Novel-Classic Stories

Who or what was the scoundrel that kept these couriers from the swift completion of their handsomely appointed rondos?

"Nothing could be done. The thing was universal and beyond our human knowledge or control. It was death for young and old, for weak and strong, for rich and poor, without hope or possibility of escape." Must Professor George Challenger and friends, barricaded in a room, see Earth die? As globe passes through a belt of poisonous ether, terror sweeps mankind; cities riot; communications cease

One final lesson--a dying man's last letter to his only son that completes the young man's education.

From the depths of the Sargasso Sea of Space came the thought-warning, "Turn back!" But Carr and his Martian friend found it was too late!

The story of Tommy Reames' extraordinary rescue of Professor Denham and his daughter--marooned in the fifth dimension.

Interstellar trouble-shooting is the easiest work there is. All you need is brains, energy--and a steno with nice legs!

Most men of middle age would welcome a chance to live their lives a second time. But Coulter did not.

You're all alone in a deserted city. You walk down an empty street, yearning for the sight of one living face--one moving figure. Then you see a man on a corner and you know your terror has only begun.

Lost in the vast Scorpion Desert of Venus, he needed all the courage a man could own--and every bit of credit he could raise!

From Space came Cor's disc-city of Vada--its mighty, age-old engines weakening--its horde of dwarfs hungry for the Earth!