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1 y separately published work icon The Authentic Touch Jack Wodhams , New York (City) : Curtis Books , 1971 Z996374 1971 single work novel science fiction fantasy
4 2 y separately published work icon To Prime the Pump A. Bertram Chandler , New York (City) : Curtis Books , 1971 Z811048 1971 single work novel

By now a Lieutenant in the Federation Survey Service, Grimes, finds himself serving aboard the cruiser Aries bound for the planet El Dorado. Abundantly wealthy, and inhabited only by the super-rich and their android servants, the population nevertheless has an increasingly urgent problem. The men are infertile, cause unknown, and the women want someone to do something about it. After crash-landing the advance party rocket boat on a lake, Grimes meets the beautiful but haughty Princess Marlene von Stolzberg. Once again out of his depths Grimes will need every ounce of his famous luck to get him back in the good books and hopefully salvage his career prospects.
2 The Sea Beasts A. Bertram Chandler , New York (City) : Curtis Books , 1971 Z811030 1971 single work novel
— Appears in: Urania , February no. 612 1973;
2 y separately published work icon The Man Who Left Well Enough Mark McShane , New York (City) : Curtis Books , 1970 Z1292558 1970 single work novel crime
5 1 A Captive in the Land James Aldridge , New York (City) : Curtis Books , 1962 Z297062 1962 single work novel
— Appears in: Plennik chuzhoi strany [and] Opasnai a igra : romany 1969;
— Appears in: Branets ' svoiei zemli [and] Pidstupna hra 1971; The story opens with a Dakota, whose crew is engaged on a meteorological survey, flying over the Arctic. Suddenly the wreckage of a plane and a moving human figure are spotted on the ice below. Rupert Royce, the meteorologist on board, volunteers to parachute down to investigate while the Dakota returns to base to organise a rescue expedition. He lands safely to find that there is one survivor of what proves to be a Russian plane. But, unknown to Royce, the Dakota crashes on its return journey and the whole crew is killed. As a result, his whereabouts are completely unknown to the outside world; all the authorities know is that his body is not found in the Dakota's wreckage. (Source: 1962 Hamish Hamilton Edition)
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