Solid Solution

James StamersProject Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

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Word count: 32K words
Chapters: 4

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Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.Solid Solution by James StamersAuthor: Stamers, James,Language: English, Class: PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature, Release Date: Mar 31, 2016

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James Stamers Author

James Stamers was an English-language science fiction writer in the mid-twentieth century, active in the early 1960s, whose short stories appeared mostly in magazines such as Galaxy and If. Public information about his life is limited: his nationality and dates of birth and death are unknown, and four works by him are confirmed in the collection, including Solid Solution, The Imitation of Earth, Scent Makes a Difference, and Dumbwaiter. He is known chiefly for short fiction, with a light, humorous style and ingenious premises, deftly placing surprising science-fictional devices within everyday settings. His brisk pacing reflects the lively flavor of the magazine science fiction of his day. Though his output was small, these works remain an intriguing sample of the English-language science fiction magazine scene in the 1960s.