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| "Sooner or later someone was
bound to rid the galaxies of Psychlo. Whole races have dreamed
that dream." |
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JONNIE
by Gerry Grace |
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"The last monster on the platform reached to
grab Jonnie. . . . Jonnie struck with the
kill-club and smashed the Psychlo's helmet." |
COUNTDOWN
by Corey Wolfe |
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| "The thing was roaring down
the side path behind him. Now it was
turning. . . . There it was, wisps of smoke
coming out of its nostrils." |
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PURSUIT
by Shun Kijima |
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"Jonnie gazed with horror into the deep
canyon. There was a flying drill platform down there, close to
the river, and it was in real trouble." |
GOLD
MINING DISASTER
by John Stewart |
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| "Man," said
Terl, "is an endangered species." |
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MAN,
THE ENDANGERED SPECIES
by Frank Frazetta |
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"The Scots had begun to rebuild Castle Rock
in Edinburgh . . . the ancient buildings that two thousand years
before had been the seat of Scottish nationalism and that was
now being called its original Gaelic word: Dunedin, 'the hill
fort of edin.'" |
BATTLE
OF EDINBURGH
by John Stewart |
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| "If you will let me guide you,
if you will each one contribute men and time to a daring
enterprise . . . we will have a chance of everlasting
victory!" |
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VISION
by Shun Kijima |
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"There's a live, operating, untouched
Psychlo mine in Africa! It is . . . near what used to be called
'Lake Victoria' . . . way deep in the jungle." |
ROBERT
THE FOX IN AFRICA
by Corey Wolf |
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| "The earth spread out its
curves below him . . . His hand hit the
console. Guns flamed . . ." |
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GLENCANNON'S
RUN
by Shun Kijima |
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"Jonnie had gotten up in the dawn dark. .
. . He had yelled up Windsplitter, the fastest of his several
horses. . . ." |
WINDSPLITTER
by Jim Warren |
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| "What does she look like?
Black eyes and corn-silk hair. How was she formed? Beautiful and
comely. How did she feel? Crushed with despair, hardly daring to
hope for rescue." |
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CHRISSIE
DREAMS OF RESCUE
by Jim Warren |
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"He hadn't had the handgun on 'Flame'. But
the sheer force of it had knocked the Tolnep out. The
faceplate was shattered; the strange eyes were glazed and
rolled up into the head." |
DEATH
OF A TOLNEP
by Joe Spencer |
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| "If you ask almost anyone on a
civilized planet where he is, you are likely to be told that he
is there, just over that hill, . . ." |
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THE LEGEND
by Shun Kijima |
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"Jonnie, twenty miles away, saw the drone
launch. It was a huge thing. . . . It went by them to the
east, looming in the sky, so big it looked close even though
two miles away. . . . A tense Jonnie clocked it at about three
hundred miles an hour. A battle plane had fired just behind
it." |
THE
DRONE U.S EDITION
by Paul Stinson |
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| "The monster now pointed two
windows on the front of the object. Then it pointed to a single
lever that stuck out from the front of it. The monster pushed
the lever down. Jonnie's eyes went round. He backed up. The
object talked!" |
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THE LEARNING
MACHINE
by Corey Wolf |
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"The remaining Psychlos tried to run. . .
. Huge bodies went tumbling down the slope. . . . Jonnie
surveyed the ruin. Over a hundred Psychlo bodies." |
INSURRECTION
by Josh Kirby |
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| "The drone was not rolling now
that it had been relieved of its unstabalizing
weight. . . . The lethal cargo soared onward
toward Scotland and the rest of the world, its goal the final
obliteration of the remainder of the human race, the ones it had
missed a thousand or more years ago." |
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THE DRONE
INTERNATIONAL EDITION
by Paul Stinson |
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"If you ask almost anyone on a civilized
planet where he is, you are likely to be told that he is
there, just over that hill, waiting in case the lords or
the Psychlos come back." |
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JONNIE GOODBOY TYLER U.S.
EDITION
by Paul Stinson
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