Music plays, drums beat, horns blow, flags fly, women dress up and preen, men rejoice, children laugh, everyone dances and sings - in short, everyone is waiting for the rocket to land....
When traveling from England to Canada at night, you can learn about the device of the airships, observe the salvage of the trump crew, survive the storm and get to know the work of the Air Transport Administration, an organization that controls transport, and the whole world with it....
An American air fleet flew over New York and its bay. Suddenly, the movement stopped, and the system froze. Ten flying forts were each vertex of a wide-spaced cone, a horizontal axis, the body of which was spaced back along the squadron of thousands of helicopter planes. The cones are meandering in the ocean off the coast of New York, their points are a fifty-mile arc of disobedience, their bases touch each other, almost touching the ground at their lower edges, and then swirl upward ten thousand feet. From the van to the rear, each junction was five miles in length....
A dual-core beryllium deposit has been discovered on the planet Fomalhaut V. An expedition from Earth flew into reconnaissance and died. Only one person escaped. What happened on the planet? Peter and Sherry must solve this mystery....
Ranger James Medart stood next to Captain Gene Willis' control chair aboard Empress Lindner, enjoying a peaceful trip back to Terra after a surprisingly no-accident cruise. He was busy enough to avoid boredom, but there were no emergency calls that made the cruise almost a vacation. No matter how pleasant he was, he found himself almost desiring emergency care. Not really, since the emergency situation, serious enough to demand Ranger's attention, meant that the Empire was in trouble, and he did not like this part - but the challenge he made....
The most terrible wars are civil wars, when hatred goes beyond all limits, when a brother goes against his brother, when getting captured can be worse than death. It was in this situation that the five northerners found themselves, whose desire for freedom was stronger than the fear of dying in captivity or while trying to escape. But the result of the flight in a balloon turned out to be unpredictable: as a result of a hurricane, they were brought to a desert island. Many adventures and dangers await them there, but courage, knowledge and ingenuity will allow them not only to survive, but...
The planet itself was quite rigid - barren, deserted, forbidden; enough to stop the most adventurous and devoted. But they had to face a crazy genius who had the motto: death to all the Terrans!...
In the course of his duties as special patrol commander, John Hanson reveals the unique and keen secret of Tom Annerson. This is a story that I never intended to tell. I would not even say it now, if not for the Zenians. Understand that I do not like Zenians. One of the best officers I've ever had was zenith. His name was Eitel, and he served me on old Tamon, my first team. But lately, the Zenians have performed too many exploits of Aime Bawe. ...
