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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 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…

  3. 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'…

  4. Skulls in the Stars
    Robert E. Howard
    0 followers3.9k wordsCompleted

    There are two roads to Torkertown, and the villagers beg Solomon Kane to take the long one through the swamps. The short road crosses a bare upland moor, and for a year no one who…

  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. 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,…

  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 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…

  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 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…

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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. 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 Virgin of Valkarion
    Poul Anderson
    0 followers15k wordsCompleted

    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 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 Shadow Kingdom
    Robert E. Howard
    0 followers11k wordsCompleted

    Kull of Atlantis took the throne of Valusia with his sword, and now an old enemy is warning him that the kingdom is being stolen from within. Ka-nu, the cunning ambassador of the…

  3. 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…

  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. 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. 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,…

  2. 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…

  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 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…

  5. 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…

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  1. 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…

  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 Moon of Skulls
    Robert E. Howard
    0 followers20k wordsCompleted

    For years Solomon Kane has followed the trail of Marylin Taferal, an English girl kidnapped as a child and sold to slavers, and now it ends at a black crag in the African jungle.…

  4. 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…

  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 Virgin of Valkarion
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    0 followers15k wordsCompleted

    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…

  5. The Bottle Imp
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    For fifty dollars, Keawe buys a bottle that will grant any wish, and the man who sells it cannot get him out of the door fast enough. An imp lives in the milk-white glass. It can…

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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
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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…

  4. The Virgin of Valkarion
    Poul AndersonStarted
    0 followers15k wordsCompleted

    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…

  5. The Bottle Imp
    Robert Louis StevensonStarted
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    For fifty dollars, Keawe buys a bottle that will grant any wish, and the man who sells it cannot get him out of the door fast enough. An imp lives in the milk-white glass. It can…