Start Publishing Llc / Science Fiction

Double Take

by Richard Wilson – Start Publishing Llc (April 28, 2020)

The barn turned out to be a spaceship in disguise, and that was only the beginning. Before his strange adventure ended, young Paul Asher found himself going around in circles?very peculiar circles indeed!

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The Day of Dog

by Andersen Horne – Start Publishing Llc (April 28, 2020)

They came home from a strange journey.... And heroes they might have been?a little dog and a man!

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The Small World of M-75

by Ed M. Clinton, Jr. – Start Publishing Llc (April 28, 2020)

For all his perfection and magnificence he was but a baby with a new found freedom in a strange and baffling world . . . .

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The Worlds of Joe Shannon

by Frank M. Robinson – Start Publishing Llc (April 28, 2020)

Strumming a harp while floating on a white cloud might be Paradise for some people, but it would bore others stiff. Given an unlimited chance to choose your ideal world, what would you specify?palaces or log...

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Fantasy

Contemporary & S...

The Test Colony

by Winston Marks – Start Publishing Llc (April 28, 2020)

Benson did his best to keep his colony from going native, but what can you do when the Natives have a rare human intelligence and know all about the facts of life?

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To Choke An Ocean

by J. F. Bone – Start Publishing Llc (April 28, 2020)

Gourmets all agree that nothing can beat oysters on the half-shell?not even the armed might of the Terran Confederation!

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Military

The Polite People of Pudibundia

by R. A. Lafferty – Start Publishing Llc (April 28, 2020)

This was a world where minding your manners was more than just a full-time job?it was murder!

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Fantasy

Progress Report

by Mark Clifton – Start Publishing Llc (April 28, 2020)

Progress is relative; Senator O’Noonan’s idea of it was not particularly scientific. Which would be too bad, if he had the last word!

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Star Performer

by Robert J. Shea – Start Publishing Llc (April 28, 2020)

Blue Boy’s rating was high and his fans were loyal to the death?anyone’s death!

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Fantasy

The Green Millennium

by Fritz Leiber – Start Publishing Llc (April 28, 2020)

It all started with the green kitten. Phil Gish had no way to know that his adopted pet was about to catapult him into the center of international intrigue. This quirky book will take you on a wild ride full...

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The Planet with No Nightmare

by Jim Harmon – Start Publishing Llc (April 28, 2020)

The creatures on the little planet were real bafflers. The first puzzler about them was that they died so easily. The second was that they didn’t die at all.

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The Frozen Planet

by Keith Laumer – Start Publishing Llc (April 28, 2020)

“It is rather unusual,” Magnan said, “to assign an officer of your rank to courier duty, but this is an unusual mission.”

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The Ambassador

by Sam Merwin, Jr. – Start Publishing Llc (April 28, 2020)

All Earth needed was a good stiff dose of common sense, but its rulers preferred to depend on the highly fallible computers instead. As a consequence, interplanetary diplomatic relations were somewhat strained?until...

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An Empty Bottle

by Mari Wolf – Start Publishing Llc (April 28, 2020)

They wanted to go home?back to the planet they’d known. But even the stars had changed. Did the fate of all creation hinge upon an empty bottle?

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The Stellar Legion

by Leigh Brackett – Start Publishing Llc (November 17, 2020)

No one had ever escaped from Venus’ dread Stellar Legion. And, as Thekla the low-Martian learned, no one had ever betrayed it and?lived. Leigh Brackett was the undisputed Queen of Space Opera and the first...

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The Road to Sinharat

by Leigh Brackett – Start Publishing Llc (November 17, 2020)

The people of Mars were perverse. They did not want Earth’s proffer of rich land, much water, new power. They fought rehabilitation. And with them fought Carey, the Earthman who wanted only the secret that...

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The Dragon Queen of Jupiter

by Leigh Brackett – Start Publishing Llc (November 17, 2020)

More feared than the deadly green snakes, the hideous red beetles of that outpost of Earth Empire, was the winged dragon-queen of Jupiter and her white Legions of Doom. Leigh Brackett was the undisputed Queen...

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The Dancing Girl of Ganymede

by Leigh Brackett – Start Publishing Llc (November 17, 2020)

She had come to life, but she was not human. Leigh Brackett was the undisputed Queen of Space Opera and the first women to be nominated for the coveted Hugo Award. She wrote short stories, novels, and scripts...

