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Photograph from 2021
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This shooting script of the fourth draft of what would eventually become Episode IV: A New Hope is a fan-made replica of the actual script. It shows some significant differences from the text as it appears in the finished film, such as the name of Luke Starkiller instead of Luke Skywalker, and shows that Han shot first.
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From the back cover: "Deep in the Tower of the Moon, among the Hills of Aniak, dwelt the beautiful and sensuous Tara. And with Chanthu the Sorcerer, Zalric the metal man, and Khaldur the great golden cat as her tutors, she grew wise and swift, skilled and strong. The slim, sweet lines of her silk-smooth body concealed strengths like coiled steel springs. Though she could lea like a leopard, run like the wind, swim the foaming torrents, and ride, fight, and swear like a man - Tara was all woman!"
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A collection of original stories.
Table of contents: Introduction by Frank Herbert; Those Wonderful Years by Barry N. Malzberg; Univac: 2200 by Clifford D. Simak; Mommy Loves Ya by David H. Charney; Peritonitis by Gene Wolfe; Ship-Sister, Star-Sister by Robetr Silverberg; Harriet by Stephen Goldin and C. F. Hensel; Mutation Planet by Barrington J. Bayley; Jacob's Bug by Richard Posner; Getting Around by K. M. O'Donnell; The Answer by Terry Carr; In Outraged Stone by R. A. Lafferty; The Morning Rush, or Happy Birthday, Dear Leah by Lee Saye
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From the back cover: "I see Gondwane as it shall be in the untold ages of dim futurity, near the time when the Earth shall be man's habitation no more, and the great night shall enfold all, and naught but the cold stars shall reign... And there shall come a man into the lands, a man not like other men, but sent from Galendil"
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From the back cover: "The legends of the fabled land of the lost have floated for centuries around the bazaars of North Africa and the sand-surrounded oases of the vast Sahara... Eric Carstairs had heard these tales but until he met Professor Potter he did not really believe them... Carstairs and Potter took the chance - and pierced the pit to Zanthodon, a world within the world, where cavemen and cavebeasts roamed side by side wit dinosaur-monsters of millions of years ago"
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From the back cover: "On Earth life held for him only the fate of a recluse - confined to daydreams and the lore of ancient wonders but apparently destined never to share them - until the day he found the formula that enabled him to cross interstellar space. It was then that the world that revolved around an unnamed green star drew him - and as the usurper of the body of the tree-city of Phaolon's fabled hero he was t experience in flesh-and-blood all that heroic fantasies he had yearned for. For there was a princess to be saved, an invader to be thwarted, and other-world monsters to be faced..."
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From the back cover: "A space opera is what science fiction readers call an adventure in outer space and on alien planets. But a space opera could also be an opera, a musical work, that originated in outer space... Jack Vance's unique novel SPACE OPERA fits both definitions marvelously!"
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A collection of stories by Judith Merril, plus a previously unpublished poem.
Table of contents: Introduction; Survival ship; Wish upon a star; Exile from space; Connection completed; The shrine of temptation; Peeping Tom; The lady was a tramp; Auction pit; So proudly we hail; The deep down dragon; Whoever you are; Death is the penalty; The lonely.
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A collection of stories by Judith Merril with an introduction by Théodore Sturgeon.
Table of contents: Introduction; That Only a Mother; Peeping Tom; The Lady was a Tramp; Whoever You Are; Connection Completed; Dead Center; Death Cannot Wither
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From the back cover: "The man's name was Scott Carey. Eighteen months earlier, he had begun to shrink. He was seven inches tall when he fell into the cellar of his own house - the cellar that rapidly became a terrifying prison in which - every day - he shrank a little more. And finally the time came when the black widow spider scrambled across the floor towards him on giant spiny legs..."
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From the back cover: "Michael Trehearne had always been an outcast among his people on Earth. He knew he was different... but he did not know how or why. Then one day, on the windswept coast of Brittany, a bewitchingly beautiful girl appeared and told him he had the look of the Vardda - those elite star travelers who alone could withstand the rigors of intergalactic flight. Michael had to join them...had to find his place in the universe at last. But it would not be easy..."
