The Halfling and Other Stories
โ Scribed by Odom, Mel;Brackett, Leigh
- Publisher
- Ace; Berkley Pub. Group
- Year
- 1983
- Tongue
- en-GB
- Weight
- 364 KB
- Edition
- 2nd ed
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- New York
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โฆ Synopsis
Epub (my conversion)
โThe Halflingโ (1943). A beautiful alien dancer joins John Greeneโs circus. And then the murders startโฆ โThe Dancing Girl of Ganymedeโ (1950). A Terran adventurer down on his luck rescues a strange dancing girl from her would be assassins; his native helper does not like this. Only when he meets her brothers does he realizes what a mistake he madeโฆ โThe Citadel of Lost Agesโ (1950). A 20th-century man is resurrected in the far future, once the Earth has stopped revolving around its axis and the mutated people from the nightside reign โAll the Colors of the Rainbowโ (1957). One of the better stories in the collection, a tale of two odd-colored aliens lost in an unreconstructed Southern town is not very subtle, but interesting. โThe Shadowsโ (1952). A small expedition lands on a newly discovered planet and finds the ruins of the once dominant intelligent species that lived there, but who killed them? And what does their disappearance have to do with the strange
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โฆ Subjects
Science fiction
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