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  • Seeds of Life

    by John Taine ...
    Dr Andrew Crane is a researcher at the Erickson Foundation for Electrical Research in Seattle, aided by "his technical assistant, the stocky Neils Bork". Bork has a drinking problem, and is difficult to deal with, none of which prevents his mysterious physical and mental transformation into a new being, with new abilities and a new name: Miguel De Soto!"His best work shows an admirable imaginative ... Read more

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  • Seeds of Life

    by John Taine ...
    Seeds of Life is a variation on the Jekyll and Hyde theme. A technical assistant is zapped by radiation in a laboratory and is transformed into genius. Initially, the genius builds incredible devices that make millions of dollars. But the genius goes to the Dark Side and his evil threatens to unleash new horrors on the United States. ... Read more

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  • Green Fire

    by John Taine ...
    In the hallowed, humming chambers of a private New York laboratory, renowned physicist James Ferguson collapses under the assault of a silent, crackling green spark. The eerie discharge, the precise hue of the forbidden nebulium line, leaves him visibly aged and cognitively scrambled. His brilliant daughter Vera, a capable scientist herself, experiences the flash's bizarre, alien intelligence—a ... Read more

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  • Black Cat Weekly #95

    by Robert Lopresti, Simon Wood, A. R. Morlan, Fritz Leiber, Hal Charles, Hulbert Footner, R. Austin Freeman, Seabury Quinn, Alfred Coppel, John Taine ...
    Our 95th issue has a lot of fun stuff—starting off with a pair of original mysteries by Robert Lopresti and Mindy Quigley (thanks to Acquiring Editors Michael Bracken an Barb Goffman). Also on the mystery side, we have a pair of classic novels by Hulbert Footner R. Austin Freeman, plus a solve-it-yourself puzzler from Hal Charles.On the fantastic side of things, A.R. Morlan has a modern tale of ... Read more

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  • The Purple Sapphire

    by John Taine ...
    To the rim of Earth's last frontier they fought, a man and a girl who held the sole key to a long dead civilization — the key that might let it live again across the centuries! ... Read more

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  • The Greatest Adventure

    by John Taine ...
    THEY FOUND A LOST WORLD OF WEIRD MONSTERS. When a sea captain brought a baby dinosaur to the home of a wealthy, brilliant scientist, it triggered off an expedition that well deserves the title of THE GREATEST ADVENTURE. For the trail of that little creature led straight into the unexplored, quake-shaken Antarctic to a lost world overrun with the monsters of an evolution gone wild! In every way a ... Read more

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  • The Greatest Adventure

    by John Taine ...
    Series series MIT Press / Radium Age
    A scientifically-precipitated, out-of-control tale of evolution set in Antarctica—it predates Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness—by a mathematician of note who also wrote science fiction.In The Greatest Adventure, an expedition to Antarctica discovers remnants of an elder race with advanced technology. These ancients had discovered the secret of developing new life-forms . . . but when the ... Read more

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  • The Purple Sapphire

    by John Taine, Eric Temple Bell ...
    Eric Temple Bell in 1924, published The Purple Sapphire, his first novel. Bell adopted the pseudonym of John Taine for all of his fictional work while continuing to write non-fiction under his own name. In the field of mathematics, Bell polynomials and Bell numbers of combinatorics are named in his honour and in 1924 he was awarded the Bocher Memorial Prize for his work in mathematical analysis ... Read more

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    Homer Eon Flint was one of the pioneers of science fiction -- publishing science fiction stories in pulp magazines before the term "science fiction" had even been coined. Unfortunately, he died violently -- and mysteriously -- at age 36, leaving behind a grieving widow and three young children. Prior to his shocking end in 1924, Homer's speculative fiction made him a leading contributor to the era ... Read more

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  • The New Accelerator

    by H. Wells ...
    Series series World Classics
    The story is about a man named Mr. Herbert George Wells who discovers a new type of accelerator that allows him to travel at an incredibly fast speed. The new accelerator has the potential to revolutionize transportation and allow humans to travel to distant parts of the universe. However, there are also some dangerous side effects to using the new accelerator. ... Read more

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  • The Great Fog

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    by H. F. Heard ...
    Stories blending science fiction and horror, including a classic that predicted the terror of climate change.It starts with common mildew—mold appearing where it has never grown before. A strange kind of mold, it spreads across the entire globe in a matter of months. Although it's harmless, it's an indication of something much more terrifying. Without our noticing, the Earth's climate has changed. ... Read more

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  • The Door in the Wall

    by Herbert George Wells ...
    H. G. Wells was a prolific writer of both fiction and non-fiction. His writing career spanned more than sixty years, and his early science fiction novels earned him the title (along with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback) of "The Father of Science Fiction". ... Read more

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