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Lester del Rey


…And Some Were Human

Lester del Rey

A collection of short stories by Lester del Rey.

Table of Contents:

  • Hereafter, Inc
  • The Day is Done
  • Forsaking All Others
  • The Coppersmith
  • The Luck of Ignatz
  • The Faithful
  • Dark Mission
  • Helen O'Loy
  • The Stars Look Down
  • The Renegade
  • The Wings of Night
  • Nerves

Day of the Giants

Lester del Rey

Expansion of "When the World Tottered"

Leif Svensen's neighbor, come to warn him that the farmers were going to take violent action against his dog for killing their livestock, mentioned that he'd seen an angel the night before. "Big blonde woman on a white horse, singing loud enough to raise the dead, about a hundred feet up in the air."

Then, on his way to find his madcap twin, Leif met a stranger who knew his name and who spoke of "the Fimbulwinter already upon us." Fimbulwinter! The dreadful winter that in Norse mythology preceded Ragnarok -- the final war between the gods and the giants! Fimbulwinter -- which presaged the Day of the Giants!

Leif Svensen and his brother were caught up in the destinies of a real but alien world. For if the giants triumphed, they would overrun Earth; and if the Aesir -- the gods -- won, Earth would be their footstool!

Nerves

Lester del Rey

Nerves is a science fiction novella by Lester del Rey, first published in Astounding Science-Fiction, September 1942. It was subsequently expanded into a novel of the same name in 1956. The story deals with a meltdown at a nuclear power plant.

Nominated in 2018 for the 1943 Retro Hugo Award. It has been reprinted many times and can be found in the anthologies Adventures in Time and Space (1943), edited by Raymond J. Healy and J. Francis McComas, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two A (1973), edited by Ben Bova, and The Great Science Fiction Stories Volume 4, 1942 (1980), edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg, as well as the collection ...And Some Were Human (1948).

Nerves

Lester del Rey

The novel is an expansion of a novella of the same name which was first published in 1942.

Nerves is Lester del Rey's frightening novel of a nuclear reactor breakdown in which Three-Mile Island and Chernobyl were scarily and accurately predicted. Del Rey was an important science fiction publisher and an SFFWA Grand Master but none of his work had greater impact than this early novel.

Outpost of Jupiter

Lester del Rey

A Plague on Ganymede. When his father's sudden illness stranded the Wilsons in the tiny human colony on Jupiter's moon, Bob gave up his plans for college and joined the colonists in their struggle against he brutal environment of Ganymede.

The challenges, the comradeship he found, and the awe-inspiring spectacle of Jupiter filling the sky--all exhilarated Bob far beyond his expectations. So did his investigation of the major mystery behind the strange globe that was hidden out in the hills and that seemed to be trying to communicate with the colony.

Before he could find the answer, a plauge struck and crippled the colony. Then enraged and fearful colonists accused Bob of being the carrier!

Preferred Risk

Frederik Pohl
Lester del Rey

The Company was a powerful, efficient, and monstrous insurance organization that controlled the entire world, scientifically regulating everything in life: war, epidemics, one-a-day food pills and test-tube sex...all through the use of its patented, terrifying human deep-freeze vault.

Claims Adjuster Wills, a great believer in the Company, begins to have second thoughts when he meets beautiful and sorrowful Rena, whose radical father lies in a frozen subterranean vault.

Pstalemate

Lester del Rey

Harry Bronson seemed an ordinary enough young man, a clever engineer with an inventive turn of mind and a passionate distaste for the claptrap of extrasensory perception and psychic phenomena of all kinds. But there were oddities in his background, chief among them the fact that he remembered not a thing of his life before the age of ten. And also, that he was loaded for bear with psi powers.

For Harry, as he was horrified to learn, was a natural telepath, a clairvoyant, and a master of precognition of astonishing powers. He was not alone, for it seemed that New York harbored a fair number of telepaths of varying degrees of ability. And like all telepaths, Harry was surely going mad.

