Wasp
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781848395091 (1848395094)
Publish date: May 24th 2010
Publisher: Pollinger Limited
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Classics,
Humor,
Science Fiction,
Mystery,
War,
Spy Thriller,
Espionage,
Aliens,
Military Science Fiction
This book is meant to be Russell's finest work. In many ways it is very typical in style of 1950's science fiction. It concerns an alien who infiltrates a planet to pass as a local and undermine them so they lose in a war to the aliens. That is a common enough premises, but the wrinkle is that h...
Read this if you want to know how terrorism 'works'. And mind you, Eric Frank Russell was one crafty author. His aliens are more like humans than not. Just to avoid any controversy, Russell created a far away planet (Planet Jaimec) on which our protagonist (or is he?) must practice his 'skills' of t...
This surprisingly unknown Golden Age SF novel features a human agent who is recruited for a daring psy-ops mission against the Sirians, a thinly disguised version of WW II Japan. When he arrives for his briefing, the agent's controller starts by telling him a story. Four fully-grown humans are drivi...
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