Pendleton's quiet voice was grave. "Mars is old and tired and torn with famine. Venus is young, but her courage is undisciplined. Her barbarians aren't suited to mechanized warfare. And Earth..." He sighed....

The first ripples of blue fire touched Dio's men. Bolts of it fastened on gun-butts, and knuckles. Men screamed and fell. Jill cried out as he tore silver ornaments from her dress... Excerpt Mel Gray...

Man And His Machines Are Doing A Great Job Of Conquering Nature, Of Course. Does Anyone Doubt It? Excerpt The point about all these queer people you can run into from time to time is just that they...

It was driving men to madness... they had managed to capture it, but for how long? Excerpt Lundy was flying the aero-space convertible by himself. He'd been doing it for a long time. So long that the...

Few men have gone beyond that barrier, into the vast mystery of Inner Venus. Fewer still have come back. Excerpt The ship moved slowly across the Red Sea, through the shrouding veils of mist, her sail...

A war older than Man, fought among ageless stars. . . Long after Man's day was done his last strange son answered its dread challenge on an invisible world of flaming terror! Excerpt Raising one of...

In the freezing night the great ship held mysterious secrets, secrets that the Piruts and the Hans wanted. Excerpt Wes Kirk shut his teeth together, hard. He turned his back on Ma Kirk and the five...

Follow Bill Oliver as He Tracks down a Cowardly Killer and Solves a "Clueless" murder! Excerpt Kib Nasten had worked this out pretty cleverly, he thought. Doctor Robert Wasey paid blackmail. A smooth...

Twitterings and squawks that presage looting and death hand a cuckoo of a murder case to astounded Police Detective Mickie O’Day! excerpt When Captain Jim Doran phoned me to come to his office in the...

Grimly Eric John Stark slogged toward that ancient Martian city-with every step he cursed the talisman of Ban Cruach that flamed in his blood-stained belt Behind him screamed the hordes of Ciaran, hungering...

Attempting to make Venus safe for colonists turns out to be a very dangerous job for Tex and his partner Breska. Excerpt Tex stirred uneasily where he lay on the parapet, staring into the heavy, Venusian...

Raiders come from Mars to steal Earths radium. In desperate defense, an entire army division is wiped out. Then "Swoop" Martin, air pilot, volunteers a suicidal attack... Excerpt In a corner office...

The wise men of Caer Dhu were not so wise. They found the secret of Shanga, and they escaped their wars and their troubles by fleeing backward along the path of evolution. Excerpt Burk Winters remained...

A huge amount of money for a simple job. The deal seemed too good to be true... Excerpt Bucky Shannon leaned forward across the little hexagonal table. He knocked over the pitcher of thil, but it...

What weird science lay in the mummy case of Ret-Seh? What uncanny power created this lovely, terrifying vision? excerpt The mummy case was the finest thing of its sort that Hargraves ever had seen;...

MacIan was a man with a secret, and it had followed him to Venus and the Legion, escape was impossible... Excerpt Silence was on the barracks like a lid clamped over tight-coiled springs. Men in rumpled...