Novel-Classic Stories

Captain Brandon was a pioneer. He explored the far reaches of space and reported back on how things were out there. So it was pretty disquieting to find out that the "far reaches of space" knew more about what went on at home than he did.

He knew what she was thinking. Once in the very first weeks of the war, before everyone had been evacuated from the surface, they had seen a hospital train discharging the wounded, people who had been showered with sleet. He remembered the way they had looked, the expression on their faces, or as much of their faces as was left. It had not been a pleasant sight. There had been a lot of that at first, in the early days before the transfer to undersurface was complete.

Stories of the old West were filled with bad men who lived by the speed of their gun hand. Well, meet Buck Tarrant, who could outdraw them all. His secret: he didn't even have to reach for his weapon....

Hell may have no fury like a woman scorned, but the fury of a biochemist scorned is just as great --and much more fiendish.

There were but three days in which to decipher the most cryptic message ever delivered to earth.

Sometimes the most diligent and loyal thing an old man can do is fumble, drink beer, and let a young man get into trouble....

Nothing in the world could be happier and mere serene than a man who loves his work--but what happens when it loves him back?

If you should set a thief to catch a thief, what does it take to stop a racketeer...?

Far above the Arabian Desert three Secret Service men find an aerial island whose inhabitants are--madmen.

"Send the Black Throne to dust; conquer the Black Ones, and bring the Daughter from the Caves of Darkness." These were the tasks Garin must perform to fulfill the prophecy of the Ancient Ones--and establish his own destiny in this hidden land!