The Seventh Science Fiction MEGAPACK ®. Robert Silverberg
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The Seventh Science Fiction Megapack
COPYRIGHT INFO
The Seventh Science Fiction Megapack is copyright © 2013 by Wildside Press LLC. Cover art © Algol / Fotolia. All rights reserved. For publication history of specific stories, see the Acknowledgments section at the end of this volume. For more information, contact the publisher through wildsidepress.com or the Wildside Press Forums.
A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER
Welcome to the seventh volume of The Science Fiction Megapack. Once again we plunge headlong into the future, with some truly stellar tales, including a great “lost” story by Arthur C. Clarke…which works as both a science fiction story and a ghost story. (How hard is that to pull off!) And, most intriguingly, we have two stories by different authors that share the same title—“Do Unto Others”—by Damien Broderick and Mark Clifton. (We couldn’t help but include them both in the same volume!)
Plus we have Lawrence Watt-Evans’s Hugo Award-winning “Why I Left Harry’s All-Night Hamburgers,” and Mike Renick’s Hugo-nominated “All the Things You Are,” classic stories both. And, of course, there is a fine selection of other tales, new and old…including one by me, originally commissioned—though it’s hard to believe—almost 20 years ago for an illustrated book of tales inspired by Isaac Asimov’s robot series. I hope you enjoy it.
We have been busy doing quite a few single-author Megapacks, too, including H. Beam Piper, Philip K. Dick, and many more. But most interestingly—at least to me, as both an author and a reader—is that we have begun work on our first Megapack by a living writer: C.J. Henderson. C.J. has published more than 700 short stories (which makes him one of the field’s all-time most prolific wordsmiths). Plus he’s a fun writer, all-around nice guy, and well worth reading. Check out his contribution to this volume.
—John Betancourt
Publisher, Wildside Press LLC
www.wildsidepress.com
ATTN: KINDLE READERS
The Kindle versions of our Megapacks employ active tables of contents for easy navigation…please look for one before writing reviews on Amazon that complain about the lack! (They are sometimes at the ends of ebooks, depending on your version or ebook reader.)
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Note: we only consider stories that have already been professionally published. This is not a market for new works.
TYPOS
Unfortunately, as hard as we try, a few typos do slip through. We update our ebooks periodically, so make sure you have the current version (or download a fresh copy if it’s been sitting in your ebook reader for months.) It may have already been updated.
If you spot a new typo, please let us know. We’ll fix it for everyone (and email a revised copy to you when it’s updated, in either epub or Kindle format, if you provide contact information). You can email the publisher at [email protected].
THE MEGAPACK SERIES
MYSTERY
The Achmed Abdullah Megapack
The Charlie Chan Megapack*
The Craig Kennedy Scientific Detective Megapack
The Detective Megapack
The Father Brown Megapack
The Girl Detective Megapack
The Jacques Futrelle Megapack
The Anna Katharine Green Mystery Megapack
The First Mystery Megapack
The Penny Parker Megapack
The Philo Vance Megapack*
The Pulp Fiction Megapack
The Raffles Megapack
The Sherlock Holmes Megapack
The Victorian Mystery Megapack
The Wilkie Collins Megapack
GENERAL INTEREST
The Adventure Megapack
The Baseball Megapack
The Cat Story Megapack
The Second Cat Story Megapack
The Third Cat Story Megapack
The Third Cat Story Megapack
The Christmas Megapack
The Second Christmas Megapack
The Classic American Short Stories Megapack, Vol. 1.
The Classic Humor Megapack
The Dog Story Megapack
The Doll Story Megapack
The Horse Story Megapack
The Military Megapack
The Sea-Story Megapack
SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY
The Edward Bellamy Megapack
The First Reginald Bretnor Megapack
The Fredric Brown Megapack
The Ray Cummings Megapack
The Philip K. Dick Megapack
The Dragon Megapack
The Randall Garrett Megapack
The Second Randall Garrett Megapack
The Edmond Hamilton Megapack
The C.J. Henderson Megapack
The Murray Leinster Megapack
The Second Murray Leinster Megapack
The Martian Megapack
The E. Nesbit Megapack
The Andre Norton Megapack
The H. Beam Piper Megapack
The Pulp Fiction Megapack
The Mack Reynolds Megapack
The Darrell Schweitzer Megapack
The Science-Fantasy Megapack
The First Science Fiction Megapack
The Second Science Fiction Megapack
The Third Science Fiction Megapack
The Fourth Science Fiction Megapack
The Fifth Science Fiction Megapack
The Sixth Science Fiction Megapack
The Seventh Science Fiction Megapack
The Eighth Science Fiction Megapack
The Robert Sheckley Megapack
The Steampunk Megapack
The Time Travel Megapack
The Wizard of Oz Megapack
HORROR
The Achmed Abdullah Megapack
The Second Achmed Abdullah Megapack
The E.F. Benson Megapack
The Second E.F. Benson Megapack
The Algernon Blackwood Megapack
The Second Algernon Blackwood Megapack
The Cthulhu Mythos Megapack
The Erckmann-Chatrian Megapack
The Ghost Story Megapack
The Second Ghost Story Megapack
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