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The Hour of Battle

by Robert Sheckley

As one of the Guardian ships protecting Earth, the crew had a problem to solve. Just how do you protect a race from an enemy who can take over a man's mind without seeming effort or warning?

Forever

by Robert Sheckley

Of all the irksome, frustrating, maddening discoveries—was there no way of keeping it discovered?

Warm

by Robert Sheckley

It was a joyous journey Anders set out on ... to reach his goal ... but look where he wound up!

Warrior Race

by Robert Sheckley

Destroying the spirit of the enemy is the goal of war and the aliens had the best way!

Bad Medicine

The Leech

by Robert Sheckley

A visitor should be fed, but this one could eat you out of house and home ... literally!

Reborn Again

The Status Civilization

by Robert Sheckley

Will Barrent had no memory of his crime . . . but he found himself shipped across space to a brutal prison-planet. On Omega, his only chance to advance himself -- and stay alive -- is to commit an endless series...

Cost of Living

by Robert Sheckley

If easy payment plans were to be really efficient, patrons' lifetimes had to be extended!

When the Sleepers Woke

by Arthur Leo Zagat

Only two small groups of people—enemies—survive the vast desolation of the Final War.

The Death-Traps of FX-31

by Sewell Peaslee Wright

Commander John Hanson recalls his harrowing expedition among the giant spiders of FX-31.

Diplomatic Immunity

by Robert Sheckley

He said he wasn't immortal—but nothing could kill him. Still, if the Earth was to live as a free world, he had to die.

The Celestial Omnibus and Other Stories

by E. M. Forster

A traveler steps off the road and finds himself in an alternate reality. A sullen boy accidentally summons a spirit. A man gets more than he bargained for when he buys his fiancée a plot of wooded land. These...

Arm of the Law

by Harry Harrison

At one time—this was before the Robot Restriction Laws—they'd even allowed them to make their own decisions....

One Man's Poison

by Robert Sheckley

They could eat a horse, only luckily there was none ... it might have eaten them first!

The Hated

by Frederik Pohl

After space, there was always one more river to cross ... the far side of hatred and murder!

Old Rambling House

by Frank Herbert

All the Grahams desired was a home they could call their own ... but what did the home want?

The Great Dome on Mercury

by Arthur Leo Zagat

Trapped in the great dome, Darl valiantly defends Earth's outpost against the bird-man of Mars and his horde of pigmy henchmen.

Mutineer

by Robert Joseph Shea

For every weapon there was a defense, but not against the deadliest weapon—man himself!

Desperate Remedies

by Thomas Hardy

Described by Hardy as a tale of "mystery, entanglement, surprise and moral obliquity", his first published novel violated the literary decorum of its day with blackmail, murder, and romance. It relates the story...