Let Freedom Ring and the Machine That Floats

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels. Our first novel, "Let Freedom Ring," is by renown author, Fritz Leiber. Imagine what it would be like...to be told that it was your duty to die? That's what Normsi faced when he found his "death notice" waiting for him at home one afternoon. Normsi was strongly reminded that under Wor… Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels. Our first novel, "Let Freedom Ring," is by renown author, Fritz Leiber. Imagine what it would be like...to be told that it was your duty to die? That's what Normsi faced when he found his "death notice" waiting for him at home one afternoon. Normsi was strongly reminded that under World Director M'Caslrai's rule, peace had prospered in all nations. In fact, a single government had ruled the Earth's populace for two centuries and there hadn't been a civil war in over a hundred years. But the price for this peace was paid in the form of controlled casualties--millions would die so that billions could live. However, this kind of patriotic obligation didn't sit well with Normsi, so he left his comfortable life in New City and gambled his future on the dark streets of Old City, a harbor for deviates, discontents, and murderers. But there he met a strange girl--a girl that gave him new hope and a new direction. Her name was J'Quilvens, and she was part of a revolutionary group with a desperate plan for true world peace--and a permanent end to the "patriotic" slaughter. The second novel is "The Machine that Floats" by veteran sci-fi author Joe Gibson. What if you invented a new spaceship? Would you give it to the world? And what if you decided not to? Would the government brand you a traitor--a criminal to be hunted down? These were questions that Bill Morrow faced after inventing a revolutionary gravity control mechanism...the gravitor, which could make things float without high-powered engines and flaming jet fuel. Objects floated up into the air, unaffected by gravity. The gravitor held promise of opening doors in many areas of science and commerce. But in the wrong hands, it could also be used as a dreadful weapon. Bill Morrow realized this, so he decided to develop the gravitor secretly. Morrow knew it would be no easy task though, because everyone knew that secrets were tough to keep...