Next World $0.99 Next Door, Next World appeared in the April 1961 issue of Analog Science Fact and Science Fiction.Almost any phenomenon can be used—or act—for good or ill. Mutation usually brings ill—but it also brings greatness. Change can go any direction…. |