Novel-Classic Stories

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....

Smart man, Bruckner--he knew how to handle natives. but they knew even better how to deal with smart terrestrials!

If he took the high road--and also the low road--he'd be in the same place afore himself!

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

In the frozen wastes at the bottom of the world two explorers find a strange pool of white fire--and have a strange adventure.

The entities were utterly, ambitiously evil; their line of defense, apparently, was absolutely impregnable.

When but a child of seven my uncle placed me in a private school in which one of the so-called redeemed sub-sailors was a teacher of the German language. As I look back now, in the light of my present knowledge, I better comprehend the docile humility and carefully nurtured ignorance of this man.

Destiny reached out a hand to Algernon Weaver--but he was a timid man, at first. But on the strange world of Terranova, there was much to be learned--of destiny, and other things....

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