Frank Belknap Long: Stories

Sally watched the molten gold glow in the sky. Then knew she would not see her son and her husband ever again on Earth.

Deep in the Future he found the answer to Man's age-old problem.

No mortal had ever seen the Martians, but they had heard their whisperings--without knowing the terrible secret they kept hidden.

MARS Earth's first colony in Space. Men killed for the coveted ticket that allowed them to go there. And, once there, the killing went on... MARS Ralph Graham's goal since boyhood--and he was Mars-bound with authority that put the whole planet in his pocket--if he could live long enough to assert it! MARS source of incalculable wealth for humanity--and deadly danger for those who tried to get it!

Something of the wonder that must have come to men seeking magic in the sky in days long vanished.

A stratospheric weather ship flying with an improbably large crew suddenly caught suspended in a force bubble in mid-air.

Tremendous and glittering, the Space Station floated up out of the Big Dark. Lieutenant Corriston had come to see its marvels, but he soon found himself entrapped in its unsuspected terrors. For the grim reality was that some deadly outer-space power had usurped control of the great artificial moon. A lovely woman had disappeared; passengers were being fleeced and enslaved; and, using fantastic disguises, imposters were using the Station for their own mysterious ends...