For a Pod Full of Dollars

 

“Fifty Thousand Dollars.”

The words oozed from Rayfe Tassk’s mouth as a grin spread across his swarthy, mustachioed face. He pushed a translucent plastoid sheet through the holo-adverts swirling across the tabletop toward the being seated opposite.

Skeks Sudzdozyn grasped the sheet in long, blue fingers and scanned it with bulbous, unblinking red eyes. 

“What’s a dollar?” he asked.

The Abraxas Inevitability.

The Matrix of Khouzouhept

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  Kaa-Vulth, deposed Emperor of Tazzozz, grinned as he surveyed the surreal vista laid out in the bowl-shaped valley beneath him.

The Ghonshu Mystery

In 1974, geologist-turned-mystic-turned-paranormal lecturer Andrei Conrad published The Ghonshu Mystery through DAW books.

Conrad presented the feverishly outlandish narrative as fact, and was the butt of humiliation from skeptics and unimaginative reviewers.

The book was poorly received as both a work of science fiction and documentary, and Conrad fell into obscurity.

Mint copies of the volume command respectable prices today, as it is favored by collectors of the unusual.