Novel-Classic Stories

Old Thaddeus McIlvaine discovered a dark star and took it for his own. Thus he inherited a dark destiny--or did he?

Now was the captain's chance to prove he knew less than the crew--all their lives hung upon it!

The long-suffering public went along with billboards and singing commercials; they tolerated half a dozen sales pitches in a half-hour radio or TV show; they suffered stoically through the "hard-sell" and the "soft-sell." But when the hucksters turned the wild blue yonder into a vast television screen, they howled.

Anybody who shunned a Cure needed his head examined--assuming he had one left!

As Arthur writes in the preface that.The Title story of this volume was written about eighteen months before the outbreak of the war and was intended to direct public attention to the great danger which threatened their country. It is a matter of history how fully this warning has been justified and how, even down to the smallest details, the prediction has been fulfilled.

Odd planet! The bipeds talked from their heads and saw only what lay before them. In short, they were pathetic--and deadly!

What will cosmic rays do to a living organism? Will they destroy life, or produce immortality? The eminent Dr. Blair Gaddon thought he knew.

The women had made up their minds, and nothing--repeat, nothing--could change them. But something had to give....

Every strength is a weakness, and every weakness is a strength. And when the Strong start smashing each other's strength. the Weak may turn out to be, instead, the Wise.

For every evil under the sun, there's an answer. It may be a simple, direct answer; it may be one that takes years, and seems unrelated to the problem. But there's an answer--of a kind....