On the starship Procyon, Barbara "Bobby" Warner turns a moment of takeoff into a display of fearless athletic grace, revealing she is no pampered passenger but a woman with confidence, independence, and hidden strength. That impression deepens when First Officer Carlyle Deston, guided by a baffling hunch, meets her in the passenger lounge and experiences an immediate, overwhelming psychic bond that feels like destiny. Their connection is instant, mutual, and impossible to ignore: she is th...

In a future where scientists can watch the currents of time but fear to alter them, Prime Physicist Skandos makes a reckless choice: he intervenes in the distant past to prevent civilization's collapse. His target is Tedric, a fearless blacksmith in a brutal age ruled by priests, sacrifice, and the false god Sarpedion, whose cult keeps Lomarr weak and obedient. Tedric is no mere craftsman; he is a practical rebel who wants better steel, better armor, and the means to strike back at tyranny...

In the rigid empire of Tellurian Pharmaceuticals, science and profit have fused into something far colder than mere ambition. Dr. Ezekiel Stonely's radiation-grown "clear quill" proves that a revolutionary crop can be produced at astonishing speed and without traceable evidence, but the real breakthrough is the secrecy surrounding it. On the industrial world of Deka, hydroponic farms, laboratories, animal enclosures, and hidden disposal systems form a vast covert machine, while Graves and ...

Kimball Kinnison, the Gray Lensman, stands at the center of a galaxy-wide war where law has always lagged behind crime and only the Galactic Patrol can answer the challenge of star-spanning evil. Born from the Arisians' mysterious gift, the Lens marks the true Patrolman, binds to its wearer, and grants telepathic power, unforgeable authority, and the right to act for civilization itself. Kinnison is the finest of them all: first in his class, first to recognize Boskone as a rival civilizat...

In a universe where history can hinge on a single startling moment, time traveler Skandos One discovers that the fate of civilization may rest on the rise of Tedric, a fierce Lomarrian ironmaster who despises human sacrifice and becomes the unlikely pivot of a doomed timeline. By teaching him the secret of super-steel and nudging events across split realities, Skandos helps shape a warrior whose strength, judgment, and legend may determine humanity's future. In Lomarr, Tedric rises from ar...

Science Fiction and Fantasy stories of STRANGEST ilk.Other Tales: Volume V contains eight bizarre and incredible tales of science fiction and fantasy, including stories by eminent genre writers Fritz Leiber (author of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser) and Arthur Conan Doyle (creator of Sherlock Holmes) and an original Dungeons & Dragons-esque yarn by author and narrator Adriel Brandt.Volume V contains stories byArthur C. BensonAd...

Science Fiction and Fantasy stories of STRANGEST ilk.Other Tales: Volume V contains eight bizarre and incredible tales of science fiction and fantasy, including stories by eminent genre writers Fritz Leiber (author of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser) and Arthur Conan Doyle (creator of Sherlock Holmes) and an original Dungeons & Dragons-esque yarn by author and narrator Adriel Brandt.Volume V contains stories byArthur C. BensonAd...

Science Fiction and Fantasy stories of STRANGEST ilk.Other Tales: Volume V contains eight bizarre and incredible tales of science fiction and fantasy, including stories by eminent genre writers Fritz Leiber (author of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser) and Arthur Conan Doyle (creator of Sherlock Holmes) and an original Dungeons & Dragons-esque yarn by author and narrator Adriel Brandt.Volume V contains stories byArthur C. BensonAd...

Science Fiction and Fantasy stories of STRANGEST ilk.Other Tales: Volume V contains eight bizarre and incredible tales of science fiction and fantasy, including stories by eminent genre writers Fritz Leiber (author of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser) and Arthur Conan Doyle (creator of Sherlock Holmes) and an original Dungeons & Dragons-esque yarn by author and narrator Adriel Brandt.Volume V contains stories byArthur C. BensonAd...

Science Fiction and Fantasy stories of STRANGEST ilk.Other Tales: Volume V contains eight bizarre and incredible tales of science fiction and fantasy, including stories by eminent genre writers Fritz Leiber (author of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser) and Arthur Conan Doyle (creator of Sherlock Holmes) and an original Dungeons & Dragons-esque yarn by author and narrator Adriel Brandt.Volume V contains stories byArthur C. BensonAd...

E. E. "Doc" Smith: Ultimate Sci-Fi Collection gathers the foundational space operas that helped define American science fiction's grand scale: interstellar travel, cosmic warfare, super-scientific invention, and heroic conflict staged across galaxies. Smith's prose is exuberant, kinetic, and unapologetically expansive, privileging momentum, technological wonder, and moral clarity over psychological subtlety. Read in its pulp-magazine context, the collection reveals the emergence of genre c...

The Lensman Series is among the foundational epics of American space opera, a vast chronicle of interstellar policing, psychic evolution, and cosmic war. From Triplanetary to Children of the Lens, Smith imagines civilizations shaped by the ancient struggle between Arisia and Eddore, culminating in the heroic career of Kimball Kinnison and the Lens-bearing Galactic Patrol. Its prose is vigorous, declarative, and technologically exuberant, reflecting the pulp magazines in which it first flou...