Triplicity : Echo round his bones ; The genocides ; The puppies of Terra / Thomas M. Disch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Disch, Thomas M.

Contributor:

Logan, Ron, illustrator.

Mark B. Adams Science Fiction Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Life on other planets--Fiction.

Life on other planets.

Sunspots.

Survivalism.

Plant invasions.

Disaster victims.

Human-alien encounters--Fiction.

Human-alien encounters.

Mars (Planet)--Fiction.

Mars (Planet).

Disaster victims--Fiction.

Plant invasions--Fiction.

Survivalism--Fiction.

Sunspots--Fiction.

Resistance movements, War--Fiction.

Resistance movements, War.

Genre:

Fiction.

Science fiction.

Novels.

Penn Provenance:

Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)

Physical Description:

409 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

Science Fiction book Club edition.

Other Title:

Echo round his bones

Genocides

Puppies of Terra

Place of Publication:

Garden City, N.Y. : Nelson Doubleday, [1967]

Summary:

Echo Round his Bones: It all started when Captain Nathan Hansard of 'A' Artillery Company, Camp Jackson Mars Command Post was sent to Mars. A fault in the instantaneous transmission of matter transmitter created two of him: one went to Mars as scheduled, while a 'ghost' stayed on Earth in a strange world of secondary matter, walking through steel vaults and swimming in the concrete foundations of buildings. The original Hansard carried orders for the total nuclear arsenal of Camp Jackson to be unleashed on the enemy, so precipitating Earth's nuclear holocaust. Something had to be done--and fast. Could Hansard save the world? Could his ghost?

The Genocides: The world's cities have been reduced to cinder and ash and alien plants have overtaken the earth. The plants, able to grow the size of maples in only a month and eventually reach six hundred feet, have commandeered the world's soil and are sucking even the Great Lakes dry. In northern Minnesota, Anderson, an aging farmer armed with a Bible in one hand and a gun in the other, desperately leads the reduced citizenry of a small town in a daily struggle for meager existence. Throw into this fray Jeremiah Orville, a marauding outsider bent on a bizarre and private revenge, and the fight to live becomes a daunting task.

The puppies of Terra: When the alien energy-creatures came to Earth in 1970, mankind tried every weapon it knew against their attack--but how can you battle beings with enormous power and no solidity? Within a few short years, all of Earth was controlled by the Masters, who reared men as their pets and playthings. Then, suddenly, during a period of unusual sunspot activity, a huge solar prominence erupted, and the energy from that awesome explosion short-circuited the Masters. Temporarily, humanity was free to throw off its leash and mount one last frantic attack on its overlords ...

Notes:

Three novels in one volume.

The Genocides was originally published in 1965 by Berkley Medallion. The puppies of Terra was originally published as 'Mankind under the leash' in 1966 by Ace Books. Echo Round his Bones was originally published in 1967 by Berkley Medallion.

Part of 'Puppies of Terra' is based on a novelette entitled 'White Fang goes dingo' from Worlds of If magazine.

Gutter code "K10" [verified] on page 408 indicates a printing in March 1980.

Jacket painting by Ron Logan.

Edition statement from book jacket.

Local Notes:

Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.

Adams Collection copy wanting dustjacket. Has gutter code.

Cited in:

Internet Speculative Fiction Database, 52366

OCLC:

191805344