Winston Marks
6) Slay-Ride
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Slay-Ride written By Winston Marks - Who ever thought that Frane Lewis-wholesale triggerman, spaceways pirate-would be the sweating victim of a simple, webbed, nylon garment known as spaceman's underwear?
Frane Lewis enjoyed another sadistic shiver as he moved up the narrow passageway to the captain's control room. To his flared nostrils the warm, moist air of the small space-freighter was still heavy with the smell of death. A psychiatrist could...
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Never Gut-Shoot A Wampus by Winston Marks - An interstellar hunting trip with Major Daphne could teach a man a number of lessons. Like being kind to fellow human beings, or- Never Gut-shoot A Wampus!
I'm not exactly broke, but this Major Daphne owned more planets than I do golf balls. Whereas my mining interests were mostly on earth, the Major got in early on the Centaurus grab. A whole generation later, all I could stake out was one hot little hunk...
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Until Life Do Us Part by Winston Marks - It's a long life, when you're immortal. To retain sanity you've got to be unemotional. To be unemotional, you can't fall in love...
It was a deathless world, but a woman was dying.
Anne Tabor lay limp and pale, her long, slender limbs making only shallow depressions on the mercury bath which supported her. Webb Fellow stood over her awaiting the effects of the sedative to relieve her pain.
His title was...
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Most experiments were dropped because they failed--and some because they worked too well!
I just lost a weekend. I ain't too anxious to find it. Instead, I sure wish I had gone fishing with McCarthy and the boys like I'd planned.
I drive a beer truck for a living, but here it is almost noon Monday and I haven't turned a wheel. Sure, I get beer wholesale, and I have been known to take some advantage of my discount. But that wasn't what happened to...
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So They Baked A Cake by Winston Marks - He was tired of people-a "human interest" columnist, who specializes in glamorizations of the commonplace and sordid is likely to get that way. So ... this starship seemed to offer the ideal escape from it all.
Sure, I was one of the tough guys who said it would be great, just great, to get away from the boiling mess of humanity that stank up every inhabitable rock on earth.
Not being the Daniel Boone type,...
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The Golden Age of Science Fiction Megapacks are designed to introduce readers to classic science fiction writers of the 1940s-1960s who might otherwise be forgotten. Winston K. Marks (1915-1979) is one such unjustly forgotten author.
Included here are 12 science fiction stories, published between 1953 and 1959, representing some of his best work:
THE WATER EATER (1953)
UNBEGOTTEN CHILD (1953)
...SO THEY BAKED A CAKE (1954)
BACKLASH
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Amazing Stories is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are eight stories by Winston K. Marks: "Forsyte's Retreat", "Mate in Two Moves", "Backlash", "...So They Baked a Cake", "Wedding Day", "Until Life Do Us Part", "Bleedback", and "The Geisha Memory".
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Amazing Stories is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are seven stories by Winston K. Marks: "The Deadly Daughters", "The Water Eater", "Brown John's Body", "Breeder Reaction", "Unbegotten Child", "The Mind Digger", "Tabby", and "The Test Colony".
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The "Golden Age of Science Fiction" Megapacks are designed to introduce readers to classic science fiction writers of the 1940s-1960s who might otherwise be forgotten. Winston K. Marks (1915-1979) is one such unjustly forgotten author.
Included here are 12 science fiction stories, published between 1953 and 1959, representing some of his best work:
THE WATER EATER (1953)
UNBEGOTTEN CHILD (1953)
...SO THEY BAKED A CAKE (1954)
BACKLASH (1954)
TABBY...
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Space Travelers and Nothing But Space Travelers - Twenty Lost Sci-Fi Short Stories from the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s
• The Gun by Philip K. Dick
• So They Baked A Cake by Winston Marks
• Death Star by James McKimmey Jr.
• Leave Earthmen or Die! by John Massie Davis
• Planet of Dreams by James McKimmey Jr.
• Never Gut-Shoot A Wampus by Winston Marks
• Three Spacemen Left to Die! by Russ Winterbotham
• The Voyage Of Vanishing Men by Stanley...
19) Sci-Fi Killers - 14 Killer Science Fiction Short Stories by Philip K. Dick, Robert Silverberg, Ha
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Fourteen Killer science fiction short stories from some of the best sci-fi authors of the 1940s, 50s and 60s.