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By Charles L. Fontenay

The Golden Age of technological know-how Fiction Megapacks are designed to introduce readers to vintage technological know-how fiction writers who may well rather be forgotten.

Charles L. Fontenay (1917-2007) is one such unjustly forgotten writer. incorporated listed below are seven brief tales plus one novel, released among, representing a few of his most sensible work.

About the Megapacks
Over the previous few years, our “Megapack” sequence of publication anthologies has proved to be considered one of our most well liked endeavors. (Maybe it is helping that we occasionally provide them as charges to our mailing list!) One query we hold getting requested is, “Who’s the editor?”
The Megapacks (except the place particularly credited) are a gaggle attempt. every person at Wildside works on them. This comprises John Betancourt, Mary Wickizer Burgess, Sam Cooper, Carla Coupe, Steve Coupe, Bonner Menking, Colin Azariah-Kribbs, Robert Reginald. A. E. Warren, and lots of of Wildside’s authors… who usually recommend tales to incorporate (and not only their own!)

Contents:
• “Disqualified” initially seemed in If Worlds of technology Fiction, September 1954.
• “Atom Drive” initially seemed in If Worlds of technology Fiction, April 1956.
• “Service with a Smile” initially seemed in If Worlds of technological know-how Fiction, June 1956.
• “The Martian Shore” initially seemed in Infinity technological know-how Fiction, 1957.
• “The present Bearer” initially seemed in Amazing technological know-how Fiction Stories, September 1958.
• “The Jupiter Weapon” initially seemed in Amazing technological know-how Fiction Stories, March 1959.
• “Wind” initially seemed in Amazing technology Fiction Stories, April 1959.
• “Rebels of the purple Planet” initially seemed in 1961 as half an Ace Double.

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Radio went out prior to I crashed. Helmet radio, too. I’ll need to demand support from the following. ” “You can wait within the airlock. I’ll radio Mars urban. ” “I’m hungry,” he acknowledged, “and thirsty. ” That used to be an attraction that can now not be neglected. “I’ll allow you to in,” she acknowledged after a moment’s hesitation. “But i've got a gun. ” “I don’t,” he replied, spreading his palms and turning so she may possibly see throughout his belt. the interior airlock door opened, and Shaan entered the dome. The scent of the air introduced thoughts of his boy­hood on the earth. the woman stood clear of him, retaining the heat-gun on him gradually. She had brown eyes and red-gold hair that tumbled to her shoulders. Shaan judged her to be approximately seventeen years outdated. Shaan smiled at her via his blond beard, and he or she low­ered the muzzle of the gun. He might stream now, yet they most likely have been being watched from the home. And any min­ute she may notice the emblem on his soiled face. “Where’s your father? ” he requested. “Or your husband? ” “Where are your oxygen tanks? ” she countered, the gun bobbing up back. “Ran out of oxygen,” he re­plied. “They’re within the sage simply outdoors the dome. I came simply in time. The straps broke on them and I’d been sporting them in my fingers for 6 hours. ” it appears the reply satis­fied her. “I’m Lori McDowell,” she acknowledged. “My father hasn’t are available in from the mine but. Come on as much as the home. ” Now? No. They most likely have been nonetheless being watched from the home. He walked around the garden of Earth grass together with her. It was once a small plastic-brick apartment like several Martian apartment. As they entered the parlor, a long-legged woman of approximately fifteen left an open entrance window, a heat-gun dangling in her hand. “Is he innocuous, Lori? ” she requested. “I imagine so,” stated Lori. “Mr. Shaan, this is often my sister, Vali. ” Vali McDowell laid her heat-gun on a desk and held out a hand to Shaan in frank welcome. Her hair was once black and her deep blue eyes held extra interest and not more reserve than these of her sister. Lori had laid her gun apart, too. His job will be made more uncomplicated, Shaan concept, by way of the truth that those teenaged sisters most likely didn’t see a tender guy oftener than yearly and have been lonesome. “I’d prefer to seek advice from your mom, girls,” acknowledged Shaan, extra to verify a suspicion than any­thing else. “Mother’s dead,” stated Vali. “We reside the following by myself with father. ” “But we will be able to look after our­selves, Mr. Shaan,” warned Lori, her hand close to her gun. “I’m definite you could. Do you brain if I freshen up a bit? ” “Bathroom’s around the hall,” acknowledged Lori. “I’ll repair supper. ” The marsuits have been striking within the corridor: Lori’s, Vali’s, and an additional person who gave the look of it was once large enough for Shaan. He strip­ped off his personal worn and soiled one, rising in brown cover­alls, and went into the bath­room. whereas he washed, his nebu­lous course of action crystalized. First he needs to achieve ownership of the heat-guns in the home and cripple the dome radio. it'd be risky, maintain­ing consistent watch over 3 adversarial humans, yet he may possibly reside the following indefinitely whereas evolving an enduring plan of life.

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