Novel-Classic Stories

He was tired of people--a "human interest" columnist, who specializes in glamorizations of the commonplace and sordid is likely to get that way. So. this starship seemed to offer the ideal escape from it all

Madly the three raced for their lives up the shaft of the radium mine, for behind them poured a stream of hideous monsters--giants of the ray.

It was one of those days--perhaps you've had them--when everything went right!

Tremendous and glittering, the Space Station floated up out of the Big Dark. Lieutenant Corriston had come to see its marvels, but he soon found himself entrapped in its unsuspected terrors. For the grim reality was that some deadly outer-space power had usurped control of the great artificial moon. A lovely woman had disappeared; passengers were being fleeced and enslaved; and, using fantastic disguises, imposters were using the Station for their own mysterious ends...

Usually, if a man's gotten into bad trouble by getting into something, he's a fool to go back. But there are times.

They were two desperate scavengers in a no-man's land of radiation and death. Living in a kill or be killed world. Can they fin a new life and hope? A grim, grisly post-apocalypse story.

Somebody was going to have to be left behind. and who it would be was perfectly obvious....

Herbert was truly a gentleman robot. The ladies' slightest wish was his command....

There were no vacuums in Space Regulations, so Swenson--well, you might say he knew how to plot courses through sub-ether legality!

Hunted and hated in two worlds, Hradzka dreamed of a monomaniac's glory, stranded in the past with his knowledge of the future. But he didn't know the past quite well enough....