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A classic of dystopian SF--the basis for the movie "Soylent
Green"--returns to print
It was the highest honour to defend the Empire against the dreaded
Chingers, an enemy race of seven-foot-tall lizards. But Bill, a
Technical Fertilizer Operator from a planet of farmers, wasn't
interested in honour - he was only interested in two things: his
chosen career, and the shapely curves of Inga-Maria Calyphigia.
Then a recruiting robot shanghaied him with knockout drops, and he
came to in deep space, aboard the Empire warship Christine Keeler.
And from there, things got even worse...
Students entering college may think they know just about
everything, but x2026;
Whether it's their first year or fourth, college students (who
think they already know everything) can always use powerful and
proven tips on how to make the most of their experience. In 1001
Things Every College Student Needs to Know, Harry H. Harrison Jr.'s
latest dose of trademark wit and wisdom provides practical advice
ranging from class enrollment, living on campus, study habits and
more, that every student-and parent-will benefit from...like buying
their books before exams start!
It was just before the turn of the century that James B. Duke,
after whom Duke University is named, managed to combine nearly all
the large foreign and American tobacco interests into a single
gigantic trust under the aegis of the American Tobacco Company. His
grand enterprise in hand, this son of a one-mule tobacco farmer in
North Carolina began an unscrupulous exploitation of the tobacco
farmers of Kentucky and Tennessee, depressing prices for their leaf
through his utter control of the market. The growers, sorely
stricken with poverty, found themselves unable to abide the yet
more dismal conditions that Duke's operation brought about, and
even less the heedless impositions of power of his hated trust.
Riders in the Night is the story of the revolt of the tobacco
growers against the American Tobacco Company, and the organization
of a resistance movement known as the "Night Riders," which
undertook by whip, firebrand, and gun to break the hold of the
"Trust." The sequence of most active violence spanned three years.
The "Hillbillies," growers who continued to deal with the Trust,
were forcefully brought into the fold and made to take the secret
oath of the Riders. The folk of the hills and hollows met in school
houses, churches, and at crossroads and united against the Trust
and the law -and-order-minded townspeople to do by violence what
the slow-moving law in Washington was not doing-restore competition
to the tobacco market. In this book are vividly depicted the
capture of towns, the incendiarism of millions of dollars in Trust
tobacco, midnight floggings, the destruction of crops, and the
personal tales of many of the individuals who labored and fought on
both sides. Harry Harrison Kroll writes from the point of view of
an eyewitness and provides the pungent scenes and dialogues that do
not usually find their way into history. His book is not only an
accurate delineation of the largest violent uprising in United
States history short of the Civil War, but offers an intimate sense
of life in tobacco country.
'Revelatory. Harry Harrison's novel about Earth on the edge of
disaster is both bracing and cathartic ... impressively prescient'
Guardian The planet's population has exploded and resources are
stretched to breaking point. And, in a sweltering, overcrowded New
York City of 35 million desperate inhabitants, a police detective
must try to solve a murder. The basis of the cult film Soylent
Green, this eerily prophetic novel is a nightmarish vision of a
world in meltdown. 'A cautionary tale of what might happen if
American consumption goes unchecked' Los Angeles Times 'An author
with a serious purpose and a subversive wit' Christopher Priest
The planet was called Pyrrus, a strange place where all the beasts,
plants and natural elements were designed for one specific purpose:
to destroy man. The settlers there were supermen, twice as strong
as ordinary men and with milli-second reflexes. They had to be. For
their business was murder. It was up to Jason dinAlt,
interplanetary gambler, to discover why Pyrrus had become so
hostile during man's brief habitation. This omnibus contains all
three novels in the Deathworld trilogy!
A stainless steel rat for a stainless steel world ... Meet Slippy
Jim, aka The Stainless Steel Rat, aka James Bolivar DiGritz. A man
of many names and many talents ... all of which add up to make one
of the greatest con men of all time. Charming, quick-witted,
physically fit, a master of disguise, a skilled liar, an
accomplished bank robber and exceptionally talented at breaking and
entering, he's everything a master thief should be. He's also about
to be caught, turned, and sent back out onto the streets as part of
the Special Corps. Join the adventure in this omnibus edition of
the first three Stainless Steel rat adventures: The Stainless Steel
Rat, The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge, and The Stainless Steel Rat
Saves the World.
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