Considered a pioneer of the science fiction/alternative fiction forms, Edmond Moore Hamilton was born in 1904 in Youngstown, Ohio. He is remembered, among other things, for his muscular and fast-paced adventure novels and serializations—the juvenile sci-fi pulp series, Captain Future; the Interstellar Patrol stories—and for his comic book writing, especially for the Superman and Batman series. Hamilton grew up in Pennsylvania and started writing early. He graduated high school at the tender age of 14, entering Westminster College. Hamilton was first published in 1926 by the classic pulp fiction magazine, Weird Tales (WT). With the appearance of the short story "The Monster-God of Marmuth" (which also later was expanded as a novel), Hamilton became a member of an august group of writers and editors who would shape the concept of a science/alternative fiction genre. This company included WT editor Farnsworth Wright and writers H.P. Lovecraft, Jack Williamson,...

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August Derleth - The Solar Pons Omnibus Volume 1 of 2Edited by Basil Copper - With Drawings By Frank Utpateland a Foreword by Robert BlochSolar Pons is the successor to the legendary Sherlock Holmes. Pons, along with the faithful Doctor Parker, carries on the great tradition of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous consulting detective. But Solar Pons is far more than a mere shadow of Sherlock Holmes and is one of literature's great detectives in his own right.ContentsForeword by Robert BlochFrom the Notebooks of Dr. Lyndon ParkerThe Adventure of the Sotheby SalesmanThe Adventure of Ricoletti of the ClubfootThe Adventure of the Unique DickensiansThe Adventure of the Haunted LibraryThe Adventure of the Aluminium CrutchThe Adventure of the Circular RoomThe Adventure of the Purloined PeriaptThe Adventure of the Lost LocomotiveThe Adventure of the Five Royal CoachmenThe Adventure of the Frightened BaronetThe Adventure of the Missing HuntsmanThe Adventure of the Amateur PhilologistThe Adventure of the Seven SistersThe Adventure of the Limping ManThe Adventure of the Shaplow MillionsThe Adventure of the Innkeeper's ClerkThe Adventure of the Crouching DogThe Adventure of the Perfect HusbandThe Adventure of the Dog in the MangerThe Adventure of the Swedenborg SignaturesThe Adventure of the Spurious TamerlaneThe Adventure of the Rydberg NumbersThe Adventure of the Praed Street IrregularsThe Adventure of the Penny MagentaThe Adventure of the Remarkable WormThe Adventure of the Retired NovelistThe Adventure of the Missing TenantsThe Adventure of the Devil's FootprintsThe Adventure of the Sussex ArchersThe Adventure of the Cloverdale KennelsThe Adventure of the Lost DutchmanThe Adventure of the Grice-Paterson CurseThe Adventure of the Dorrington InheritanceThe Adventure of the Norcross RiddleThe Adventure of the Late Mr. FavershamThe Adventure of the Black Narcissus

Photographer Sierra Stratton views the world through a lens all her own. She has an uncanny sense about people, something that often causes her trouble. When she meets the sexy and brooding Evan Dorsey, her intuition tells her he’s suffering, and she wants to be the one to help him.   Evan isn’t open to help from anyone, however. His focus is on his Major League career and making himself as marketable as possible for his upcoming free agency. He plans to ride out the season in Atlanta and then sign with another team, away from the painful memories that haunt him.   Someone’s eager to send him on his way, too. Between anonymous threats and equipment sabotage, it’s clear he’s earned himself an enemy along the way. To him, it’s one more sign that he’s right to move on.   But Sierra threatens his conviction. Her contagious smile proves hard to resist, as does her kiss. She tempts him in ways he never anticipated, making him question his plans for the first time. If he’s not careful, she might just convince him that he’s meant for her.

Alastair Reynolds returns to his bestselling Revelation Space universe with two novellas of interstellar explorationDiamond DogsThe planet Golgotha—supposedly lifeless—resides in a remote star system, far from those inhabited by human colonists. It is home to an enigmatic machinelike structure called the Blood Spire, which has already brutally and systematically claimed the lives of one starship crew that attempted to uncover its secrets. But nothing will deter Richard Swift from exploring this object of alien origin…Turquoise DaysIn the seas of Turquoise live the Pattern Jugglers, the amorphous, aquatic organisms capable of preserving the memories of any human swimmer who joins their collective consciousness. Naqi Okpik devoted her life to studying these creatures—and paid a high price for swimming among them. Now, she may be the only hope for the survival of the species—and of every person living on Turquoise…

Anne Perry has dazzled readers for decades with her gripping Victorian novels and has won new fans with her acclaimed World War I series. Perry's thrilling Christmas novels, recent additions to her unique repertoire, are set in the most joyous season of the year. In A Christmas Guest, Mariah Ellison, better known as the vinegar-tongued Grandmama from the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series, makes a stunning appearance in a bracing story full of devious delight . . . and certain death.For Grandmama Ellison, Christmas is no reason to celebrate. And when her daughter and son-in-law plan a Christmas vacation to Paris sans hers truly, the cantankerous Grandmama is forced to stay elsewhere--and travels to the chilly, windswept Romney Marshes to spend the holiday with Charlotte Pitt's parents, Caroline and Joshua Fielding. Grandmama is immediately miserable. For starters, Christmas with the Fieldings is nothing like the cultured life to which she's accustomed, and the...