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 wanderer and his big Afghan comrade have followed rumors from Shiraz to the Per…

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…