Lionel Fanthorpe

• Jan-1961
• / Science Fiction
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The romantic legend of the Holy Grail is almost without parallel in the stories of chivalry. It has about it a quality of inspiration and a standard of purity that transcends everyday life. It shines like a star through the darkness of the Dark Ag...

• Jan-1961
• / Science Fiction
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Is there a Destiny? Does Fate impose a limit? What Barrier stands between man and the creation of life?

Since the legendary failure of the ill-fated Frankenstein, man has tried time and time again to pass those limits. He has created android...

• Jan-1962
• / Science Fiction
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Space fiction is no longer fiction in the same way that it used to be. There was an element of distance and strangeness about it a few years back. Now, fact has caught up and threatens to overtake. Science fiction today has become science predicti...

• Jan-1962
• / Science Fiction
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There are some parts of the world where change comes slowly. There are other placed where it scarcely comes at all. In really remote areas time stands still. The passing of the centuries means no more than the passing of clouds across a leaden sky...

• Aug-2014
• / Science Fiction
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Alex was a pioneer. Like all pioneers he had problems. He had more problems than most; when things start to go wrong in space they go wrong in a big way. One by one the perils of the void took their toll of his companions. Alex was alone, alone wi...

• Aug-2014
• / Science Fiction
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Oliver Marland was an ordinary crew man on a routine flight before disaster overtook the 5X5. The strange sequence of events affected the minds of the entire ship's company - Marland alone was capable of getting them home safely.

The changes...

• Aug-2014
• / Science Fiction
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The modern mind usually associates witchcraft with the middle ages. We think of witches as Shakespeare depicted them in Macbeth. We see them as secret, black and midnight hags, doing a deed without a name. We close our eyes and immediately the vis...

• Aug-2014
• / Science Fiction
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The only lesson we learn from history is that we never learn from history. Primitive weakness destroys just as surely in the age of Rock and Roll as it did in the days of the harp or the spinet. Man has nothing to fear so much as human frailty. Ma...

• Aug-2014
• / Science Fiction
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Kerrigan was a legend of his own life-time. He was the kind of electric personality around whom strange stories accumulate like iron filings dancing towards a magnet. When Kerrigan failed to return from a special mission in 2178 the stories grew w...

• Aug-2014
• / Science Fiction
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It should have been routine. Nothing could go wrong. The anode and the cathode were behaving perfectly. The meters and dials were recording accurately. A faint effervescence stirred in the chemical solution. There was a subtle change in the speed - ...

• Aug-2014
• / Science Fiction
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Uma, a beautiful but frightened dancing girl, sells a strange bronze statuette of Nataraja, the dancing Siva, to Dr Chris Anderson, while he was visiting a bazaar in Pollachi, Southern India. He travels back to Kerala and puts the statuette on the...

• Jun-2019
• / Historical
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There are challenging fragments of historical evidence to suggest that Joan of Arc did not die at the stake in Rouen on 30th May 1431. It has been hypothesised that a magnificent warrior, Robert des Armoises, ruler of Jaulny, could have rescued her, ...

• Sep-2019
• / Historical
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Garan of the Veneti is a fearless sea captain, whose home village is raided by wild Kurut tribesman. His beautiful young wife, Sorrenne, is missing.Fearing that she may be dead, he sets out to find her, encountering many dangerous adventures on the w...

• Oct-2019
• / General Fiction
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The Kingdom of Frogdom is part of a strange parallel universe, where the frogs think and act like we do. Their leader is a fearless warrior-priest: the Reverend Doctor Hugh John Green. The rats are the evil villains in this universe, and when they at...

• Sep-2021
• / Historical
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The novel is set in the early 19th Century. Major Leo Tremaine has retired from the Royal Dragoons, having played a significant part in defeating Napoleon and is appointed as Vicar of Widecombe. The story features the characters from the famous folks...

• Sep-2021
• / General Fiction
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A gang of long-term professional criminals realise that they are growing older, and that sooner or later they won't be able to pull off the jobs on which their income has always depended. Together, they work out that their best long term solution wil...

• / Horror
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Fear, Stark gripping, unreasonable fear is one of the primitive, basic human emotions. Fear. It distorts the mind, destroys the soul, paralyses the body. Fear? What makes men afraid? Darkness . . . death . . . hideous monstosites . . .weird supernatu...