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