Noel M. Loomis
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Description
Noel Miller Loomis was a writer, principally of western, mystery and science-fiction, in the middle of the 20th century. He also authored three non-fiction books. His stories have been adapted for TV series. Born and raised in the American West, he was sufficiently familiar with that territory to write a useful history of the Wells Fargo company. Source: Wikipedia
Books
Date Line
In “The FutureTM” (2230), people have mastered time travel and the primary news organization in the solar system publishes nothing but “This day in history” type puff pieces, featuring live, on the ground coverage of things going on 100, 200, 500, 1000, etc. years ago. Journalist Stieve Andro begs for an interesting assignment and is sent to cover Columbus’s discovery of America.
North to Texas
Roy Talley wasn't looking for a fight, but two of his brothers had been among the Unionists killed in the bloody Nueces Massacre. Now Talley saw his chance for revenge. With malaria raging through the camps, the South needed quinine--needed it more than anything--except gold. And Talley meant to bargain smuggled quinine for a fortune in gold.
Hang the Men High
One by one they dragged them in-the deadly killers. There was enough rope to hang them all. The judge turned to the hangman and proclaimed, "I count twelve empty nooses up there on the gallows. Have they ever been used all at once?" The hangman moistened his lips. "No," he whispered. "But I could do it. And when I hang them, they never come back for more." "Twelve men at onetime." That ought to discourage lawlessness in the Territory."
Cheyenne war cry
Knowing there is a hidden cache of lead somewhere in the Texas Panhandle that could provide them with ammunition, the Cheyenne kidnap Stuart Nichols' woman in order to force him to reveal the location of the lead.
Science Fiction Gems
Danger Dimension - novelette by Stanley Mullen Zeritsky's Law - short story by Ann Warren Griffith [as by Ann Griffith] With These Hands - novelette by C. M. Kornbluth The Trouble with Ants - novelette by Clifford D. Simak (variant of The Simple Way) The Isolationists - short story by Robert Silverberg [as by George Osborne] Venus Is a Man's World - novelette by William Tenn A Gift from Earth - short story by Manly Banister Judas Ram - short story by Sam Merwin, Jr. Finders Keepers - short story by Milton Lesser The Rag and Bone Men - short story by Algis Budrys One Leg Is Enough - short story by Kris Neville She Who Laughs - short story by Peter Phillips