gutenberg.org - 10/19/2008
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Help Read online Bibliographic Record [help] Creator Sevcik, Al Illustrator Llewellyn Title Alien Offer Language English Subject Science fiction Subject Short stories EText-No. 26956 Release Date 2008-10-18 Copyright Status Not copyrighted in the United States. If you live elsewhere check the ...
freesciencefantasy.blogspot.com - 10/24/2008
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A few more free items for today. E-Fiction
A trio from Amazing stories at Project Gutenberg ....
First is "Advanced Chemistry" by Jack G. Huekels, from Amazing Stories April 1956 and was first published in Amazing Stories March 1927. "Professor ...
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Amazing Stories and More
technologyreview.com - 10/21/2008
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technologyreview.com —
If Algirdas Budrys--who signed his work "Algis Budrys"
and answered to "Ajay" among the regular Americans with...
whom he lived--maintained an apprehensive watchfulness toward much of the human race, it wasn't without justification. To start with, as the ...
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The Alien Novelist
variety-sf.blogspot.com - 10/25/2008
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Much of this story sounds like a less
interesting variation of plots from two Arthur Clarke novels...
- " Childhood's End " & (I think) " Garden of Rama " (with Gentry Lee). In the light of impending doom of earth, good aliens are offering to ...
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Al Sevcik - "Alien Offer" (short story, alien invasion, ...
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Amazing Stories and More
QuasarDragon —
... and experimenting. He had been employed for more than fifteen" In text and html HERE. "Alien Offer" by Al Sevcik, from Amazing Stories, January 1959. "In space, a vengeful fleet waited.... Then the furred strangers arrived with a plan to save Earth's children. But the General wasn't sure if he could trust an Alien Offer." In text and html HERE. And "Star Mother" by Robert F. Young, ...
SF Tidbits for 10/20/08
SF Signal —
... Biology in Science Fiction asks: How Dangerous is Biohacking? "...an informal hacker "code of ethics" isn't much protection."
Brandon Sanderson talks about his writing history and his unfinished novels.
Geoff Ryman will be featured on Amazon's Omnivoracious blog this week.
Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]: @Project Gutenberg: "Advanced Chemistry" by Jack G. Huekels (1927). "Alien Offer" by Al Sevcik (1959). "Star Mother" by Robert F. Young (1959). ...
Al Sevcik - "Alien Offer" (short story, alien invasion, free)
Variety SF —
... than the whole world? Or at least the healthy samples rather than some picked at random? Their only motive is to destroy worlds inhabited by intelligent beings! They don't even seek these worlds for their own occupation - going to so much trouble traveling across galaxies to simply destroy worlds!Fact sheet.First published: Amazing Stories, January 1959. Rating: B Download full text from Project Gutenberg. [via QuasarDragon]. ...
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