The Invisible Destroyer

Green Lanterns Hal Jordan and Kilowog run into an old foe, the Invisible Destroyer, while patroling the limits of the galaxy in their borrowed Green Lantern ship.

I got tired of seeing and hearing about our troops being killed and murdered for our country by the hand of terrorist. And I said to myself, "My brother, uncle, and brother-in-law were trying to do what was right." So I came up with some badass-kicking soldiers who could get the job done. And they did.

Complementing Science-Fiction: The Early Years, which surveys science-fiction published in book form from its beginnings through 1930, the present volume covers all the science-fiction printed in the genre magazines--Amazing, Astounding, and Wonder, along with offshoots and minor magazines--from 1926 through 1936. This is the first time this historically important literary phenomenon, which stands behind the enormous modern development of science-fiction, has been studied thoroughly and accurately. The heart of the book is a series of descriptions of all 1,835 stories published during this period, plus bibliographic information. Supplementing this are many useful features: detailed histories of each of the magazines, an issue by issue roster of contents, a technical analysis of the art work, brief authors' biographies, poetry and letter indexes, a theme and motif index of approximately 30,0000 entries, and general indexes. Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years is not only indispensable for reference librarians, collectors, readers, and scholars interested in science-fiction, it is also of importance to the study of popular culture during the Great Depression in the United States. Most of its data, which are largely based on rare and almost unobtainable sources, are not available elsewhere.

A gripping, thrilling, uncanny tale about the frightful fate that befell a yachting party on the dreadful island of living dead men... ExcerptA drab gray sheet of cloud slipped stealthily from the moon's round face, like a shroud slipping from the face of one long dead, a coldly phosphorescent face from which the eyes had been plucked. Yellow radiance fell toward a calm, oily sea, seeking a narrow bank of fog lying low on the water, penetrating its somber mass like frozen yellow fingers.Vilma Bradley shuddered and shrank against Clifford Darrell's brawny form. "It's--it's ghastly, Cliff!" she said."Ghastly?" Darrell leaned against the rail, laughing softly. "One cocktail too many--that's the answer. It's given you the jitters. Listen!" Faintly from the salon came strains of dance music and the rhythmic shuffle of feet. "A nifty yacht, a South Sea moon, a radio dance orchestra, dancers--and little Clifford! And you call it ghastly!" Almost savagely his arms tightened about her, and the bantering note left his voice. "I'm crazy about you, Vilma."She tried to laugh, but it was an unconvincing sound. "It's the moon, Cliff--I guess. I never saw it like that before. Something's going to happen--something dreadful. I just know it!""Oh--be sensible, Vilma!" There was a hint of impatience in Cliff's deep voice. A gorgeous girl in his arms--dark-haired, dark-eyed, made for love--and she talked of dreadful things which were going to happen because the moon looked screwy.She released herself and glanced out over the sea. "I know I'm silly, but----" Her voice froze and her slender body stiffened. "Cliff--look!"Darrell spun around, and as he stared, he felt a dryness seeping into his throat, choking him....Out of the winding-sheet of fog into the moonlight crept a strange, strange craft, her crumbling timbers blackened and rotted with incredible age. The corpse of a ship, she seemed, resurrected from the grave of the sea. Her prow thrust upward like a scimitar bent backward, hovering over the gaunt ruin of a cabin whose seaward sides were formed by port and starboard bows. From a shallow pit amidships jutted the broken arm of a mast, its splintered tip pointing toward the blindly watching moon. The stern, thickly covered with the moldering encrustations of age, curved inward above the strange high poop, beneath which lay another cabin. And along either side of her worm-eaten freeboard ran a row of apertures like oblong portholes. Out of these projected great oars, long, unwieldy, as somberly black as the rest of the ancient hulk.

For more than three decades Pakistan supported terrorists created havoc in India, which degraded the effectiveness of the government and cost billions of rupees in security measures. Over the years Indian Government realized that containing terrorism in the country was impossible without Pakistan stopping support for the terrorists. It approached Pakistan government in many ways but without any result. Finally New Delhi had two options, either to go for an all out war or persuade Pakistan with the help of other countries to stop terrorist activities. Indian leadership at that time realized that it was dangerous to have a direct conflict with Pakistan after its attainment of nuclear power. Unfortunately for India, neither USA nor any other world power, which could have pressurized Pakistan, were interested in the regional conflict. India tried for more than a decade to pursue the matter with all, but without any result. Things changed when Sardar Dulat was appointed as the chief of Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), India's external intelligence agency. He put up a proposal to the cabinet minister in charge of internal security, which if carried out, would make all world powers run to contain terrorism. The hard-line right wing leader liked the proposal and gave go-ahead. Dulat identified and deputed an officer, whose identity known only to him, to carry out his plot. The officer was asked join the terrorist groups and establish contacts with the Al-Quida fighters of Afghanistan. With the intelligence support given by Dulat, he carried out a number of terror activities inside India, which made him popular among the Al-Quida leadership. He convinced Abu Zubaida, a Palestine born Al-Quida member that terrorizing America was only way to contain Israel and free Palestine, his homeland. Abu Zubaida teamed up with Khalid Shaikh Mohammed to carry out September 11 terror attacks in USA. Osama Bin Laden, who always planned Al-Quida's strikes against US and Western Targets, was always conscious not to create a strike serious enough to force USA to attack his base in Afghanistan. Sardar Dulat knew this weakness and asked his agent to ensure that Osama Bin Laden is kept unaware of the plan until it is done. When Osama came to know about the plan, he tried to stop them but it was too late to call back. He decided to sacrifice both Abu Zubaida and Khalid Shaikh Mohammed for the betrayal, which enabled US forces to capture both of them (they remained only two top Al-Quida members to be captured by US forces for a long time) As predicted by Dulat, the world attention turned to the terrorist gangs in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Ultimately the pressure from world powers forced Pakistan to abandon some of its terror activities against India.