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Welcome to the latest and greatest issue of STARTLING STORIES! This long-awaited issue is jam-packed with action and adventure. Featuring classic pulp fiction, with the original illustrations, by Raymond F. Jones, Arthur J. Burks, Clifford D. Simak, James H. Schmitz, and Raymond Z. Gallun from the Golden Age of Science Fiction. We are also pleased to featurenew fiction by Robert Morganbesser, S. Clayton Rhodes, John L. French, Don Hutchison, and K.G. McAbee, all of whom have written some new tales that will entertain and surprise you! They are some of the new Fictioneers that Wild Cat Books is proud to work with, and we're sure you'll enjoy them. We also feature the newest installment of famed artist Ron Wilber's comic book heroine "Saucy Blaine", and for good measure we have also included a comic reprint of "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet"! Add to this mix our usual Retro-Reviews of Popular Culture, and this is an issue you won't want to miss! Edited and Designed by William Carney, this is a magazine that all Sci-Fi and Fantasy fans will want on their bookshelf! ... Read more

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Included in this volume are two short novels by Raymond F. Jones: "The Memory of Mars" originally appeared in the December, 1961 issue of Amazing Stories. "Cubs of the Wolf" originally appeared in the November, 1955 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. ... Read more

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Number one in the Laser Books series of original science fiction novels, released in August 1975. Three novels would be issued per month until the line folded in February 1977. ... Read more

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This digital document, covering the life and work of Raymond F. Jones, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the entry is 1303 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

• Place and date of birth and death (if deceased)
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"As soon as I'm well we'll go to Mars for a vacation again," Alice would say. But now she was dead, and the surgeons said she was not even human. In his misery, Hastings knew two things: he loved his wife; but they had never been off Earth!

A novelet from the Golden Age of Science Fiction, originally published in the December, 1961 issue of Amazing Stories magazine! ... Read more

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In 1949 and 1950 a science fiction serial by Raymond F. Jones appeared in Thrilling Wonder Stories. Within half a decade that serial would make history as the basis of the first science fiction movie about interstellar travel and interstellar war. The next Hollywood movie to venture to another solar system was Forbidden Planet, a wholly original construct of the prestige studio MGM. But solid, reliable Universal Studios was there first...long before Star Trek.

This Island Earth was really the first Star Wars. Colorful, spectacular, wildly imaginative, it lived up to everything its agent could possibly want, a man who was known as Mr. Science Fiction and who now brings back this classic novel: Forrest J Ackerman. A phrase he coined in another galaxy a long time ago say's it all: Gosh Wow! This story has it all.

The cover of this special edition features Jeff Morrow in the role of one of the most sympathetic aliens in 1950's science fiction film (the other is Michael Rennie in The Day the Earth Stood Still, also adapted from a literary source). In the novel he is Jorgasnovara, in the movie the less jaw Breaking Exeter. In both print and celluloid he comes to respect the Earth scientists essayed by Rex Reason and Faith Domergue.

This Island Earth is a book of heroes. The first half of the film closely follows the novel but then diverges from the intellectual challenges faced by Dr. Cal Meachem to more cinematic fare. Reading the novel now, one cannot help but marvel at how Jones' views everything from labor disputes to the predictability of computers influenced later movies and television, making This Island Earth, the novel, even more influential than-one would guess from ThisIsland Earth the movie.

Pulpless.Com is proud to bring back the printed word in hope that all who see the movie will want to read the book, and vice versa! Turn on your interocitors and prepare to receive transmission! ... Read more

Customer Reviews (10)

So much better than the movie, but don't get me wrong
I never knew that there was a book until I bought the movie from Amazon last month; however; I did see the movie when it first came out. My parents took me to see it at a Drive In waay back "in the day".I have remembered that movie for years and watched it on TV when I could.I even ordered one on EBay alas it was a fast copy, rip-off - the guy got shut down pretty quickly.

But, I would like to find the serial version that appeared in Thrilling Wonder Stories.It seems to me that this is the very first Star Trek Book.If the Great One read this book (and I can not believe that he did not), you can even see where the idea for one episode came from. I am not saying what, because I don't want to spoil it for new buyers/readers.

I would like to see the move remade and this time follow the book.

Finally, I do have to agree with regard to the typos.Does PulPless have proof readers?If so, they need to be replaced. This was without a doubt the worst job of proofing or typesetting that I have ever seen. This is why the low stars.

An imaginitive SF Classic!Dated, but has aged well.
This is a true Science Fiction classic.I first read it when I was in Middle School, and it made quite an impression on me as a fantastic story with a wild premise, well-told.Picking it up thirty-five years later, the novel has lost none of its punch or impact.This is a true science fiction classic.

The premise of the novel is simple enough:Earth is being visited by warring factions of a monstrously large inter-galactic conflict.Each side views Earth as an obscure planet of limited importance, much as the US Navy might have viewed certain obscure islands in the Pacific during the Second World War.The protagonists become caught up in this conflict in a very interesting way.More would be telling, but suffice to say, this is a really interesting story, and its premise has not been done better (to my knowledge) in any science fiction novels that have come later.

