Science Fiction Gems, Volume Eight, Keith Laumer and Others
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Armchair Fiction presents extra large paperback collections of the best in classic science fiction short stories. Here it is...our eighth collection of Science Fiction Gems This exciting collection of science fiction gems offers an eclectic blend of ideas from great authors like Poul Anderson, Chester Geier, Fritz Leiber, Clifford Simak, Mack Reynolds and others. "Snowball" (Anderson) and "The Ship Sails At Midnight" (Leiber) offer intriguing drama and allegories of the human condition. Explore a forbidden part of the jungles of Venus in "No Dark Gallows For Me" (John Jakes) or steal fine works of art with "The Star-Sent Knaves" (Laumer). Both are amazing tales packed with stimulating interplanetary adventure. We also bring you provocative romance between human and artificial intelligence in "Weep No More, My Robot" (Geier) and there is subtle hair-raising horror in "The Beast of Boredom" (Richard R. Smith). Engage your mind with this incredible assembly of stories about fantastic futures.
Poul Anderson
Poul Anderson (1926-2001) was born in Pennsylvania of Scandinavian stock. He started publishing science fiction in 1947 and became one the great figures in the genre, serving as President of the Science Fiction Writers of America, winning multiple Hugo and Nebula awards, and was named a SFWA Grand Master. He collaborated regularly with wife, Karen, and their daughter is married to noted SF writer Greg Bear. Poul Anderson died in July 2001.
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Clifford D. Simak
During his fifty-five-year career, CLIFFORD D. SIMAK produced some of the most iconic science fiction stories ever written. Born in 1904 on a farm in southwestern Wisconsin, Simak got a job at a small-town newspaper in 1929 and eventually became news editor of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, writing fiction in his spare time. Simak was best known for the book City, a reaction to the horrors of World War II, and for his novel Way Station. In 1953 City was awarded the International Fantasy Award, and in following years, Simak won three Hugo Awards and a Nebula Award. In 1977 he became the third Grand Master of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and before his death in 1988, he was named one of three inaugural winners of the Horror Writers Association’s Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement.
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