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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 an atomic power plant so the Grom armies can step across space and take the pla…

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 heads. Camped above the Forbidden Plains, they watch a shadow spread across the sk…

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 raised him, runs him down in the Martian desert and makes the offer. Stark takes it…

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 at perihelion, and Claney turns up at the Red Lion to tell him exactly why it can…

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 Jupiter when the fuel tank on his scooter exploded. The U.N. calls it an acciden…

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 Walden. Then he breaks into a power station to prove his new receptor works, a dead…

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 opens his eyes in chains, wearing the huge, scarred frame of Conan, a traitor e…

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 drugged, or that the stranger, Ras Hume, is a crippled star pilot with a grudge who…

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 spores and insects the size of cattle, without fire, metal or any memory of where t…

Shann Lantee, the lowest hand on a Terran Survey team, survives the Throg raid that wipes out his camp only because he was up in the hills chasing two escaped wolverines. Now the beetle-like raiders hold Warlock, and Shann, Taggi and Togi are alone on a world…

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 bullet wounds in their bodies. Now Wellan Dasinger is heading for the place the loot…

In seven hours the Seventh Star Hotel, a fading pleasure resort floating where three shipping lanes cross, is scheduled to blow up with twelve thousand people aboard. Reetal Destone knows it, and when she spots Quillan's name on the guest list, she calls him…

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 land. A sandstorm has buried the colony's half-built landing grid, and all its ste…

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 lands carrying a stout, cheerful man named Morgan and his daughter Gwenlyn, offeri…

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 to Kahora Port. In the Trade City, Shanga is the newest fashionable vice: an ol…

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 finally leaves the planet, they pull him off the starship. His sister Juli has come…

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 criminals. In the city of Tetrahyde, status is everything and the quickest way up is…

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 is a fog-bound nest of wreckers and smugglers on the Red Sea of Venus, an ocean o…

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 only Brion can do. On Dis, a scorched desert planet, humans have adapted to the…

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 Peter Sherikov's labs under the Urals are close to the weapon that could break…

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 void where the instruments make no sense. His client, Mr. Maulbow, is unconscious,…

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 packed with Russian champions, the brash American boy wonder Willie Angler, the thu…

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 Port Armstrong for the one quarry he has never taken. The trader Wisby points him…

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's plane goes down inside it. He wakes in Tav, a hidden crater world where a scho…

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 of, the elevator plays jingles for products nobody knows, and all of Tylerton see…

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 the money is meant to buy weapons for his home world. Pyrrus has double gravity…

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 Venusian swamps, call him their almost-son. Now the Terra-Venusian Coalition pla…

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 its chief, Harold Peters Inskipp, makes him an offer: put those talents to work…

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 worlds from the stone hand of Asti, puts on an ancient suit of lizard skin, and goe…

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, and four mutated Kodiak bears who have learned to fight sphexes on their own ter…

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 family's yard built it. Now Bowen, a rescued young woman named Lys La Rue, a handful…

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 dreams and believe it points to a danger the World Executive Committee refuses to t…

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 that guards the pass called the Gates of Death, and he dies in the snow before he c…

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. Time hardly seems to pass there. David Innes and Perry climb out among cave me…

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 Council if he will ride a time cage back to 1960 and shoot the obscure Founder of t…

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 machines that burrow in the rubble and hunt anything warm that isn't wearing a ra…

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 who was once an officer, wants nothing now but to die honorably in the ranks. Yo…

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 swamps of Lewsanna, has led plenty of jaded clients. Mulveen is the worst. After a th…

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. When a granite cliff rises out of the mist, Matt Harker, bitter and haunted by memo…

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 period in months, is happy to read about another raid on Moscow over breakfast,…

Bored Chicago clubman Robert Grandon is drugged at the opera, offered a taste of real adventure, and wakes in another man's body as a slave in the marble quarries of Venus. A scientist with telepathic powers has traded him into the flesh of Prince Thaddor of…

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 short circuit in his matter transmitter flung him to Poros, a cloud-wrapped world ru…

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 blue-eyed young woman with a steel hook for a right hand falls into step beside…

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 legendary supercomputer of the war that left Poictesme littered with abandoned milita…

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. Eight weeks later she is working under a false name with dyed hair, Tate and the…

On the day Lucas Trask marries Elaine Karvall, a jealous rival with a submachine gun turns the wedding into a funeral. The killer, Andray Dunnan, steals the new warship Enterprise and flees Gram for the half-ruined worlds of the Old Federation. Trask has alwa…

Dal Timgar finished near the top of his class, and Hospital Earth still means to throw him out. He is the first member of an alien race ever to train as one of its physicians, a gray-furred Garvian with a pink fuzz-ball named Fuzzy riding on his arm, and plen…

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 for him: a hotel blown apart, a city's water poisoned, a liner lost. Arlene Rolf…

A chemist peers through a microscope of his own making into a scratch on his mother's wedding ring and sees, deep inside a single atom of gold, a girl sitting beside a pool. He cannot forget her. So he invents drugs to shrink himself, vanishes into the ring,…

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 than he could have guessed. The Reds have begun producing technology no one on Ea…