Review: Highly entertaining stories
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 12, 2013
Recently, while searching for some SF in the Kindle Store, I discovered an old favorite from my youthful past: "And Then the Town Took Off," by Richard Wilson. This essentially  lightweight piece of humorous, fluff about an entire town being separated from the earth by being lifted into the sky ("Why?" "By whom--or by what?" "And what do we do now"), was originally published in 1960 as the supposedly lesser half of a $.35 Ace-Double paperback (the presumably "better" half being "The Sioux Spaceman," by Andre Norton). I found this story in the Kindle Store being offered by several publishers as a single title ebook (at various prices, the lowest being $.99), and online at Gutenberg.org (for free). After (re)reading the freebie I wanted a more "permanent" ebook edition of this short novel and was contemplating the purchase of a dollar version. That's when I came upon this "Seventh SF Megapack," and discovered that it contained the very tale I wanted AND 20+ others (all entertaining and some quite good) that I would probably not have encountered otherwise. Wow! All this, for the same price others were charging for "my" story alone!The formatting is excellent, the stories are accessible via an active TOC, and original publishing data is provided. This collection is a terrific value, and while you may not enjoy the aforementioned story as much as I originally did (and still do), you're bound to find more than a few OTHER stories to your liking in this "7th SF Megapack" to make your purchase worthwhile.