Empire of Women & One of our Cities is Missing (Armchair Fiction Double Novels Book 25) (11 page)

When we founded
Armchair Fiction in late 2010 it was our original intention to offer the
paperback editions of our double novels in the old-style Tête-bêche format,
with each side upside down to the other.  Unfortunately, our POD
publishing house, CreateSpace, was unable to print books with those kinds of
specifications.  We can only hope someday this policy will change. 
In the meantime, here is what the cover of this double novel would have looked
like in the Tête-bêche format.

ARMCHAIR SCI-FI,
FANTASY, & HORROR

DOUBLE NOVELS
for your KINDLE

D-1  
THE GALAXY RAIDERS
by William P. McGivern

SPACE STATION #1
by Frank
Belknap Long

D-2   THE
PROGRAMMED PEOPLE
by Jack Sharkey

SLAVES OF THE
CRYSTAL BRAIN
by Rog Phillips

D-3  
YOU’RE ALL ALONE
by Fritz Leiber

THE LIQUID MAN
by Bernard C.
Gilford

D-4  
CITADEL OF THE STAR LORDS
by Edmund Hamilton

VOYAGE TO
ETERNITY
by
Milton Lesser

D-5  
IRON MEN OF VENUS
by Don Wilcox

THE MAN WITH
ABSOLUTE MOTION
by Noel Loomis

D-6  
WHO SOWS THE WIND...
by
Rog Phillips

THE PUZZLE
PLANET
by Robert A. W. Lowndes

D-7  
PLANET OF DREAD
by Murray Leinster

TWICE UPON A
TIME
by Charles L. Fontenay

D-8   THE
TERROR OUT OF SPACE
by Dwight V. Swain

QUEST OF THE
GOLDEN APE
by Ivar Jorgensen and Adam Chase

D-9  
SECRET OF MARRACOTT DEE
P by Henry Slesar

PAWN OF THE
BLACK FLEET
by
Mark Clifton.

D-10  
BEYOND THE RINGS OF SATURN
by Robert Moore Williams

A MAN OBSESSED
by Alan E.
Nourse

D-11  
PERIL OF THE STARMEN
by Kris Neville

THE FORGOTTEN
PLANET
by Murray Leinster

D-12    THE STAR LORD
by Boyd Ellanby

CAPTIVES OF THE FLAME
by Samuel R. Delany

D-13    MEN OF THE MORNING STAR
by Edmond Hamilton

PLANET FOR PLUNDER
by Hal Clement and Sam Merwin, Jr.

D-14    ICE CITY OF THE GORGON
by Chester S. Geier and Richard Shaver

WHEN THE WORLD TOTTERED
by Lester
del
Rey

D-15    WORLDS WITHOUT END
by Clifford D. Simak

THE LAVENDER VINE OF DEATH
by Don Wilcox

D-16    SHADOW ON THE MOON
by Joe Gibson

ARMAGEDDON EARTH
by Geoff St. Reynard

D-17    THE GIRL WHO LOVED DEATH
by Paul W. Fairman

SLAVE PLANET
by Laurence M. Janifer

D-18    SECOND CHANCE
by J. F. Bone

MISSION TO A DISTANT STAR
by Frank Belknap Long

D-19    THE SYNDIC
by C. M. Kornbluth

FLIGHT TO FOREVER
by Poul Anderson

D-20    SOMEWHERE I’LL FIND YOU
by Milton Lesser

THE TIME ARMADA
by Fox B. Holden

D-21    SECOND CHANCE
by J. F. Bone

MISSION TO A DISTANT STAR
by Frank Belknap Long

D-22    OPERATION: SQUARE PEG
by Frank Belknap Long

ENCHANTRESS OF VENUS
by Leigh Brackett

D-23    THE LIFE WATCH
by Lester
del
Rey

CREATURES OF THE ABYSS
by Murray Leinster

Check these titles out on
Amazon.com today!  Just search “Armchair Fiction” while in the Kindle
Store.

CITIES VAPORIZED ACROSS AMERICA

It was the day the world
had long dreaded.
 
The Communists had
finally made the big “nuclear” move.
 
Devastation enveloped the entire world.
 
Who would save humanity when the trusted leaders of government could no
longer be trusted?
 

In this riveting
portrayal of the horrors of nuclear war, veteran sci- author Irving Cox shows
his readers that it would be the “little people” who would survive.
 
In the aftermath of nuclear horror it would
be the little people who would band together to bring back peace and a
semblance of sanity to a broken civilization in a world gone mad.

JERRY
BONHILL

A
young idealist, a leader—with a big body and big fists.
 
He is the new beginning in a world
rocked by a nuclear holocaust.

CHERYL
FINEBERG

She found a friend in
Jerry, this fiery, strong-willed redhead.
 
Along with the rest of her generation, she inherited chaos!

GEORGE
KNIGHT

A gentle Quaker whose ideals were the
centerpiece of his life.
 
Was he prepared to give his life in defense of peace?

ANTON
ZERGOFF

He was a beast with a
man’s body.
 
He waded knee-deep in
blood—but found no victory.

DR.
STEWART ROSWELL

This brilliant educator
stood face to face with the brutality he had previously only written of in his
books.

BORIS
YOROVICH

His strong principles
gave him a change of heart about his role as an enemy invader.
 

WILLIE
CLAPPER

This ex-minister was a
traitor for profit.
 
The
Judas-Man who found contempt wherever he turned.

By

IRVING COX

ARMCHAIR FICTION

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The original text of this
novel was first

published
by Ziff-Davis Publishing Co.

Armchair Edition,
Copyright 2011, by Gregory J. Luce

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For some reason Irving
Cox, Jr. is something of a mystery in science fiction circles.
 
He wrote a large number of short stories in
the 1950s, but no one seems to know that much about him and not even the
Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB) lists a nationality for him.
 
But he’s definitely a U.S. writer—born in
Philadelphia in 1917.
 
The “Introducing
the Author” column in the July 1955 issue of
Imagination
clearly establishes this.
 
Cox’s nuclear scare novel, “One of Our Cities
is Missing” appeared in the
April,
1958 issue of
Amazing Stories
.
 
It was the featured novel, but the issue’s
cover art had nothing to do with Cox’s story.
 
So we had so search for a graphic that would work with Cox’s doomsday
theme.
 
We found one on the cover of the
November 1957 issue of
Amazing
, and
frankly it worked perfectly for Cox’s nuclear holocaust tale.
 
It’s a beautiful (gasp!) rendition of an
American city being blown sky high.
 
It
was created by science fiction artist extraordinaire, Ed Valigursky.

Getting this cover
ready for our paperback release of Armchair Fiction Double Novel D-25 was a bit
of a chore.
 
There was quite a bit of
text to be removed, which definitely took some time, but the main
problem here were
dozens of tiny smudges and wear marks that
each had to be cloned out individually using Photoshop.
 
The final result, though, has a nice, rich
appearance.
 
What follows here are four
different covers.
 
First is the cover of
the original issue of
Amazing
that
Cox’s novel appeared in followed by three different stages of the cover we
ended up using, the last being the final Armchair paperback cover from 2011.

Greg Luce

Editor-in-Chief

Armchair Fiction

Amazing Stories,
April 1958 Issue

Amazing Stories,
November 1957 Issue