Reginald Bretnor

Future at War

3 - Orion's Sword (Feb-1989)

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  The Gnurrs Come from the Voodvork Out
  

  • Jan-1950
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  Killing in Swords
  

  • Jan-1978
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  She was a living doll who got all wound up -- in murder! An offbeat novel about some very strange happenings, by an acclaimed mystery and science fiction author (and the creator of Ferdinand Feghoot)....

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  007: "It is Enough, Ivan. Go Home!"
  

  in There Will Be War, Vol. III: Blood and Iron

  • 1983
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  From the fearless fighting men of inter-galactic space to the Spartan few who held the pass at Thermopylae. From the hardy starship troopers of futuristic mercenary frays to those last Roman centurions, holding back the barbaric hordes. From those ce...

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  Gilpin's Space
  

  • Jun-1986
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  Schimmelhorn's Gold
  

  • Jun-1986
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  Papa Schimmelhorn, a lecherous, elderly cuckoo-clock assembler who has solved great problems of time and space, joins forces with incidiously vile alchemist Gaspar Gansfleisch and the luscious Priestess Philippa Theophrasta Bombast von Hohenheim to c...

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  Decisive Warfare: Retrospect and Prospect
  

  in There Will Be War, Vol. VI: Guns of Darkness

  • Jun-1987
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  ECHO THROUGH THE LAND... From the gray gunsmoke mists of a far-off alien realm to a violent valley of sinister shadows and frightfully bloody death, from an evil planet haunted by generals of the past and the soldiers who served them to a brutal t...

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  The Future at War
  

  • 1988
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  Orion's Sword
  

  • Feb-1989
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  Future at War - 3
  

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  Modern Science Fiction
  

  • Jun-2013
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  Essays by John W. Campbell, Jr., Anthony Boucher, Don Fabun, Fletcher Pratt, Rosalie Moore, L. Sprague de Camp, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Philip Wylie, Gerald Heard, and Reginald Bretnor. The original 1953 edition was the first serious discussi...

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  Black Cat Thrillogy #1
  

  • Dec-2017
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  Welcome to the first volume of The Black Cat Mystery Community’s "Thrillogy" series, celebrating classic mystery short stories. This time we focus on the work of Reginald Bretnor (1911-1992). Included are: PAPER TIGER THE MURDERERS' CIRCLE THE PHOT...

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  The Greatest of All Webley Collectors
  

  • Dec-2019
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  A World War I spy-vs-counterspy tale, of the genteel, old-school variety....

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  Mrs. Pigafetta Swims Well
  

  • Sep-2021
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  Mr. Coastguard, this is what has happened to Pietro Pugliese, who is captain of the fishing boat Il Trovatore, of Monterey. Me, Joe Tonelli, I am his engineer. I know.It is because of Mrs. Pigafetta, from Taranto. It is her fault. Also the porpoises....

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  Schimmelhorn File
  

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  Sugar Plum
  

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  If not for two items, this would be a funny story -- the Atomic Age brought back the 1925 vogue, and inhibition is not shatter-proof....

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