At least one of the factors contributing to the current cycle of science fiction films produced in Hollywood is the irritability of minorities when their citizens are portrayed as villains. Filmmakers are now trying to avoid further boycotts by using space aliens for villains. But suppose some of our extraterrestrial neighbors are also a little touchy?...
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....
