Secret Weapon and Other Stories — E.C. Tubb

This new collection by E.C. Tubb, a past master of science fiction, presents five classics of the genre:Secret Weapon - The secret military installation on the moon, with its missile capability to strike at aggressors on Earth, was a Sword of Damocles keeping world peace. But there was another secret weapon ranged against it...Forbidden Fruit - The Venusian fruits contained an element which altered the human metabolism so that it became indispensable. Once the fruit was eaten a man could never return to Earth. Yet to pay for the expensive imported Earth food was to walk into an economic mantrap...Third Party - Two warring alien races fight another chapter of their interstellar struggle operating incognito on the Earth...The Give-Away Worlds - The problem wasn't to find new planets. It was to find people to settle on them-and stay alive!The Seekers - It was a strange thing they found on the surface of the uninhabited planet: an artefact that granted anyone who beheld the realization their innermost desires...