Novel-Classic Stories

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....

You can measure everything these days--heat, light, gravity, reflexes, force-fields, star-drives. And now I know there even is a.

Heroism is merely daring and ingenuity--at the age of ten--experience can come later!

Childlike, the great astronomer Phobar stands before the metallic invaders of the ravished solar system.

There is one fact no sane man can quarrel with. everything has a beginning and an end. But some men aren't sane; thus it isn't always so!

It was a big joke on all concerned. When you look back, the whole thing really began because his father had a sense of humor. Oh, the name fit all right, but can you imagine naming your son....

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

The most dangerous of weapons is the one you don't know is loaded.

To disobey the orders of the Council of Four was unthinkable to a Space Admiral of the old school. But the trouble was, the school system had changed. A man, a fighter, an Admiral had to think for himself now, if his people were to live.

There is no past or future, the children said; it all just IS! They had every reason to know!