Novel-Classic Stories

They were the perfect servants--they were willing to do everything for nothing. The obvious question is: How much is nothing?

He knew the theory of repairing the gizmo all right. He had that nicely taped. But there was the little matter of threading a wire through a too-small hole while under zero-g, and working in a spacesuit!

A screaming streak in the night--a cloud of billowing steam--and the climax of Hawk Carse's spectacular "Affair of the Brains" is over.

Advanced races generally are eager to share their knowledge with primitive ones. In this case. with Earthmen!

They are the aliens among us--and their ways and wonders are stranger than extraterrestrials!

Man, it would appear, can adapt to any form of society. but not one in which the knowledge of extending life becomes a passport to death!

By way of Professor Denham's Tube, Tommy and Evelyn invade the inimical Fifth-Dimensional world of golden cities and tree-fern jungles and Ragged Men.

"A trick? Carse was famed for them. A trap? But how?"

It was, as usual, a decision on which the question of peace or atomic war depended. The Council of the Western Defense Alliance, as usual, had made the decision. And, as usual, the WDA Coordinator had to tell the Com Ambassador that the Coms had won again. The WDA would not risk atomic war over a minor boundary. Some hundreds of light-years away, the Survey ship Lotus floated in space over the third planet of the system, a planet exactly like Earth, only there was absolutely NO life on it.

A man will always be willing to buy something he wants, and believes in, even if it is impossible, rather than something he believes is impossible. So. sell him what he thinks he wants!