This one is highly recommended to anyone who enjoys good science fiction.

Pulp Classic: This Island Earth by Ramond F. Jones
What moral obligation does a scientist have? If his or her efforts are used by the military to inflict death and destruction on an enemy to spare others from dying, is he or she morally wrong? This question, among others, is a central theme of this re-released work that inspired the classic 1950's movie.

Joe Wilson is the purchasing agent for Ryberg Instrument. One day, instead of getting what he ordered, he gets a shipment of rather strange looking parts. He turns them over to Cal Meacham to play with while he tries to get Cal's order straightened out. Cal starts playing with the parts back in the lab and discovers they are simply amazing and like nothing he has ever seen of or heard of before.

Joe sends in a replacement order and instead gets more of the same parts, plus an intriguing catalog. He turns everything he gets over to Cal and Cal is also fascinated by the catalog. It seems to suggest that a device can be built from the parts listed in the catalogue. A device that no one seems to have heard ofbefore.

Cal builds the device and it allows him to communicate at vast distances. The ability to create the device from nothing more than a parts list was a test and he has passed. He accepts the resultant job offer and becomes involved in a vast conspiracy of mind-boggling proportions. The fate of the world may hang in the balance as well as Cal's own moral code.

Regardless of whether or not you have seen the movie, this is a great book. The writing is crisp and sharp with strong characters and a fantastic premise. Not too many people write Science Fiction like this anymore and this story well withstands the test of time.

Pulp Science Fiction
This is a fun book to read if you are into 50's science fiction. The movie is equally entertaining and if you have seen it yet it's worth a try. Order a pizza, pop some popcorn, and curl up with your woman and enjoy a fun movie.

This Island Earth is one of the best of the old pulp SFtales
On the bookshelves today, you will find Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, and, if you are lucky, E.E. Doc. Smith.They are all that remain of the myriad of pulp science fiction writers of years ago.The early part of the twentieth century was filled with a number of very good pulp writers in all genres but this style of writing has nearly disappeared.Some of their stories have disappeared for good reasons but many others were lost in the passage of time.This Island Earth is one of those lost.Reading it, you can tell that it was written before political correctness.There is a naivete about the writing with a harshness of someone who has experienced the atrocities of a world at war.It follows the single idea based science fiction writing of the era.The idea is intriguing, 'what would happen if you found a manual of a super high tech machine that seems to be based on scientific ideas no one has seen or heard before.'

This Island Earth starts with an engineer, Cal Meacham, receiving an order of parts that look impossible.When Cal asks for a catalogue from the company, he receives a listing of parts that shouldn't exist and instructions on making a device called an interocitor.Forgetting the adage about curiousity killing the cat, Cal orders the parts to make the interocitor.Single mindedly Cal forges ahead more interested in the engineering and science than what it could mean.Cal doesn't see the danger to himself and the earth until it is too late to stop.

This Island Earth isn't the best written novel.A common practice in the pulp magazine period is to string a series of short stories together into a novel.This Island Earth is a composite of three short stories written over a period of years and it is possible to tell the change of focus between the novelletes.Although pulp writing sometimes lacks a finished polish, it can be great storytelling.Science fiction readers will appreciate glimpsing the roots of today's genre.Historical readers will enjoy the insight into the social mind set of the post World War II and early Cold War period.But anyone who likes good storytelling will enjoy This Island Earth. ... Read more

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THE NIGHT OF THE LONG KNIVES, and TWELVE OTHER SCIFI SHORT STORIES

FROM THE 30'S TO THE 60'S
COPYRIGHT, 2009.G. WORSHINGTON


THE K-FACTOR p.2
By HARRY HARRISON
From Analog December 1960


LEASE TO DOOMSDAYp.25
By LEE ARCHER
From Amazing Stories September 1956


The Cavern of the Shining Ones p. 42
By Hal K. Wells
From Astounding Stories November 1932


OPERATION TERROR p.64
Murray Leinster


Giants on the Earthp. 158
By Capt. S. P. Meek
From Astounding Stories December 1931 and January 1932 issues


BY PROXY p.208
By DAVID GORDON
From Astounding Science Fiction September 1960


THE NIGHT OF THE LONG KNIVES p.241
COMPLETE BOOK-LENGTH NOVEL
By FRITZ LEIBER
From Amazing Science Fiction Stories January 1960


THE CRYSTAL CRYPTp. 314
By PHILIP K. DICK
From Planet Stories January 1954


the memory of mars p.334
By RAYMOND F. JONES
From Amazing Stories December 1961


NO MOVING PARTSp. 366
By MURRAY F. YACO
From Amazing Science Fiction Stories May 1960


HAIL TO THE CHIEFp. 385
BY SAM AND JANET ARGO
From Analog Science Fact and Science Fiction February 1962


POLICE OPERATIONp.416
BY H. BEAM PIPER
From Astounding Science Fiction July 1948


WHAT THE LEFT HAND ... WAS DOING p.442
By DARRELL T. LANGART
From Astounding Science Fiction, February 1960


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The Memory of Mars by Raymond F. Jones
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