Tight, clean, flat, square, sharp and crisp book in DJ with small chips and creases, scuffed on the back. Code K25 demonstrates first printing. Grandmaster John D. MacDonald was bestowed that title by the Mystery Writers of America for his body of work which includes the book that inspried the classic movie Cape Fear, Travis McGee, and many more. MacDonald wrote three science fiction novels, and they are all in this volume. 


The Wine of Dreamers: This book, by one of the greatest authors of Science Fiction to-day, is a dramatic story of two worlds - of Earth and of the strange dying planet in outer space, whose inhabitants, The Dreamers, are determined to keep man chained to the earth. A story of world conflict that is bound to grip you.

Ballroom of the SkiesHave you ever stopped to wonder why the world is eternally war-torn? Why men of good will, seeking only peace, are driven relentlessly to further disaster? MacDonlad's novel suggests a strange and sinister explanation.
Here we enter an intricate future society, in which India rules the globe. The First Atomic War has just ended, and already momentum is clearly building for the second.
People shrug. War is man's nature, they think. Until Drake Lorin discovers the aliens living among us, and begins to divine their sinister purpose.

The Girl, The Gold Watch and Everything:  To ever-loyal Kirby Winter, multimillionaire Uncle Omar left nothing--nothing but a gold watch and a sealed letter to be opened in one year. But Kirby is destined to inherit the magical power to freeze time itself--a power that could rock the entire universe.