Galaxy Science Fiction hit the scene in1950 edited by H. L. Gold and quickly became the leading science fiction magazine of its time. Galaxy gave a home to writers that didn't fit into Astounding and F&SF, and readers rejoiced. In this first Galaxy Science Fiction Super Pack we bring you more than five hundred pages of fiction. These are the stories that helped Galaxy Magazine carve it's name on the Mount Rushmore of Science Fiction. If you enjoyed this book, you'll want to search on "Positronic Publishing Super Pack" and check out all our other Super Packs! Doorstep by Keith Laumer The Chasers by Daniel F. Galouye Blueblood by Jim Harmon Bad Memory by Patrick Fahy Beach Scene by Marshall King The Reluctant Heroes by Frank M. Robinson Kreativity for Kats by Fritz Leiber Perfect Answer by L. J. Stecher Jr., Dumbwaiter by James Stamers The Ignoble Savages by Evelyn E. Smith Angel's Egg by Edgar Pangborn Survival Type by J.F. Bone Misbegotten Missionary by Isaac Asimov The Business, as Usual by Jack Sharkey No Substitutions by Jim Harmon Prime Difference by Alan E. Nourse Delay in Transit by F. L. Wallace My Lady Greensleeves by Frederik Pohl A Little Journey by Ray Bradbury Med Ship Many Murray Leinster Spoken for by William Morrison A Pail of Air by Fritz Leiber Contagion by Katherine MacLEAN Pen Pal by Milton Lesser Delayed Action by Charles Vincent De Vet ... and it Comes out Here by Lester del Rey

Written as a collaboration between the multi-Nebula Award winning Ed Bryant and Harlan Ellison, one of the Grand Masters of science fiction and a multiple Hugo-, Nebula-, and Edgar Award-winner, PHOENIX WITHOUT ASHES is the novel edition of Harlan's famous, award-winning teleplay. (Please note this book is the novel edition, not the graphic novel.) The year is 2785, and Devon, a farmer banished for challenging his community's Elders, discovers a secret that changes everything he knew about the world, leading him on a quest to solve a mystery beyond his understanding before his entire world is destroyed in a cataclysm. With a Harlanesque introduction by Harlan Ellison. Harlan is very graciously donating his author's income to Ed for this book. THANK YOU, HARLAN! Because of Ed's financial needs, almost all the profits from this book go directly to Ed. Donations to help with Ed's medical and other financial needs are also most appreciated via www.FriendsOfEd.org. Thank you! About the Author Edward Bryant is the multi-Nebula Award winning author of over a hundred short stories, over a thousand essays and reviews, and one novel with Harlan Ellison, PHOENIX WITHOUT ASHES.

