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Автор: Reginald Bretnor
Издательство: Ingram
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Жанр произведения: Научная фантастика
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isbn: 9781434446565
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Horror Megapack

      The Lon Williams Weird Western Megapack

      The M.R. James Megapack

      The Macabre Megapack

      The Second Macabre Megapack

      The Third Macabre Megapack

      The Arthur Machen Megapack**

      The Mummy Megapack

      The Occult Detective Megapack

      The Darrell Schweitzer Megapack

      The Vampire Megapack

      The Weird Fiction Megapack

      The Werewolf Megapack

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      The Buffalo Bill Megapack

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      The Second Western Megapack

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      The Pinocchio Megapack

      The Rover Boys Megapack

      The Tom Corbett, Space Cadet Megapack

      The Tom Swift Megapack

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      The E.F. Benson Megapack

      The Second E.F. Benson Megapack

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      The Second Algernon Blackwood Megapack

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      The First Reginald Bretnor Megapack

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      The Second Fredric Brown Megapack

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      The F. Scott Fitzgerald Megapack

      The First R. Austin Freeman Megapack

      The Second R. Austin Freeman Megapack*

      The Third R. Austin Freeman Megapack*

      The Jacques Futrelle Megapack

      The Randall Garrett Megapack

      The Second Randall Garrett Megapack

      The Anna Katharine Green Megapack

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      The M.R. James Megapack

      The Selma Lagerlof Megapack

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      The Second Murray Leinster Megapack***

      The Jonas Lie Megapack

      The Arthur Machen Megapack**

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      The Talbot Mundy Megapack

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      The Andre Norton Megapack

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      * Not available in the United States

      ** Not available in the European Union

      ***Out of print.

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      SUGAR PLUM

      On a clear spring evening in 2189, Charles Edward Button came home half an hour late for his supper, tossed his hat to the robot butler who came out from behind the DoItAll, and announced that he had just bought a planet.

      His wife, Betty, was looking small and long-suffering on a plastic reproduction of a Victorian love-seat, and her cousin Aurelia, a large, handsome woman, was standing behind her protectively.

      “Of course,” he informed them, “it’s not a big planet. But what a bargain! With real oceans, and two moons, and—”

      “Real estate, real estate, real estate!” Cousin Aurelia’s tart voice cut him off in mid-sentence. “You know what’s come of every one of your investments. Call the man right now and tell him you want your money back!”

      “I’m afraid it’s too late.” Charles avoided her eye. “I bought it up at a tax-auction and—well, the government never refunds.”

      “I thought so. A planet nobody wants. Probably all run down, with swamps and deserts, and in some dreadful, shabby district where the neighbors have squirmy tentacles, or eyes on stalks, or big, nasty beaks!”

      “It isn’t at all. It’s in a good neighborhood—only two systems away from the Inchcapes’ new summer planet. A little remote, but that means more privacy.” He took a catalogue out of his pocket. “’Parcel 71,’” he read. “’Sugar Plum, a Class IV planet’—that means it’s like Earth, only bigger—‘claimed 8/12/85 by Space Captain Alexander Burgee, under Planetary Homestead Act of 2147 (amended.)’ And here’s his description of the place where he landed: ‘Neat as a pin, fine climate, full of critters and fish, quite uninhabited.’ He was lost in Deep Space, poor fellow. That’s why they sold it.”