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The Blue Behemoth

by Leigh Brackett – Start Publishing Llc (November 17, 2020)

Shannon’s Imperial Circus was a jinxed space-carny leased for a mysterious tour of the inner worlds. It made a one-night pitch on a Venusian swamp-town?to find that death stalked it from the jungle in a tiny...

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The Ark of Mars

by Leigh Brackett – Start Publishing Llc (November 17, 2020)

There are men in space again. The catastrophic words went out from Mars to damp Venus and frost--wracked Mercury; to the lunar colonies of Jupiter and Saturn. To all points of the system the warning was screamed:...

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Shannach: The Last

by Leigh Brackett – Start Publishing Llc (November 17, 2020)

Even in this grip of alien horror a man could not throw away his lifetime goal . . . and not stand idly by as endless rows of alabaster, shapes seated in their chars of stone, thought-rules this gargoyle planet...

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Outpost on Io

by Leigh Brackett – Start Publishing Llc (November 17, 2020)

In a crystalline death lay the only release for those prisoners of that Ionian hell-outpost. Yet MacVickers and the men had to escape?for to remain meant the conquering of the Solar System by the inhuman Europans....

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Last Call from Sector 9G

by Leigh Brackett – Start Publishing Llc (November 17, 2020)

Out there in the green star system; far beyond the confining grip of the Federation, moved the feared Bitter Star, for a thousand frigid years the dark and sinister manipulator of war-weary planets. Leigh Brackett...

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Child of the Sun

by Leigh Brackett – Start Publishing Llc (November 17, 2020)

Far beyond molten Mercury flashed the Patrol-pursued Falcon....Out to where black Vulcan whirled his hidden orbit, and a flame-auraed last child of Sol played his cosmic game. Leigh Brackett was the undisputed...

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Prey of the Space Falcon

by Wilbur S. Peacock – Start Publishing Llc (November 17, 2020)

The Administrators of the Solar System were as deadly as a Hydra-monster to those who sought freedom. Then came the Falcon and his outlaw Brood, fighting with the strangest weapon the Universe had ever seen?only...

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Phantom of the Seven Stars

by Ray Cummings – Start Publishing Llc (November 17, 2020)

Lovely Brenda Carson, scholarly Jerome, pompous Livingston ... everyone aboard the Seven Stars scoffed at the idea of a Phantom Pirate. But I.P. agent Jim Fanning didn’t laugh. He knew the luxury-liner’s...

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Venus Enslaved

by Manly Wade Wellman – Start Publishing Llc (November 17, 2020)

What chance had the castaway Earthman and his crossbow-weaponed Amazons against the mighty Frogmasters of the Veiled Planet? Manly Wade Wellman wrote science fiction and fantasy stories in such pulps as Astounding...

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Expedition to Pluto

by Fletcher Pratt & Laurence Manning – Start Publishing Llc (November 17, 2020)

Within the Goddard’s hurtling hull Captain “Steel-Wall” McCausland, hero of the space fleets, nursed his secret plan for an Earth reborn. Reuter the scientist cuddled his treacherous test-tubes. And Air...

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War-Gods of the Void

by Henry Kuttner – Start Publishing Llc (November 17, 2020)

Jerry Vanning trailed the fugitive Callahan into the swampy wastes of Venus, Hell-Kingdom of the fabled War-Gods. He reached his goal?walking with the robot-strides of a North-fever slave. Henry Kuttner was...

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Thralls of the Endless Night

by Leigh Brackett – Start Publishing Llc (November 17, 2020)

The Ship held an ancient secret that meant life to the dying east-aways of the void. Then Wes Kirk revealed the secret to his people’s enemies?and found that his betrayal meant the death of the girl he loved....

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Phantom out of Time

by Nelson S. Bond – Start Publishing Llc (November 17, 2020)

Graed Garroway’s empire on Earth was toppling, smashed by the flaming vengeance of Dirk Morris who struck from nowhere with blinding speed and true justice. Yet such a thing could not be?for Dirk Morris was...

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Quest of Thig

by Basil Wells – Start Publishing Llc (November 17, 2020)

Thig of Ortha was the vanguard of the conquering “HORDE.” He had blasted across trackless space to subdue a defenseless world?only to meet on Earth emotions that were more deadly than weapons. Basil Wells...

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The Planet That Time Forgot

by Donald A. Wollheim – Start Publishing Llc (November 17, 2020)

Out beyond furthest Pluto, beyond pale Neptune, roared the Stardust. Rocketing toward the monstrous new planet that filled the heavens. Planet “P”?the colossus that Time forgot! Donald Allen Wollheim was...

