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_aShaver, Richard S., _d1907-1975 |
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | _aThe Plotters |
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_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2010 |
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| 490 | 1 | _aProduced from Amazing Stories December 1948. | |
| 500 | _aBy Richard S. Shaver writing under the name Alexander Blade. | ||
| 500 | _aRelease date is 2010-06-13 | ||
| 508 | _aProduced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net | ||
| 520 | _a"The Plotters" by Alexander Blade is a science fiction novel written in the late 1940s. The book revolves around the themes of interplanetary espionage and the complexities of human emotion, as a being from Venus embarks on a mission to gather intelligence about Earth's nuclear capabilities while unexpectedly falling in love with a human girl named Beth. The story follows Marko, a Venusian agent, who comes to Earth under the guise of a college student. While navigating his mission to find scientist Eldeth Copperd, who has crucial knowledge about atomic weapons, he becomes romantically involved with Copperd's daughter, Beth. As Marko grapples with the duality of his identity as an agent and a lover, tensions rise when his superiors contemplate using Beth as leverage against her father. The narrative intensifies as Marko must confront a mutiny among his own ranks, ultimately leading to a showdown where he must protect Beth and her father from his fellow Venusians while navigating the challenges that his love for Beth introduces into his mission. Their relationship grows amidst conflict, culminating in revelations about loyalty, sacrifice, and the potential for a future together despite the hurdles of interspecies relations. (This is an automatically generated summary.) | ||
| 534 | _nOriginal publication data not identified | ||
| 653 | _aScience fiction | ||
| 653 | _aShort stories | ||
| 653 | _aLove stories | ||
| 653 | _aHuman-alien encounters -- Fiction | ||
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_aSmith, Malcolm, _d1910-1966 |
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| 830 | 0 | _aProduced from Amazing Stories December 1948. | |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32801 |
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