How Harry came to understand his powers and the limitations they imposed on him, how he laboriously traced his antecedents (and found his mother in an asylum, his father practicing as a quack), how he sought to avoid instanity, the inevitable fate of the adult telepath, and how he found help from an unexpected and wholly alien source make up a story more tense, more real, and more dramatic than any book in the field since The Andromeda Strain.

The Eleventh Commandment

Lester del Rey

The Catholic Church controls the state and promotes re-population of a post-apocalyptic earth.

The World of Science Fiction: 1926-1976: The History of a Subculture

Lester del Rey

The important role Sci-Fi has played in defining modern life is explored in this work edited by a true insider.

Contents include:

  • What Science Fiction Is
  • The Beginnings of Science Fiction
  • The Rise of the Pulps
  • The Third Source
  • The Age of Wonder 1926-37
  • Magazines of Hugo Gernsback
  • Dawn of Astounding
  • The Crucial Years
  • The Active Fan
  • The Shaping of the Future
  • The Golden Age 1938-49
  • Campbell's Astounding
  • War and the Bomb
  • Proliferation of Magazines
  • Science Fiction in Books
  • Growth of Fandom
  • Reshaping the Future
  • The Age of Acceptsance 1950-61
  • The Quest for Magic
  • The Big Boom
  • And the Collapse
  • The Magazine Business
  • Wider Horizons
  • FIAWOL ir FIJAGH?
  • Watershed
  • The Age of Rebellion 1962-73
  • Survivors
  • The Torch Passes
  • Rebellion
  • The New Wave and Art
  • Enter: Academe
  • The Big Con Game
  • The Fifth Age 1974-
  • Parrallels and Perspectives
  • Fantasy, Buck Rogers and Mr. Spock
  • Glossary
  • Themes and Variations
  • Utopias and Dystopias
  • But What Good Is It?
  • Mene, Mene, Tekel
  • After "Star Wars"
  • Index

Weeping May Tarry

Raymond F. Jones
Lester del Rey

The landing was unlike any they had ever made. But then they had never before seen a planet so strange as this one - with its wild seas, scarred plains, and rubbled cities. It looked as if it had been totally devastated by some type of nuclear destruction. And they were most curious - these aliens with their green-scaled faces and stubby tails - to explore this peculiar place where man had once existed - until their ship exploded and they were stranded with no means of survival and no hope of rescue. Unless their high priest - Ama of the Keelong - prayed to the higher power they had rebelled against. For this was a spiritual mission - and the Alcoran had lost their way.

Attack from Atlantis

Lester del Rey

Teen-aged Don Miller felt lucky to be one of the few aboard the atomic-powered submarine, the TRITON, on its first official depth test run. Even when the ship began to falter and the diving planes jammed, neither he nor the rest of the crew realized they were fighting a losing battle against an unknown enemy. Quick repairs and a frantic attempt to surface brought renewed hope to the crew until they spotted strange-looking "bubble men" lashing through the water on creatures supposed to have been extinct millions of years before. All efforts to fight off the sea men failed, and the crew of the crippled TRITON had no alternative but to let their captives drag them toward the giant "bubble city" resting on the ocean floor.

Lester del Rey has written here an intriguing tale of an outcast race that had migrated into the sea with a secret power that shut out the sea waters. As prisoners of a superstitious and frightened people, Don and the others frantically plotted their escape from "a city of no return." How Don finally turns the Atlanteans' weakness into a weapon and nearly wrecks the city with fear fills this story with breathless suspense.

Early Del Rey

Lester del Rey

Twenty four stories previously uncollected. An original publication of the Science Fiction Book Club.

