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Armchair Fiction presents extra-large editions of classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. The first novel is “The Swordsman of Sarvon” by Charles Cloukey. The world was on the verge of interplanetary war! The tensions between the greatest world powers were at their peak. A perfect storm of insidious propaganda had put war on the horizon with seemingly no way to stop it. The dawn of a new age of powerful technological breakthroughs had created horrible biological weapons, disastrous explosives, and powerful rays that could utterly decimate the world’s population in a matter of days! Casualties would be in the millions and the very structure of society would crumble to an ash. In desperation, leaders and statesmen worked frantically in an all-out effort to stop the impending Armageddon, but their own tangled web of political affairs only succeeded in hiding the true enemy of Earth—a foreign foe hell-bent on world domination! And only a man with a sword stood in the way of this looming catastrophe! The second novel is “The Power Planet” by heralded science fiction author, Murray Leinster. It was an insidious power play for the Ultimate Power. It was an era when all of Earth’s power was generated from one source. It came from a single, gigantic, man-made structure lying deep in outer space. This gargantuan space station was called “the Power Planet,” and it lay some forty million miles from Earth, on the far side of Venus. The Power Planet shot all the needed energy of mankind to Earth via a massive beacon known as the Dugald Beam. It provided everything humanity needed, energy-wise; from powering the simplest appliances to firing up the most enormous turbines on the planet. But try to imagine what would happen if one of the world countries came up with a secret source of power of their own, a source so great that the Power Planet was no longer needed. It might be too difficult for a government to resist the temptation of making the ultimate bid for power—to destroy the Power Planet, thus leaving the rest of Earth at its mercy…
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