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  1. The Beast-Jewel of Mars
    Leigh Brackett
    0 followers15k wordsCompleted

    Burk Winters was a starship captain until the girl he meant to marry flew out over the Martian desert and never came back. Now he is a shaking wreck with one reason left to return…

  2. The Cosmic Computer
    H. Beam Piper
    0 followers64k wordsCompleted

    Conn Maxwell comes home to Poictesme after six years at university on Terra, and the whole town of Litchfield is waiting for him to tell them where Merlin is. Merlin was the legen…

  3. Legacy
    James H. Schmitz
    0 followers76k wordsCompleted

    Trigger Argee was sent to Maccadon's Colonial School to organize the Plasmoid Project, the study of living Old Galactic artifacts her boss, Commissioner Holati Tate, discovered. E…

  4. The Hills of the Dead
    Robert E. Howard
    0 followers7.4k wordsCompleted

    Solomon Kane is sick of the jungle, but before he leaves, his blood-brother N'Longa, voodoo man of the Slave Coast, presses a carved staff of black wood into his hands. Kane carri…

  5. At the Earth's Core
    Edgar Rice Burroughs
    0 followers49k wordsCompleted

    On its very first run, Abner Perry's iron mole bores five hundred miles straight down and breaks through into Pellucidar, a hidden world inside the Earth where the sun never moves…

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  1. Kings of the Night
    Robert E. Howard
    0 followers13k wordsCompleted

    Tomorrow the legions of Rome march into the heather, and Bran Mak Morn, king of the Picts, may lose his kingdom before it is born. His alliance of Pictish clans, British chariot-f…

  2. An Earthman on Venus
    Ralph Milne Farley
    0 followers48k wordsCompleted

    A meteor that crashes onto a Massachusetts farm is really a capsule fired from Venus, carrying the story of Myles Cabot, the radio inventor who vanished from a locked room. A shor…

  3. The Night of the Long Knives
    Fritz Leiber
    0 followers32k wordsCompleted

    In the Deathlands, every stranger is a killer until proven otherwise, and most of them prove it. Ray Baker, bald, scarred and pushing forty, is a hundred miles from Nowhere when a…

  4. Sand Doom
    Murray Leinster
    0 followers16k wordsCompleted

    Bordman, a senior Colonial Survey officer who lives by specifications, comes to the desert mining world of Xosa II expecting a routine final inspection. Instead his ship cannot la…

  5. Star Hunter
    Andre Norton
    0 followers34k wordsCompleted

    Vye Lansor is mopping up after a knife fight in the Starfall, the lowest dive on Nahuatl, when a stranger buys him a drink and offers him a future. Vye doesn't know the cup is dru…

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  1. The Secret of Kralitz
    Henry Kuttner
    0 followers2.9k wordsCompleted

    On the night Franz, twenty-first Baron Kralitz, has dreaded for years, two silent figures in black wake him and lead him down a stairway he never knew existed beneath his castle.…

  2. Keep Your Shape
    Robert Sheckley
    0 followers5.8k wordsCompleted

    Twenty Grom expeditions have landed on Earth, and not one has ever reported back. Pid the Pilot means for the twenty-first to be different. His mission is to slip a Displacer into…

  3. The Jewel of Bas
    Leigh Brackett
    0 followers18k wordsCompleted

    Ciaran is a wandering harper and a thief, and Mouse is a branded thief with a temper and a good throwing arm. Between them they have never had a full belly or a roof over their he…

  4. Queen of the Martian Catacombs
    Leigh Brackett
    0 followers22k wordsCompleted

    Eric John Stark can spend twenty years in the Luna cell-blocks, or he can ride into Valkis as a spy for the man who once pulled him out of a cage. Simon Ashton, the lawman who rai…

  5. Brightside Crossing
    Alan E. Nourse
    0 followers7.8k wordsCompleted

    Peter Claney is the only man who has ever tried to cross the sun side of Mercury and come back alive, and he has the scars to prove it. Now James Baron is planning the same trek a…

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  1. Star Hunter
    Andre Norton
    0 followers34k wordsCompleted

    Vye Lansor is mopping up after a knife fight in the Starfall, the lowest dive on Nahuatl, when a stranger buys him a drink and offers him a future. Vye doesn't know the cup is dru…

  2. The Star Hyacinths
    James H. Schmitz
    0 followers15k wordsCompleted

    Six years ago someone robbed the Dosey Asteroids Shipping Station of a hundred million credits in star hyacinths and left seventy-nine people dead of something other than the bull…

  3. The Gifts of Asti
    Andre Norton
    0 followers5.7k wordsCompleted

    Memphir, empire of empires, burns below the mountain, and Varta, last Maiden of Asti, is the only one left to obey her god's final command. She lifts the tiny sun and its four wor…

  4. The Valor of Cappen Varra
    Poul Anderson
    0 followers5.2k wordsCompleted

    Cappen Varra, a red-haired minstrel from golden Croy, came north to sing for the barbarians of Norren and has regretted it ever since. Now he is freezing on King Svearek's ice-cru…

  5. The Vanishing Venusians
    Leigh Brackett
    0 followers11k wordsCompleted

    Twelve ships and thirty-eight hundred exiles from Earth have wandered the seas of Venus for a generation, driven from every shore by fever, swamp and the hostile Cloud People. Whe…

