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A spawning horror was loosed on the world, threatening to wipe out all life upon the Earth, both animal and human — a gripping weird-science tale by the author of ‘The Metal Giants’ and ‘The Atomic Conquerors’.

Edmond Hamilton ranks as a close second to Kline, in weird science literature.

THE RADIUM POOL! A pool of mystery — a pool of Life. Adventure combined with weird science in a startling book that you will not be able to lay down ’til you have read the last exciting word.

Philip Wylie turned ‘Dr. Moreau’ into a screenplay called THE ISLAND OF LOST SOULS, and Charles Laughton gave Bela Lugosi a bad time in it till Bela got his band of beast-men together and paid Laughton back. In this weird-science thriller Lugosi was the product of speeded up evolution, a half-man half-wolf as might happen after thousands of years of Nature’s experimentation aided by science.

If you’re looking for SF with a high weird-science quotient, Transreal! will certainly deliver. Be warned, however, that Rudy Rucker’s writing is an acquired taste.

‘The Terrestrial Fancy’ is a long science-fiction novella; ‘Jimmy’ deals with American small-town paranoia; and weird science is the subject of ‘Anachrona.’

The basic story is world-shaking weird science, with a mad scientist’s alternative scheme to prevent wars, and enforce world peace, using more drastic viral-cybernetic methods than the diplomacy that Athena & Co would prefer.

We wanted stories still attached firmly (mostly) to the firmament of the cosmic weird you already know—with monsters, both new and old, cults, sanity-stripping secrets, and that thin veneer of normalcy through which leaks the unknown. But to this, we’ve added the trappings of space opera—space travel, high-octane adventure, a bit of friendly banter, and a big ol’ heaping pile of weird science.