Novel-Classic Stories

A scream of brakes, the splash into icy waters, a long descent into alkaline depths. it was death. But Ned Vince lived again--a million years later!

The mammoths of the ancient world have been wonderfully preserved in the ice of Siberia.When the hero-scientist of this story knew he must die, he conceived a brilliant idea for the preservation of his body, the result of which even exceeded his expectations. What, how, and why are cleverly told here.

It isn't at all obvious--at first thought--that having two perfectly good, usable arms could be a real handicap to a man....

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

Doing something for humanity may be fine--for humanity--but rough on the individual!

When nobody aboard ship remembers where it's going, how can they tell when it has arrived?

Lalette Asterhax could not escape her destiny. She was a hereditary witch in a world where witchcraft was banned by ecclesiastical and temporal powers. And any man who possessed her would then gain possession of her precious Blue Star...and all the powers it could bestow. Rodvard Bergelin was a reluctant revolutionary. a rogue who had a date with destiny. Although he lusted after a rich baron's daughter, Rodvard was ordered to seduce the saucy witch-maiden...

Locked in a rocket and fired into space!--such was the fate which awaited young Stoddard at the end of the diamond trail!

A story of the shocking revelation that came to the twenty-first Baron Kralitz.

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."