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Eleven essential classics in one volume This volume is the definitive collection of the best science fiction novellas published between 1929 and 1964, containing eleven great classics. No anthology better captures the birth of science fiction as a literary field. Published in 1973 to honor...

A series of strange events accompany the delivery of an unusual wooden box to the bookish professor who lives on the hill, while down by the sleepy harbor, a dusty convoy of huge earth-moving machines roll into town. Soon afterwards, an expensive-looking yacht arrives, skippered by an enigmatic sea captain. The mysterious mute captain, her nose permanently buried in an old notebook, is clearly seeking something. Meanwhile, the professor’s interest is piqued by an unusually attentive congregation of praying mantises in his back yard.

Sam thinks his problems are over when finds his fishing bucket filled with gold coins. There’s a problem though. The gold burns the fingers of anyone who touches it. His unlikely find coincides with the appearance of a mythical sea creature on the headland overlooking the town and the resumption of quarrying up in the mountains that is poisoning the streams and contaminating the town’s water supply.

Perhaps uniquely in all of literature, Alice in Wonderland has, over the years, lent itself to many different styles of interpretation. By contrast, we have firmly set our sights on producing as accurate a pastiche as possible, emulating the true Carrolian style. Alice is the same little girl that she always was. Wonderland and Looking Glass characters pop up in various guises and, with a few specific and intentional exceptions, everything is true to the original era.

Robert Hall stars as millionaire newspaperman Britt Reid, fighting crime in the guise of his gas-gun toting alter ego. "Matching wits with the underworld," Reid risks his life "that criminals and racketeers within the law may feel its weight by the sting of the Green Hornet!" Raymond Toyo co-stars as Kato in these exciting episodes, one of which features the first appearance of The Green Hornet's nemesis Oliver Perry!