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  1. Deathworld
    Harry Harrison
    0 followers57k wordsCompleted

    Jason dinAlt is a gambler who wins whenever he wants to, and tonight a stranger wants him to turn twenty-seven million credits into three billion. The stranger is Kerk Pyrrus, and…

  2. The Land That Time Forgot
    Edgar Rice Burroughs
    0 followers37k wordsCompleted

    When a German U-boat sinks his ship, Bowen Tyler ends up in the Atlantic with his Airedale, Nobs, and soon he is helping to capture the very submarine that attacked him. His famil…

  3. Destiny Times Three
    Fritz Leiber
    0 followers35k wordsCompleted

    Someone, or something, is giving the whole world nightmares. In a gentle utopia of skylon cities and flying togs, Thorn and his friend Clawly have charted a steady rise in bad dre…

  4. Witch of the Demon Seas
    Poul Anderson
    0 followers21k wordsCompleted

    Corun of Conahur, the most feared pirate on the seas of Achaera, is finally in chains and bound for the headsman, until the Thalassocrat's sorcerer offers him a way out. Shorzon a…

  5. Keep Your Shape
    Robert Sheckley
    0 followers5.8k wordsCompleted

    Twenty Grom expeditions have landed on Earth, and not one has ever reported back. Pid the Pilot means for the twenty-first to be different. His mission is to slip a Displacer into…

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  1. The Vanishing Venusians
    Leigh Brackett
    0 followers11k wordsCompleted

    Twelve ships and thirty-eight hundred exiles from Earth have wandered the seas of Venus for a generation, driven from every shore by fever, swamp and the hostile Cloud People. Whe…

  2. The Door Through Space
    Marion Zimmer Bradley
    0 followers41k wordsCompleted

    Race Cargill has spent six years behind a desk in Terran Intelligence, his face scarred and a death sentence on his name outside the Trade City walls on Wolf. On the night he fina…

  3. The Cosmic Computer
    H. Beam Piper
    0 followers64k wordsCompleted

    Conn Maxwell comes home to Poictesme after six years at university on Terra, and the whole town of Litchfield is waiting for him to tell them where Merlin is. Merlin was the legen…

  4. Dragon Moon
    Henry Kuttner
    0 followers13k wordsCompleted

    Elak is a wolf-faced swordsman drinking and brawling his way along the waterfront of Poseidonia when a Druid's white fire saves him from a sea captain's blade. Dalan the Druid bri…

  5. The 64-Square Madhouse
    Fritz Leiber
    0 followers14k wordsCompleted

    Sandra Lea Grayling knows nothing about chess, and she has just talked her paper into sending her to the first grandmaster tournament with a computer in the field. The hall is pac…

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  1. Keep Your Shape
    0 followers5.8k wordsCompleted

    Twenty Grom expeditions have landed on Earth, and not one has ever reported back. Pid the Pilot means for the twenty-first to be different. His mission is to slip a Displacer into…

  2. The Jewel of Bas
    Chapter 7
    0 followers18k wordsCompleted

    Ciaran is a wandering harper and a thief, and Mouse is a branded thief with a temper and a good throwing arm. Between them they have never had a full belly or a roof over their he…

  3. Queen of the Martian Catacombs
    0 followers22k wordsCompleted

    Eric John Stark can spend twenty years in the Luna cell-blocks, or he can ride into Valkis as a spy for the man who once pulled him out of a cage. Simon Ashton, the lawman who rai…

  4. Brightside Crossing
    0 followers7.8k wordsCompleted

    Peter Claney is the only man who has ever tried to cross the sun side of Mercury and come back alive, and he has the scars to prove it. Now James Baron is planning the same trek a…

  5. Gold in the Sky
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    Twins Tom and Greg Hunter haven't spoken in a year, but the news from the Asteroid Belt drags them into the same room. Their father, Roger Hunter, has died alone between Mars and…

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  1. Keep Your Shape
    Robert SheckleyStarted
    0 followers5.8k wordsCompleted

    Twenty Grom expeditions have landed on Earth, and not one has ever reported back. Pid the Pilot means for the twenty-first to be different. His mission is to slip a Displacer into…

  2. The Jewel of Bas
    Leigh BrackettStarted
    0 followers18k wordsCompleted

    Ciaran is a wandering harper and a thief, and Mouse is a branded thief with a temper and a good throwing arm. Between them they have never had a full belly or a roof over their he…

  3. Queen of the Martian Catacombs
    Leigh BrackettStarted
    0 followers22k wordsCompleted

    Eric John Stark can spend twenty years in the Luna cell-blocks, or he can ride into Valkis as a spy for the man who once pulled him out of a cage. Simon Ashton, the lawman who rai…

  4. Brightside Crossing
    Alan E. NourseStarted
    0 followers7.8k wordsCompleted

    Peter Claney is the only man who has ever tried to cross the sun side of Mercury and come back alive, and he has the scars to prove it. Now James Baron is planning the same trek a…

  5. Gold in the Sky
    Alan E. NourseStarted
    0 followers38k wordsCompleted

    Twins Tom and Greg Hunter haven't spoken in a year, but the news from the Asteroid Belt drags them into the same room. Their father, Roger Hunter, has died alone between Mars and…