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John Russell Fearn (1908-1960) was an extremely prolific and
popular British writer, who began in the American pulps, then
almost single-handedly drove the post-World War II boom in British
publishing with a flood of science fiction, detective stories,
westerns, and adventure fiction. He employed numerous pseudonyms,
such as Vargo Statten, Volstead Gridban, Hugo Blayn, Thorton Ayre,
Polton Cross, Geoffrey Armstrong, Dennis Clive, John Cotton,
Ephriam Winiki, Spike Gordon, and many others. He is noted for such
grandly extravagant science fiction as _The Intelligence Gigantic_
and _The Liners of Time, _ "Mathematica," and the Golden Amazon
series. He was so popular that one of his pseudonyms became the
editor of VARGO STATEN'S SCIENCE FICTION MAGAZINE in the 1950's.
His work is noted for its vigor amd wild imagination. He has always
had a substantial cult following and has been popular in
translation around the world.
After many years spent in wars and struggle, mankind had achieved a
perfect civilization. But this Utopia was going directly against
the adaptive strain Nature had developed. In earlier times, the
human body had been keyed to respond to every emergency. Now it was
trying to find a new form of excitation in order to maintain its
equilibrium, was seeking to tear down that perfect structure... So
mankind's rulers built the Arbiter, an artificial intelligence
created from the brains of twelve men and women, who had sacrificed
their lives for the greater good. The pooled intelligence of the
Arbiter's twelve artificial brains would work in unison to provide
a common answer, to be the impartial judge of humanity's future
actions. Such was the theory...but the Rule of the Brains
threatened to destroy humanity itself Four classic SF tales from
the pulp era
A FICTION HOUSE PRESS REPRINT: An outlaw of space, she was, with
the strength of ten men. Here is an interplanetary story that will
fill you with enthusiasm. She whipped the man she loved ...then
rescued him from death. This is the Golden Amazon in all of her
original pulp adventures with the original illustrations.
In the depths of the Milky Way, the Cosmic Crusaders encounter yet
another mysterious planet-this time a world that appears to be a
duplicate of Earth, birthplace of the Golden Amazon Their
investigations uncover a sinister plot by an alien race, the
Denafrone, whose machinations also threaten the Amazon's home
world. The Denafrone have also enslaved another peaceful race,
turning their planet into a scientific devil's workshop. To smash
the Denafrone and save the Earth will take every resource the
Crusaders possess Another thrilling interstellar episode in the
ongoing Saga of the Golden Amazon
At first, it appeared to be a sun, forming in space where none had
existed before. It kindled as an atomic fire, sustaining itself by
the breakdown of fusion energies. Then, even as the Cosmic
Crusaders watched, the newly-created sun was no longer just a ball
of fire: it was gyrating, like a stupendous Catherine Wheel, a
flaming mss spewing filaments from its edges. Then they realized
the amazing truth: they were witnessing the creation of planets,
flaming streamers of incandescent matter that would condense into
worlds In this latest full-length novel, the Golden Amazon and her
fellow Crusaders grapple with the very forces of creation in their
most astounding adventure to date
When financier Emerson Drew's hired killer pushes
scientist-inventor Rajek Quinton down an abandoned mineshaft, Drew
and his conspirators believe that the way's clear to exploit
Quinton's amazing new invention, which will make them millions. But
he reckons without Larry Clark of the C.I.D.--plus Quinton's
uncanny scientific genius. The police detective, aided by Drew's
secretary Joyce Sutton, forges a chain of evidence to send Drew and
his cohorts to their doom. But who is Joyce Sutton, really? And
what about Quinton himself: did he actually die in the deep,
mud-filled pit shaft, or has he somehow survived to exact a
horrible vengeance on those who exploited him? A thrill-a-minute
mystery, capped by an astonishing denouement
The Cosmic Crusaders discover a planet whose people are subject to
a baleful influence from outer space that sweeps across their world
once a month, affecting every man, woman, and child. It stirs the
emotions of the sexes against each other: men want only to destroy
women, and women men. Only those with higher types of mind can
resist the mental attack--the less fortunate are left dead or
maimed after the Wave has passed. But when the Crusaders identify
and destroy the apparent source of the problem on a nearby planet,
they inadvertently precipitate an even greater menace. Can this new
threat somehow be overcome? The eleventh exciting space adventure
of the Golden Amazon and her companions
The Cosmic Crusaders find themselves on a truly strange world--a
misfit planet that seems mysteriously cursed. Instead of evolving
naturally from birth to death, it's a world out of step with the
universe, leaping ahead into the future at unexpected moments. With
each 50-year "step," much of the population dies, and the young
replace them as middle-aged individuals. The Crusaders are
suspicious that the adviser to the planet ruler is actually an
alien from another world, and is causing the constant time
dislocations for nefarious purposes. But when he traps the Golden
Amazon and her three companions, sending their spaceship crashing
onto a neighboring world dominated by huge, dinosaur-like
creatures, the Crusaders appear to have met their match. Another
stirring sci-fi adventure by a master storyteller
The unfolding story of the Golden Amazon enters a new phase when
she renounces all ties with the Earth, the planet of her birth.
Together with her husband Abna, former Lord of Jupiter, and their
daughter Viona, she sets off in the Ultra on an exploratory journey
to the stars. Their first mission takes them to the strange worlds
of the two suns, Alpha and Proxima Centauri. Here the Amazon
encounters Mizanu, the embodiment of evil, and her most deadly foe
yet--for the creature is nothing less than a planet-sized,
hypertrophied brain Not even Abna, the master of metaphysics, can
withstand its baleful, crushing mental power. Mizanu threatens to
reach out beyond the Alpha-Proxima Centauri system to engulf the
Earth and all the other inhabited planets of the universe--unless
the Golden Amazon can destroy it first The eighth exciting
adventure in this ongoing saga
SF Author Stanley G. Weinbaum died from cancer at 33, in December
1935. Short though his career was, his scientific imagination,
smooth characterization, and humor completely revolutionized the
field, and profoundly influenced his contemporaries. Among his many
imitators was English writer John Russell Fearn. Although Fearn's
own distinctive work was very popular, he wanted to increase his
number of acceptances by writing under pseudonyms--Thornton Ayre
and Polton Cross--with a change of style imitating Weinbaum These
exciting and highly entertaining pastiches, first published in such
magazines as Astounding Stories and Thrilling Wonder Stories, are
here collected for the very first time in book form, with
fascinating historical background notes. The first of two must-have
volumes for collectors, the second being VALLEY OF PRETENDERS.
Great adventure reading from the classic period of the SF pulps
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