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THERE once reigned in a town called Alba in Italy a king whose name was Numitor. He had a brother called Amulius, who was a proud and wicked man, and could not bear that his elder brother should be king over him. So Amulius plotted against his brother. He got together a number of men who were as bad and cruel as himself, and they attacked Numitor and drove him from his throne, and made Amulius king in his stead. They took the sons of Numitor, and his daughter Rhea Silvia, and killed them. Then Amulius seized the two little sons of Rhea Silvia, who were still only babies; he gave them to his soldiers, and told them to throw the poor little boys into the River Tiber."Then," thought he, "they will be drowned. There will be none of my brother's children left to trouble me, and I shall be king all my life."The soldiers took the two babies in their cradle, lying side by side fast asleep, and carried them to the river...

The second volume of the Science Fiction Omnibus! Featuring the following masterpieces of sci-fi:WE'RE CIVILIZED!, by Mark Clifton & Alex ApostolidesWITH THESE HANDS, by C.M. KornbluthWHERE THERE'S HOPE, by Jerome BixbyWEAK ON SQUARE ROOTS, by Russell BurtonVIGORISH, by Walter BuppTHE MEMORY OF MARS, by Raymond JonesTHE MATHEMATICIANS, by Arthur FeldmanTHE INVADERS, by Murray LeinsterTHE GREAT NEBRASKA SEA, by Allan DanzigTHE DAY TIME STOPPED MOVING, by Bradner BucknerI AM A NUCLEUS, by Stephen BarrGUN FOR HIRE, by Mack ReynoldsTHE GRAVEYARD OF SPACE, by Milton LesserTHE GREAT DROUGHT, by Sterner MeekHANDYMAN, by Frank BantaNAUDSONCE, by H. Beam PiperTHE FEELING, by Roger DeeMY FAIR PLANET, by Evelyn E. SmithFRIEND ISLAND, by Francis StevensTHE CARNIVORE, by G.A. MorrisA GIFT FROM EARTH, by Manly BanisterLET THERE BE LIGHT, by Horace FyfeRIYA'S FOUNDLING, by Algis BudrysSPACE STATION 1, by Frank LongBULLET WITH HIS NAME, by Fritz LeiberI'M A STRANGER HERE MYSELF, by Mack ReynoldsTHE AMBASSADOR, by Sam Merwin, Jr.GONE FISHING, by James SchmitzJUNIOR, by Robert AbernathyHALL OF MIRRORS, by Frederic BrownGRAVEYARD OF DREAMS, by H. Beam PiperOPERATION HAYSTACK, by Frank Herbert

Tarzan, the king of the jungle, enters an isolated country called Minuni, inhabited by a people four times smaller than himself, the Minunians, who live in magnificent city-states which frequently wage war against each other.Tarzan befriends the king, Adendrohahkis, and the prince, Komodoflorensal, of one such city-state, called Trohanadalmakus, and joins them in war against the onslaught of the army of Veltopismakus, their warlike neighbours.

Tarzan, the king of the jungle, enters an isolated country called Minuni, inhabited by a people four times smaller than himself, the Minunians, who live in magnificent city-states which frequently wage war against each other.Tarzan befriends the king, Adendrohahkis, and the prince, Komodoflorensal, of one such city-state, called Trohanadalmakus, and joins them in war against the onslaught of the army of Veltopismakus, their warlike neighbours.

Dalgard Nordis, with his knife brother Sssuri, has gone on his man-journey. Three generations after his people came to Astra he has set out to explore the ruins of a city that once belonged to Those Others, thereby extending the Colony's map of this world and in the process demonstrating his suitability to sit on the Council of Free Men. In telepathic contact with the local fauna, Sssuri senses danger and the sight of a flaming object crossing the sky from east to west, toward where Those Others are rumored to live, underscores that judgement.

Civil War novel set in the western theater during the final days of the war. As the story opens, the protagonist, Drew Rennie, has been serving as a cavalry scout in Confederate general John Hunt Morgan's command for two years, having left home in 1862 after a final break with his harsh grandfather, who despised him since his birth because of his mother's runaway marriage to a Texan.

The story picks up with the Clayton family, Tarzan, Jane Porter and their son Korak, returning from their adventures in the previous novel (#8). Along the way they find an orphaned lion cub, which Tarzan takes home and trains.Flora Hawkes, a previous housemaid of the Clayton's had overheard of Tarzan's discovery of the treasure chamber in the lost city of Opar (from The Return of Tarzan and Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar) and had managed to copy his map to it. She concocted a plan to lead an expedition to collect the gold. As a contingency to discourage any local denizens from questioning them, she sought out and found a Tarzan look-alike named Esteban Miranda to accompany them.Two years passed since the Clayton family picked up their lion cub, making the year around 1935 and Tarzan would have been about 47 years old. His Greystoke estate had become financially depleted due his support of the Allies war efforts and he concluded it was time to return to Opar for another withdrawal.

Written in response to the devastation of World War I, "Why Men Fight" lays out Bertrand Russell's ideas on war, pacifism, reason, impulse, and personal liberty. Russell argues that when individuals live passionately, they will have no desire for war or killing. Conversely, excessive restraint or reason causes us to live unnaturally and with hostility toward those who are unlike ourselves.