Formula For Conquest
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Description
James Adams wrote Formula for Conquest, a science fiction story printed in Planet Stories in the fall of 1945. The blurb gives its three movers: August Twilken had a formula, the freebooter Tod Mulhane had a nose for adventure, and Mon Pordo had an urge for interworld domination. When those three got together, hell had to explode.
The narrator is Mulhane himself, a soldier of fortune drinking in a Martian musk-parlor. A little man with milky-blue eyes and a bedraggled mustache seeks him out by name and announces, too loudly, that he has a formula. Mulhane hustles him to a back room before the mangy crew can slit his throat for the credits it might bring. The tale runs on pulp fuel: secrets, strongmen, and a bid to rule worlds.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Unknown |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 40 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |