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  1. The Beast-Jewel of Mars
    Leigh Brackett
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    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 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…

  3. 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…

  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. The Stellar Legion
    Leigh Brackett
    0 followers5.8k wordsCompleted

    Someone in the fort has sold out the Stellar Legion, and when the rains come to the Venusian swamps, the Nahali will pour over the earthworks. Ian MacIan, a white-haired Earthman…

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  1. 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…

  2. 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…

  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. 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. 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,…

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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. 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…

  4. 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…

  5. 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…

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  1. 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…

  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. 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…

  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. 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. The Skull
    Philip K. Dick
    0 followers7.7k wordsCompleted

    Conger's new job is to kill a man who has been dead for two hundred years. A hunter and smuggler with six years left in prison, he is offered his freedom by the Speaker of the Cou…

  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 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. 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…

  5. 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…

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  1. 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…

  2. 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…

  3. The Skull
    Philip K. Dick
    0 followers7.7k wordsCompleted

    Conger's new job is to kill a man who has been dead for two hundred years. A hunter and smuggler with six years left in prison, he is offered his freedom by the Speaker of the Cou…

  4. 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…

  5. 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'…

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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. 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…

  4. The Star Hyacinths
    Part 4
    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…

  5. Sand Doom
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    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…

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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. 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…

  4. The Star Hyacinths
    James H. SchmitzStarted
    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…

  5. Sand Doom
    Murray LeinsterStarted
    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…