A war older than Man, fought among ageless stars. . . Long after Man's day was done his last strange son answered its dread challenge on an invisible world of flaming terror!ExcerptRaising one of his six metal tentacles, 6W-438 pointed to the great comet stretching off into space more than a half million miles. "We have been up near the head, and on all sides of it by virtue of our superior speed. Why not fly through it?"744U-21, who with Professor Jameson, headed this later expedition, expressed negation. "We don't know enough about it. The long tail is of a gaseous nature. That we do know. What we do not exactly know is whether its effects on metal might, or might not, be harmful. 168P-75 reports an element in the comet which he believes would corrode the alloy of which we are made. Its effect on the spaceship would be much the same, even though the metallic composition varies somewhat from that of our own bodies.""There is nothing especially worth learning by passing through the tail of the comet," the professor pointed out. "What interests us is watching the comet pass through the planetary sytem which lies in its path. As 65G-849 has told us, there will be no collision with any of the worlds. They are too few and strung out too far, yet their presence is bound to have an effect on the comet even though it may only result in a change of direction. The green sun itself being the largest body of the system, will probably exert the most change and might even bend the course of the comet a hundred and eighty degrees so that it would eventually return this way."Already the metal Zoromes who had once been flesh and blood creatures back on their own planet Zor in a far distant corner of the universe, had taken as much scientific data as possible, short of entering the long gaseous tail. The nucleus was solid, like a small world careening through space. That it carried or sustained any life they seriously doubted, even though they had occasionally found strange life under even stranger conditions during their travels from system to system, world to world, on their eternal exploration for the unusual.

James R. Singleton, APR, earned his first money from writing when he won five dollars in a poetry contest in the third grade. He has not been quite right ever since, according to family and friends. He left home at age 14 to be a page in the U.S. Senate where he stayed five yearsA[a¬A]just long enough to be so turned off by politics, he did not register to vote until he was almost 30. He earned a journalism degree and a minor in English from the University of South Carolina and married his high school sweetheart. His novels reflect events from his life, slightly modified by a more-than-vivid imagination. The incident portrayed herein resembles what took place in July 1968 at Lackland AFB, Texas, where Captain Singleton was a squadron commander. After serving three years, 364 days 23 hours and 21 minutes in the Air Force, he and wife Judy returned to Columbia, South Carolina, where they raised three children with some success. One of his daughters, Lisa, is also a writer. He writes because it is a release, it pays fairly well, and it is far more fun than anything else he has ever done as a hobby.

Ole Devil Hardin's Floating Outfit is not used to mixing with royalty.But the Crown Prince Rudolph is on a hunting expedition in their territory. That means it is up to Dusty Fog, Mark Counter, the Ysabel Kid and Waco to keep an eye on him--and keep the assassins at bay!

Serial Killers: Jack The Ripper to The Zodiac Killer is an exploration of the dark world of serial murder in the 20th and 21st century. Covering international cult figures from H.H. Holmes to Luis Garavito (La Beastia), examining psychological motivations of serial murderers, and presenting some of the most terrifying unsolved cases to date, Serial Killers provides an eerie peer into the oft uncovered world of murder and mystery.

The purpose of this book is to provide an organized compilation of information and techniques for all aspects of the biology and management of the Acanthaster planci species. This extraordinary coral predator has greater effects on coral reef communities than any other animal species. It can cause mortality of hard corals over large areas and have indirect effects that extend through the trophic levels of the reef community. This volume features A planci as an animal with a unique combination of morphological, physiological, and life history characteristics that contribute to its potential for major ecological impacts. It provides detailed techniques for disparate aspects of research and management (e.g., raising the animal through all life history stages, calculating growth curves, and treating victims of spinings). Chapters cover methods for surveys, tagging, and control of A. planci, in addition to an assessment of the advantages and disadvantages of each method. The extensive subject index includes more than 1,000 references to A. planci and a BASIC program for estimating coral recovery after predation by the starfish. Acanthaster planci: Major Management Problem of Coral Reefs is an essential reference for all coral reef managers and researchers.