Contents: Introduction · Robert Silverberg & Martin H. Greenberg · in 11 · Mellonta Tauta · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Godey’s Lady’s Book Feb, 1849 21 · In the Year 2889 · Jules Verne · ss The Forum Feb, 1889 32 · Sold to Satan [written Jan 1904] · Mark Twain · ss Europe and Elsewhere, Harper Bros., 1923 39 · The New Accelerator · H. G. Wells · ss The Strand Dec ’01 49 · Finis · Frank Lillie Pollock · ss Argosy Jun ’06 58 · As Easy as A.B.C. · Rudyard Kipling · nv The London Magazine Mar ’12 (+1) 78 · Dark Lot of One Saul · M. P. Shiel · nv The Grand Magazine Feb ’12 96 · R.U.R. · Karel Capek · pl, 1921 144 · The Tissue-Culture King · Julian Huxley · ss The Yale Review Apr ’26; Amazing Aug ’27 160 · The Metal Man · Jack Williamson · ss Amazing Dec ’28 169 · The Gostak and the Doshes · Miles J. Breuer · ss Amazing Mar ’30 182 · Alas, All Thinking! · Harry Bates · nv Astounding Jun ’35 210 · The Mad Moon · Stanley G. Weinbaum · nv Astounding Dec ’35 227 · As Never Was · P. Schuyler Miller · ss Astounding Jan ’44 239 · Desertion [City (Websters)] · Clifford D. Simak · ss Astounding Nov ’44 249 · The Strange Case of John Kingman · Murray Leinster · ss Astounding May ’48 261 · Dreams Are Sacred · Peter Phillips · nv Astounding Sep ’48 279 · Misbegotten Missionary · Isaac Asimov · ss Galaxy Nov ’50 291 · Dune Roller · Julian May · nv Astounding Dec ’51 321 · Warm · Robert Sheckley · ss Galaxy Jun ’53 328 · A Bad Day for Sales · Fritz Leiber · ss Galaxy Jul ’53 334 · Man of Parts · H. L. Gold · ss 9 Tales of Space and Time, ed. Raymond J. Healey, Holt, 1954 344 · The Man Who Came Early · Poul Anderson · nv F&SF Jun ’56 363 · The Burning of the Brain · Cordwainer Smith · ss If Oct ’58 371 · The Men Who Murdered Mohammed · Alfred Bester · ss F&SF Oct ’58 381 · The Man Who Lost the Sea · Theodore Sturgeon · ss F&SF Oct ’59 391 · Goodlife [Berserker] · Fred Saberhagen · nv Worlds of Tomorrow Dec ’63 408 · The Sliced-Crosswise Only-On-Tuesday World · Philip José Farmer · ss New Dimensions I, ed. Robert Silverberg, Doubleday, 1971 420 · Gehenna · Barry N. Malzberg · ss Galaxy Mar ’71 424 · A Meeting with Medusa · Arthur C. Clarke · nv Playboy Dec ’71 455 · Painwise · James Tiptree, Jr. · nv F&SF Feb ’72 470 · Nobody’s Home · Joanna Russ · ss New Dimensions II, ed. Robert Silverberg, Doubleday, 1972 482 · Think Only This of Me · Michael J. Kurland · nv Galaxy Nov ’73 499 · Capricorn Games · Robert Silverberg · ss The Far Side of Time, ed. Roger Elwood, Dodd Mead, 1974 513 · “The Author of the Acacia Seeds” and Other Extracts from the Journal of the Association of Therolinguistics · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss Fellowship of the Stars, ed. Terry Carr, Simon & Schuster, 1974 519 · Travels · Carter Scholz · ss IASFM Apr ’80 528 · Doing Lennon · Gregory Benford · ss Analog Apr ’75

In the 80s, writer/wiseman Richard A. Lupoff came out with two volumes of what was to be a series: the WHAT IF? books. Each volume took a half-dozen or so years from the 60s and 70s and discussed, with Richard's 20-20 hindsight, the state of SFdom during those years. To illustrate his many points, he provided us with brilliant short stories by the best writers of the period in question, stories that DIDN'T win the Hugo that year, but maybe should have. As we know, because of politics and other often irrelevant things, the best works don't always end up winning. That's the sort of thing that is discussed in Richard's text for each year. The first two volumes were published in the 80s to great acclaim but due to some politics (or something) the third volume was never published, even though it was finalized. Fast forward to 2013 when Richard A. Lupoff, the major domo of Surinam Turtle Press, can ignore petty politics and pretty much publish what he damn well pleases. And it pleases him immensely to see WHAT IF? #3 finally see the light of day. These are the stories and authors featured in this volume. Read it and salivate. 1966 - Light of Other Days - Bob Shaw 1967 - The Star-Pit - Samuel R. Delany 1968 - The Barbarian - Joanna Russ 1969 - Sundance - Robert Silverberg 1970 - The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories - Gene Wolfe 1971 - Vaster Than Empires and More Slow - Ursula K. Le Guin 1972 - Painwise - James Tiptree, Jr. 1973 - My Brother Leopold - Edgar Pangborn

With SOME UNKNOWN GULF OF NIGHT, Wilum Pugmire continues his aesthetic exploration of the prose-poem and vignette sequence, many of which may be found in his last collection, THE TANGLED MUSE. With this new title from Arcane Wisdom Press we have a book-length sequence of semi-interconnected pieces, all of which are inspired by H. P. Lovecraft's superb sonnet sequence, FUNGI FROM YUGGOTH. Each numbered segment is an imaginative response to that numbered sonnet in Lovecraft's sequence, and Pugmire's Lovecraftian influence is the main force that drives this present work; yet other influences burrow from his fevered brain - Oscar Wilde, Edgar A. Poe, Baudelaire and the Decadents. Like some freakish soul who has lost his place in modern time, Pugmire's style is like that from another era, and yet it too is tainted by his neoteric experience as a punk rock queen and street transvestite. Like his literary heroes such as H. P. Lovecraft and Thomas Ligotti and Henry James, Pugmire strives to create what he does not hesitate to call "literary art" - prose pieces that are beautifully poetic and imaginatively deranged. This perverse concoction is best when sipped slowly, occasionally, and this is not a book to rush through in one sitting. Let it plant its poisoned fungi gradually upon your innocent brain, and thus blemish forever your paltry soul.