Novel-Classic Stories

I smelled the trouble the moment I stepped on the lift and took the long ride up the side of the "Lachesis." There was something wrong. I couldn't put my finger on it but

Daylight sometimes hides secrets that darkness will reveal--the Martian's glowing eyes, for instance. But darkness has other dangers....

They didn't think of themselves as pioneers. They simply had a job to do. And if they had to give up money, or power, or love--or life itself

You'd love Earthmen to pieces, for they may look pretty bad to themselves, but not to you. You'd even want to be one!

Lurton Zimbardo and his pirates threaten Mars with destruction from outer space and he makes good on his threat. Next he puts Earth in his sights. He operates from deep within the asteroid belt; his headquarters housed in a massive asteroid fashioned into a spacecraft by aliens from ages past. It is invisible to detection.

The best way to keep a secret is to publish it in a quite unbelievable form--and insist that it is the truth.

Joe had helped launch the first Space Platform--that initial rung in man's ladder to the stars. But the enemies who had ruthlessly tried to destroy the space station before it left Earth were still at work. They were plotting to stop Joe's mission!

Intelligent birds! They knew a dead-end planet when they visited one!

Slippery Jim diGriz--a.k.a. The Stainless Steel Rat--is back in this classic adventure, originally published in the April, 1960 issue of Astounding Science Fiction! It might seem a little careless to lose track of something as big as a battleship. but interstellar space is on a different scale of magnitude. But a misplaced battleship--in the wrong hands!--can be most dangerous.

From a Far World Came Monstrous Invaders Who Were All the More Terrifying Because Invisible