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Science Fiction
What awaits us out in space? New star-drive engines promise to open up the galaxy to human-kind. But the first ship to use the engines disappears and a sole survivor returns... alone and dying of some strange type of... See More
Science Fiction
Grimly Eric John Stark slogged toward that ancient Martian city -- with every step he cursed the talisman of Ban Cruach that flamed in his blood-stained belt. Behind him screamed the hordes of Ciaran, hungering for that... See More
Science Fiction
The people of Mars were perverse. They did not want Earth's proffer of rich land, much water, new power. They fought rehabilitation. And with them fought Carey, the Earthman who wanted only the secret that lay at the end of... See More
Science Fiction
Leigh Brackett may be best known for her screenplay for "The Empire Strikes Back," but her lush tales of interplanetary adventures were thrilling readers long before "Star Wars." Collected here are the short novel "Black... See More
Science Fiction
Two Complete Book-Length Novels of Strange Aventures on Other Worlds in the Universe of Future Centuries reprinted from the pages of the legendary pulp magazine of colorful, poetic space opera, Planet Stories! In Emmett... See More
Fantasy
Planet Stories was an American pulp science fiction magazine, published between 1939 and 1955. It featured interplanetary adventures, both in space and on other planets, and managed to obtain work from well-known names... See More
Science Fiction
Attempting to make Venus safe for colonists turns out to be a very dangerous job for Tex and his partner Breska. excerpt Tex stirred uneasily where he lay on the parapet, staring into the heavy, Venusian fog. The greasy... See More
FantasyStrange adventures on other worlds - The universe of future centuries Stories: Beyond Light - (Planet Stories Winter 1940) The Stellar Legion - (Planet Stories Winter 1940) The War-Nymphs of Venus - (Planet Stories Spring... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
She was the last person in the world I expected to see. But she was there, in the moonlight, lying across the porch of my rented cabin. At her throat was a gleam of dim fire that even by moonlight you knew had to be made by... See More
World Literature
"This entry, with its high-quality stories from such genre masters as Raymond Chandler and James M. Cain, outshines the typical all-original anthology." -- Publishers Weekly In Akashic Books's acclaimed series of original... See More
Science Fiction
Leigh Brackett was the undisputed Queen of Space Opera and the first women to be nominated for the coveted Hugo Award. She wrote short stories, novels, and scripts for Hollywood. She wrote the first draft of the Empire... See More
Science FictionA THRILLING PLANET NOVEL ALCATRAZ OF THE STARWAYS (by Albert dePina and Henry Hasse) Venus was a world enslaved. And then, like an avenging angel bringing knowledge of a weapon so terrible it had been used but once in the... See More
Science FictionTWO THRILLING NOVELETS OF OTHER WORLDS MESSAGE FROM MARS... Clifford D. Simak The last of Earth's pioneers stood on the rusty sands of Mars, his ship a total wreck -- knowing his world was doomed unless it received the... See More
Science Fiction
The Cold Calculations by Michael A. Burstein, They Twinkled like Jewels by Philip José Farmer, Lingua Franca by Carole McDonnell, Dawn of Flame by Stanley G. Weinbaum, Don't Jump by Jamie Wild, Youth by Isaac Asimov... See More
Science FictionShe had come to life, but she was not human. Leigh Brackett was the undisputed Queen of Space Opera and the first women to be nominated for the coveted Hugo Award. She wrote short stories, novels, and scripts for... See More
Science FictionSTRANGE ADVENTURES ON OTHER WORLDS - THE UNIVERSE OF FUTURE CENTURIES BLACK AMAZON OF MARS - (Planet Stories March 1951) THE DRAGON-QUEEN OF JUPITER - (Planet Stories Summer 1941) CHILD OF THE SUN - (Planet Stories Spring... See More
Science Fiction
It was driving men to madness... they had managed to capture it, but for how long? Excerpt Lundy was flying the aero-space convertible by himself. He'd been doing it for a long time. So long that the bottom half of him was... See More
Children's eBooks
Trouble is brewing on Mars... With civil war about to erupt, Eric John Stark has been sent to investigate an apocalyptic warlord recruiting mercenaries. More disturbing than the promise of a full scale war to unify the... See More
Fantasy
Born of Earth parents. Raised on Mercury. Mercenary on Mars and Venus. Warrior of the Solar System. "For hours the hard-pressed beast had fled across the Martian desert with its dark rider. Now it was spent. It faltered... See More
Science Fiction
Mars is a dying old world, full of evil tyrants and decaying cities where crime and malevolence run rampant. Eric Stark is an outlaw in this savage world. Orphaned on Mercury and raised by native tribes there, he is hunted... See More
Science Fiction
In the freezing night the great ship held mysterious secrets, secrets that the Piruts and the Hans wanted. Excerpt Wes Kirk shut his teeth together, hard. He turned his back on Ma Kirk and the five younger ones huddled... See More
Science Fiction
'No city, no town, no community of more than one thousand people or two hundred buildings to the square mile, shall be built or permitted to exist anywhere in the United States of America.' Thirtieth Amendment to the... See More
Science Fiction
Through all the long cold hours of the Norland night the Martian had not moved nor spoken. At dusk of the day before Eric John Stark had brought him into the ruined tower and laid him down, wrapped in blankets, on the snow... See More
Fantasy
Mercury is a lush, hot world. Mel Grey and a group of pioneers and prisoners are working hard to make the planet habitable for man kind. But there are those who would have the world all for themselves. Romance and adventure... See More
Science Fiction
It was a Gypsy world, built of space flotsam, peopled with the few free races of the Solar System. Roy Campbell, outcast prey of the Coalition, entered its depths to seek haven for the Kraylens of Venus -- only to find that... See More
Science Fiction
The Kraylens are a dying tribe, a scrap of old Venus, but Campbell is determined to help those that had helped him! excerpt "Roy Campbell woke painfully. His body made a blind, instinctive lunge for the control panel, and... See More
Science Fiction
Female author Leigh Brackett was the Queen of Space Opera! In this thrilling tale, carrying out the last wishes of a comrade, mercenary Eric John Stark takes on the task of returning a stolen talisman to a walled city near... See More
Science Fiction
A huge amount of money for a simple job. The deal seemed too good to be true... Excerpt Bucky Shannon leaned forward across the little hexagonal table. He knocked over the pitcher of thil, but it didn't matter. The... See More
Children's eBooks
Dark Secrets of an Inhuman Race Lie Hidden Beneath the Seas of Venus! Eric John Stark travels the shores of Venus' gaseous red seas seeking the whereabouts of a missing comrade. Pursuing this mystery puts him in the hands... See More
FantasyA Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy ISSUE 22: September 2016 Mike Resnick, Editor Jean Rabe, Assistant Editor Shahid Mahmud, Publisher Stories by: Martin L. Shoemaker, Thomas K. Carpenter, Nancy Kress, George... See More