Contents:
"The Dean of Science Fiction" [introduction] (John J. Pierce)
"Sidewise in Time" (from Astounding Stories, Jun. 1934)
"Proxima Centauri" (from Astounding Stories, Mar. 1935)
"The Fourth-Dimensional Demonstrator" (from...
Murder Madness! Seven Secret Service Men Had Completely Disappeared. Another Had Been Found a Screaming, Homicidal Maniac, Whose Fingers Writhed Like Snakes. So Bell, of the Secret "Trade," Plunges into South America After The Master—the Mighty,...
Life on the moon under anything less than optimal conditions had always been a nightmare, and as Joe Kenmore and his colleague, Moreau, drove back to the City On The Moon on that day the Earth shuttle was due to land, the nearby mountain supporting...
COLLISION COURSE
As soon as he arrived to take over his command, Scott knew that something was wrong on Checkpoint Lambda.
His first sight was of a beautiful girl with empty eyes, whose vacant stare testified to her terror. Who was she and...
Things were quiet that night in the space port. Then the 'Theban' arrived without warning, bringing with it a surly crew, led by a blustering captain, Larson...
The 'Theban' was old, propelled by a totally obsolescent interplanetary drive. The...
The mystery of that missing planet has long intrigued Soames, who spends his hours charting celestial bodies in search of answers. Now a new mystery presents itself: for in detecting a meteor and trying to track it, he has come up empty-handed. He...
Dunne was a crystal miner among the stars until he discovered the biggest strike in space.
Drilling through the Rings of Thothmes with a mysterious lady stowaway, the lonely hunter soon realized that every miner in this golden mist was out to...
The radar-complex had picked up the strange object in space just as it neared the earth's surface. It was described as "an object of considerable size." The impact of its landing at Boulder Lake Park, Colorado was felt on every seismograph in the...
WHY SHOULD HUMANITY DESTROY ITSELF?
The MARINTHA hurtled into space to discover the secret of the galactic ancestors of the human race.
In the shattered rubble of great civilizations they discovered bizarre remnants of humanity beside whom...
HE ALONE DEFIED THE COSMIC VAMPIRES!
When the outlawed scientist Jim Hunt leaped from the prison plane, he had no suspicion that he was not the only one falling silently through the midnight sky. But other, stranger exiles were landing at that...