This is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are two stories by George O. Smith: "Spaceman's Luck", "The Kingdom of the Blind", and two stories by Charles E. Fritch: "Breathes There A Man", and "Come into my Parlor".

Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by George O Smith: The Big Fix THE FOURTH "R" HIGHWAYS IN HIDING HISTORY REPEATS INSTINCT STOP LOOK AND DIG

Amazing Stories Volume 134 is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are four short stories by different authors: "The Death Crystal" by George O. Smith, "The Vanishers" by Arthur J. Burks, "Forgotten World" by Edmond Hamilton and "Siren Satellite" by Arthur K. Barnes.

George O. Smith was an American science fiction author best known for his Venus Equilateral series of stories about a communications station in outer space. This meticulously edited collection includes Venus Equilateral series and other SF novels and short stories about outer space. Table of Contents: Venus Equilateral Series: QRM—Interplanetary Calling the Empress Recoil Off the Beam The Long Way Beam Pirate Firing Line Special Delivery Pandora's Millions Mad Holiday Novels & Short Stories: Operation Interstellar Highways in Hiding The Fourth 'R' The Undetected The Troublemakers The Catspaw Lost Art Identity The Big Fix Trouble Fine Feathers The Fixer Trouble Times Two Vocation Stop Look and Dig History Repeats Instinct Amateur in Chancery Alien Blind Time Circle of Confusion Latent Image Rat Race The Answer The Impossible Pirate The Incredible Invasion

Robert Hohmann smiled superciliously at the man before him. "You have nerve," he said. It might have been a compliment excepting that the tone of the words was definitely sarcastic. "You have the colossal effrontery to come here before me and tell me what I can do and what I cannot do." Greg Hammond said, quietly, "Shall I repeat it? You are not to attempt the construction of the plutonium producing uranium pile."

This volume of Wildside Press's Golden Age of Science Fiction MEGAPACK® series assembles a second volume of George O. Smith's classic science fiction short stories. Here are— “Rat Race” “Alien” “Vocation” “The Answer” “Blind Time” “The Impossible Pirate” “Calling the Empress” “Fine Feathers” “Circle of Confusion” “Identity” “Lost Art” “The Fixer” “The Incredible Invasion” “Trouble Times Two” If you enjoy this volume of Wildside Press's best-selling MEGAPACK® series, search your favorite ebook store for more than 400 more volumes, covering science fiction, fantasy, horror, mysteries, westerns, romance, and many, many more subjects!

Excerpt: "The bit of whitish substance fluoresced, which of course was quite natural. It also vibrated very faintly, which was unnatural. At least, this property had not been known previously—which is really saying little since the material had been compounded from artificial radioisotopes from the big piles. All too little was known about such items and the fact that this one was vibrating ever so faintly whenever the electron beam struck it was interesting both from a scientific and a lay curiosity standpoint. Ed Bronson blinked a bit and decided that he had made some mistake. It had ceased to vibrate. Ed cracked the experimental tube and removed the irregular lump. It had been hoped to produce a more brilliant and higher-contrast phosphor for television screens. But if it was going to vibrate..."

FIVE YEARS OLD AND ON THE RUN... A small boy is artificially made super-intelligent by his scientist parents. But soon he has to learn to use his superior brain to escape his "guardian" - a man ready to murder to learn his secret...

Excerpt: "The telephone rang and the lieutenant of police Timothy McDowell grunted. He put down his magazine, and hastily covered the partially-clad damsel on the front cover before he answered the ringing phone. "McDowell," he grunted. "McDowell," came the voice in his ear. "I think ye'd better come over here." "What's up?" "Been a riot at McCarthy's on Boylston Street.""

George Oliver Smith (April 9, 1911 - May 27, 1981) (also known by the pseudonym Wesley Long) was an American science fiction author. Smith was an active contributor to Astounding Science Fiction during the Golden Age of Science Fiction in the 1940s. His collaboration with the magazine's editor, John W. Campbell, Jr. was interrupted when Campbell's first wife, Doña, left him in 1949 and married Smith. Smith continued regularly publishing science fiction novels and stories until 1960. He was given the First Fandom Hall of Fame award in 1980. He was a member of the all-male literary banqueting club the Trap Door Spiders, which served as the basis of Isaac Asimov's fictional group of mystery solvers the Black Widowers.