Alfred Coppel
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Alfred Coppel (Alfredo Jose de Arana-Marini Coppel, 1921- 2004) was an American author. Born in Oakland, California, he served as a fighter pilot in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. After his discharge, he started his career as a writer. He became one of the most prolific pulp authors of the 1950s and 1960s, adopting the pseudonyms Robert Cham Gilman and A.C. Marin and writing for a variety of pulp magazines and later "slick"...
2) The Invader
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Invading Earth was going to be a cinch, the Triomed scout decided. But to make certain he must study its inhabitants-as one of them!
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Amazing Stories Volume 146 is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are three short stories by two different authors: "The Terror" by Alfred Coppel, "No Charge For Alterations" and "The Old Die Rich" both by H. L. Gold.
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Amazing Stories Volume 131 is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are six short stories by different authors: "Touch the Sky" by Alfred Koppel, "The Eternal Quest" by Joseph Gilbert, "Grounded" by William Sambrot, "The Thirteenth Juror" by Leslie Waltham, "Awakening" by Bryce Walton, and "Nothing" by Ernest Shackleton.
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Amazing Stories is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are six stories by Alfred Coppel: "Wreck Off Triton", "Tydore's Gift", "Task to Luna", "The Rebel of Valkyr", "The Peacemaker", and "Turning Point".
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"Normality" is a myth; we're all a little neurotic, and the study of neurosis has been able to classify the general types of disturbance which are most common. And some types (providing the subject is not suffering so extreme a case as to have crossed the border into psychosis) can be not only useful, but perhaps necessary for certain kinds of work....
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Amazing Stories is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are eight stories by Alfred Coppel: "Community Property", "Turnover Point", "The Hills of Home", "Double Standard", "The Invader", "Jinx Ship to the Rescue", "The Starbusters", and "Captain Midas".
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The First Man on the Moon by Alfred Coppel - John Thurmon swore he'd be the first man on the moon. But he wasn't. He was only the first murderer.
The ship lay at a crazy angle on the stark whiteness of the pumice plain. The rocket nozzles were a fused lump of slag; the fire-darkened hull crumpled and warped by the impact of landing. And there was silence ... complete and utter silence.
There could be no return. Thurmon realized this. At first the...
12) Sci-Fi Killers - 14 Killer Science Fiction Short Stories by Philip K. Dick, Robert Silverberg, Ha
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Fourteen Killer science fiction short stories from some of the best sci-fi authors of the 1940s, 50s and 60s.
13) Turning Point
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The man is rare who will give his life for what is merely the lesser of two evils. Merrick's decision was even tougher: to save human beings at the expense of humanity, or vice versa?
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As America's economic and cultural influence grew in the 20th Century, the history of the literary arts in Europe cast a long shadow onto this burgeoning nation. And thus, the myth of the Great American Novel was born of a loaded question-would the United States ever produce a work to rival the accepted great works of Western Culture? Many tried. And, in the trying, many looked to model themselves after already extant writers and works which had gained...