Novel-Classic Stories

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

In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man, of course, is king. But how about a live wire, a smart businessman, in a civilization of 100% pure chumps?

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

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.

Alone and unaided, Pilot Travers copes with the invisible foes who have struck down America's great engine of war.

"I tell you, comrades," the speaker was shouting, "the time has come when we must revolt. We must battle to the death with the wearers of the purple. Why work out our lives down here so they can live in the lap of luxury over our heads? Why labor day after day at the oxygen generators to give them the fresh air they breathe?"

It is magic against magic as Garry Connell bluffs for his life with a prehistoric savage in the heart of Sentinel Mountain.

They would never live to see the trip's end. So they made a few changes in their way of life--and many in their way of death!

A war in space between existing and evolving world powers.

However fantastic it may seem, the society so elaborately described in this story has its seeds in ours. Just check the data....