Novel-Classic Stories

Well, they finally got rid of war. For the first time there was peace on Earth--since the only possible victims were the killers themselves!

The main trouble is that you'd never suspect anything was wrong; you'd enjoy associating with _slizzers_, so long as you didn't know....

"Pigs Is Pigs" Butler quite surpasses himself in this story. The intricacies in radio are so great, and the changes occur so quickly that no one can afford to make a will wherein a radio provision figures. Once we thought of having a radio loud speaker installed in our coffin to keep us company and make it less lonesome. After reading this story we quickly changed our mind. The possibilities are too various.

Let the dead past bury its dead? Not while I am alive, it won't!

This 1957 book contains thirteen pre-space-exploration stories for young readers. Some of the details show their dated composition (we now know the earth looks blue not green from space) but the sense of adventure will still hold attention for the young.

It was, Kirk thought, like standing in a gully, watching a boulder teeter precariously above you. It might fall at any minute, crushing your life out instantly beneath its weight. Your only possible defenses are your brain and voice--but how do you argue with a boulder which neither sees nor hears?

Jack's blunder was disastrous, but what he worried about was: would Einstein have approved?

Droozle was probably the greatest writer in the world--any world!

First published in "The Counterfeit Man: More Science Fiction Stories published in 1963.

I thought of every way to save Hal from the Lydna Project and failed. but the women didn't!