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  1. 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…

  2. 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…

  3. The Defenders
    Philip K. Dick
    0 followers8.5k wordsCompleted

    For eight years humanity has lived underground while robot 'leadys' fight the war on a radioactive surface no person could survive. Don Taylor, a weapons planner on his first rest…

  4. Rogue Psi
    James H. Schmitz
    0 followers10k wordsCompleted

    Somewhere on Earth lives a telepath who can kill a man, take his face and his place, and fool even his closest friends. He has already shown what happens to people who go looking…

  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. 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. Exploration Team
    Murray Leinster
    0 followers18k wordsCompleted

    Huyghens is the only human on Loren Two, a world closed to settlement because of the sphexes, and his outpost there is completely illegal. He shares it with Semper, a bald eagle,…

  3. The Status Civilization
    Robert Sheckley
    0 followers45k wordsCompleted

    Will Barrent wakes up on a prison ship with no memory, no past and one fact to go on: he has been convicted of murder. His new home is Omega, the planet where Earth dumps its crim…

  4. Black Amazon of Mars
    Leigh Brackett
    0 followers24k wordsCompleted

    A dying thief's last wish puts a stolen talisman in Eric John Stark's hands, and every clan in the Martian Norlands wants it. Camar took the crystal lens from Kushat, the city tha…

  5. Lorelei of the Red Mist
    Leigh Brackett
    0 followers22k wordsCompleted

    Hugh Starke pulls off the biggest payroll robbery in history, crashes beyond the Mountains of White Cloud, and wakes up dying, until a green-haired woman offers him a new body. He…

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  1. 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…

  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. Gold in the Sky
    Alan E. Nourse
    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…

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  1. Enchantress of Venus
    Leigh Brackett
    0 followers25k wordsCompleted

    Stark's friend Helvi sailed into Shuruun and never came back, so Stark goes after him, and the crew of the boat that carries him there tries to take him before it docks. Shuruun i…

  2. 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…

  3. 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…

  4. 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…

  5. 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…

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  1. Gold in the Sky
    Alan E. Nourse
    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…

  2. 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…

  3. Citadel of Lost Ships
    Leigh Brackett
    0 followers12k wordsCompleted

    Outlaw pilot Roy Campbell has the Spaceguard on his tail and a price on his head, and the only people who ever took him in are about to vanish. The Kraylens, a dying tribe of the…

  4. Duel on Syrtis
    Poul Anderson
    0 followers6.5k wordsCompleted

    Hunting a Martian is illegal now, which is exactly why Riordan wants to do it. A shipping magnate and big-game hunter who has bagged trophies from Mercury to Pluto, he comes to Po…

  5. 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…

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  1. 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…

  2. 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…

  3. 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…

  4. The People of the Crater
    Andre Norton
    0 followers15k wordsCompleted

    Garin Featherstone is a war-hero pilot with no war left to fight, until the explorer Gregory Farson hires him to fly into a strange blue haze rising from the Antarctic ice. Garin'…

  5. Planet of the Damned
    Harry Harrison
    0 followers55k wordsCompleted

    Brion Brandd has just won the Twenties, a month of brutal contests that makes him champion of his world, when a man named Ihjel drags him out of his hospital bed. Ihjel has a job…

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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
    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…

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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…