Novel-Classic Stories

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.

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!

By all the laws of nature, he should have been dead. But if he were alive. then there was something he had to find.

Take an unforgettable trip to another plane of existence in The Mummy and Miss Nitocriss: A Phantasy of the Fourth Dimension, a wild, rollicking sci-fi novel from author George Chetwynd Griffith. This tale blends a remarkable melange of zany characters and impossible-to-predict plot twists into one seamless -- and eminently entertaining -- package.

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

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....