Novel-Classic Stories

A war in space between existing and evolving world powers.

Unfortunate castaway! Marooned far from home--with nothing to share his loneliness but humans!

Elwood Caswell, a homicidal maniac who wants to murder his best friend. Knowing it was wrong, he stops to buy a therapeutic machine, one made by General Motors. In a hurry, he buys, for cash, the floor model. The clerk learns that the floor model was gauged for Martians, who knows what effect it would have on a human, and the hunt is on.

A little tale about a maid whose fiance leaves her for a woman of higher standing and how that maid deals with her jilting.

Will Barrent had no memory of his crime... but he found himself shipped across space to a brutal prison-planet. On Omega, his only chance to advance himself -- and stay alive -- is to commit an endless series of violent crimes. The average inmate's life expectancy from time of arrival is three years. Can Barrett survive, escape, and return to Earth to clear his name?

To the men of the future, the scientific goals of today were as incomprehensible as the ancient quest for the Holy Grail!

Something in the many-faceted mind of the master machine spurs it to diabolical revolt against the authority of its human masters.

It was a wonderful bodyguard: no bark, no bite, no sting. just conversion of the enemy!

Keith Laumer, well-known for his tales of adventure and action, shows us a different side of his talent in this original, exciting and thought-provoking exploration of the meaning of meaning.

Alan is a middle-aged entrepreneur in contemporary Toronto, who has devoted himself to fixing up a house in a bohemian neighborhood. This naturally brings him in contact with the house full of students and layabouts next door, including a young woman who, in a moment of stress, reveals to him that she has wings--wings, moreover, which grow back after each attempt to cut them off.