<p>Eleven of Basil Wells' finest stories, reprinted here for the first time since their original publication in 1950s science fiction magazines.</p>

Final Voyage and Other Science Fiction Stories

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Wells, Basil

Science Fiction

Richard Simms Publications

Bold Venture Press proudly presents PULP ADVENTURES #17, featuring an all-star line-up -- from the backwaters of post-Civil War Texas, the Prohibition-era of New York City, to an interior world several centuries in the future! In "The Kidnapped Midas" by Johnston McCulley, a stingy skinflint is satisfied with his "life well lived," until The Thunderbolt holds him hostage, and demands he pay his own ransom! "I'll Make the Arrest" by Charles Boeckman depicts an embittered police lieutenant who assures everyone that he'll arrest a murder suspect -- until the case turns personal. "Caverns of Ith" by Basil Wells depicts a far-flung future in a remote corner of the Earth. Could humans and a race of interior world dwellers co-exist peacefully? It might be possible, if they can stand together against a group of raiders ... In the backwaters of a Texas town, an innocent man has an ugly word branded onto his chest, in "Firebrand" by Walt Coburn. He'll carry that accusation to his grave, but he intends to usher the culprits into the grave ahead of him! Richard Simms provides an insightful introduction to "Caverns of Ith," which Richard Lupoff shares some personal accounts of Basil Wells, an overlooked treasure in the field of science fiction. The stories are accompanied by original pulp illustrations, plus new illustrations by Ed Coutts. Cover by Norman Saunders.

Pulp Adventures #17

Literature & Fiction

MCCULLEY, JOHNSTON

COBURN, Walt

Lupoff, Richard

Harvey, Rich

Boeckman, Charles

Action & Adventure

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

MONSTER OF THE ASTEROID by Ray Cummings Win or lose, the take was death for those two new slaves of the Monster.

Planet Stories - Wtr/41: Adventure House Presents:

Cummings, Ray

Long, Frank Belknap

Moskowitz, Sam

Bond, Nelson S.

Norman, James

Lewis, Robert O.

Hasse, Henry

Connell, Alan

Adventure House

Basil Wells wrote a lot of science fiction short stories in the 40s for the pulps and digests and they were collected in two books back in 1949 and 1951: Planets of Adventure and Doorways to Space. Now, introduced by Richard A. Lupoff, both collections are published in one huge tome. The 30 stories represent some of the best SF of its time, with ideas about aliens and human beings that are both charming and prescient.

The Basil Wells Omnibus: Planets of Adventure and Doorways to Space

Ramble House

Stirring Science Stories, March 1942

Petaja, Emil

Gottesman, S D

Fiction House Press

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