This collection contains:

  • The Faithful
  • Cross of Fire
  • Anything; Habit
  • The Smallest God
  • The Stars Look Down
  • Doubled in Brass
  • Reincarnate
  • Carillon of Skulls
  • Done Without Eagles
  • My Name Is Legion
  • Though Poppies Grow
  • Lunar Landing
  • Fifth Freedom
  • Whom the Gods Love
  • Though Dreamers Die
  • Fool's Errand
  • The One Eyed Man
  • And the Darkness
  • Shadows of Empire
  • Unreasonable Facsimile
  • Conditioned Reflex
  • Over the Top
  • Wind Between the Worlds

Marooned on Mars

Lester del Rey

Determined to be on the first rocket flight form the moon to Mars, stowaway Chuck Svensen endangers the experiment by hiding on board the Eros. His worst fears are realized when he discovers that his presence means less food and fuel for the rest of the crew. And when the Eros crash-lands on the strange Red Planet, Chuck takes it upon himself to bring the ship safely back to the moon. From his first encounter with the menacing rodent-like Marian creatures, to the startling climax in the weird catacombs of a ruined civilization, here is science-fiction at its bizarre best.

Mission to the Moon

Lester del Rey

Jim Stanley, who had helped to build the first space station, was thrilled to return to it as a member of the crew selected to erect the ships which would fulfil Man's age-long dream to reach the Moon. A total effort was being made to surpass the progress achieved in outer space by an enemy Combine. It was believed that if this foreign group scored the initial landing and gained control of the cold planet, the world would be threatened.

The desperate effort to forge ahead of the Combine suddenly turns into a race against death when a young, space-happy boy takes off alone for the Moon in an adequate ship. Although hampered by accidents, false rumors, and conflicts on Earth below, the crew works with frantic haste and grim determination to get the ships underway and to the boy in time. Jim Stanley, as mechanic and pilot, contributes a major share in the task of construction and on the tense rescue journey.

Here is a gripping account of pioneers in space by one of science fiction's best known and most skilful writers. Jim Stanley's adventures on the first flight to the Moon make a lusty and exciting tale for all who love to envision Man's ultimate conquest of space.

Moon of Mutiny

Lester del Rey

Set in the early days of the moon's colonization, this is the exciting story of Fred Halpern's efforts to prove himself worthy of the title Spaceman. Fred, a first-rate but impetuous pilot, was washed out of the Goddard Space Academy for disobeying orders. But he is lucky enough to get one more chance at a career in space when he is asked to join the third expedition to the moon. With the group of explorers, Fred makes his way across the dangerous and desolate lunar terrain, territory which has never been charted before. The men, determined to find some form of life on the moon, are hampered at every turn by breakdowns and bad luck.

Oddly enough, the accidents only seem to happen when Fred is around, and finally the resentful members of the expedition sign a petition requesting he be dismissed. The story reaches a harrowing climax when a spaceship mysteriously crashes, and Fred is driven to mutiny in an effort to save the crew.

Rockets Through Space

Lester del Rey

Rockets Through Space is a juvenile science fact book, published first in 1957 as a companion to the Winston Science Fiction series. Of course, at the time of its publication, no one had yet been into space and even the first satellite launch was still in the future. But the Space Age was coming and this book was one of those that explained what that meant to the young people of the time. Here's how it was described then:

"We are on the threshold of Space. Very soon - perhaps before this book appears - the first man-made satellites will be launched by rockets into outer space and will begin to circle the Earth. What we learn from the instruments in these tiny spheres will help us to take the next important steps in our efforts to explore the Moon and, later, the far reaches of the Universe.

"In this absorbing book, Mr. del Rey explains why the idea of penetrating the great void of Space is no longer a wild dream. Rockets Through Space is not a science-fiction book. It is science fact. Here you will read what we already know about the realms beyond Earth's atmosphere. You will examine the inside of a future rocketship. You will learn the principles of jet propulsion; how men will live where there is no gravity; what dangers will be faced by the first daring pioneers in Space.

"As far as human ingenuity can determine, every detail will be worked out in advance. Very little will be left to chance. Yet, as in all ventures into the unknown, experience alone can give us the final answers.

"Rockets Through Space gives every known answer to the questions young people ask about space travel. At the same time, it offers fascinating speculation, including the best theories proposed by scientists, about those questions which will only be answered when men are actually out there.

