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Beachhead Planet
Valthor looked down with mingled awe and terror at the scene below hom. Once this had been a vast network of mines; now it was being transformed into a gigantic hivelike complex deep beneath the earth.
Thousands upon thousands of the little robot men were working with their picks and shovels. Directing them were grotesque two-headed monsters with deadly atomic guns. And wan...more
Thousands upon thousands of the little robot men were working with their picks and shovels. Directing them were grotesque two-headed monsters with deadly atomic guns. And wan...more
190 pages
Published
August 27th 1970
by Sidgwick & Jackson
(first published 1970)
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Strange things are happening in and around the town of Golden Fleece, Colorado. An authentic 1800s gold mining town has been re-created for tourists. While a group of tourists are being welcomed to the town, a naked man comes out of one of the nearby mine entrances, running and screaming. He is killed by a tiny missile fired by a two-headed creature that also comes out of a mine entrance, setting him on fire from the inside. In the ensuing panic, the helicopter full of tourists is shot down by a...more
First, ignore the cover art. Actually, don't do that: it's a Jack Gaughin piece and is pretty awesome. Instead, ask yourself what a painting of a swordsman/barbarian standing on a giant green gargoyle is doing on a book that takes place in Colorado, 2151 A.D. (Personally, I'd like to imagine that somewhere there's a sword-and-sorcery novel with a cover depicting a two-headed robot shooting down a helicopter by means of an energy weapon portruding from its forehead.)
Anyhow.
The synopsis reads like...more
Anyhow.
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This was written in 1970 and reads like something written then. But the story is surprisingly good if one ignores the errors in technology like hand-held atomic weapons. It is 190 pages of pulp but if you find it in a used bookstore, it is worth the $1 and the couple of hours.
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The prolific author Robert Moore Williams published more than 150 novels and short stories under his given name as well as a variety of pseudonyms including John S. Browning, H.H. Harmon, Robert Moore, Russell Storm and E.K. Jarvis.
Williams was born in Farmington, Missouri and earned a journalism degree from the University of Missouri, Columbia. He had a full-time writing career from 1937 through...more
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Williams was born in Farmington, Missouri and earned a journalism degree from the University of Missouri, Columbia. He had a full-time writing career from 1937 through...more
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