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by Everett B. Cole
Indirection
  • Fiction
  • 1962
  • Autor: Everett B. Cole
The best way to keep a secret is to post it to absolutely incredible form - and insist that it is true...
Number of pages: ~ 18 pages

by Harry Harrison
Arm of the Law
  • Fiction
  • 1958
  • Autor: Harry Harrison
A robot policeman is sent to the provincial town of Nainport during a spaceport for field trials. In established provincial relations, its appearance does not cause much enthusiasm, moreover, the instructions for its operation on a thousand-plus pages are not easy to master. And now a car worth $ 120 thousand began sweeping floors, cleaning cameras, filing papers, until someone suddenly needed to go to the accident. For lack of a better sent robot ... Now, in the town of Nainport, crime is over....
Number of pages: ~ 15 pages

by Mack Reynolds
Medal of Honor
  • Fiction
  • 1960
  • Autor: Mack Reynolds
Lieutenant Mathers resigned and took the post of deputy director of the over-corporation for the production of rocket fuel. At first, this corporation became a monopolist in the fuel market, and then tripled the price of its products. Based on this story, the novel “The Galactic Order of Valor” was subsequently written....
Number of pages: ~ 24 pages

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
  • Fiction
  • 1981
  • Autor: Alvin Schwartz
The famous American writer, journalist and folklore researcher Alvin Schwartz collected in his book the most striking subjects that become fundamental for the modern genre of horror and an anthology of the horror genre....
Number of pages: ~ 132 pages

by Tom Leahy
One Martian Afternoon
She was sweet, gentle, kind—a sort of Martian Old Mother Hubbard. But when she went to her cupboard ......
Number of pages: ~ 10 pages

by Randall Garrett
Cum Grano Salis
  • Fiction
  • 1959
  • Autor: Randall Garrett
Cum Grano Salis is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Randall Garrett is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Randall Garrett then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection....
Number of pages: ~ 19 pages

by Lowell Howard Morrow
Omega, the Man
  • Fiction
  • 1933
  • Autor: Lowell Howard Morrow
The silver airship quickly pierced the hot, hot air. The midday sun illuminated him and the deserted world below. All about the solemn silence of death. Not a single living creature appeared either in the air or on the gray-gray earth. Only the plane itself showed some signs of life. The sky, blue as indigo, did not hide a shadow of a cloud, and on the horizon the mountains crashed into it like the teeth of a giant saw....
Number of pages: ~ 23 pages

by Edmond Hamilton
The Sargasso of Space
  • Fiction
  • 1931
  • Autor: Edmond Hamilton
Stellar exploration—and depredation—in the exciting first novel in the Solar Queen series from a “superb storyteller” (The New York Times). In the future, venturing out into the stars is more than a way for humanity to chart the cosmos—it’s big business. Every time a new planet is discovered, the highest bidder gets first dibs with exclusive property rights for a year. Anything they can find, they can keep. The planet Limbo was considered a waste of rock to most, which is the only reason apprentice cargo master Dane Thorson and the rest of the crew of the Solar Queen could afford to bid...
Number of pages: ~ 22 pages

by Randall Garrett
After a Few Words
  • Fiction
  • 1962
  • Autor: Randall Garrett
This is a science-fiction story. History is a science; the other part is, as all Americans know, the most fictional field we have today....
Number of pages: ~ 11 pages

by Frank W. Coggins
Say
  • Fiction
  • 1953
  • Autor: Frank W. Coggins
Twenty years is a long time to live in anticipation. At least, Professor Pettibone thought so—until the twenty years were up....
Number of pages: ~ 9 pages

by L. Major Reynolds
Holes, Incorporated
  • Fiction
  • 1952
  • Autor: L. Major Reynolds
It was getting so a person couldn’t sleep nights anymore. Would you like to see all hell break loose? Just make a few holes in nothing at all—push some steel beams through the holes—and then head for the hills. But first, read what happened to some people who really did it....
Number of pages: ~ 11 pages

by Sewell Peaslee Wright
The Terror from the Depths
  • Fiction
  • 1931
  • Autor: Sewell Peaslee Wright
"Afternoon, Mr. Correy. Anything of interest to report?" "Not a thing, sir!" growled my fire-eating first officer. "I'm about ready to quit the Service and get a job on one of the passenger liners, just on the off chance that something exciting might eventually happen." "You were born a few centuries too late," I chuckled. Correy loved a fight more than any man I ever knew. "The Universe has become pretty well quieted down."...
Number of pages: ~ 18 pages

by Robert Sheckley
Death Wish
  • Fiction
  • 1956
  • Autor: Robert Sheckley
Three people on board a space cargo ship. Their cargo is the supercomputer ordered by the Martian colony. And then the accident ... And now their ship at great speed flies away from the solar system. And if the human brain is not able to solve the problem of returning home, what way out of the situation do they have left? .....
Number of pages: ~ 13 pages

by Graph Waldeyer
The 4-D Doodler
  • Fiction
  • 1941
  • Autor: Graph Waldeyer
Do you believe, Professor Gault, that in this four dimensional plane we can find life, and that life is intelligent?...
Number of pages: ~ 15 pages

by Roman Frederick Starzl
The Martian Cabal
  • Fiction
  • 1932
  • Autor: Roman Frederick Starzl
Sime Hemingway slept badly on her first night on Mars. There was no real reason why he should not. His bed was soft. He dined excellently, because the cuisine of this hotel offered not only Martian delicacies, but also painted on Earth and on Venus. However, Sime did not sleep well....
Number of pages: ~ 70 pages