“While the Watchers from the Galactic Federation patiently await the verdict—freedom or quarantine for Earth—they review man’s reaction to three past crises.
“In The Martyr we have a portrait of a civilization on the brink of...
WOLF IV-THE PLANET FROM WHICH NO SHIP EVER RETURNED!
Lars Heldrigsson was fresh out of the Colonial Service Academy and his first assignment was a milk-run to Vega aboard the Ganymede. Not a very exciting trip, except that the ship’s...
The death of an independent asteroid miner would be no unusual news to the Martian colony. Asteroid mining was gambling for high stakes with your life in jeopardy.
But when Roger Hunter’s mangled body was found in the exploded wreck of his...
Major Harvey Alexander, Director Wildwood Atomic Power Plant—that was his title. But impressive as it sounded, the major knew it was nothing more than governmental putting-out-to-pasture. A former top-ranking Army Intelligence officer isn’t...
Bob Benedict is one of the few scientists able to make contact with the invisible, dangerous world of The Thresholders and return—sane! For years he has tried to transport—and receive—matter by transmitting it through the mysterious, parallel...
When Tuck Benedict and David Torm faced each other on the bleak and frigid face of Titan, Saturn’s sixth moon, they represented, literally, the opposite ends of the universe. For in the twenty-second century, Tuck represented the rich and easy...