num_pages: 236
description: The following is quoted from the Publisher's webpage. Omissions within the quoted material are indicated by ... Additions are indicated with ().“…in the tradition of the Ace Double series…This book contains two novellas, "Lands of the Earthquake" by Henry Kuttner and "Under a Dim Blue Sun" by Howie K. Bentley.(Lands of the Earthquake)After a year-long bout of amnesia, William Boyce was haunted by fleeting memories of his missing year. His search for the woman he could not remember yet could never forget led him through a crystal portal to another dimension. He is taken to Kerak, the castle built by French Crusaders who have been trapped in this timeless world for six centuries. When the Crusaders’ leader, Guillaume du Bois, falls victim to the enchantments of Kerak’s enemies in the Sorcerers’ City, Boyce goes in his place to rescue his comrade, Godfrey. Lands of the Earthquake…was originally published in Startling Stories in 1947 and has never appeared in book form before.(Under a Dim Blue Sun)Captain Erasmus O’Brien was assigned a task that could decide the fate of World War II: infiltrate German headquarters and steal the Nazis’ latest technological development – a flying saucer. O’Brien pulls it off, but loses control of the ship and ends up on a planet in another galaxy. He arrives just in time to rescue the slave girl Elekaina from the clutches of the hideous snake men, the Nag-Gaina. Armed with laser rifles procured from the ship, O’Brien plans to rid Thalparia of the serpent menace, only to run afoul of Queen S’ang Taura, who is secretly in league with the Nag-Gaina. He is sentenced to do battle in the arena with Thargg Tanuth, outlaw prince of the jaguar men."
language: English
title: Under a Dim Blue Sun/Lands of the Earthquake
publisher: DMR Books