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CITY OF FORCE

Huge prisms, obelisks, cubes, cylinders, rhombohedrons, domes ,pyramids shimmered with glowing colors, coruscating essence, blinding radiance...

HERE WERE THE LORDS OF THE PSYCHON!

And Horror Day was fast approaching, the dreadful day when Earth was held inescapably in a grid of luminescent, evil energy, the day when Earth might be torn into another universe!

A little band of ragged men, the pitiful remnant of the Army and Navy of the United States was all that stood between this unimaginable fate and the Lords of the Psychon.

Table of Contents:

• Shuffle Board - (1957) - short story
• Recovery Area - (1963) - novella
• Rub-a-Dub - (1961) - novelette
• Reign of the Telepuppets - (1963) - novella
• Project Barrier - (1958) - novelette

A virtual-reality novel from a time before virtual reality, Simulacron-3 is a prophetic tale of a future where nothing is as it appears to be.

Douglas Hall is part of a team that builds an artificial environment to simulate reality. This enables them to get public opinion polls without waiting for the opinions of people around them. But then something goes terribly wrong and his partners on the program start disappearing.

But is it a simulated disappearance, or is someone out to get them all? And what is the true nature of reality?

Milton Bradford is a very special man. God, the Creative Force, resides within him.

The Creative Force is hiding inside Bradford because the universe that the Force created has become terrifyingly complex. Plus, God can no longer control the Destructive Force, which God created to alleviate boredom.

Perhaps God might be able to manage existence better if the universe were less complex, but even then, would God be ready for the final battle with the Destructive Force?

Table of Contents:

• The Last Leap - (1960) - short story
• Kangaroo Court - (1960) - novelette
• Sanctuary - (1954) - novelette
• Deadline Sunday - (1955) - novelette
• Fighting Spirit - (1960) - novelette
• Jebaburba - (1954) - short story
• Seeing-Eye Dog - (1956) - short story

A searing blast of pain and fear which drives its victims into writing paroxysms of anguish... a raging plague for which the only cure is death! They tried everything: isolation institutes; screamer pickup squads stalking the streets; emergency sedation kits whose plunging hypodermic needles set off pitifully wailing sirens that could be heard for blocks. But the epidemic continued to grow....

The survivors live underground, as far from the Original World as possible and protected from the ultimate evil, Radiation. Then terrible monsters, who bring with them a screaming silence, are seen and people start to disappear. One young man realises he must question the nature of Darkness itself.