Secret Weapon and Other Stories

By E.C. Tubb

This new collection by E.C. Tubb, a past master of science fiction, presents five classics of the genre:

Secret Weapon - The secret military installation on the moon, with its missile capability to strike at aggressors on Earth, was a Sword of Damocles keeping world peace. But there was another secret weapon ranged against it...

Forbidden Fruit - The Venusian fruits contained an element which altered the human metabolism so that it became indispensable. Once the fruit was eaten a man could never return to Earth. Yet to pay for the expensive imported Earth food was to walk into an economic mantrap...

Third Party - Two warring alien races fight another chapter of their interstellar struggle operating incognito on the Earth...

The Give-Away Worlds - The problem wasn't to find new planets. It was to find people to settle on them-and stay alive

The Seekers - It was a strange thing they found on the surface of the uninhabited planet: an artefact that granted anyone who beheld the realization their innermost desires...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08L41B47X
• ISBN13: 9798696655758
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"