Ace “Double” Danger from Vega & Clash of Star-Kings c.1966 Vintage sci fi paperback book

This is an ACE “double novel book” vintage paperback published in or around 1966 (Ace at this time never differentiates printings or dates).

Both covers created by the renowned artist Jack Gaughan.

This is a “very good” or better vintage paperback. No writing, no loose, no torn or folded pages. Text block closes tightly. One edge of the text block shows some tanning and a faint spot, the other two edges are bright and uniform. Inside of covers are tanned along edges. Covers have some slight reading creases.

Very pleasing, above average book!

See accompanying images for full condition details.

Will ship promptly, well packaged.

About the authors:
John Thomas Phillifent was an English electrical engineer and author of science fiction and fantasy. He wrote as John T. Phillifent and under the pen name John Rackham. Most of his work was published as by Rackham, exceptions being three novels related to The Man from U.N.C.L.E. series, his short stories published in the magazine Analog, and a number of late novels. Most of his novels were issued together with the works of other authors as Ace Doubles.

Rackham’s Law
American author Frederik Pohl credits Phillifent with a comprehensive definition of science fiction that he dubs “Rackham’s Law”. According to Pohl, Phillifent’s opinion of “the diagnostic cut … between science fiction and all other forms of writing” was that science fiction “was unique in that it was invariably written by ‘the science-fiction method’ analogous to the ‘scientific method’.”

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