A wise old man with a much older friend takes over a captured alien spaceship and they set out on a mission to find new worlds and restore peace on worlds that were victims of the ship's former owners. In the process, they must battle more of the enemy aliens as well as make friends with the previous victims. Some of those victims have long memories and are as much or more dangerous than the aliens at first contact. The mission requires the friends to recruit highly talented people to help...

A young boy is orphaned by an alien being and grows up to become the nemesis of that alien's species.

Girl born on Terra and raised on another world in a different universe becomes an expert in communication with new people and other intelligent creatures from different worlds. In the process, she must deal with deadly enemies who are desperate to stop her.

Terran man befriends 2 people from another world and is invited to visit them on their world. While there, he develops a close relationship with a juvenile member of an ancient alien race who is not even remotely human, physically, but has a very human personality. Together, the two of them provide a valuable service to their hosts that leads to the Terran being hired to work as an Explorer for the other world. That job leads to an unending series of adventures and priceless friendships.

Strahan's fifth anthology contains 29 wide-ranging tales. Neil Gaiman's "The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains" is a deceptively simple folktale-styled story of the price one may pay for gold. "The Sultan of the Clouds" by Geoffrey Landis untangles a complex knot of childish power. Sarah Rees Brennan's "The Spy Who Never Grew Up" gives a beloved childhood icon a sinister update; Diana Peterfreund's "The Care and Feeding of Your Baby Killer Unicorn" turns unicorn lore on its head; and ...

Captain of her own ship and daughter of the Queen of the Fleet, Danell never ran into an enemy she couldn't chase away or elude. Until now.

I am the last of my type existing today in all the Solar System. I, too, am the last existing who, in memory, sees the struggle for this System, and in memory I am still close to the Center of Rulers, for mine was the ruling type then. But I will pass soon, and with me will pass the last of my kind, a poor inefficient type, but yet the creators of those who are now, and will be, long after I pass forever.So I am setting down my record on the mentatype.

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The third volume in the Science Fiction MEGAPACK® series collection 26 tales of high adventure through other worlds and times, including a complete novel by H. Beam Piper! Included in this volume are:"The Man Who Made Friends with Electricity," by Fritz Leiber"Time Bum," by C.M. Kornbluth"The Human Equations," by Dave Creek"The Gun," by Philip K. Dick"Not Stupid Enough," by George H. Scithers"Jackpot," by E.C. Tubb"The Killing Streets," by ...

Bio-tech aliens invade a human colony!After centuries in stasis, a lost task force returns home. Arriving from the infinite void the surviving ships discover that the Imperium lies in ruin. The Homeworld itself is destroyed, and nothing lives in the Ancestral System except an infestation of unknown bipedal beings—creatures soft, red of blood and warm of flesh…When you colonize a planet, make sure the owners aren't coming back...MECH is the story of a new Ea...