When the food and water sources of the first colony on the moon are destroyed, three teenagers try to find ways of assuring the colony's survival.

Moonbase one,

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Jones, Raymond F.

Science Fiction

Criterion Books

In 1949 and 1950 a science fiction serial by Raymond F. Jones appeared in Thrilling Wonder Stories. Within half a decade that serial would make history as the basis of the first science fiction movie about interstellar travel and interstellar war. The next Hollywood movie to venture to another solar system was Forbidden Planet, a wholly original construct of the prestige studio MGM. But solid, reliable Universal Studios was there first...long before Star Trek.
This Island Earth was really the first Star Wars. Colorful, spectacular, wildly imaginative, it lived up to everything its agent could possibly want, a man who was known as Mr. Science Fiction and who now brings back this classic novel: Forrest J Ackerman. A phrase he coined in another galaxy a long time ago say's it all: Gosh Wow! This story has it all.
The cover of this special edition features Jeff Morrow in the role of one of the most sympathetic aliens in 1950's science fiction film (the other is Michael Rennie in The Day the Earth Stood Still, also adapted from a literary source). In the novel he is Jorgasnovara, in the movie the less jaw Breaking Exeter. In both print and celluloid he comes to respect the Earth scientists essayed by Rex Reason and Faith Domergue.
This Island Earth is a book of heroes. The first half of the film closely follows the novel but then diverges from the intellectual challenges faced by Dr. Cal Meachem to more cinematic fare. Reading the novel now, one cannot help but marvel at how Jones' views everything from labor disputes to the predictability of computers influenced later movies and television, making This Island Earth, the novel, even more influential than-one would guess from ThisIsland Earth the movie.
Pulpless.Com is proud to bring back the printed word in hope that all who see the movie will want to read the book, and vice versa! Turn on your interocitors and prepare to receive transmission!

This Island Earth

HarperCollins, Publishers

Also known as "Man of Two Worlds." Ketan journeyed to the great Edge in answer to the message: "If any of you live, come through to us. Save us. Bring weapons!"

Renaissance

Welcome to the latest and greatest issue of STARTLING STORIES! This long-awaited issue is jam-packed with action and adventure. Featuring classic pulp fiction, with the original illustrations, by Raymond F. Jones, Arthur J. Burks, Clifford D. Simak, James H. Schmitz, and Raymond Z. Gallun from the Golden Age of Science Fiction. We are also pleased to feature new fiction by Robert Morganbesser, S. Clayton Rhodes, John L. French, Don Hutchison, and K.G. McAbee, all of whom have written some new tales that will entertain and surprise you! They are some of the new Fictioneers that Wild Cat Books is proud to work with, and we're sure you'll enjoy them. We also feature the newest installment of famed artist Ron Wilber's comic book heroine "Saucy Blaine", and for good measure we have also included a comic reprint of "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet"! Add to this mix our usual Retro-Reviews of Popular Culture, and this is an issue you won't want to miss! Edited and Designed by William Carney, this is a magazine that all Sci-Fi and Fantasy fans will want on their bookshelf!

Startling Stories #3

Burks, Arthur J.

Hutchison, Don

French, John L.

McAbee, K.G.

Rhodes, S. Clayton

SIMAK, CLIFFORD. D.

Morganbesser, Robert

Wild Cat Books

Also known as "Man of Two Worlds." Ketan journeyed to the great Edge in answer to the message: "If any of you live, come through to us. Save us. Bring weapons "

Literature & Fiction

Wildside Press

Ever hear of an interocitor? No? Well, don’t be surprised — neither had Cal Meacham, electronics engineer and chief of research at Ryberg Instrument. Nor had Cal ever heard of a catherimine tube with an endiom complex of plus four. Yet those, and other equally bewildering apparatus, were offered for sale in the catalogue from Electronic Service Unit 16. 
Unfortunately, there wasn’t a single clue in the catalogue as to how an interocitor functioned, or even what it was, yet judging from the list of parts and the accompanying diagrams, it was an enormously complex piece of equipment. Cal realized that even if he ordered a set of interocitor parts, and somehow succeeded in putting one together, he would have no way of knowing if it were operating properly or not. 
Was the entire catalogue some monstrous joke, of which he was the butt, or had Cal stumbled upon a technology vastly superior to our own? Cal had to know — his curiosity, both as a scientist and as a man, was aroused — and thus began Cal’s apprenticeship with the Peace Engineers. And in the surprising events that followed, Cal Meacham became involved in an adventure to stagger the imagination. 
One of the truly memorable science fiction experiences of this or any other year, THIS ISLAND EARTH is that rare science fiction novel which combines a sense of social responsibility and thrilling action within the framework of a cosmic struggle to maintain a barrier against an incredible invasion. 
Here is a book that will appeal to everyone who has ever stopped on a starry night to gaze in wonder at the vastness of the universe, and to ponder the place in infinity of this island Earth.

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

"This person is not even human. It's impossible for me to diagnose the injury or illness of such a structure as his!" With these words and a worried frown, Doc Smithers sums up the case of the strange creature that lay on Ron Barron's bed. For the boy, Clonar, is like nothing earth's medical books have ever cataloged. And the day Ron Barron found him, staggering away from the wrecked metal disk that lay hidden near Longview, is one that put earth's existence in jeopardy!
In SON OF THE STARS, Raymond Jones has written of a forthright friendship between a young castaway from space and his earthly counterpart. How a cold and suspicious military, recognizing Clonar only as an alien from an astonishingly advanced civilization, turns friendship into treachery that threatens earth's existence, makes this an electrifying story with a thought-provoking theme. In scenes uncomfortably vivid, you'll meet soldiers and citizens of a typical American city; people like calculating General Gillispie and frightened Mrs. Barron, whose reactions to an "interplanetary" situation bring the world to the brink of destruction.
Clonar's words, "They're coming to destroy your world!" refer to a planet whose wars and strife might shortly spread to other worlds. Climaxed with a scene of power and drama unmatched in science fiction, SON OF THE STARS is a breath-taking book you won't put down until the very last page - and won't be able to forget until men reach the stars and learn for themselves!

Son of the Stars (Winston Science Fiction)

Teen & Young Adult

Moonbase One

Children's Books

This Island Earth (Forrest J Ackerman Presents)

Science & Math

Forrest J. Ackerman

Nature & Ecology

Pulpless.com

Armchair Fiction presents extra large paperback editions of classic science fiction double novels. The first novel is “The Wrong Side of Paradise,” This grand sci-fi adventure takes you on a trip into a “paradise” that doesn’t really fit the normal stereotype. The guide for your journey is the man who gave us “This Island Earth,” sci-fi veteran, Raymond F. Jones. The second novel, “The Involuntary Immortals,” is a nail-biting anecdote on the tragedies and triumphs of eternal youth by Rog Phillips. They were left invulnerable to the ravages of age and time. Was it chance…or had it been planned that way?

The Wrong Side of Paradise & The Involuntary Immortals

Phillips, Rog

Armchair Fiction & Music

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