Secret Weapon and Other Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798696655758)

This new collection by E.C. Tubb, a past master of science fiction, presents five classics of the genre:

Secret Weapon - The secret military installation on the moon, with its missile capability to strike at aggressors on Earth, was a Sword of Damocles keeping world peace. But there was another secret weapon ranged against it...

Forbidden Fruit - The Venusian fruits contained an element which altered the human metabolism so that it became indispensable. Once the fruit was eaten a man could never return to Earth. Yet to pay for the expensive imported Earth food was to walk into an economic mantrap...

Third Party - Two warring alien races fight another chapter of their interstellar struggle operating incognito on the Earth...

The Give-Away Worlds - The problem wasn't to find new planets. It was to find people to settle on them-and stay alive!

The Seekers - It was a strange thing they found on the surface of the uninhabited planet: an artefact that granted anyone who beheld the realization their innermost desires...

Author: Philip Harbottle,E. C. Tubb
ISBN-13: 9798696655758
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 10/12/2020
Pages: 184
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.42d