On the lawless frontier of Mars, a hard-boiled cop and his robot partner Ned are sent to a corrupt river town where justice is already for sale. When they drag in a pair of criminals and expose the criminal reach of China Joe, the town's underworld boss, a tense arrest spirals into gunfire, panic, and a brutal showdown at the police station. Ned's cold, airtight logic and built-in firepower make him both an unsettling enforcer and the most reliable officer in town, even as the narrator see...

Major Gino Lombardi and Colonel Dan Coye begin with a nightmare on the Moon when a fellow astronaut vanishes into a hidden crevice, forcing them to finish their mission under the cold discipline of survival. But the real shock comes when they rendezvous in orbit and discover Earth has gone silent, its night side dark and its radio channels dead, as if civilization itself has been erased. Their return to Earth drops them into a harsher nightmare: a desert landing zone patrolled by German fo...

General Wingrove ignites a national uproar when he demands that Congress abolish the U.S. Navy, setting off a furious rivalry with Admiral Fitzjames and a media frenzy that turns military pride into public spectacle. Determined to prove the Navy obsolete, the Army stages a dazzling demonstration at the Jefferson Memorial, where the revolutionary Dornifier lets tanks, trucks, and even a jet aircraft skim across the Potomac as if it were a highway. Newspapers, radio, television, and cheering...

Brent Dalgreen, a celebrated painter dying from moon radiation, returns to Earth desperate to discover what art can still mean before time runs out. In the Metropolitan Museum, a single unsettling landscape stops him cold: it does not merely depict the Moon, but somehow captures its emotional alienness, the very truth Brent spent a year in lunar exile trying and failing to master. That shock sends him hunting for the artist, Arthur Di Costa, whose work seems to reveal a depth of feeling no...

This collection brings together some of the most incredible sci-fi stories ever told in one convenient, high-quality, low-priced Kindle volume!This book now contains several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!The Sentimentalists, by Murray LeinsterThe Girls from Earth, by Frank RobinsonThe Death Traps of FX-31, by Sewell WrightSong in a minor key, by C.L. MooreSentry of the Sky, by Evel...

A gifted gambler fights to survive on a hostile planet in this classic novel from the creator of science fiction antihero the Stainless Steel Rat.The gravity is twice that of Earth. The weather is an unpredictable maelstrom. All species of life, both plant and animal, monstrous and microscopic, are lethal. And the environment is drenched with radioactivity.This is planet Pyrrus, where telepathically gifted gambler Jason dinAlt has ended up after scamming a g...

It's more than a little careless to lose a battleship, even in interstellar space. Enter Slippery Jim diGriz, better known as the Stainless Steel Rat, the fastest talking con-man in the galaxy. Jim will need to go undercover to find the missing battleship and make sure it doesn't fall into the wrong hands. A fast paced comical science fiction romp!

This collection brings together some of the most incredible sci-fi stories ever told in one convenient, high-quality, low-priced Kindle volume!This book now contains several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!The Sentimentalists, by Murray LeinsterThe Girls from Earth, by Frank RobinsonThe Death Traps of FX-31, by Sewell WrightSong in a minor key, by C.L. MooreSentry of the Sky, by Evel...

The sixth powerful Science Fiction Archive! Edited by the strangely enigmatic Rey Bertran, SFA #6 features the following tales: Missing Link, by Frank Herbert The Great Nebraska Sea, by Allan Danzig The Valor of Cappen Varra, by Poul Anderson A Bad Day for Vermin, by Keith Laumer Hall of Mirrors, by Frederic Brown Common Denominator, by John MacDonald Doctor, by Murray Leinster The Next Logical Step, by Ben Bova The Nothing Equation, by Tom Godwin The Last Evolution, by John Campbell A Hit...

The editors at www.fantasticstoriesoftheimagination.com present Fantasy and Science Fiction from the Present, Past, and Future. 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, Digger Don't Take No Requests by John Teehan, Lighter than You Think by Nelson Bond, Garden of Souls by M. Turville Heitz, The Variable Man by Philip...

Harry Harrison was a famous american science-fiction writer.This collection contains the following short stories and novels :Arm of the LawDeathworldNavy DayPlanet of the DeadSense of obligationThe Ethical EngineerThe K FactorThe Misplaced BattleshipThe RepairmanThe Velvet GlobeToy Shop

A detective hunts down a killer in a dystopian, overpopulated NYC in this classic science fiction novel that inspired the film Soylent Green.Originally published in 1966, Make Room! Make Room! imagines a world at the end of the twentieth century where Earth is so overwhelmed by rampant population growth that it teeters on the edge of self-destruction. In New York City alone, thirty-five million people are squeezed into its packed boroughs, scrambl...