Novel-Classic Stories

A room in San Francisco where strange things happened -- or a doorway into another cosmos, a different world, or perhaps the key to the past or future?

After all--they only borrowed it a little while, just to fix it--

With never a moment to rest, the pursuit through space felt like a game of hounds and hares. or was it follow the leader?

Mattup had killed a man, so it was logical he should be punished. It was Danny who came up with the idea of leaving him with the prophecy

The little house pet from Venus didn't like New York, so New York had to change.

Sure, Larry Connaught saved my life--but it was how he did it that forced me to murder him!

It would, of course, take a trio of Ivory Tower scientists to conceive of tracking down that statistical entity, the Common Man, and testing out an idea on him. And only the Ivory Tower type would predict that egregiously wrongly!

It was a race between the tortoise and the hare. But this hare was using some dirty tricks to make sure the ending would be different....

The gadget was strictly, beyond any question, a toy. Not a real, workable device. Except for the way it could work under a man's mental skin....

Was this ill-fated expedition the end of a proud, old race--or the beginning of a new one? There are strange gaps in our records of the past. We find traces of man-like things--but, suddenly, man appears, far too much developed to be the "next step" in a well-linked chain of evolutionary evidence. Perhaps something like the events of this story furnishes the answer to the riddle.