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From the back cover: "The Wallaces were a normal young couple, normally skeptical of the so-called occult... until it happened. It started out as a party stunt - a simple little experiment in hypnosis. But suddenly it ceased to be a game. For that night some strange, unholy power took hold of Tom Wallace's mind and plunged him into a living nightmare, a harrowing sequence of events rooted in a dark and horrible moment of an unknown woman's past"
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From the back cover: "Every night they surround my last stronghold, these vampires from another world. In the darkness, they scream obscenities at me. No matter how many I kill, still they come at me. How long before they reach me?"
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Clark Ashton Smith was an American author of science fiction in the planetary romance subgenre. He published frequently in Weird Tales.
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Robert Hayward Barlow was an author and anthropologist. He lived in Mexico for part of his adult life. Barlow was a friend and collaborator of Lovecraft, and his literary executor. He wrote his own short fiction and poems and contributed to the Cthulu mythos. (Wikipedia - Robert H. Barlow)
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Howard Phillips Lovecraft was an American author of weird, fantasy, and science fiction. He was most often published in Weird Tales, and famously developed the Cthulu mythos. While he was not well-known during his lifetime, his legacy in supernatural horror has been immense. Lovecraft's stories are about the decline of civilization and cosmicism; he held racist views and his stories have been criticized on that basis.
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Richard Burton Matheson was an America writer of short fiction, novels, and scripts in the science fiction and terror genres. Some of his novels have been adapted for the screen, including I Am Legend and The Incredible Shrinking Man, and his work for television includes 14 scripts for The Twilight Zone and several episodes of Star Trek. The dominant theme of his work is paranoia.
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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was a British author of high fantasy, greatly influenced by his academic career as a medievalist. The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings series drove a resurgence in the fantasy genre in the twentieth century, and have been adapted into two enormously successful film series.
He wrote other works set in Middle-Earth, some of which have been published posthumously by his son, Christopher.
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Philip Kindred Dick was an enormously influential American author of science fiction stories and novels. His work often dealt with complex issues of reality and alternate history, authoritarian government, and metaphysics. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction says of his writing: "Even te most perilous metaphysical terrors of his finest novels wore a complaining, vulnerable, human face. In all his work he was astonishingly intimate, self-exposed, and very dangerous. He was the funniest SF writer of his time, and perhaps the most terrifying."
Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep was adapted into the very successful sci-fi film, Blade Runner, and his works have inspired many other films and television projects.
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Harlan Ellison was a science fiction author with a reputation as a controversial figure due to his temperament and combativeness, his litigiousness, and his support of Ed Kramer, a convicted pedophile; nevertheless he is acknowledged as a brilliant an influential author of the genre. He has published over 1700 works (Wikipedia - Harlan Ellison) including short stories, novels, television scripts, screenplays, and criticism. He has won many Hugo and Nebula awards, and many other accolades.
Some of his best known works are the script for the Star Trek episode The City on the Edge of Forever, the short story "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream," and his A Boy and His Dog story cycle.
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Poul Anderson was an American author of science fiction and fantasy with a degree in Physics, influenced by time living in Denmark and his Scandinavian parents. He published extensively in pulp serials and wrote many novels. Anderson's work was sometimes regarded as conservative in its values.
Anderson won seven Hugos and three Nebula awards for his work, among other honours (Wikipedia - Poul Anderson).
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Octavia Estelle Butler was an influential American author of science fiction. Her work foregrounds issues of class, race, and gender; her importance as a prominent Black author in a genre traditionally dominated by white authors is immense. Her novel Kindred has been adapted into a graphic novel and several of her novels are currently being developed for television series. Butler won multiple Hugo and Nebula awards, and she was the first science fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship (Wikipedia - Octavia Butler).
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Ursula Kroeber Le Guin was an author of speculative fiction, including the Hainish series, and fantasy, notably the Earthsea series. She often explores themes of alternative social structures in her science fiction. Le Guin has had enormous success even in the mainstream; in 2016 the New York Times called her the "greatest living science fiction writer" (Wikipedia - Ursula K. Le Guin). She has won numerous awards for her work, including Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards.
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William Gibson is a American-born Canadian author of science fiction, particularly cyberpunk. He writes near-future urban noir novels in which technology becomes part of consumer culture of late capitalism. He has coined many terms relating to cyberculture and the internet, and has had enormous influence over science fiction novels and films (Wikipedia - William Gibson). Gibson has won Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick awards, among others.