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Edge of Eternity
These were the last weeks and days before the end of the world, before total destruction overwhelmed Earth and every living thing on the surface…
Day of the Beasts
Earth was a crowded world of vast cities, manned by robots who carried out all of the menial tasks, who saw to it that everything…
Reactor XK9
Abercrombie was a strangely secretive man even for a top atom scientist. He had peculiar, advanced theories of his own which he would communicate to…
The Negative Ones
Henderson was a brilliant nuclear physicist until the night he staggered home a pathetic wreck of his former self, raving wildly about flying saucers and…
Out of the Night
The sea has always been a symbol of uncontrolled power and infinite movement. Its rhythms are the rhythms of Life itself... for Life began in…
The Uninvited
It should have been routine. Nothing could go wrong. The anode and the cathode were behaving perfectly. The meters and dials were recording accurately. A…
Perilous Galaxy
The only lesson we learn from history is that we never learn from history. Primitive weakness destroys just as surely in the age of Rock…
Phenomena X
Dolores Foster was walking home from work when she noticed an oddly shaped glittering something at the edge of the pavement. She stooped, fascinated, and…
Vengeance of Siva
Uma, a beautiful but frightened dancing girl, sells a strange bronze statuette of Nataraja, the dancing Siva, to Dr Chris Anderson, while he was visiting…
Special Mission
Kerrigan was a legend of his own life-time. He was the kind of electric personality around whom strange stories accumulate like iron filings dancing towards…
The Man From Beyond
Oliver Marland was an ordinary crew man on a routine flight before disaster overtook the 5X5. The strange sequence of events affected the minds of…
The Man Who Conquered Time
Darryl Whitesmith was engaged upon a new line of research at the Horological Central Institute. He was familiar with the famous saying of Minkowski: "From…
The X-Machine
Sally McQuire worked for an unusual organisation. She was an undercover agent for the I.P.F., but her friends knew her only as a scatter-brained night…
The Eye of Karnak
Modern man is not fascinated by ancient Egypt without good reason. The Nile Civilisation is not only interesting because of its age but because of…
The Return of Zeus
Man has often wondered about the birth of his world. Our remote ancestors told strange tales of parental deities who gave birth to planets, and…
Uranium 235
Atomic Alloys Amalgamated could always use a research technician. A man like Rosco Cawdor was sure of a job there. The security department hadn't been…
Spectre of Darkness
The anatomy of fear is the unknown. The essence of terror is contained in the phrase "What if?" Suppose the dead should return? Are there…
Beyond Time
If a man from the mid-1920s had picked up today's paper he would have mistaken it for a science fiction magazine. In the same way,…
Beyond the Void
Inexplicable electro-magnetic disturbances threw the Avon's passengers and crew into confusion as their ship was dragged off course. Collision with a huge asteroid seemed inevitable…
Dark Continuum
Beyond the eccentric orbits of Pluto and Neptune lies a vast, empty wilderness. There is nothing but the silence of space between the fringes of…
The Venus Venture
Man has already entered space and lived to tell the tale. Science Fiction is on the verge of being overtaken by science fact. Tomorrow is…
Mark of the Beast
Heredity is dependent on the complex patterns of genes and chromosomes, which are particularly vulnerable to radiation. An error in a biological research unit led…
Crimson Planet
Mars is our nearest neighbour in the solar system, with the exception of our own satellite Luna. It will be considerably easier to hit the…
Infinity Machine
Science and technology seem to advance in wild leaps. Something tremendous is discovered, then there is a breathing space. War accelerates the process of discovery.…
Micro Infinity
BY JOHN E. MULLER The botanist claims that human life depends indirectly on the chlorophyll in the green leaf. The leaf depends on sunlight. But…
Forbidden Planet
Charles Fort, the great American Rebel Philosopher, believed that every man had the right to doubt. He aimed his merciless shaft at scientists and religious…
Survival Project
The world of 2165 needed co-ordinators to link the liaison officers from different broad fields. Natasha was a trained nexus officer who became curious about…
The Ultimate Man
Ever since science began seriously investigating the potentials of electronics, man has toyed with the idea of creating robots. The dawn of the robot age…
The Day The World Died
Carl Kovak was an expendable political prisoner as far as the Eastern Totalitarian Government was concerned. He was being sent into orbit in a lead…