Novel-Classic Stories

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

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!

Many men have dreamed of world peace, but none have been able to achieve it. If one man did have that power, could mankind afford to pay the price?

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

A Konv cylinder was the key to space--but there was one power it could not match!

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

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

Facing a six-hour deadline of death, young Larry raids a hostile world of rat-men and tinkling Devil Crystals.

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.