This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. 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 ...

Lost Sci-Fi Books 461–480 brings together 20 classic science fiction stories from some of the genre’s greatest writers, alongside forgotten authors whose imaginative tales deserve to be heard again.Travel from the hidden dangers of Arthur C. Clarke’s Hide and Seek to the unsettling future of Jack Vance’s The Men Return. Encounter a world where kindness has taken an unexpected turn in Arthur Sellings’ The Age of Kindness, journey to Mars with The Hermi...

Lost Sci-Fi Books 466 thru 470 delivers five unforgettable journeys through the vast frontier of space, where survival, discovery, and the human spirit are tested against impossible odds. Featuring stories from Walter M. Miller Jr., Jack Williamson, Robert Silverberg, Michael Shaara, and Frank M. Robinson, this collection captures the excitement and imagination that made classic science fiction timeless.Walter M. Miller Jr. opens with Death of a Spaceman

Lost Sci-Fi Books 481 thru 485 gathers five remarkable adventures that blend cosmic mysteries, impossible discoveries, alien encounters, and thought-provoking speculation into one unforgettable collection. Featuring stories by Ben Bova, Jack Williamson, Henry Kuttner, William Bender Jr., and Fritz Leiber, these timeless classics capture the imagination and excitement that made the Golden Age of science fiction legendary.Ben Bova opens with The Next Logical ...

Lost Sci-Fi Books 576 thru 580 brings together five unforgettable classics that showcase the limitless imagination of vintage science fiction and cosmic horror. From abandoned spacecraft and mysterious clouds to chilling supernatural encounters and astonishing scientific discoveries, this collection delivers adventure, suspense, and unforgettable ideas with every story.Jack Williamson opens the volume with Salvage in Space, a thrilling expedition w...

A commercial flight over California becomes something far worse when George Cleland and a handful of passengers pass through a strange violet phenomenon hanging in the sky. Moments later, they crash into a dead world beneath a crimson heaven, surrounded by colossal black cliffs and a landscape where nothing should be able to live. Cut off from Earth, injured, starving, and desperate for water, the survivors struggle to understand the terrifying rules of this alien place before exhaustion d...

Travel to distant planets, explore strange futures, encounter alien civilizations, and face impossible choices in this incredible collection of classic science fiction.50 Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories 11 brings together fifty unforgettable tales from the golden age of science fiction. From mysterious visitors and time paradoxes to lunar expeditions, Martian adventures, artificial intelligence, and cosmic mysteries, these stories capture the imagination and wonder th...

Generations of clones on the moon chronicle the recovery of mother Earth, which has been destroyed and deserted. Eons have passed and a new generation of clones discover that their own base on the moon had been destroyed in the past and then rediscovered and rebuilt by the man known as Sandor Pen.In the meantime the remnants of humanity have just started unlocking the mysteries of interstellar flight, but over the years their memory of old Earth has faded ... a memory Sandor Pen in...

When Barry Horn ends up in a state of suspended animation, he is ultimately awakened in a era where humanity is at war with robots of their own creation. Visions he experienced during his hibernation may provide the clue needed for victory...A rousing action-adventure story in the best pulp science fiction tradition!

A must-read for any science fiction fan, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume Two (published in two volumes, A & B) is a compilation of twenty-two of the best novellas published between 1895 and 1962.The two volumes were originally published in 1973 (Two-A) and 1974 (Two-B) after the stories were selected by a vote of the membership of the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA, now known as the Science Fiction and ...

To win the right to a name, he fought without weapons in the deadly arena of Nggongga - only to be cheated of his prize. Branded a criminal, he sought refuge with the Benefactors, a mysterious interplanetary fellowship, and from them he at last learned the truth about his heritage.As Blacklantern he was born again - and the galaxy itself became the arena for his vengeance. A gladiator still, his purpose took him to the ends of the cosmos, to seek out and finally face a terrifying a...

We found the stranger, when we unlocked the bungalow after a week on the lakes, seated at my big desk in the study. His face was an enigma of youth and age. Lean beneath his long white hair, it was gray and drawn and hollowed as if with an infinite heartbreak—and yet it smiled. His emaciated hand, thrust out across the pile of loose yellow sheets he had written, gripped an incredible thing...FROM THE BOOKS.