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Armchair fiction presents extra large editions of the best in classic science fiction novels, complete with original illustrations. Here's a great paperback edition of that space opera class, "The Fire People" by one of the masters of early science fiction, Ray Cummings. It was a fiery invasion from another planet! No one could have suspected that Earth was in mortal danger. It started with a small meteor streaking across the sky before smashing into the Earth's surface. But the event was so much more than a simple collision between Earth and a wandering piece of space rubble. A strange glow began to radiate from the meteor, a glow unlike anything known to Earthly science; and with these emanations came death-horrifying, incendiary death-because anything coming into contact with that light was immediately destroyed. And soon the fate of Earth fell into the hands of an inquisitive newspaper reporter and a brilliant professor of science as they strived to save mankind from its first interplanetary threat-an attack on Earth from her distant neighbor in the sky¿Mercury.