Richard Wilson (1920–1987) was a Nebula Award winning American science fiction writer and fan. He was a member of the Futurians, and was at his most prolific in the 1950s -- though he continued writing throughout his entire life. This volume focuses primarily on his science fiction (24 stories and a poem) from the 1950s and 1960s. Included in this volume are: THE MAN WITHOUT A PLANET THE HOAXTERS IF YOU WERE THE ONLY— DOUBLE TAKE MARY HELL’S THE WASP COURSE OF EMPIRE DON’T FENCE ME IN ONE MAN’S INCH OH, YOU UFO THE BIG FIX LONELY ROAD THE SONS OF JAPHETH IT’S COLD OUTSIDE SUCCESS STORY THE LOCUS FOCUS THE ENEMY TIME OUT FOR TOMORROW KILL ME WITH KINDNESS TRAVELING COMPANION WANTED THE LITTLE WOMAN DESERTER GREEN EYES THE SOUTH WATERFORD RUMPLE CLUB THE PURPLE BAT If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see more of the 300+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction -- and much, much more!

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Fifteen tales including several featuring the hero Ilya; one featuring the villainous Whirlwind the Whistler; and others with Vasily the Turbulent, Nikita the Footless, and Peerless Beauty, the Cake-Baker.

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A private investigator visite the secluded mining town of Stillwell, Colorado, to find a missing miner named Randall Cook. The trail leads to a tangled mystery when the investigator learns that Cook is dead, buried under a rockfall in the mine. As the PI digs deeper, he suspects that the story behind the death isn’t as simple as it seems. With the tight-knit town hiding secrets and the mine’s dangers looming, the investigator must navigate a delicate balance between truth and survival.

Across Guatemala, Mayan peoples are struggling to recover from decades of cataclysmic upheaval--religious conversions, civil war, displacement, military repression. Richard Wilson carried out long-term research with Q’eqchi’-speaking Mayas in the province of Alta Verapaz to ascertain how these events affected social organization and identity. He finds that their rituals of fertility and healing--abandoned in the 1970s during Catholic and Protestant evangelizations--have been reinvented by an ethnic revivalist movement led by Catholic lay activists, who seek to renovate the earth cult in order to create a new pan-Q’eqchi’ ethnic identity.