The Invader by Alfred Coppel is a gripping and high-intensity science fiction tale that plunges readers into a world where danger arrives without warning—and survival depends on understanding the unknown. From the very first page, the story builds a sense of urgency and suspense as an unexpected presence disrupts the familiar, forcing characters to confront a threat that may be far more complex than it first appears.Alfred Coppel masterfully blends alien in...

Night of Fire and Snow, first published in 1957, is a novel examining the life of a rising young writer who develops and eventually overcomes his writer's block. Interspersed are recollections of youthful love affairs, a marriage to a decent and also rich woman during the war, a long lasting affair with his best friend's wife (a top Hollywood starlet), and a liaison with his sister-in-law.

This is a great collection of action short stories by Alfred Coppel from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here: "The Last Two Alive!", "Preview of Peril", and "The Flight of the Eagle". This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.

Somewhere beyond the safe lanes of human travel, a silent prize comes tumbling out of the dark—vast, alien, and ripe for the taking. For a hard-bitten crew used to risk, rules are just paperwork and salvage is a religion. But this isn’t ordinary wreckage. The closer they get, the more the ship seems to change the men who want it most. Suspicion spreads. Tempers spike. And the promise of unimaginable wealth begins to feel less like luck—and more like a trap.Captain Midas is an atmos...

Ron Carnavon is a ruthless space criminal who has carefully arranged the theft of the treasure ship he once sabotaged, the Thunderbird, now drifting dead near Triton with a vault of Plutonian sapphires aboard. To salvage the wreck, he hires Pop Wills, a broken, gin-soaked veteran skipper whose rusty ship and desperate finances make him easy to exploit, intending to loot the prize and then silence him before he can talk. But Pop's weakness hides a buried link to Carnavon's earlier crime, an...

On the remote planet Kana, starship officer Kenyon is drawn toward Elyra, a beautiful native woman whose quiet confidence and mysterious warnings unsettle him from the start. His mission is to help repatriate Kana's people to the industrial worlds, yet the planet's red seas, featherlike forests, vanished barges, and air of ancient secrecy make the assignment feel increasingly wrong. As Kenyon learns more, the expedition leaders' frustration and uncertainty only deepen the tension, while El...

Alfred Coppel was a science fiction writer in the middle of the 20th century. He wrote adventurous stories for numerous pulp magazines. Other works by Coppel can be found under his pseudonym Robert Cham Gilman. This is one of those stories.

The 1950s were filled with big ideas and fearless imagination, and 1950s Science Fiction 4 brings together 24 stories that capture the remarkable variety of science fiction from that unforgettable decade. Strange planets, robots, time travel, alien encounters, bizarre inventions, and futures gone unexpectedly wrong are all waiting inside.Philip K. Dick takes center stage with five stories: Strange Eden, Foster, You’re Dead!, Prominent Author

On a dying Mars of red hills, frozen canals, and lonely tower-dwellers, Earth spy Marley climbs toward the tower of the enigmatic Martian Tydore, sent to steal a rebuilt atomic weapon that could decide a war on Earth. Impatient and contemptuous of Martian subtlety, Marley sees the world around him as decadent and weak, while Tydore greets him with exquisite courtesy and a calm that seems almost passive. Yet beneath the polite ritual, each man silently measures the other: Marley despises Ma...

Alfred Coppel was a science fiction writer in the middle of the 20th century. He wrote adventurous stories for numerous pulp magazines. Other works by Coppel can be found under his pseudonym Robert Cham Gilman. This is one of those stories.

On a dying Mars, the proud people of Laurr cling to ritual, honor, and ancient power as Terran invaders descend to strip the world bare. Caught between rebellion and ruin is Telis of Lars, a young Maldia warrior whose rise threatens old rivals and offers his civilization one last chance at defiance. When the masked aristocracy chooses him to answer the outlanders, Telis steps into a struggle shaped by secrecy, betrayal, and desperate patriotism. But Laurr's fate is not as simple as war aga...

The battered starship Cleopatra, nicknamed Old Lover-Girl, carries a crew of young officers who meet danger with swagger, jokes, and stubborn loyalty. When Commander David Farragut Strykalski and his executive officer, Cob Whitley, are diverted from routine patrol to Tethys, they find the ship dragged into Ivy Hendricks's secret Project Warp: an experimental drive meant to turn the old warship into a hyper-ship capable of piercing another co-existent space. Before the refit is complete, th...