This Halcyon Classics ebook contains twenty-one western stories by Robert E. Howard, the creator of the sword-and-sorcery hero 'Conan.' This collection contains an active table of contents for easy navigation. Contents: Breckinridge Elkins Stories Breckinridge Elkins A Gent from Bear Creek (novella) Cupid from Bear Creek Evil Deeds at Red Cougar Guns of the Mountains High Horse Rampage No Cowherders Wanted Pilgrims to the Pecos Pistol Politics Sharp’s Gun Serenade Texas John Alden The Apache Mountain War The Conquerin’ Hero of the Humbolts The Feud Buster The Haunted Mountain The Riot at Cougar Paw The Road to Bear Creek The Scalp Hunter War on Bear Creek Other Works The Vultures of Whapeton While Smoke Rolled This unexpurgated edition contains the complete text, with minor errors and omissions corrected.

Everything that lives contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction. It was the fate of the Assyrians and the Hittites, the Greeks and the Romans, the British and the Americans. And so it was for the Polesotechnic League and the Terran Empire. Conception, birth, growth, aging, death: This is the law of life, true for nations, worlds and stellar empires no less than for organisms. For the greatest and the smallest it is the same, differing on it in this: the greater the heights conquered, the greater the fall, the longer and darker the night that follows… The stories contained herein were first published as follows: “The Star Plunderer,” Planet Stories, 1952. “Outpost of Empire,” Galaxy , 1967. “A Tragedy of Errors” Galaxy , 1967. “The Sharing of Flesh,” Galaxy , 1968. Won Hugo and nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novelette in 1969. “Starfog,” Analog, 1967.

The NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR launches the new Time Hunters series.In the 24th century, anyone can leap through time at will. To police the time jumpers, the Temporal Enforcement Agency has established a precinct in time. Galar Arvid is a genetically altered warlord and agent who?™s been sent back to 2008 to save a pretty Atlanta artist from a Xeran time traveler who intends to kill her for profit. What Galar doesn?™t count on is the powerful desire Jessica Kelly ignites in him. But could a romance between them work? A three-hundred-year chasm separates them and, even if they dart through time, there?™s still a maniacal killer on their tails.

Thomas Connor, through horrendous tragedy, hones his body and mind to accomplish the incredible. American Mutant follows the course of Connor’s journey to attain a violent and unrelenting brand of justice. On the way, he assembles a cast of characters, who join him on his quest to reshape a treacherous world into his vision of the future. Washington D.C. becomes a backdrop for Connor’s rise from incarcerated enforcer in a branch of the National Security Agency, to the head of a complex intelligence network, owing allegiance to Connor alone. An old friend from his CIA past assists him in his goal to make a difference. Connor gathers a cadre of inner city young black men capable of turning their lives around to build a business front and house his intelligence gathering aspirations. With the help of Nate Johnson, a CIA assassin, Connor takes on a web of Russian Mafia and Red Chinese intelligence gangs, to break a slave ring kidnapping young girls for foreign sources. With his growing extraordinary powers, Connor takes the murder capitol of the country to a new level of violence, frightening in its scope. After meeting Connor, his unruly band learns fear, discipline, and a terrifying way to make dreams come true. In return for their loyalty, Connor provides them with an escape hatch from oblivion.

The best stories of the year, as selected by the one of the world's most honoured science fiction authors and his long-time collaborator. Here in one affordable volume is the best short science fiction of the year as selected from magazines, anthologies and journals. It is the first in a prestigious new series from ibooks. Robert Silverberg, a multiple winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards as a writer, has complied a distinguished record as an anthologist over the past 35 years. Among the famous books he has edited are THE SCIENCE FICTION HALL OF FAME, THE NEW DIMENSIONS, UNIVERSE and THE ALPHA SERIES. His long list of science fiction and fantasy novels include such titles as DYING INSIDE and THE ALIENS YEARS.