Siege Perilous

Lester del Rey

PRTSAC: Permanent Resident Through a Special Act of Congress. A set of initials, a title unique in history... a human being. The most homesick human being in history. Fred Hunter was the permanent resident of the space station... because a hideous accident had rendered him physically incapable of returning to Earth... For ten years he stayed sane, while space gnawed at the minds of others. Then came the invaders, the strange beings who seemed to be not men, not beasts, not machines. Fred Hunter knew he must face them alone... and what could one crippled man do against their might?

Step to the Stars

Lester del Rey

"Only a decade away!" Yes, according to the well-known author of STEP TO THE STARS, this remarkable age that has produced rocket ships, guided missiles and hydrogen bombs will have a space station circling the Earth within the next ten years. World domination will be in the hands of the country that constructs it, and man will know, once and for all, whether he is free or slave.

Such thoughts were far from Jim Stanley's mind when he was investigated by the FBI and later subjected to strange and rigorous tests. It wasn't until he satisfied the stiff requirements that he learned the United States was in the space station race for keeps and that he could count himself among the handful of men destined to breach the barriers of space in operation "Big Shush."

Fascinating details of the construction and operation of the station are part and parcel of this tense and dramatic story. Treacherous sabotage by a dangerous foreign spy; Jim's almost fatal fall into the "empty, hungry depths of space"; and a savage fire which threatened the existence of the station add to the rising tide of excitement. Tying these explosive events together is a narrative that skillfully portrays the reaction of men to new and staggering experiences.

The Best of Lester del Rey

Lester del Rey

The Pyrotechnics of Lester del Rey

SF's most protean personality--writer, editor, critic, publisher--sets off an incomparable fireworks display in these tales of robots and humans, animals and aliens, ghosts and gods, science and the supernatural...

  • HELEN O'LOY
    If you want an ideal mate, build her!
  • HEREAFTER, INC.
    This is Heaven? The hell it is!
  • LITTLE JIMMY
    The invisible kid was a ghost for sure. But whose?
  • INSTINCT
    The robots labored to re-create the extinct human species--but there was one element they somehow left out.
  • FOR I AM A JEALOUS PEOPLE
    "In God We Trust" is a great motto--until you find you can't.

And much more!

The Mysterious Planet

Lester del Rey

When a planet, moving faster than Earth, entered the Solar System out beyond Pluto, the reporters, for want of a better name, termed it "Planet X." "Planet X, that astronomical curiosity," became, in a few short weeks, an object of stark terror to the billions of men scattered on the planets around our Sun, from blazing Mercury to frigid Pluto.

To Bob Griffith's father, Commander of the Ninth Wing of the Solar Federation's Space Navy, fell the task of investigating the strange visitor whose black ships moved through space without rocket exhaust, and whose weapons literally melted spaceships out of the heavens.

As his father's aid, aboard the gleaming LANCE OF DEIMOS that led the reconnaissance fleet, Bob watched in horror the first incident that would start a war which the Solar Federation "could not win."

This gripping tale that rockets from Neptune's tiny moon of Outpost, base of the Federation's Navy, to the orbit of an Earth threatened with destruction, features a young space cadet and his father, who, while preparing for war, desperately search for peace. How Bob Griffith finds himself a captive on the mysterious planet, Thule; details of life on a world that has learned how to overcome the forces of gravity and momentum; the discussions that rage over the acceptance of a "wandering planet" into the Solar alliance come alive in a book that vividly creates a troubled era in a fascinating universe of the future!

The Sky is Falling / Badge of Infamy

Lester del Rey

The Sky is Falling

Dave stared around the office. He went to the window and stared upwards at the crazy patchwork of the sky. For all he knew, in such a sky there might be cracks. In fact, as he looked, he could make out a rift, and beyond that a... hole... a small patch where there was no color, and yet the sky there was not black. There were no stars there, though points of light were clustered around the edges, apparently retreating.

