Hello,
I'm new here and hope that maybe somebody here would know the book/s I remember from when I was a young teen. It's been bugging me for years!
This is what I remember - it was a book with a collection of (I believe) 5-6 standalone novels. I believe the cover was yellow. The first story is about a man on a spaceship going to some moon for (I believe) mining. The only picture in the entire book of novels is a cross-section picture of his ship. There's a company called Amalgamated something. Based on my own research this could be the novelization of "Outland" but I'm not sure. Then there's a story about a foreign planet divided into two continents - one continent is inhabited by a rich "race" and the other by poor "barbarians" - to my recollection the protagonist gets invited to the rich continent and there's some (silly behaving) businessman there who sells (I believe) a drink (similar to coca-cola) - the whole novel seems to be an allegory for the West vs the Soviet Union... then there's a story I can't remember much of but it's a bunch of youngsters in a dystopian "cyberpunk" like future and their lives center around getting a drug I cant remember the name of - not sure, but I think the protagonist is one of the youngsters trying to look for a way out of this life. Then there's one or two stories about some kind of mutant creature, called wombat och zomba or something similar, which I believe is living in the air vents of some spaceship or futuristic building - I can't remember but I believe this creature harbors resentment against humans for being treated badly but becomes some kind of hero in the end?
I realize this is not much to go by but any ideas or pointers where to look would be greatly appreciated! It's been bugging me forever...
I'm new here and hope that maybe somebody here would know the book/s I remember from when I was a young teen. It's been bugging me for years!
This is what I remember - it was a book with a collection of (I believe) 5-6 standalone novels. I believe the cover was yellow. The first story is about a man on a spaceship going to some moon for (I believe) mining. The only picture in the entire book of novels is a cross-section picture of his ship. There's a company called Amalgamated something. Based on my own research this could be the novelization of "Outland" but I'm not sure. Then there's a story about a foreign planet divided into two continents - one continent is inhabited by a rich "race" and the other by poor "barbarians" - to my recollection the protagonist gets invited to the rich continent and there's some (silly behaving) businessman there who sells (I believe) a drink (similar to coca-cola) - the whole novel seems to be an allegory for the West vs the Soviet Union... then there's a story I can't remember much of but it's a bunch of youngsters in a dystopian "cyberpunk" like future and their lives center around getting a drug I cant remember the name of - not sure, but I think the protagonist is one of the youngsters trying to look for a way out of this life. Then there's one or two stories about some kind of mutant creature, called wombat och zomba or something similar, which I believe is living in the air vents of some spaceship or futuristic building - I can't remember but I believe this creature harbors resentment against humans for being treated badly but becomes some kind of hero in the end?
I realize this is not much to go by but any ideas or pointers where to look would be greatly appreciated! It's been bugging me forever...