{"product_id":"2940149558964","title":"Greg's \"Frequent Flyer\" Library Science Fiction Volume 1","description":"1-hour, gate-to-gate flight; Science Fiction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach book in Greg's \"Frequent Flyer\" Library contains stories in one of the following genres:  General Fiction, Sexual Situation, and Science Fiction.  Each book either has a collection of short stories, or two complete novelettes, or a full novel, or a combination of these reading lengths, and is perfect for reading during a flight, on a train, or curled up in the back seat of a car headed for your favorite vacation spot.  According to the School Library Journal (www.slj.com),  250 words per minute is the average reading speed for adults and the reading times for this book have been calculated with this in mind.  \u003cbr\u003e1-hour, gate-to-gate; examples are New York to Boston; NY to Philadelphia; Sydney to Melbourne; London to Paris; Los Angeles to Las Vegas\u003cbr\u003eThis \"Frequent Flyer\" book contains five short stories to provide you with one hour of reading enjoyment.  Wherever you are going and whatever mode of transportation you select, don't sleep...read!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow To Live A Million Years And What To Do With Them, is for those of you who have a zest for adventure, but don't want to be noticed and might want to go into the intelligence side of the planetary foreign services...particularly the mulch-dimensional division.  A bright and curious 12 year old girl who adores her nondescript grandfather is struck one day with a searing question on what it is he actually does for a living, all those floors up under the glass dome of their huge house.  What does he do and just how far can one actually go in a foreign service that is mulch-dimensional and time-warped?  Find out in this intimate and revealing exchange involving deep facts and principals as well as a shared Mounds bar.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThimple Themes, takes a look at an extraterrestrial solution gone wrong.  Over population appears to be a universal problem.  One solution would be to load all these elderly into ships in a dilapidated space fleet and port all the elderly to anywhere else to be cared for by anyone else, or so think the leaders of the planet Tolite.  Now orbiting Earth, they send down a representative to explore the possibilities of taking over the planet and requiring the resulting slaves to care for the Tolites. who become babies who need tending in a single, rather loud \"pop,\" as opposed to dying.  With a fleet of old Tolites all about to \"Pop!\" orbiting the atmosphere, and Earth unable to tolerate a situation that would double the population, the Thimple family comes up with a solution, just as Urlop goes \"Pop!\"  Does it work?  Is there hope?  Maybe, but now they have to take care of the first of many babies, get some sleep and think some more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTechticles, moves the current interest in bloody. combat computer games to a new level with actual combat, not computerized simulation.  Everything seems to get old after a while, doesn't it?  Truer words were never spoken when it comes to real or simulated warfare.  See for yourself when you read this story.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTimers views the habits and proclivities of an alien placed on this planet whose favorite pastime deals with units of time.  Is she the only one of her kind to be on Earth?  If not, where is everyone else, and why is she here?  What does time mean to her, and to the inhabitants of this planet?  Want to know?  Spend a few moments reading this story.  It will tell all in good time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Zetabaker looks at the future of assisted suicide, euthanasia, \"a good death,\" through the eyes of a terminally ill young man and correspondingly through the eyes of his family watching his expressions and attempts to smile reassuring from within the Zetabaker enclosure.  One push of the button and there will be a bright light and Jasper will immediately be painlessly turned to dust, and he is sure this is going to happen, but that's only half of what happens.  Join Jasper and find out what the second half of the process brings.  When is it over, is it really over?  Read on.","brand":"DUO Publication \u0026 Documentation R\u0026D","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079681687792,"sku":"2940149558964","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940149558964_p0.jpg?v=1763720166","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940149558964","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}