Novel-Classic Stories

The sixty stories of the perfectly constructed Colossus building had mysteriously crashed! What was the connection between this catastrophe and the weird strains of the Mad Musician's violin?

Dr. Bird, scientific sleuth extraordinary, goes after a sinister stealer of brains.

The tragic misadventure of a man to whom the sky became an appalling abyss, drawing him ever upward.

What mission had the Quedak been given? Even he couldn't remember any more--but he refused to die till it was completed!

General David Walker looked up again at the seamed face of the Chief of Staff, General Marcus Meriwether. "This could be serious," he said slowly, with a sick sense of the statement's inadequacy. An old tic suddenly returned, tugging at the left corner of his mouth. The deadly, unsmiling expression on Meriwether's face did not change as he slid more tightly into his chair. "You know as well as I that it means the Interplanetary Confederation is ready to go to war with us."

It has happened a hundred times in the long history of Earth--and, sooner or later, will happen again!

The sand-thing was powerful, lonely and strange. No doubt it was a god--but who wasn't?

Fyfe's quite right. there's nothing like a satellite system for a cold storage arrangement. Keeps things handy, but out of the way....

Sometimes the very best thing you can do is to lose. The cholera germ, for instance, asks nothing better than that it be swallowed alive....

The history of man becomes fearfully and wonderfully confusing with the advent of interstellar travel. Of special interest to the legally inclined student is the famous Skrrgck Affair, which began before the Galactic Tribunal with the case of _Citizens vs. Skrrgck_.