Badge of Infamy

Daniel Feldman was a doctor once. He made the mistake of saving a friend's life in violation of Medical Lobby rules. Now, he's a pariah, shunned by all, forbidden to touch another patient. But things are more loose on Mars. There, Doc Feldman is welcomed by the colonists, even as he's hunted by the authorities. But, when he discovers a Martian plague may soon wipe out humanity on two planets, Feldman finds himself a pivotal figure. War erupts. Earth is poised to wipe out the Mars colony utterly. A cure to the plague is the price of peace, and only Feldman can find it.

The Year After Tomorrow

Lester del Rey
Cecile Matschat
Carl Carmer

This book is a special treat for anyone who likes the unique, the odd, the unusual in literature. For the science fiction fan, the stories here represent some of the finest yarns published by Astounding Science Fiction and the American Boy - two magazines known for their early recognition of this popular genre. For the casual reader, these are stories fresh and new in content and appeal.

The Luck of Ignatz, by that famous science fiction master, Lester Del Rey, will introduce you to a Venusian "zloaht" - a small but strange little beast who keeps his master and himself in hot water. In the Master Minds of Mars, Carl Claudy introduces you to the mighty but inhuman intellect that controls the mysterious red planet. You'll enjoy and be intrigued by the wry twist of humor in Peter van Dresser's By Virtue of Circumference. And in Robert Moore Williams' The Red Death of Mars you'll find a horrifying mystery that springs from deadly red jewels and nearly wipes out the crew of the spaceship Kepler.

The Land of No Shadow, Plum Duff, Kindness, Tongue of Beast and Rocket to the Sun complete the roster of thrillers that make up this "science fiction special." Whether you like to travel into the third dimension; rocket into the unexplored vastness of space or help solve killings that "just couldn't happen" you'll enjoy every page of The Year After Tomorrow.

Contents:

  • Foreword - essay by Lester del Rey
  • The Luck of Ignatz - (1939) - novelette by Lester del Rey
  • The Master Minds of Mars - (1931) - novel by Carl H. Claudy (variant of The Mystery Men of Mars)
  • By Virtue of Circumference - (1937) - short story by Peter Van Dresser
  • The Red Death of Mars - (1940) - novelette by Robert Moore Williams
  • The Land of No Shadow - (1931) - novelette by Carl H. Claudy
  • Plum Duff - (1935) - short story by Peter Van Dresser
  • Kindness - (1944) - short story by Lester del Rey
  • Tongue of Beast - (1939) - short story by Carl H. Claudy
  • Rocket to the Sun - (1939) - short story by Peter Van Dresser

The Band Played On and Other Stories

Armchair Fiction - Masters of Science Fiction: Book 7

Lester del Rey

Contents:

  • 5 - The Band Played On - (1957) - novelette
  • 46 - Operation Distress - (1951) - shortstory
  • 61 - The Deadliest Female - (1951) - shortstory
  • 78 - Imitation of Death - (1950) - shortstory
  • 100 - Absolutely No Paradox - (1951) - shortstory
  • 106 - Forgive Us Our Debts - (1952) - shortstory
  • 125 - Earthbound - (1963) - shortstory
  • 128 - I Am Tomorrow - (1952) - novelette
  • 182 - Keepers of the House - (1956) - shortstory
  • 199 - And There Was Light - (1951) - shortstory
  • 212 - Last Lunacy - shortfiction (variant of The Last Lunacy 1951)
  • 226 - Let 'em Breathe Space - (1953) - novella
  • 282 - Shadows of Empire - (1950) - shortstory
  • 303 - Battleground - (1954) - shortstory

Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year

Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Book 1

Lester del Rey

Table of Contents:

