Novel-Classic Stories

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.

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?

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

Under the cloud of cast-off identities lay the shape of another man-- was it himself?

Everyone knows the Moon is dead. Everyone is quite correct--now!

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

Three Earthlings are whisked on an inter-dimensional journey to the den of the Scientist Zehru.

This bigtime space promoter could get the Horsehead Nebula in a flying mare--but pinning a planetoid is tougher!