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Charles Beaumont
Briefly describes Beaumont's life and career as a writer, and shares a selection of his stories and brief reminiscences by friends and fellow writers
Perchance to Dream
With Jordan Peele's Twilight Zone reboot arriving, read the stories that inspired some of the show's greatest episodes, including "The Howling Man"! The profoundly original and wildly entertaining short stories of a legendary Twilight Zone writer, with a foreword by Ray Bradbury and an afterword by William Shatner It is only natural that Charles Beaumont would make a name for himself crafting scripts for The Twilight Zone—for his was an imagination so limitless it must have emerged from some other dimension. Perchance to Dream contains a selection of Beaumont’s finest stories, including seven that he later adapted for Twilight Zone episodes. Beaumont dreamed up fantasies so vast and vari...
The Beautiful People
The barren plains of mars held a secret, a yellow metal waiting to be found.
Running from the Hunter
Charles Beaumont (1929-1967) burst upon the science fiction scene in the 1950s, writing award-winning short stories, teleplays for The Twilight Zone and other TV programs, and screenplays for The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao, Burn Witch Burn!, The Premature Burial, and many others. This reprint of the 1996 edition provides a comprehensive survey of the author's work, with chronology, bibliography, and index.
Charles Beaumont
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A Place Called Charlie Tango
Set in the late 1970's during the closing stages of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia's long and bitter Bush War, this terrifyingly vivid, true-to-life account paints an unforgettable picture of life and death on a remote African outpost, deep in the arid heart of the terrorist-infested bushveld. This extraordinarily brutal yet, ultimately, heart-warming real-life drama lays bare the unrelenting horror and constant danger that all those who lived there faced in this chilling cat-and-mouse conflict, the tragic consequences of which still resonate to this day.
The Intruder
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The Walker
From Charles Dickens’ London to today’s megacities, a fascinating exploration of what urban walking tells us about modern life—for fans of Rebecca Solnit, Olivia Laing’s The Lonely City, and literary history. “A labyrinthine journey into the literature of walking and thinking,” as seen in the lives and works of Edgar Allan Poe, Virginia Woolf, Ray Bradbury, and other literary greats (Guardian). There is no such thing as a false step. Every time we walk we are going somewhere. Especially if we are going nowhere. Moving around the modern city is not a way of getting from A to B, but of understanding who and where we are. In a series of riveting intellectual rambles, Matthew Beaumon...
Elegy
"Would you mind repeating that?" "I said, sir, that Mr. Friden said, sir, that he sees a city." "A city?" "Yes sir." Captain Webber rubbed the back of his hand along his cheek. "You realize, of course, that that is impossible?" He called for the astronomer who'd sighted the thing. Frieden wasn't joking. It was a city, and it "was" impossible: an asteroid in space where no asteroid should have been -- and there on it, plainly visible, was a city that could only have existed back on Earth
