Novel-Classic Stories

Successful colonies among the stars require interstellar ships--but they require, also, a very special kind of man. A kind you might not think to look for....

Did you ever wonder what might happen if mankind ever exceeded the speed of light? Here is a profound story based on that thought--a story which may well forecast one of the problems to be encountered in space travel.

As every thinking man knows, every slave always yearns for the freedom his master denies him...

Even in space there is pipers and musicians...

The man worth while couldn't be allowed to smile. if he ever laughed at himself, the entire ship and crew were as good as dead!

What will happen when the alien ships strike Earth? And later? Who will survive? What will life be like in that latter-day jungle? William F. Nolan, well known in SF circles on the West Coast, returns with this grim story of the days and the nights of Lewis Stillman--survivor.

The climate was perfect, the sky was always blue, and--best of all--nobody had to work. What more could anyone want?

If it was happening to him, all right, he could take that. but what if he was happening to it?

Before science, there was superstition. After science, there will be. what? The biggest, most staggering, MOST FINAL fact of them all!

In their pursuit of an unscrupulous scientist, Phil and Ione are swung into hyperspace--marooned in a realm of strange sights and shapes.