Author: Edgar Pangborn

Language: English

Published: 1960

You can’t blame an alien for a little inconvenience--as long as he makes up for it!

Volume 1 of The Chaos Chronicles

Author: Jeffrey A. Carver

Language: English

Published: 1994

Survey pilot John Bandicut is ready for the worst when he sets out across the surface of Triton, his head spinning with silence fugue. But no way is he ready for the alien presence that is about to invade his mind, or for the winds of chaos set to blow through his life.

Language: English

Published: 1960

Mars had gifts to offer and Earth had much in return--if delivery could be arranged!

Volume 2 of The Chaos Chronicles

Author: Jeffrey A. Carver

Language: English

Published: 1995

Miraculously alive, Bandicut is stranded somewhere on the fringes of the galaxy, docked at a structure of unimaginable size. Exploring the world within, he finds that he and countless other beings have been brought to this vast "shipworld," which contains countless alien biospheres joined both physically and by a web of n-dimensional energy. But he and his new friends Ik and Li-Jared cannot enjoy the marvels of Shipworld. Manipulated by powers beyond their knowledge, they are soon caught in a cascade of unseen forces, like the strange attractors of chaos theory, driven toward some greater purpose.

Author: Sarban

Language: English

Published: 1952

Alan Querdilion, a young naval lieutenant, is captured by the Germans and wakes up in a hospital bed - more than 100 years later. The Germans have won the war, and the Third Reich stretches from the Urals to the Atlantic. Non Aryans are bred as slaves. Deprived of speech and intelligence by the surgeon's knife, they serve their masters with their bodies. Count Hans von Hackelnberg, master of the Reich's forests, rules his domain with the iron fist of a feudal lord. His passion is hunting. At night the sound of his horn echoes eerily through the moonlit forest as the pack closes in on its prey. A pack of half naked cat girls, their hands sheathed in iron claws and their bellies starved of fresh meat. And their quarry, as Alan discovers too late, is ... himself

Language: English

Published: 1942

(Copyright unrenewed.)

Author: J. F. Bone

Language: English

Published: 1961

The Committee had, unquestionably, made a mistake. There was no doubt that Edie had achieved the long-sought cancer cure ... but awarding the Nobel Prize was, nonetheless, a mistake ...

Language: English

Published: 1926

Author: James H. Schmitz

Language: English

Published: 1961

On a bleak, distant unchartered world two ships lay wrecked and a lone man stared at a star hyacinth. Its brilliance burned into his retina ... and he knew that men could easily kill and kill for that one beauty alone.

Author: Jesse F. Bone

Language: English

Published: 1962

Generally, human beings don't do totally useless things consistently and widely. So--maybe there is something to it--

Author: Robert Donald Locke

Language: English

Published: 1961

Almost any phenomenon can be used--or act--for good or ill. Mutation usually brings ill--but it also brings greatness. Change can go any direction.

Author: James A. Cox

Language: English

Published: 1957

You're down in the jungle with death staring you in the face. There is nothing left but prayer. So you ask for your life. But wait! Are you sure that's really what you want above all else?

Author: Algirdas Jonas Budrys

Language: English

Published: 1955

He was looking for a privacy his strange personality needed. And never quite seemed to achieve it. All his efforts were, somehow great triumphs of the race, and great failures for him!

Author: Sam McClatchie

Language: English

Published: 1961

When a country is as champion-conscious as America, it's surprising that no one has yet developed the ultimate contest.

Author: Max Pemberton

Language: English

Published: 1895

The story of a life; the story of an unknown city; the story of men who dreamed dreams; the story of mercy and of death, of darkness and of light, of order and of chaos; the story of myself, Irwin Trevena, who set down these things as I have seen and known them.

Author: Murray Leinster

Language: English

Published: 1957

They were broadcasts from nowhere--sinister emanations flooding in from space--smashing any receiver that picked them up. What defense could Earth devise against science such as this?

Author: Henry Slesar

Language: English

Published: 1960

Mechanical brains are all the rage these days, so General Products just had to have one. But the blamed thing almost put them out of business. Why? It had no tact. It insisted upon telling the truth!

Author: Jeff Garrity

Language: English

Published: 2008

"Mars Girl is reminiscent of Kurt Vonnegut's early satire ... [It's] a bizarre, satirical romp that offers a glimpse into the media and politics of a future that is probably nearer than most would like to admit." -City Pulse

Author: Gordon Randall Garrett

Language: English

Published: 1963

A great politician need not be a statesman ... but it is inherently futile to be a great statesman, and no politician. Except, of course, for a miracle ...

Author: Raymond F. Jones

Language: English

Published: 1961

"As soon as I'm well we'll go to Mars for a vacation again," Alice would say. But now she was dead, and the surgeons said she was not even human. In his misery, Hastings knew two things: he loved his wife; but they had never been off Earth!

Language: English

Published: 1930

Author: Darren R. Hawkins

Language: English

Published: 2003

First contact, cybernetically unrequited love, deep space exploration, high stakes corporate espionage -- a SF novel chock full of everything but car chases.

Author: Lee Tarbell

Language: English

Published: 1949

There was a mysterious golden statue that always pointed one way—and it led to sudden death in the valley where flying disks landed.

Language: English

Published: 1931

Where the crested invaders came from no man could say--but they threatened to bring destruction to the three civilized planets!

Seeking a vacation, Interplanetary Guard Jack Sanders runs into romance and a space war!

Language: English

Published: 1944

An Epic Novel of Ageless Evil

Author: E. Charles Vivian

Language: English

Published: 1939

Author: Stanley Grauman Weinbaum

Language: English

Published: 1936

This etext was produced from A Martian Odyssey and Others.

Author: Green Peyton Wertenbaker

Language: English

Published: 1929

Language: English

Published: 1983

Author: Harry Collingwood

Language: English