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by Peter Baily
Accidental Death
The most dangerous weapon is one you don’t know is charged. The wind blew from the northwest, blinded by snow and boarded up with ice crystals. All the way to the half-mile abyss he fumbled and pulled out, moaning with ice plates. He screamed piercingly, whirled the snow in a dervish dance around the hollow, piled the snow into a long furrow, a plowed ruler, right through the streamlined clouds of snow. The sun shone on a black rock glazed with ice, abysses and ridges and ice bridges. He illuminated the snowy slope to a frozen glare, outlined a black shadow along a long furrow and turned at...
Number of pages: ~ 11 pages

by Stephen A. Kallis
The Untouchable
  • Fiction
  • 1960
  • Autor: Stephen A. Kallis
"You can see it - you can watch it - but you must not touch it!" And what could be more frustrating ... when you need to take it in your strongest hands in just one second ... The man finally entered the office of General George Garvers. When the door closed behind him, he saw a general who jumped up from his chair to greet him....
Number of pages: ~ 13 pages

by Helen Van-Anderson
The Right Knock A Story
  • Fiction
  • 1889
  • Autor: Helen Van-Anderson
Although the most excellent food can be found on the table of metaphysical thought, there has never been a metaphysical history that sets out the picture of everyday life, in its search for and satisfaction through knowledge of the philosophy of Christ. Knowing the urgent need for such a book among many researchers and students on this topic, and hoping to help satisfy this need, this story is told....
Number of pages: ~ 139 pages

by Jack Williamson
Salvage in Space
  • Fiction
  • 1933
  • Autor: Jack Williamson
Ted Allen, a meteor miner, comes with a dangerous bonanza of an abandoned missile carrier, equipped with an invisible death....
Number of pages: ~ 20 pages

by Clifford D. Simak
Hellhounds of the Cosmos
  • Fiction
  • 1932
  • Autor: Clifford D. Simak
Mankind hid in fear in homes. The largest cities - world capitals - can do nothing with the advancing enemy. The mysterious Horror swallows them. It all started in remote areas populated by small settlements. At night, unknown creatures began to attack the villages, and in the morning only gnawed corpses remained. The survivors in horror babbled about some shadows that could not be done any harm. And now humanity has shuddered. One after another, human settlements disappear under the onslaught of ethereal shadows that all the armies of the world cannot stop. Newspapers shout: “Attack from...
Number of pages: ~ 22 pages

by Robert Silverberg
The Happy Unfortunate
  • Fiction
  • 1957
  • Autor: Robert Silverberg
Dekker, returning from outer space, discovered great physical changes in the people of the Earth; changes that would have horrified him five years ago. But now he wanted to be like the others, even if he had to lose his eye and both ears to do this....
Number of pages: ~ 18 pages

by Ray Cummings
Beyond the Vanishing Point
When George Randolph first saw Orena, he was struck by her brilliant perfection. There were hills and valleys, lakes and streams, shining with the light of the most precious metals. And, more surprisingly, it was a world of miniature perfection - an infinitely tiny universe inside a golden atom! But for Randolph, it was also a world blazing with danger. Somewhere in his tiny expanse were friends whom he had to save. Captured crazy, they were reduced to the size of their native Orena; to return to Earth, they needed the capsules for growth that Randolph brought them. Randolph had to find them...
Number of pages: ~ 54 pages

by Van Tassel Sutphen
The Doomsman
  • Fiction
  • 1905
  • Autor: Van Tassel Sutphen
A beach of yellow sand and the smallest logs on which the boy was sitting, staring intently at the radiant water. It was a wonderful morning in early May, and the sun was behind him, warm rays fell on him with a gentle caress. But the guy clearly did not notice his immediate environment; in the spirit, he followed the direction of his eyes a league or more to the west, where a mass of undetectable shadow piled up on the horizon....
Number of pages: ~ 127 pages

by Frank Belknap Long
The Man the Martians Made
  • Fiction
  • 1954
  • Autor: Frank Belknap Long
If Frank Belknap Long is not one of the deans of science fiction writers, there can be no doubt that he occupies a high place on the faculty council. It seems that his pen is tireless, and his characters come to life, like not many other writers. We are sure that you will like this new disturbing story of his pen....
Number of pages: ~ 18 pages

by Irving E. Cox Jr.
Impact
  • Fiction
  • 1960
  • Autor: Irving E. Cox Jr.
They were languid, anarchist, shameless in their pleasures ... were they lower than man ... or higher?...
Number of pages: ~ 21 pages

by Charles V. De Vet
There is a Reaper ...
  • Fiction
  • n/a
  • Autor: Charles V. De Vet
Doctors gave him only one month to live. A month to wonder what will happen next? There was one way to find out - ask the deceased....
Number of pages: ~ 9 pages

by H. Beam Piper
Oomphel in the Sky
  • Fiction
  • 1960
  • Autor: H. Beam Piper
The Gwannon natives practiced ritual magic under the gaze of their earthly rulers. Hunting, farming, raising children - all this required special spells that only a strong shun could do. But when locals from Gwannon send prophecies about the end of the world, this could also be the end for the Terrans. It seems that the locals really want the end of the world - because the promised afterlife will be much, much better. And who can argue with the shoonoon and their prophetic dreams? Miles Gilbert, a reporter for Kwannon Planetwide News Service, is due to save this day. After all, only he can...
Number of pages: ~ 30 pages

by Randall Garrett
The Foreign Hand Tie
  • Fiction
  • 1961
  • Autor: Randall Garrett
The United States Navy cruiser Wunsocket, walking a calm path through the Mediterranean Sea, up the Aegean Sea and through the Dardanelles to the Bosphorus, stopped for the night in Istanbul, and then turned and returned. Along the way, he stopped in Gibraltar, Barcelona, Marseille, Genoa, Naples and Athens - the main friendly ports on the northern side of the Mediterranean Sea. On the way back he performed the same ritual on the African side of the sea. His most famous passengers were the US Secretary of State, two senators and three representatives....
Number of pages: ~ 25 pages

by Harl Vincent
Wanderer of Infinity
Bert Redmond never heard of the place until he received Joan's letter. But here she is, a tiny village hiding among the hills of Ramapo in the lower state of New York, just a few miles from a Tuxedo. There was a stiff, white-painted church, a department store with the inevitable gas pump at the curb and a dozen or so ruined frame houses. It's all....
Number of pages: ~ 21 pages

by Allen Kim Lang
Blind Man's Lantern
  • Fiction
  • 1962
  • Autor: Allen Kim Lang
Successful colonies among stars require interstellar ships - but they also require a special kind of person. The kind you might not think to be looking ......
Number of pages: ~ 22 pages