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Fall 1979, final issue. Cover art by Stephen Fabian illustrating Hellhole by David Gerrold. Also: The Things That Are Gods [Traveler in Black] by John Brunner; The Starshow: John O'Hara's Last Show on Earth and Follow the Red Wagons [Circus World] by Barry B. Longyear; The Jaren by Barry B. Longyear [as by Frederick Longbeard]; Where Do You Get Your Ideas? by Barry B. Longyear [as by Mark Ringdalh]; The Boom in Science Fiction (essay) by Isaac Asimov; Media Reviews: Under the Rainbow: Science Fiction in Hollywood by Craig Miller. Interior art George Barr, Fabian, Jack Gaughan. NOTE - all copies have a few pages affected by minor printer's flaws (pages 32 and 37 slightly blurred, ink blot on page 75). ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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The barrenland lay on the face of the world like a sore, nearly round, more than three hundred miles in circumference. It had been there so long that it was endured, as were the twisted monsters that wandered out of the barrenland and killed.Conrad, living on the dge, had visions of a time when the barrenland was a rich region full of powerful, magical people- people who travelled to other worlds. He was ruled by a burning need to know what none could tell him: the explanation of the mysterious visions that had plagued him all his life.Then he met Jervis Yanderman, a soldier who knew of these visions. Yanderman was convinced there was an island in the barrenland where people still clung to life... ... Read more

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A pleasant way to spend an evening
On the face of the Earth only the Barrenland remained an impenetrable mystery...a blasted radioactive area the size of a small state where no man dared to venture.But Jervis Yanderman was one of the more courageous souls of that future day when men at last were starting to reconstruct the vanished civilization of the dim past.Jervis knew that the secret of the Barrenland had to be solved, for THINGS from out of this world still emerged from it to terrorize neighboring lands.Living within the Barrenland, a desperate group of humans is trying to survive and to solve the mystery of an insane computer mind. ... Read more

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Rather thin
Testing their newly developed teleportation technology, Dr. Justin Cruz and his team discover that their test subjects are being shifted into parallel universes whose difference from the universe of origin increases in proportion to the distance the subject has been sent.Not a bad idea for a novel, but John Brunner fails to develop his theme adequately in this thin volume.Brunner's forte is really more toward the societal aspects of speculative fiction rather than technological extrapolation, yet he depends too much on almost mystical computers and technobabble regarding "transfinite numbers" to achieve his effect.The device of subtly different alternate universes could have been exploited in far more interesting ways. ... Read more

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Brunner returns to his old favorite theme of a single ugly, gross alien invading Earth: ~ ~~ ~ The thing staggered ashore in the lifeless body of a pilot and put a real damper on an acid rock show. Then it took over the body of nice, reclusive old Miss Beeding and turned her into something too bizarre for words. And moved on, eating its way into the hearts and minds and bodies of an entire seacoast town. And after that . . . ... Read more