GNOME PRESS HIGHWAYS IN HIDING by George O Smith (Hardcover)

CONDITION GOOD, SLIGHT CRACKING & CHIPS AT TOP & BOTTOM OF SPINE.

AUTHOR: GEORGE O SMITH

CATEGORY SCIENCE FICTION

PUBLISHER GNOME PRESS 1ST EDITION 1955, 4000 COPIES PRODUCED

GNOME PRESS

AN AMERICAN SMALL PRESS PUBLISHING COMPANY KNOWN FOR PUBLISHING MANY SCIENCE FICTION CLASSICS. GNOME WAS ONE OF THE MOST EMINENT OF THE FAN PUBLISHERS OF SCIENCE FICTION PRODUCING 86 TITLES IN ITS LIFESPAN. GNOME HELPED TO TRANSITION SCIENCE FICTION FROM MAGAZINE PHENOMENON TO MASS MARKET PUBLISHING BUT PROVED TO BE TO UNDERFUNDED TO MAKE THE LEAP FROM FAN BASED PUBLISHING TO THE PROFESSIONAL LEVEL. AFTER 10 YEARS IT FADED DUE TO ITS INABILITY TO COMPETE WITH MAJOR PUBLISHERS.

SYNOPSIS

THE NOVEL CONCERNS ESP & A DISEASE THAT TURNS MEN INTO SUPERMEN, IT CONTAINS MULTIPLE PLOT LINES CONCERNING INTERACTIONS OF PEOPLE THAT CAN SENSE THINGS & PEOPLE THAT CAN READ THOUGHTS. THIS IS SET AGAINST THE PLOT OF A SECRET SOCIETY THAT IS HARBOURING PEOPLE THAT ARE INFECTED WITH A SPACE BORNE ILLNESS CALLED MEKSTORMS DISEASE.