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Armchair Fiction presents illustrated, extra large editions of classic science fiction double novels. The first novel is one of sci-fi author Rog Phillips’ best works, "M'Bong-ah." Such beauty had never been seen on Earth or Venus! No one could really pronounce her Venusian name, so they just called her Gretta. She was an astonishing creature to behold, standing seven feet tall, blue-skinned, and without a hair on her entire body. Her well-proportioned frame was like that of a goddess—physically perfect in every way. Gretta had been captured in a raid on Venus and brought back to Earth for study. It was now up to a fledgling spaceman, Ben Arnold, to decipher her language and also find out about the ways and customs of her Venusian tribe. Though it was never his intention, Arnold soon fell in love with this strange alien beauty—and she with him. But when they were both sent back to Venus in the lead ship of an invasion force from Earth, incredible things began to happen—and soon beauty led to horror. Would he forever be a victim of the torture drums of Venus? The second novel, “Mercenary,” is by well-known science fiction writer Mack Reynolds. Every status-quo-caste society in history has left open two roads to rise above your caste: The Priest and the Warrior. But in a society of TV and tranquilizers, the Warrior acquires a strange new meaning. Join Mack Reynolds as he spins a brilliant tale of futuristic corporations and soldiers’ unions locked in bitter conflict in the far-off future.
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