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Charles V. De Vet


King of the Fourth Planet / Cosmic Checkmate

King of the Fourth Planet / Cosmic Checkmate

Robert Moore Williams
Katherine MacLean
Charles V. De Vet

King of the Fourth Planet

King of the Fourth Planet: John Rolf fled his own guilt when he abandoned the corruption of Earth for a life of meditation on the many levels of Mars' mountain...

Cosmic Checkmate

I'll beat you the second game was the Earthman's challenge to the planet Velda, whose culture was indeed based on a complicated super-chess of skill and concentration.

Second Game

Second Game

Kalin Trobt

Katherine MacLean
Charles V. De Vet

This Hugo Award-nominated novelette originally appeared in Astounding Science Fiction, March 1958. The story can also be found in the anthologies Great Short Novels of Science Fiction (1970) edited by Robert Silverberg and The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels (1980), edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg.

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