Novel-Classic Stories

For eighty vertical miles Carpenter and Bond blasted their way--only to be trapped by the extraordinary monsters of the heaviside layer.

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!

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

Ellaby's society was a perfect democracy, where all men were equal. But some still wanted more personal attention, and they got it, like--

very planet is badly in need of family men, naturally--but the same one on all of them?

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?

Stark disaster to a brave lad in space may--to the mind that loves--be a tragedy pridefully concealed.

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

Man came from the sea. Mercer, by his thought-telegraph, learns from the weirdly beautiful ocean-maiden of a branch that returned there.