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Secret Weapon and Other Stories
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 12 2020
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.42 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This new collection by E.C. Tubb, a past master of science fiction, presents five classics of the genre:
Secret Weapon - The secret military installation on the moon, with its missile capability to strike at aggressors on Earth, was a Sword of Damocles keeping world peace. But there was another secret weapon ranged against it...
Forbidden Fruit - The Venusian fruits contained an element which altered the human metabolism so that it became indispensable. Once the fruit was eaten a man could never return to Earth. Yet to pay for the expensive imported Earth food was to walk into an economic mantrap...
Third Party - Two warring alien races fight another chapter of their interstellar struggle operating incognito on the Earth...
The Give-Away Worlds - The problem wasn't to find new planets. It was to find people to settle on them-and stay alive!
The Seekers - It was a strange thing they found on the surface of the uninhabited planet: an artefact that granted anyone who beheld the realization their innermost desires...
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