The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day. It was a Wednesday, early in September 1952. The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with three weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless. The cotton, however, was waist-high to my...
On the 15th day of Franklin, Year of Descent 1008, in the Kralate of Vizantia Planet Kforri A young teacher, Marko Prokopiu, is convicted and jailed. His heinous crime: preaching the false and unholy belief that Kforri was originally settled by men...
Set in the time of Dionysios I of Syracuse, at the beginning of the 4th century BC, Th e Arrows of Hercules tells the tale of Zopyros of Tarentum, an engineer who invents an improved type of catapult. He is quickly drafted by Dionysios into...
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...
When a mysterious alien spacecraft approaches the Earth and demands to speak with the President of the United States, then destroys a large Pacific island to demonstrate its strength and seriousness, you'd expect the President to talk. Problem is,...