"AFTER WORLDS END" by JACK WILLIAMSON is a classic work that represents the essence of its genre. This book offers readers an engaging experience, reflecting the author’s distinctive style, depth, and vision.

Warrior of Two Worlds by Manly Wade Wellman offers a concentrated, compelling experience within history / general. This concise work presents carefully drawn characters and purposeful plotting that together explore themes of choice, consequence, and human connection. The prose is precise and economical, balancing vivid scenes with clear pacing to maintain narrative momentum. Ideal for readers seeking a thoughtful, accessible read, the book is well-suited to book clubs and classroom discuss...

Welcome to our 150th issue.This time, we have terrific original tales by Neil S. Plakcy, Britin Haller & Shane Gericke, Bob Tippee, and Teel James Glenn ... plus novels by Natalie Sumner Lincoln and Gans T. Field, and classic stories by Jack Williamson, Nelson S. Bond, Jack Sharkey, and Larry Tritten ... plus a solve-it-yourself mystery by Hal Charles ... all jam-packed into 521 pages! Hours of great reading await.Here's the lineup:Mysteries / Suspense / Adv...

On a distant planet where the jungle seems to breathe with malice, a survey team arrives to uncover the fate of six vanished expeditions. What they find is a world that hides its true nature behind a living mask—one of grotesque plants, silent death, and genetic mysteries beyond human understanding. At the center of the mission is Lance Llandark, a hard-edged pilot haunted by the disappearance of his wife, one of the lost explorers. As the crew probes the planet's strange biology, they dis...

A dark mystery has been buried beneath the sands of the Sahara for eons. In a basement in New Mexico, four poker buddies find reason to believe that a startling secret is out there, and these four amateur adventurers are about to uncover it.Curiosity propels mild-mannered professor Will and his three friends to the Sahara to excavate a site where radar has detected trilithic stones hidden beneath the sand. There they stumble upon an ancient artifact that will change their lives—and...

Claiborne Coe returns to the decaying mountain town of Creston after seven years abroad, hoping to marry Valyne Kirk and leave its misery behind. Instead, he finds her missing, the townspeople hostile, and his foster-father, Doctor Kyle, warning of a terrible stain in his blood. Beneath the house, strange cries, blood, and a sealed cellar hint at a horror long kept hidden, while Clay's own violent outbursts suggest that the evil is not merely around him, but within him. As Kyle finally rev...

Ollie Marsden is popular and confident, but when his mates are banned from hanging out with him because he's a bad influence, Ollie realises how much he hates being on his own. Determined to impress Luca, a boy from the year above, Ollie accepts all his dares to prove his worth. As the risks get bigger, Ollie is sure he can count on Luca, but will his new friend have his back when it really matters?

In the vast expanse of the cosmos, where imagination knows no bounds, three extraordinary tales unfold in Jack Williamson's 3 SF Stories (Unabridged). Journey to a distant planet where a lone astronaut faces an enigmatic alien presence in "The Metal Man." Witness the rise and fall of a civilization on the brink of extinction in "With Folded Hands." And embark on a perilous quest through a labyrinthine world of dreams and reality in "The Girl from Mars." Prepare to be captivated by these ti...

Science fiction legend Jack Williamson's classic autobiography is much more than the story of a single man's life and work; it is an amazing look at the entire 20th century from the perspective of a man on a "long search for endurable compromise with society."Born in 1908, Williamson often felt at odds with the world around him and began writing science fiction as a method of escape. His tentative entrance into the field - his first story was published in 1928 in Hugo Gernsbach's l...

When adventurer, Barry Horn, is chosen to be the worlds first Rocketeer, the first human to set foot on other worlds, he is reluctant to accept the job until he receives a vision seemingly from his late wife telling him he must go or all humanity will be lost. When his mission goes wrong, he winds up in a suspended state. Conscious that he has failed, but unable to move, he has visions of mankind through the centuries. He witnesses his descendants going into space, creating the first livin...

One man fights those who quarantine Earth from alien cultures.

Somewhere, eons past, the seekers had begun as weapons - cyborg war machines. Nuclear explosions and powerful lasers meant little to them, for each was larger than ten battleships and subsisted on a diet of heavy metals, preferably radioactive. Soon the seekers began their own Lifeburst, flying to nearby stars, evolving, eating, destroying...Our solar system was next.