Novel-Classic Stories

Elvin wasn't sure how it had started--maybe it was the Schermerhorn twins--or the mysterious "meteorite"--or else the world had gone crazy....

Well, it seems that Ivar Jorgensen has hit on the ultimate engine of destruction: a weapon designed to exploit man's greatest weakness. The blueprint can be found in the next few pages; and as the soldier in the story says, our only hope is to keep a sense of humor!

To spread Mankind to the stars carries a high cost in lives--and not all of them are human!

From some far reach of leagueless Space came a great pillar of flame to lay waste and terrorize the Earth.

One man's retreat is another's prison. and it takes a heap of flying to make a hulk a home!

Women may be against progress because it means new pseudo-widowhoods. Space-widowhood, for instance....

Nobody knew very much about the Sargasso area of the void; only one thing was certain: if a ship was caught there it was doomed in

Lincoln said it eons ago.... It took a speck of one-celled plant life on a world parsecs away to prove it for all the galaxy. / (Reviews)

When the members of the elite Baltimore Gun Club find themselves lacking any urgent assignments at the close of the Civil War, their president, Impey Barbicane, proposes that they build a gun big enough to launch a rocket to the moon. But when Barbicane's adversary places a huge wager that the project will fail and a daring volunteer elevates the mission to a "manned" flight, one man's dream turns into an international space race.

Every lonely man tries to make friends. Manet just didn't know when to stop!