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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.

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?

Beside Still Waters

by Robert Sheckley

When people talk about getting away from it all, they are usually thinking about our great open spaces out west. But to science fiction writers, that would be practically in the heart of Times Square. When a...

The Death-Traps of FX-31

by Sewell Peaslee Wright

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

Tomorrow

The Lanson Screen

by Arthur Leo Zagat

Cut off a whole city, might get some serious breathing problems.

Seven Out of Time

by Arthur Leo Zagat

The novel concerns scientists from the future who pull seven people out of time in order to study emotion which has been lost to the human race.

Children of Tomorrow

by Arthur Leo Zagat

They roamed the vanished world that yesterday was America.

What's He Doing in There?

by Fritz Reuter Leiber Jr.

He went where no Martian ever went before—but would he come out—or had he gone for good?

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...

Forever

by Robert Sheckley

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

Old Rambling House

by Frank Herbert

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

Worms Of the Earth

by Robert Ervin Howard

Bran Mak Morn, King of the Picts, vows revenge on the Roman governor Titus Sulla after witnessing the crucifixion of a fellow Pict. He seeks forbidden aid from the Worms of the Earth, a race of creatures who...

Mutineer

by Robert Joseph Shea

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

Warm

by Robert Sheckley

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

The Leech

by Robert Sheckley

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

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...

When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth

by Cory Doctorow

The heroic exploits of "sysadmins" — systems administrators — as they defend the cyber-world, and hence the world at large, from worms and bioweapons.

Cogito, Ergo Sum

by John Foster West

Are the Spirit and the Flesh one and the same thing? Or are they separate entities, dependent and at the same time independent of each other? Perhaps some great Cosmic Law holds this secret. But the one Universal...

The Hated

by Frederik Pohl

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