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Seven unabridged stories from the classic golden age of science fiction. Stories covering alternate time lines, new forms of time travel, alien worlds in danger, and barbarians that aren’t what they seem. Stories from H. Beam piper, Lee Archer, Jesse Bone and more. The titles of the stories included are: 'Dearest', 'He Walked Around Horses', 'Impact', 'Lease to Doomsday', 'Police Operation', 'Time Payment', 'To Choke an Ocean'.

Imagine a future in which traditional gender roles are reversed and men have quite literally become enslaved to the capricious whims of their female masters. Irving E. Cox created a masterpiece, a futuristic story where men, and not women, are marketable products in a matriarchal, and not patriarchal, society. The role reversal as propounded in this story sounds unthinkable in our times, but it sounds plausible at some point in the distant future. This story shows how love always is a major part of life...and how it can either aid or break someone.

Irving E. Cox's Impact, is a tale about a deserter from an interstellar trading ship who causes the ship's captain no end of troubles. It's a cool old story despite the wretchedly old-fashioned woman teacher character (she's jealous, blackmailing, and shrewish).

This popular classic science fiction work (1956) by Irving E. Cox examines the implications of a matriarchal society with a wry and ironic nod. "It's easier to make yourself believe a lie if you think everyone else believes it, than to believe a truth you've found on your own." Very apt in today's political/sexual climate. Read by professional actor and narrator Sara Morsey.