The Monster Maker

By Ray Bradbury

Blast off to adventure in this golden age space opera story by Legendary Ray Bradbury!

Their orders were simple. Capture the dread Space Pirate Gunther and bring him in. But once their ship crashed onto an asteroid leaving the two men with an hour of air each, one gun, a news-real camera, and their wits to work with their chance at success wasn’t looking very good.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wilder Publications, Inc.
• Release date: Aug 24, 2020
• ISBN: 9781515446699

Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury (22 August 1920 – 5 June 2012) published some 500 short stories, novels, plays and poems since his first story appeared in Weird Tales when he was twenty years old. Among his many famous works are 'Fahrenheit 451,' 'The Illustrated Man,' and 'The Martian Chronicles.'

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The Monster Maker

by Ray Bradbury

©2020 Positronic Publishing

The Monster Maker is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, locales or institutions is entirely coincidental.

All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission except for brief quotations for review purposes only.

Hardcover ISBN 13: 978-1-5154-4667-5

Trade Paperback ISBN 13: 978-1-5154-4683-5

E-book ISBN 13: 978-1-5154-4669-9

The Monster Maker

Their orders were simple. Capture the dread Space Pirate Gunther and bring him in. But once their ship crashed onto an asteroid leaving the two men with an hour of air each, one gun, a news-real camera, and their wits to work with their chance at success wasn’t looking very good.

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Suddenly, it was there. There wasn’t time to blink or speak or get scared. Click Hathaway’s camera was loaded and he stood there listening to it rack-spin film between his fingers, and he knew he was getting a damned sweet picture of everything that was happening.

The picture of Marnagan hunched huge over the control-console, wrenching levers, jamming studs with freckled fists. And out in the dark of the fore-part there was space and a star-sprinkling and this meteor coming like blazing fury.

Click Hathaway felt the ship move under him like a sensitive animal’s skin. And then the meteor hit. It made a spiked fist and knocked