A Logic Named Joe

Three complete novels, one of them a Hugo Award finalist, with a number of short stories. The Pirates of Zan – When a young man is accused of being one of the Pirates of Zan and jailed unjustly, he is given a secret offer-in return for being permitted to escape, he must shake up the establishment, which is getting set in its ways. He succeeds beyond anyone’s wildest expectations, becoming not just a pirate, but the deadliest do-gooder in the galaxy. Gateway to Elsewhere – Suppose that in another dimension, the world of the Arabian Nights is real, including very powerful and very dangerous djinns, who are nothing like Aladdin’s big blue pal. A man from our world wouldn’t have a chance against them … or, would he? The Duplicators – A planet with a machine which can duplicate anything would be the wealthiest world in the galaxy, right? Wrong. And unless the hapless voyager who’s trapped on the planet can find a solution to its problem, he isn’t going to live to leave again. Plus three short stories, including A Logic Named Joe, an uncannily prophetic story of home computers and the internet – written in 1946.