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Armchair fiction presents extra large editions of the best in classic science fiction novels. Here’s “King of the Dinosaurs”, a terrific pulp gem from the editor of Amazing Stories and Fantastic Adventures, Raymond A. Palmer. Sandcliff, a beautiful terraced cliff-city, used to be a wonderful place to live, for both Big Snakes (dinosaurs) and humans. But not these days…no sir! Not since the pact had been broken between the two. Now, relations were strained to the limit; the Big Snakes were in a terribly vicious frame of mind. And the people were being kept in a constant state of starvation by a cruel, unmerciful monarchy. So a bloody revolution was in the air. Old Walloo, the village seer, was sure of its eventual onset. Now everyone had to wait for the “sign” old Walloo had predicted would come—a sign that would clear the path to victory! Unfortunately such signs weren’t always a guarantee of success and the humans soon discovered that their way to victory was fraught with starvation, murder, raging storms, knife-wielding guards, hair-pulling divas, and—worst of all—baseball-playing dinosaurs!