Vintage SF | What is The Steel Crocodile? D. G. Compton c 1970 #computer #sciencefiction #technology @vintagesf | Uploaded January 2024 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
What is the personal cost of technology? Can technology be contained? Who watches it? Who watches the watcher? A review of D. G. Compton's 1970 novel The Steel Crocodile.

24 of 46 ASFS (series one)

Looking at all the books in the first series of Ace Science Fiction Specials (1967 - 1971) and 8 books purchased for ASFS but published after the run in 1972.

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Videos about collecting the series:
#1 Ace Science Fiction Specials (Series One)
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#2 Complete? Ace Science Fiction Specials (Series One)
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#3 Mystery Solved? - Ace Science Fiction Specials (Series One)
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#4 Slideshow of Cover Art
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Previous books:
1 of 46 - Why Call Them Back From Heaven? by Clifford D. Simak
youtu.be/O4287g9eBGM
2 of 46 - The WItches of Karres by James H. Schmitz
youtu.be/4t1cA2wbl3o
3 of 46 - Past Master by R. A. Lafferty
youtu.be/NsmnqdxqQKk
4 of 46 - The Revolving Boy by Gertrude Friedberg
youtu.be/ch3OouuOAmw
5 of 46 - The Lincoln Hunters by Wilson Tucker
youtu.be/X3E0LfkV0ss
6 of 46 - Rite of Passage by Alexei Panshin
youtu.be/O13qGRm2YUw
7 of 46 - Picnic on Paradise by Joanna Russ
youtu.be/qzA-C2EBI20
8 of 46 - The Two-Timers by Bob Shaw
youtu.be/SNGp8hRmhGk
9 of 46 - Synthajoy by D. G. Compton
youtu.be/mlFPm_vHqg4
10 of 46 - The Ring by Piers Anthony and Robert E. Margroff
youtu.be/WlzuG3YGbDg
11 of 46 - A Torrent of Faces by James Blish and Norman L. Knight
youtu.be/-dyGT5BymMQ
12 of 46 - The Demon Breed by James H. Schmitz
youtu.be/d82ZqhT1n3Y
13 of 46 - Isle of the Dead by Roger Zelazny
youtu.be/goxS34DUb5Q
14 of 46 - The Jagged Orbit by John Brunner
youtu.be/Zq2s9UI_hdM
15 of 46 - The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
youtu.be/9mrvzdKVNmE
16 of 46 - The Preserving Machine by Philip K. Dick
youtu.be/M0M0Ez5bUo4
17 of 46 - The Island Under the Earth by Avram Davidson
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18 of 46 - Mechasm by John T. Sladek
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19 of 46 - The Silent Multitude by D. G. Compton
youtu.be/onHOxA4v9gg
20 of 46 - The Palace of Eternity by Bob Shaw
youtu.be/n_mFUS6CK1g
21 of 46 - Pavane by Keith Roberts
youtu.be/e8qEl5XJdfk
22 of 46 - The Black Corridor by Michael Moorcock
youtu.be/Tm0WgHiuEss
23 of 46 - Fourth Mansions by R. A. Lafferty
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