The Mysterious
Planet
When a planet, moving faster than Earth, entered the Solar
System out beyond Pluto, the reporters, for want of a better name, termed
it "Planet X." "Planet X", that astronomical curiosity, became, in a few
short weeks, an object of stark terror to the billions of men scattered
on the planets around our Sun, from blazing Mercury to frigid Pluto.
To Bob Griffith's father, Commander of the Ninth Wing of the Solar
Federation's Space Navy, fell the task of investigating the strange visitor...
Battle on Mercury
Step to the Stars
Only a decade away! Yes, according to the well-known author
of Step To The Stars, this remarkable age that has produced rocket ships,
guided missiles and hydrogen bombs will have a space station circling the
Earth within the next ten years. World domination will be in the hands
of the country that constructs it, and man will know, once and for all,
whether he is free or slave.
Such thoughts were far from Jim Stanley's mind when he was investigated
by the FBI and later subjected to strange and rigorous tests...
Preferred Risk
w/Frederik Pohl
Nerves
An explosive story of danger in a peacetime
atomics plant.
Mission to the Moon
Jim Stanley, who had helped to build the first space station,
was thrilled to return to it as a member of the crew selected to erect
the ships which would fulfill man's age-long dream to reach the Moon. A
total effort was being made to surpass the progress achieved in outer space
by an enemy Combine. It was believed that if this foreign group scored the
initial landing and gained control of the cold planet, the world would be
threatened...
Police Your Planet
Bruce Gordon was an ex-fighter, ex-gambler, ex-cop, ex-reporter
and now he was an ex-patriot of Earth. Security shipped him to Mars with
a knife, 100 credits, and a yellow card that meant no return. He was also,
he told himself, an ex-do-gooder. From then on he would take care of Number
One! But in Marsport, nothing was that simple. Here the vices of Earth seemed
tame and insipid. When he bought a commission in the Marsport police force,
he found that graft was not only a fine art, but the official Martian way
of life. So he joined the system. And then he met Sheila, who was out for
blood—his!
Rockets to Nowhere
A story of mounting suspense and tangled intrigue
as Danny's folks plan to desert earth's laboratories for an extra-terrestrial
life.
Day of the Giants
Leif Svensen's neighbor, come to warn him that the farmers
were going to take violent action against his dog for killing their livestock,
mentioned that he'd seen an angel the night before. "Big blond woman
on a white horse, singing loud enough to raise the dead, about a hundred
feet up in the air." Then, on his way to find his madcap twin, Leif met
the stranger who knew his name and who spoke of "the Fimbulwinter already
upon us." Fimbulwinter! The dreadful winter that in Norse mythology preceded
Ragnarok—the final war between the gods and the giants! Fimbulwinter—which
presaged the Day of the Giants. Leif Svensen and his brother were caught
up in the destinies of a real but alien world. For if the giants triumphed,
they would overrun Earth; and if the Aesir—the gods—won, Earth would be
their footstool.
Moon of Mutiny
Set in the early days of the moon's colonization, this is
the exciting story of Fred Halpern's efforts to prove himself worthy of
the title Spaceman. Fred, a first-rate but impetuous pilot, was washed out
of Goddard Space Academy for disobeying orders. But he is lucky enough to
get one more chance at a career in space when he is asked to join the third
expedition to the moon...
The Eleventh Commandment
Earth was a teeming, desperate hellhole..overpopulated beyond
the wildest nightmare and rife with starvation and disease. And still the
people multiplied. They had no choice... Be fruitful and multiply, or
be destroyed. That was the law of the land.
The Sky is Falling
The sky's falling. Your task is to put it together again.
See that you do not fail us.
Summoned from Earth by magic, Dave Hanson finds himself embroiled
in the politics and engineering problems of an alternate Earth named Terah
for Terah's sky has shattered, and he may be the one man in all the universe
who can restore it! But science and sorcery, beautiful women, and fantastic
monsters are just the beginning of his problems.
Badge of Infamy
The computer seemed to work as it should. The speed was within
acceptable limits. He gave up trying to see the ground and was forced to
trust the machinery designed for amateur pilots. The flare bloomed, and he
yanked down on the little lever. It could have been worse. They hit the ground,
bounced twice, and turned over. The ship was a mess when Feldman freed himself
from the elastic straps of the seat. Chris had shrieked as they hit, but
she was unbuckling herself now. He threw her her spacesuit and one of the
emergency bottles of oxygen from the rack. "Hurry up with that. We've sprung
a leak and the pressure's dropping."
Outpost of Jupiter
Bob Wilson, student of language-science is hurtling through
the solar system, just before landing his ship is mysteriously hit by unknown
space pirates. Arriving safely on an outpost of Jupiter Bob and his father
find their resourcefulness challenged by a deadly plague., and a little
girl's strange tales of friendship with beings from Jupiter...
The Runaway Robot
w/Paul W. Fairman
"We're returning to Earth," Paul's father tells him. Paul
is wildly excited, for all human bings on the planet Ganymede dream of
going back to Earth some day. Then Paul finds out that he cannot take his
robot, Rex, with him. Rex has been his constant companion for sixteen years.
Leave him behind? Never!
Siege Perilous/The
Man Without a Planet
Fred Hunter was the permanent resident of the space station...
the doughnut... because a hideous accident had rendered him physically
incapable of returning to Earth. For ten years he sweat it out, while others
came and went on tours of duty only a few months long. For ten years he stayed
sane, while space gnawed at the minds of others.
Then came the invaders, the strange beings who seemed to be not men,
not beasts, not machines. Fred Hunter knew he must face them alone...and
what could one crippled man do against their might?
The Scheme of Things
"Can a man really live - and die - more than once?"
Rocket From Infinity
When Pete Mason's father is badly hurt in a space mining
accident, eighteen-year-old Pete suspects that the injury was no accident
-- that it was caused by his family's rivals, Rachel Barry and her children.
Even so, when Pete receives an urgent call for help from Jane, Rachel's
oldest daughter, he risks his life to save her...
Prisoners of Space
"This is the haunting story of the first two children to
be born on the moon-of their life and their problems-and of their passionate
desire to visit earth, the multi colored planet that hangs so tantalizingly
near."
Pstalemate
A young man finds he has extrasensory talents. Then he discovers
others have them, too—though few as powerful as his. And then comes an
appalling discovery: he finds that if he cannot master these psi powers
he will certainly go mad. And no one ever has mastered them. His desperate
battle to find the secret of the power leads him to a source utterly alien—and
awesome in its implications for Earth's fate.
Tunnel Through Time
"Has the experiment failed? Why hasn't doc Tom returned through
the time tunnel? 'He's hours overdue,' says Bob grimly. 'Where is he?' 'Back
80 million years in time,' says Dr. Miller. 'Back in the age of the dinosaurs.'
What has gone wrong? Is it too late to save Pete's father? There is only
one way to find out. Pete and Bob must go through the time tunnel."
Weeping May Tarry
w/Raymond F Jones
Soul Searching. The landing was unlike any they had ever
made. But then they had never before seen a planet so strange as this one
with wild seas, scarred plains, and rubbled cities. It looked as if it
had been totally devastated by some type of nuclear destruction.
