An Ace Double cover from 1971, a typically impish one by artist Kelly Freas. This is ACE DOUBLE 77785, a reprint with new cover art of D‑315 published in 1958. By this time, ACE Doubles had switched to the “tall” format to conform to standard paperback racks. ACE Doubles had two books bound together, each upside down in relation to the other. In this case, both sides were books by Eric Frank Russell (the other one was a short story collection called Six Worlds Yonder). Russell was British, but his style was convincingly American, and few readers of American SF magazines knew this. In some ways, he was similar to Clifford Simak, but with a more satiric tone. As early as 1941, Russell was crewing his future space ships with multi-racial characters. One of the earliest Science Fiction stories that had an intense emotional affect on me was his Dear Devil, which I read as a small child.
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