Novel-Classic Stories

Time is money. Time heals all wounds. Given time, anything is possible. And now he had all the time in the world!

"Well, Corporal Westerburg," Doctor Henry Harris said gently, "just why do you think you're a plant?" As he spoke, Harris glanced down again at the card on his desk. It was from the Base Commander himself, made out in Cox's heavy scrawl: Doc, this is the lad I told you about. Talk to him and try to find out how he got this delusion. He's from the new Garrison, the new check-station on Asteroid Y-3, and we don't want anything to go wrong there. Especially a silly damn thing like this!

Sunlight filtered through the windows into the sleep-compartment. Tony Rossi yawned, then opened his black eyes and sat up quickly. He tossed the covers back and slid to the warm metal floor. It looked like a nice day. The landscape outside was motionless.In the dining compartment his mother and father had finished breakfast. Their voices drifted to him as he clattered down the ramp. A disturbed murmur; he paused to listen. What were they talking about? Had he done something wrong, again?

The whole fighting fleet of the United Nations is caught in Kreynborg's marvelous, unique trap.

In the Hyborian age, the major events of Howard's pseudohistorical prehistory, both period before and after the time of the Conan stories. In describing the cataclysmic end of the Thurian Age, the period described in his Kull stories, Howard links both sequences of stories into one shared universe.

The teller turned to the stacked pile of bills. They were gone! And no one had been near!

Tens of millenniums after the Death of the Sun there comes a young man who dares to open the Frozen Gate of Subterranea.

Destroying the spirit of the enemy is the goal of war and the aliens had the best way!

This Is, I Think, One of the Most Powerful Comments on the Modern Social Philosophy I Have Seen--a Really Blood-Chilling Little Tale....

Very admirable rule: Never do tomorrow what you can put off until after the age of forty!