  • Foreword: Alternate Possibilities - (1972) - essay by Lester del Rey
  • The Sliced-Crosswise Only-On-Tuesday World - (1971) - shortstory by Philip José Farmer
  • Good News from the Vatican - (1971) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
  • I'll Be Waiting for You When the Swimming Pool is Empty - (1971) - shortstory by James Tiptree, Jr.
  • The Power of the Sentence - (1971) - shortstory by David M. Locke
  • The Wicked Flee - (1971) - shortstory by Harry Harrison
  • When You Hear the Tone - (1971) - shortstory by Thomas N. Scortia
  • Occam's Scalpel - (1971) - novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
  • Hot Potato - (1971) - shortstory by Burt K. Filer
  • The Human Operators - (1971) - novelette by Harlan Ellison and A. E. van Vogt
  • Autumntime - (1971) - shortstory by A. Lentini
  • A Little Knowledge - (1971) - novelette by Poul Anderson
  • To Make a New Neanderthal - (1971) - shortstory by W. Macfarlane
  • The Man Underneath - (1971) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
  • Ornithanthropus - (1971) - shortstory by B. Alan Burhoe
  • Rammer - (1971) - novelette by Larry Niven
  • The Science Fiction Yearbook (1971) - (1972) - essay by Lester del Rey

Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Second Annual Collection

Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Book 2

Lester del Rey

Table of Contents:

  • Foreword: The Spice of Variety - (1973) - essay by Lester del Rey
  • Cloak of Anarchy - (1972) - shortstory by Larry Niven
  • When We Went to See the End of the World - (1972) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
  • Underbelly - (1972) - shortstory by Gordon Eklund
  • The Greatest Asset - (1972) - shortstory by Isaac Asimov
  • The Meeting - (1972) - shortstory by Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth
  • Eurema's Dam - (1972) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
  • Teratohippus - (1972) - novelette by Robert L. Davis
  • The Long Silence - (1972) - shortstory by Donald Noakes
  • Long Shot - (1972) - shortstory by Vernor Vinge
  • Miscount - (1972) - shortstory by Carolyn Gloeckner
  • Thus Love Betrays Us - (1972) - shortstory by Phyllis MacLennan
  • Woman's Rib - (1972) - shortstory by Thomas N. Scortia
  • The Man Who Walked Home - (1972) - shortstory by James Tiptree, Jr.
  • Watchdøg - (1972) - shortstory by Jack C. Haldeman, II
  • Patron of the Arts - (1972) - novelette by William Rotsler
  • The Science Fiction Yearbook (1972) - (1973) - essay by Lester del Rey

Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Third Annual Collection

Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Book 3

Lester del Rey

Table of Contents:

  • Foreword: A Spate of Changes - essay by Lester del Rey
  • Something Up There Likes Me - (1973) - shortstory by Alfred Bester
  • A Thing of Beauty - (1973) - shortstory by Norman Spinrad
  • With Morning Comes Mistfall - (1973) - shortstory by George R. R. Martin
  • Construction Shack - (1973) - shortstory by Clifford D. Simak
  • Thou Good and Faithful - (1973) - novelette by Thomas N. Scortia
  • Androids Don't Cry - (1973) - shortstory by Edward Wellen
  • The Population Implosion - (1973) - shortfiction by Theodore R. Cogswell
  • Think Only This of Me - (1973) - novelette by Michael Kurland
  • Ghosts - (1973) - shortstory by Robert F. Young
  • Afterword (Future City) - (1973) - essay by Frederik Pohl
  • The Problem of Pain - (1973) - novelette by Poul Anderson
  • Parthen - (1973) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
  • The National Pastime - (1973) - novelette by Norman Spinrad
  • Paradise Regained - (1973) - shortstory by Theodore R. Cogswell and Theodore L. Thomas
  • Whatever Happened to the Olmecs? - (1973) - shortstory by Kate Wilhelm
  • The Science Fiction Yearbook (1973) - essay by Lester del Rey

Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Fourth Annual Collection

Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Book 4

Lester del Rey

Table of Contents:

