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  1. 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…

  2. Talents, Incorporated
    Murray Leinster
    0 followers50k wordsCompleted

    The Mekinese fleet is coming to swallow the planet Kandar, and young Captain Bors is burning state secrets so the conquerors will find nothing worth reading. Then a space-yacht la…

  3. Conjure Wife
    Fritz Leiber
    0 followers51k wordsCompleted

    Norman Saylor, a rising professor of ethnology at small, stuffy Hempnell College, has never snooped in his wife's dressing room before. When he does, he finds little bottles of gr…

  4. The Winds of Time
    James H. Schmitz
    0 followers12k wordsCompleted

    Gefty Rammer took the charter for the money and didn't ask questions. Now his tough old semifreighter, the Silver Queen, has been knocked clean out of normal space into a black vo…

  5. 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…

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  1. The Fire of Asshurbanipal
    Robert E. Howard
    0 followers9.1k wordsCompleted

    Steve Clarney and Yar Ali are down to their last bullets in a desert sand-pit, with Bedouin riders circling and their water nearly gone, all for the sake of a legend. The American…

  2. 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…

  3. 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…

  4. Second Variety
    Philip K. Dick
    0 followers15k wordsCompleted

    The claws were built to win the war, and they may have done it too well. Six years after the bombs, Earth's surface is ash, and the battlefield belongs to self-repairing killing m…

  5. Rattle of Bones
    Robert E. Howard
    0 followers2.5k wordsCompleted

    Solomon Kane does not like the look of the Cleft Skull, a lonely tavern deep in the Black Forest with barred windows, no other guests and a host with small red eyes. He shares the…

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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. 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…

  3. 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…

  4. 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…

  5. The Pirates of Ersatz
    Murray Leinster
    0 followers59k wordsCompleted

    Bron Hoddan grew up on Zan, a planet of space pirates who swear they are simple farmers, and he has spent two years trying to become a respectable engineer on super-civilized Wald…

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  1. The Time Traders
    Andre Norton
    0 followers63k wordsCompleted

    Ross Murdock is a young crook with a talent for slipping out of trouble, until a judge gives him a choice between prison and a secret government project. The project is stranger t…

  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 Tunnel Under the World
    Frederik Pohl
    0 followers11k wordsCompleted

    On the morning of June 15th, Guy Burckhardt wakes up screaming from a dream of an explosion, and the day only gets stranger. The cigarette stand sells a brand he has never heard o…

  4. The Forgotten Planet
    Murray Leinster
    0 followers56k wordsCompleted

    Burl has never seen the sun. On a cloud-wrapped world the galaxy forgot, the descendants of a wrecked liner's passengers live like hunted animals among giant mushrooms, deadly spo…

  5. The Stainless Steel Rat
    Harry Harrison
    0 followers52k wordsCompleted

    Slippery Jim diGriz is one of the last real criminals in a galaxy so orderly that crime has nearly died out, and he is proud of it. Then the Special Corps finally catches him, and…

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  1. The Variable Man
    Philip K. Dick
    0 followers25k wordsCompleted

    Terra has spent a century bottled up by the decaying Centauran Empire, and the SRB computers finally say the odds are turning. Security Commissioner Reinhart is ready for war, and…

  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. World of the Hunter
    Stephen Marlowe
    0 followers4.1k wordsCompleted

    Earth is a backwater now, one planet-wide game farm where rich outworlders come to shoot beasts imported from five dozen worlds. Gilbert, eighteen and already a guide in the swamp…

  4. 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.…

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    Poul Anderson
    0 followers19k wordsCompleted

    Five years after the clans of Killorn left their purple hills, Red Bram's band marches into war-torn Ryvan and straight into an army out of the Dark Lands. The invaders are gaunt,…

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  1. The Pirates of Ersatz
    Murray Leinster
    0 followers59k wordsCompleted

    Bron Hoddan grew up on Zan, a planet of space pirates who swear they are simple farmers, and he has spent two years trying to become a respectable engineer on super-civilized Wald…

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    Fritz Leiber
    0 followers51k wordsCompleted

    Norman Saylor, a rising professor of ethnology at small, stuffy Hempnell College, has never snooped in his wife's dressing room before. When he does, he finds little bottles of gr…

  3. 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…

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    Murray Leinster
    0 followers56k wordsCompleted

    Burl has never seen the sun. On a cloud-wrapped world the galaxy forgot, the descendants of a wrecked liner's passengers live like hunted animals among giant mushrooms, deadly spo…

  5. The Vanishing Venusians
    Leigh Brackett
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    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. 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…

  2. Queen of the Martian Catacombs
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    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…

  3. Brightside Crossing
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    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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    0 followers59k wordsCompleted

    Bron Hoddan grew up on Zan, a planet of space pirates who swear they are simple farmers, and he has spent two years trying to become a respectable engineer on super-civilized Wald…

  5. The Virgin of Valkarion
    Chapter 6
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    Alfric of Aslak rides into Valkarion looking for work for his sword, and before he reaches the gate, Temple slaves try to kill him with poisoned darts. Valkarion is the last withe…

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  1. The Jewel of Bas
    Leigh BrackettStarted
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    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…

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    Leigh BrackettStarted
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    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…

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    Alan E. NourseStarted
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    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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    Murray LeinsterStarted
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    Bron Hoddan grew up on Zan, a planet of space pirates who swear they are simple farmers, and he has spent two years trying to become a respectable engineer on super-civilized Wald…

  5. The Virgin of Valkarion
    Poul AndersonStarted
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    Alfric of Aslak rides into Valkarion looking for work for his sword, and before he reaches the gate, Temple slaves try to kill him with poisoned darts. Valkarion is the last withe…