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The Mercurian

by Frank Belknap Long – Start Publishing Llc (November 17, 2020)

For ages Mankind labelled Mercury a dead world?a red-hot, seething outpost of hell. Too late Rawley learned of the hideous life that molten, steaming planet spawned! Frank Belknap Long was best known for his...

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Asteroid of the Damned

by Dirk Wylie – Start Publishing Llc (November 17, 2020)

Somewhere on that asteroid of sin lurked the crime king of the Universe. Dirk Wylie was the author of ten science fiction and fantasy short stories which appeared in Magazines such as Super Science Stories,...

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Grifters' Asteroid

by H. L. Gold – Start Publishing Llc (November 17, 2020)

Harvey and Joe were the slickest con-men ever to gyp a space-lane sucker. Or so they thought! Angus Johnson knew differently. He charged them five buckos for a glass of water?and got it! H. L. Gold was an American...

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Assignment on Venus

by Carl Jacobi – Start Publishing Llc (November 17, 2020)

Simms had the toughest assignment of his career. He must fight his way through Venusian intrigue to deliver a sealed cylinder?a cylinder that held his dishonorable discharge from the service. Carl Jacobi was...

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The Star Mouse

by Fredric Brown – Start Publishing Llc (November 17, 2020)

Robinson Crusoe ... Gulliver ... Paul Bunyan; the story of their adventures is nothing compared to the Saga of Mitkey. Fredric Brown was a science fiction and mystery writer. He is known for his use of humor...

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Stranger from Space

by Hannes Bok – Start Publishing Llc (November 17, 2020)

She prayed that a God would come from the skies and carry her away to bright adventures. But when he came in a metal globe, she knew only disappointment?for his godliness was oddly strange! Hannes Bok, was an...

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Prison Planet

by Bob Tucker – Start Publishing Llc (November 17, 2020)

To remain on Mars meant death from agonizing space-sickness, but Earth-surgery lay days of flight away. And there was only a surface rocket in which to escape?with a traitorous Ganymedean for its pilot. Wilson...

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World of Mockery

by Sam Moskowitz – Start Publishing Llc (November 17, 2020)

When John Hall walked on Ganymede, a thousand weird beings walked with him. He was one man on a sphere of mocking, mad creatures?one voice in a world of shrieking echoes. Sam Moskowitz was the editor Science-Fiction...

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Boy Meets Dyevitza

by Robert F. Young – Start Publishing Llc (October 09, 2020)

A thrilling news bulletin, dated September 11, 1996, was recently handed to me by an assistant who is too young to remember the star over Moscow, and it is toward him and others like him that the following history...

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The Barbarians

by Algis Budrys – Start Publishing Llc (October 09, 2020)

History was repeating itself; there were moats and nobles in Pennsylvania and vassals in Manhattan and the barbarian hordes were overrunning the land. Algis Budrys was the Hugo and Nebula award nominated author...

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Between the Dark and the Daylight

by Algis Budrys – Start Publishing Llc (October 09, 2020)

Trapped in a protective underground world made of reinforced concrete they can here their enemies chipping away at their walls day after day, year after year, eventually they will get through, then what happens?...

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Boarding Party

by Robert F. Young – Start Publishing Llc (October 09, 2020)

The fey Mr. Young continues his scholarly researches in the scientific origins of our myth and legend with this tale of an agile?and avaricious?one-man Robert F. Young was a Hugo nominated author known for his...

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Audience Reaction

by Robert F. Young – Start Publishing Llc (October 09, 2020)

In Science Fiction, of the many things an author can do is to take an established trend and carry it on to extremities. Such stories are rarely good prophecy, since they cannot foresee other developments of...

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Pilgrims' Project

by Robert F. Young – Start Publishing Llc (October 09, 2020)

A man under sentence of marriage would be lucky to have a girl like Julia assigned to him?or would he? Robert F. Young was a Hugo nominated author known for his lyrical and sentimental prose. His work appeared...

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Passage to Gomorrah

by Robert F. Young – Start Publishing Llc (October 09, 2020)

She was the Galaxy’s most beautiful whore. He knew that if he went to her couch during the time-storm, he, too, would be booking Robert F. Young was a Hugo nominated author known for his lyrical and sentimental...

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The Night of the Trolls

by Keith Laumer – Start Publishing Llc (October 09, 2020)

In Night of the Trolls Keith Laumer introduces us to one of his most popular inventions The Bolo. These are Super Tanks capable of defending or destroying mankind. Jackson a volunteer in an experiment with suspended...

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