Never Let Up

Maine, Charles Eric

Hodder&Stoughton

"The blurb on the thirty-five cent Ace paperback likens Charles Eric Maine's 1958 novel "World Without Men" to George Orwell's "1984" and Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World." Ordinarily one would regard such a comparison skeptically. Nevertheless, while not rising to the artistic level of the Orwell and Huxley masterpieces, "World Without Men" merits being rescued from the large catalogue of 1950s paperback throwaways. Maine's bases his vision of an ideological dystopia not on criticism of socialism or communism per se, nor of technocracy per se, but rather of feminism. Maine saw in the nascent feminism of his day (the immediate postwar period) a dehumanizing and destructive force, tending towards totalitarianism, which had the potential to deform society in radical, unnatural ways. Maine believed that feminism, as he understood it, derived its fundamental premises from hatred of, not respect for, the natural order. He also believed that feminism entailed a rebellion against sexual dimorphism."

Alph

Nelson Doubleday

Ballantine Books

The Tide Went Out

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Wildside Press

Sir Henry James Sumner Maine, KCSI (1822-1888), was an English comparative jurist and historian best know for his thesis in Ancient Law that law and society developed "from status to contract." In the ancient world, individuals were tightly bound by status to traditional groups; but in the modern world, individuals are free to make contracts and form associations with whomever they choose.

Featuring: "Highway J" by Charles Eric Maine Does science fiction hold the solution to illegal immigration? What becomes of a hapless scientist when his time-travel break-through makes him Public Enemy No. 1 in the 25th Century? What happens when finds himself the unwitting architect of the biggest migration of all -- through time itself? Can authorities build a wall in the time stream? Also in this issue: "The Hideout" by Ron Fortier -- They planned to catch Brother Bones, the undead avenger, off-guard. "Death of a Pulp Writer" by Patti Boeckman "The Red-Headed League" by Arthur Conan Doyle -- A very exclusive club leads a swindled client to the great detective Sherlock Holmes. "Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Quarantine" by Adam Beau McFarlane -- At last it can be told— The secret of the Giant Rat of Sumatra. "Flowers for Christina" by Johnny Strike -- There was no customs inspection for his heart. "Death Steps Down" by C.K.M. Scanlon -- A thug wants revenge, but gives a detective a chance to double the score! "The Tree" by H.P. Lovecraft -- An ancient evil takes root. "The Doom That Came to Roanoke" by John E. Petty -- The squat little statue was a harbinger of evil to come! "From the Ground Up" by Leland S. Chester -- The whippersnapper thought he was a big shot, but made good on a promise! Cover by Norman A. Saunders, original pulp illustrations.

Pulp Adventures #21: Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Quarantine

Fortier, Ron

DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN

Petty, John E.

Strike, Johnny

Lovecraft., H.P

Scanlon, C.K.M.

McFarlane, Adam Beau

Boeckman, Patti

Chester, Leland S.

Action & Adventure

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Armchair Fiction presents extra-large editions of classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. The lead-off novel is Charles Eric Maine’s amazing tale, “Wall of Fire.” The world had never seen anything like it. It was the biggest World’s Fair-style event Earth would ever see: “The Festival of Earth,” which would encompass an entire island off the coast of Florida, was opening soon. It was an incredible sight: a mini-metropolis of futuristic architecture. The place had an unreal crystalline appearance, and it seemed to spread in cubes and turrets and spires over the island, with color springing from every surface and outline as if viewed through a prism. The Festival of Earth would feature the spirit of the newly born twenty-first century, crystallized in a form of architecture, which embodied the history and culmination of a thousand years of human achievement. Here, on American soil, the world would soon see staggering advances in electronics, astronautics, nucleonics, ultrasonics, psychomatics, ballistics, and many other fields—Science triumphant! There was only one thing wrong with the Festival of Earth…it had been taken over by aliens! The second novel “Too Many Worlds” is a wonderful sci-fi adventure tale written by Gerald Vance. They were thrown into another dimension! Roger and Lydia Sherman had invited their good friend Wayne Kenrick up to their private room. It seems the Shermans had entertained some hair-brained notion about traveling into a different dimension—into a macrocosm that existed in a plane alongside that of the known universe. Wayne had accepted their invitation. But what he hadn’t known when he entered that room, was that he was stepping into the kind of room that went places—to different worlds! And so there they were, the three of them, suddenly thrust into a world that was overrun with an abundance of ruthless barbarians, strange creatures, raging armies, and merciless tyrants, whose thirst for blood was unparalleled. The only question was…could they make it back to the Earth they knew?

Wall of Fire & Too Many Worlds

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Vance, Gerald

Science Fiction

Armchair Fiction & Music

2012 Reprint of 1958 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. The blurb on the thirty-five cent Ace paperback likens Charles Eric Maine's 1958 novel "World Without Men" to George Orwell's "1984" and Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World." Ordinarily one would regard such a comparison skeptically. Nevertheless, while not rising to the artistic level of the Orwell and Huxley masterpieces, "World Without Men" merits being rescued from the large catalogue of 1950s paperback throwaways. Maine's bases his vision of an ideological dystopia not on criticism of socialism or communism per se, nor of technocracy per se, but rather of feminism. Maine saw in the nascent feminism of his day (the immediate postwar period) a dehumanizing and destructive force, tending towards totalitarianism, which had the potential to deform society in radical, unnatural ways. Maine believed that feminism, as he understood it, derived its fundamental premises from hatred of, not respect for, the natural order. He also believed that feminism entailed a rebellion against sexual dimorphism.

World Without Men

Classics

Martino Fine Books

Armchair Fiction presents extra-large editions of classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. The first novel is fantastic science-fantasy by veteran science fiction author Charles Eric Maine, “World Without Men.” It was a world where women ruled with an iron fist! Evolution and a new, super effective contraception in the early 20th century had sealed the fate of the human race. As birthrates declined, soon the only children being born were female. In an unparalleled attempt to save the necessary checks and balances of humanity, the world’s governments took drastic measures—but it was all for naught! Eventually…five thousand years into the future…men had joined the ranks of extinct species and only women walked the face of the Earth. Their world was ruled by a strict totalitarian regime, determined to keep stability and tranquility through repression, brainwashing, and even murder.But when a man was found frozen in the wilds of the Arctic, the brainiest of the world’s female scientists began to work on a daring, seemingly impossible undertaking—the restoration the male species! Our second novel is “The Synthetic Men,” written by pulp specialist Ed Earl Repp. He tried to play god! There is no greater mystery to the world of science than the secret of life itself. In that secret may well lay the ultimate clue to the nature of our universe. We can only guess that at some remote age, something happened to a bit of lifeless material—through some strange set of circumstances that we have never been able to duplicate—that spawned organic life. But what if a scientist, through trial and error, and after countless experiments spanning many decades, should finally hit upon the fantastic secret of synthetic life? That’s what Dr. Clifford Pontius did, creating two synthetic “men” swirling in a strange, green chemical solution inside massive twin test tubes. But would the good doctor’s creations be a boon to mankind, or a nightmare beyond belief? Ed Earl Repp has his own answer in this chilling short novel about the benefits and perils of synthetically created men.

World Without Men & The Synthetic Men (Armchair Sci-fi Doubles)

Repp, Ed Earl

Independently published

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