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A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER

Welcome to the seventh volume of The Science Fiction Megapack. Once again we plunge headlong into the future, with some truly stellar tales, including a great “lost” story by Arthur C. Clarke…which works as both a science fiction story and a ghost story. (How hard is that to pull off!) And, most intriguingly, we have two stories by different authors that share the same title—“Do Unto Others”—by Damien Broderick and Mark Clifton. (We couldn’t help but include them both in the same volume!)

Plus we have Lawrence Watt-Evans’s Hugo Award-winning “Why I Left Harry’s All-Night Hamburgers,” and Mike Renick’s Hugo-nominated “All the Things You Are,” classic stories both. And, of course, there is a fine selection of other tales, new and old…including one by me, originally commissioned—though it’s hard to believe—almost 20 years ago for an illustrated book of tales inspired by Isaac Asimov’s robot series. I hope you enjoy it.

We have been busy doing quite a few single-author Megapacks, too, including H. Beam Piper, Philip K. Dick, and many more. But most interestingly—at least to me, as both an author and a reader—is that we have begun work on our first Megapack by a living writer: C.J. Henderson. C.J. has published more than 700 short stories (which makes him one of the field’s all-time most prolific wordsmiths). Plus he’s a fun writer, all-around nice guy, and well worth reading. Check out his contribution to this volume.

—John Betancourt

Publisher, Wildside Press LLC

www.wildsidepress.com

ATTN: KINDLE READERS

The Kindle versions of our Megapacks employ active tables of contents for easy navigation…please look for one before writing reviews on Amazon that complain about the lack! (They are sometimes at the ends of ebooks, depending on your version or ebook reader.)

RECOMMEND A FAVORITE STORY?

Do you know a great classic science fiction story, or have a favorite author whom you believe is perfect for the Megapack series? We’d love your suggestions! You can post them on our message board at http://movies.ning.com/forum (there is an area for Wildside Press comments).

Note: we only consider stories that have already been professionally published. This is not a market for new works.

TYPOS

Unfortunately, as hard as we try, a few typos do slip through. We update our ebooks periodically, so make sure you have the current version (or download a fresh copy if it’s been sitting in your ebook reader for months.) It may have already been updated.

If you spot a new typo, please let us know. We’ll fix it for everyone (and email a revised copy to you when it’s updated, in either epub or Kindle format, if you provide contact information). You can email the publisher at wildsidepress@yahoo.com.