Overview: The Man who would be King', the tale of two vagabonds who attempt to establish a kingdom among primitive tribesmen, is both a classic of high adventure and a searching parable of Empire. This collection brings together seventeen of Kipling's early stories, written between 1885 and 1888, wh
The Man Who Was Secrett and Other Stories
โ Scribed by Brunner, John
- Publisher
- Ramble House
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 176 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781605436654
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
John Brunner is known for his science-fiction and ecology-minded novels, but thanks to John Pelan, we have collected the stories he wrote in the 70s, 80s and 90s about the man named Secrett. In his introduction Pelan tells more about the enigmatic writer and how this collection came to be. The stories are: The Man Who Could Provide Us with Elephants-The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction October, 1977 The Man Who Understood Carboniferous Flora-The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction April 1978, The Man Whose Eyes Beheld the Glory-New Terrors #2 edited by Ramsey Campbell (Pan Books 1980) The Man With a God That Worked-The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 1980 The Man Who Saw the Thousand-Year Reich-The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction November 1981 The Man Who Made the Fur Fly-The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 1985 The Man Who Was A Legend in His Own Time-The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 1986 The Man with a Taste for Turkeys-The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 1989 The Man Who Lost the Game of Life-The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, January 1992 They Take-Dark Voices #2 edited by Stephen Jones & David Sutton 1992 The Pronounced Effect-Weird Tales Summer 1990
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