Alfred Coppel's Books

A bunch of kids in bright new uniforms, transiting the constellations in a disreputable old bucket of a spaceship why should the leathery-tentacled, chlorine-breathing Eridanstake them seriously?

Normality" is a myth; we're all a little neurotic, and the study of neurosis has been able to classify the general types of disturbance which are most common. And some types (providing the subject is not suffering so extreme a case as to have crossed the border into psychosis) can be not only useful, but perhaps necessary for certain kinds of work....

As America's economic and cultural influence grew in the 20th Century, the history of the literary arts in Europe cast a long shadow onto this burgeoning nation. And thus, the myth of the Great American Novel was born of a loaded question—would the United States ever produce a work to rival the accepted great works of Western Culture? Many tried. And, in the trying, many looked to model themselves after already extant writers and works which had gained positive notice (as standing on the shoulders of giants has always been one accepted route to success and acceptance). So herein this Megapack, Wildside press offers for you four also-rans of the early to mid 20th Century, four widely varied attempts to grab at that brass ring called The Great American Novel. YOUNG PEOPLE'S PRIDE, by Stephen Vincent Benet THE FUTURE MISTER DOLAN, by Charles Gorham PAPPY AND THE PROMISED LAND, by Jack Gotshall NIGHT OF FIRE AND SNOW, by Alfred Coppel If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see more of the 280+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction -- and much, much more!

Alfred Coppel was a science fiction writer in the middle of the 20th century. He wrote adventurous stories for numerous pulp magazines. Other works by Coppel can be found under his pseudonym Robert Cham Gilman. This is one of those stories.

. . . From the Dark Ages of Space emerged the Second Empire . . . ruled by a child, a usurper and a fool The Great Throne of Imperial Earth commanded a thousand vassal worlds—bleak, starved worlds that sullenly whispered of galactic revolt . ..

The bestselling author of Wars and Winters delivers another high-powered thriller in the tradition of Robert Ludlum and Ian Fleming. An 80-megaton-yield nuclear warhead has been planted in Hudson Bay and is scheduled to detonate on the anniversary of the Pearl Harbor invasion. In the international game of cross and double cross, Colonel John Morgan races to save the free world from total and complete decimation.

This monograph develops projective geometries and provides a systematic treatment of morphisms. It introduces a new fundamental theorem and its applications describing morphisms of projective geometries in homogeneous coordinates by semilinear maps. Other topics treated include three equivalent definitions of projective geometries and their correspondence with certain lattices; quotients of projective geometries and isomorphism theorems; and recent results in dimension theory.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

Hitchcock is still one of the most instantly recognizable film directors. These conversations dramatize his wit, intelligence, sophistication, serious contemplation, and even the playful manipulation of the interviewer.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1856.

Presents transcriptions of a series of interviews conducted by Francois Truffaut with celebrated filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock beginning in 1962; and includes photographs and a filmography.

In this nearly forgotten conflict, the death toll for U.S. servicemen in Korea over three years was virtually the same as in Vietnam over ten. This second and final volume of an acclaimed oral history describes the final years of brutal assaults, culminating in an uneasy armistice. Index; map.

The Dragon is really several stories--of intrigue and suspense, of love, of ambition and obsession, of power, and of the ultimate dilemma: human beings faced with impossible choices, yet forced to act. President Lambert, heading the United States delegation in England, is actually on a meticulously planned secret mission to Moscow and Peking. His critical task: to mediate the dangerously deteriorating relations between Red China and the Soviet Union.

The starship Gloria Coelis and its crew are delivering crucial supplies after 400 years to the distant planet Voerster--settled by Apartheid-crazy South Africans. "(Coppel) gives us a tale that is moving as well as exciting, set in a universe of wonders".--Poul Anderson.

Book's by Alfred Coppel

The Starbursters

The Starbursters

The Hills of Home

The Hills of Home

The Great American Novel MEGAPACK®

The Great American Novel MEGAPACK®

Turning Point

Turning Point

The Rebel of Valkyr

The Rebel of Valkyr

The Eighth Day of the Week

The Eighth Day of the Week

Modern Projective Geometry

Modern Projective Geometry

Chile

Chile

Illinois Masonic Register

Illinois Masonic Register

Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock

A Concise Dictionary of the English, French & Italian Languages

A Concise Dictionary of the English, French & Italian Languages

Hitchcock

Hitchcock

The Korean War

The Korean War

Turnover Point

Turnover Point

The Dragon

The Dragon

Glory

Glory

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