  • Foreword: The Sense of Wonder - (1975) - essay by Lester del Rey
  • If This Is Winnetka, You Must Be Judy - (1974) - novelette by F. M. Busby
  • Sleeping Dogs - (1974) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
  • The Mountains of Sunset, the Mountains of Dawn - (1974) - shortstory by Vonda N. McIntyre
  • Earth Mother - (1974) - shortstory by Carolyn Gloeckner
  • Dream Done Green - (1974) - shortstory by Alan Dean Foster
  • The Night Is Cold, the Stars Are Far Away - (1974) - shortstory by Mildred Downey Broxon
  • Ad Astra - (1974) - shortstory by Harry Harrison
  • And Name My Name - (1974) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
  • What Friends Are For - (1974) - shortstory by John Brunner
  • Mute Inglorious Tam - (1974) - shortstory by Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth
  • The Man Who Came Back - (1961) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
  • Dress Rehearsal - (1974) - shortstory by Harvey Jacobs
  • Enter a Pilgrim - (1974) - shortstory by Gordon R. Dickson
  • The Postponed Cure - (1974) - shortstory by Stan Nodvik
  • The Birch Clump Cylinder - (1974) - novelette by Clifford D. Simak
  • The Science Fiction Yearbook (1974) - (1975) - essay by Lester del Rey

Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Fifth Annual Collection

Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Book 5

Lester del Rey

Table of Contents:

  • Foreword: Fifty Years of Science Fiction - (1976) - essay by Lester del Rey
  • The Bitter Bread - (1975) - novelette by Poul Anderson
  • Mail Supremacy - (1975) - shortstory by Hayford Peirce
  • Child of All Ages - (1975) - shortstory by P. J. Plauger
  • Tree of Life - (1975) - shortstory by Phyllis Eisenstein
  • Helbent Four - (1975) - novelette by Stephen Robinett
  • Pop Goes the Weasel - (1975) - shortstory by Robert Hoskins
  • The Book Learners - (1975) - shortstory by Liz Hufford
  • High Yield Bondage - (1975) - novelette by Hayford Peirce
  • Senior Citizen - (1975) - shortstory by Clifford D. Simak
  • The Peddler's Apprentice - (1975) - novelette by Joan D. Vinge and Vernor Vinge
  • The Science Fiction Yearbook (1975) - (1976) - essay by Lester del Rey

War and Space

Selected Short Stories of Lester del Rey: Book 1

Lester del Rey

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction (Frederik Pohl)
  • And It Comes Out Here
  • And There Was Light
  • The Band Played On
  • Battleground
  • Boiling Point
  • Dark Mission
  • The Deadliest Female
  • Done Without Eagles
  • Earthbound
  • For I Am a Jealous People!
  • Habit
  • Helping Hand
  • Kindness
  • The Luck of Ignatz
  • Mine Host, Mine Adversary
  • Moon-Blind
  • My Name Is Legion
  • Nerves
  • No Place Like Home
  • Omega and the Wolf
  • The One Eyed Man
  • Operation Distress
  • Return Engagement
  • Shadows of Empire
  • The Stars Look Down
  • The Still Waters
  • Uneasy Lies the Head
  • Wind Between the Worlds

Robots and Magic

Selected Short Stories of Lester del Rey: Book 2

Lester del Rey

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction by Terry Brooks
  • A Code for Sam
  • Though Poppies Grow
  • The Smallest God
  • Cross of Fire
  • Absolutely No Paradox
  • Dead Ringer (a.k.a. And the Truth...)
  • Reincarnate
  • Conditioned Reflex (a.k.a. Mind of Tomorrow)
  • The Pipes of Pan
  • Though Dreamers Die
  • Hereafter, Inc.
  • Imitation of Death
  • Divine Right
  • Rescue Team
  • Robots Should Be Seen
  • Fade-Out
  • To Avenge Man (Vengeance Is Mine)
  • Instinct
  • The Fairy Godmother
  • The Last True God (as by Philip St. John)
  • Forsaking All Others
  • Into They Hands
  • No Head for My Bier
  • The Monster
  • The Life Watch (a.k.a. Life Watch)
  • Victory
  • A Pound of Cure
  • The Day Is Done (a.k.a. Day Is Done)
  • Unto Him That Hath (as by Philip St. John)
  • Anything (as by Philip St. John)
  • The Years Draw Nigh
  • The Coppersmith
  • Doubled in Brass
  • Helen O'Loy

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