Lester Del Rey

Cyberene, The, & Badge of Infamy Lester Del Rey

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic science fiction double novels. The first novel is another great thriller by top sci-fi author Rog Phillips, "The Cyberene." Somewhere in the future a diabolical brain plotted the enslavement of mankind. The irony being, of course, that it was man who orchestrated the surreptitious take over in the first place. Out of the future and into the past comes a sentient being that has been gaining knowledge and abilities for over a thousand years. A growing monstrosity bent on controlling not only the human condition in its own time, but manipulating the human mind in our time as well. Armed with knowledge of mankind's sterile future, Earl Frye sets out to do battle against man's ultimate creation- changing an unforeseen destiny! The second novel is "Badge of Infamy" by Lester del Ray. Daniel Feldman was a doctor once. He made the mistake of saving a friend's life in violation of Medical Lobby rules. Now, he was a pariah, shunned by all, forbidden to touch another patient. But things were more loose on Mars. There, Doc Feldman was welcomed by the colonists, even as he was hunted by the authorities. But, when he discovered that a dreadful Martian plague might soon wipe out humanity on two planets, Feldman found himself a pivotal figure. War erupted. Earth was poised to utterly wipe out the Mars colony. A cure to the plague was the price of peace, and only Feldman could find it.