Robert Moore Williams was een productieve auteur wiens werk voornamelijk sciencefiction en fantasy verkende. Zijn verhalen doken vaak in archetypische thema's en avontuurlijke plotlijnen, gecreëerd met een duidelijke en directe stijl. Williams kreeg erkenning voor zijn series die lezers meenamen naar verre werelden en epische conflicten.
The Crystal Planetoids: When the freakish weather conditions appear to be happening all over the Earth, the scientific community knows there is something disastrous afoot. A great, foggy haze settles over the entire planet. Every day temperatures shoot up into the hundreds. Earth is under attack from Saturnian aliens
"The first novel is a Lovecraftian-style science fantasy, "The Deep End" by Armchair Fiction editor, Gregory Luce. There were monsters in the watery depths. It was a summer day, 1965. On the surface everything seemed normal. A nice family pool on a hot day with dozens of children and adults splashing about. There were college and high school students on the prowl, too, looking for attractive members of the opposite sex--and none was more attractive than the new female lifeguard in the two-piece swimming suit. She sat beautifully atop her observation chair watching the events in the watery playground. But there was something strange about Graybill's swimming pool, and even more so with Jacob's Pond, which lay beyond it. A number of kids had drowned in the pond years before and now strange things were happening in the pool."--Website
Valthor looked down with mingled awe and terror at the scene below hom. Once this had been a vast network of mines; now it was being transformed into a gigantic hivelike complex deep beneath the earth.Thousands upon thousands of the little robot men were working with their picks and shovels. Directing them were grotesque two-headed monsters with deadly atomic guns. And wandering amid the maze were green-fleshed creatures who had once been human.And somewhere, unseen but ever-present, inspecting Valthor even as he stood here, were the all-powerful, all-knowing beings he had come to battle...
King of the Fourth Planet: John Rolf fled his own guilt when he abandoned the corruption of Earth for a life of meditation on the many levels of Mars' mountain . . . Cosmic Checkmate (Charles V. De Vet and Katherine MacLean): I'll beat you the second game was the Earthman's challenge to the planet Velda, whose culture was indeed based on a complicated super-chess of skill and concentration. (
"The first novel is "Last Call for Doomsday" written by one of the masters of science fiction adventure, Edmond Hamilton. An asteroid was hurtling through space directly toward Earth. There was no doubt that the end of man's home planet was near at hand. But what could be done to save mankind itself? "--Website
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Two classic science fiction novels in one book. "Beyond the Rings of Saturn" by Robert Moore Williams" and "A Man Obsessed" by Alan E. Nourse.