Entities: The Selected Novels by Eric Frank Russell
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Overview: This volume contains five novels (Wasp, Sinister Barrier, Sentinels from Space, Next of Kin, and Call Him Dead) plus some short fiction (including Legwork, Mechanical Mice, and Mana). Introduction by Jack L. Chalker. Dustjacket art by Bob Eggleton.
Genre: Science Fiction
Wasp
The war has raged for nearly a year and Earth desperately needs an edge to overcome the Sirian Empire’s huge advantage in personnel and equipment. That’s where James Mowry comes in. Intensively trained, his appearance surgically altered, Mowry secretly lands on one of the Empire’s planets. His mission: to sap morale, cause mayhem, tie up resources, and wage a one-man war on a planet of 80 million–in short, to be like the wasp buzzing around a car to distract the driver…and causing him to crash.
Sentinels from Space
When the mutants of the Mars and Venus colonies sought independence, the World Council tried to protect Earth’s interests. But even bigger things were at stake: Full-scale war would attract the attentions of the deadly Denebian aliens, who were slowly advancing towards Earth.
Only David Raven – and a few others like him – knew about the Denebians. But Raven had powers no human or mutant had ever dreamed of, and he was looking out for humanity…
Call Him Dead
US government has sent a secret manned mission to Venus with 3 astronauts: William Gould, Cory McDonald, & Earl James Langley. With two expected dates of their return, depending on whether they find the locate hostile & need to immediately return, or if they get some time to explore. First date is past but not the second – so officialdom is happy exploration is happening.
Actually, officials are wrong. The ship has returned. Only, its three astronauts are now possessed by a parasitic intelligent life form of Venus that by itself has the form of microbes inhabiting the nervous tissue of its host. It’s happy in its human hosts, & has quietly set about multiplying itself by infecting more people.
Next of Kin
Scout-Officer John Leeming knew from the very start that his reconnaissance mission deep into enemy territory would likely be a one-way trip. But, after he crash-lands on a far distant planet and becomes a prisoner of ruthless aliens, he knows he can’t just give up. Armed with only a piece of wood, a coil of copperlike wire, his quick wits, and an imaginary ally called Eustace, Leeming embarks on a brilliant campaign to gain his freedom–and undermine the alien war effort, too. This original, full-length version of one of Russell’s most popular stories, "Plus X," is amusing, adventurous, fast moving, and razor sharp. Poking fun at bone-headed and inflexible bureaucrats and institutions, it ranks among his very best work.
Sinister Barrier
Sinister Barrier is an English language science fiction novel by author Eric Frank Russell. The novel originally appeared in the magazine Unknown in 1939, the first novel to appear in its pages.
Russell used the ideas of Charles Fort, whom he described as "a sort of Peter Pan of science", including many of Fort’s findings in the story. In particular, he employed the idea that we humans are property of some more highly evolved beings that live in a realm that we cannot see. Those invisible beings are immaterial: they are made of energy and Russell compares them to ball lightning. How could we ever hope to revolt against such beings? Therein lies a story.
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