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In the original old West, cattlemen drove herds over the vast palmetto prairie, all the way to Punta Rassa. When a teenage boy joins cracker cow punchers, and the neighbor woman he hopes to marry goes to work in an infamous crossroads establishment, the cruel facts of frontier life confront them. Through swamp, miasma, bandits, storms, heat, fever, and tragic death, the boy prevails, but can he reach his girl before it's too late?

This audiobook is a collection of five science fiction stories, the first is a South American "monster in the house" classic jungle survival creature-feature. The second story is, "Last Place On Earth," a contemporary arctic Pliestocene Cold War Halloween contemplation. The third, "Sirens of Celebes" is an eerie SCUBA dive into psychodrama, a study of descent into mental illness. The fourth story, "Green Hell," is a dark humor view of lawn care in South Florida. The fifth and last story is a hard science spaceship crash and lunar survival adventure.

An idealistic ecologist is thrown 65 million years into the past on a mission to save the Earth from a cosmic collision. With the best intentions, however, he ends up inadvertently destroying two, maybe three worlds. It will appeal to anyone interested in paleontology, the time travel dilemma, or camping in the tropics.