On the lawless frontier of Mars, a hard-boiled cop and his robot partner Ned are sent to a corrupt river town where justice is already for sale. When they drag in a pair of criminals and expose the criminal reach of China Joe, the town's underworld boss, a tense arrest spirals into gunfire, panic, and a brutal showdown at the police station. Ned's cold, airtight logic and built-in firepower make him both an unsettling enforcer and the most reliable officer in town, even as the narrator see...

General Wingrove ignites a national uproar when he demands that Congress abolish the U.S. Navy, setting off a furious rivalry with Admiral Fitzjames and a media frenzy that turns military pride into public spectacle. Determined to prove the Navy obsolete, the Army stages a dazzling demonstration at the Jefferson Memorial, where the revolutionary Dornifier lets tanks, trucks, and even a jet aircraft skim across the Potomac as if it were a highway. Newspapers, radio, television, and cheering...

Major Gino Lombardi and Colonel Dan Coye begin with a nightmare on the Moon when a fellow astronaut vanishes into a hidden crevice, forcing them to finish their mission under the cold discipline of survival. But the real shock comes when they rendezvous in orbit and discover Earth has gone silent, its night side dark and its radio channels dead, as if civilization itself has been erased. Their return to Earth drops them into a harsher nightmare: a desert landing zone patrolled by German fo...

Brent Dalgreen, a celebrated painter dying from moon radiation, returns to Earth desperate to discover what art can still mean before time runs out. In the Metropolitan Museum, a single unsettling landscape stops him cold: it does not merely depict the Moon, but somehow captures its emotional alienness, the very truth Brent spent a year in lunar exile trying and failing to master. That shock sends him hunting for the artist, Arthur Di Costa, whose work seems to reveal a depth of feeling no...

The sixth powerful Science Fiction Archive! Edited by the strangely enigmatic Rey Bertran, SFA #6 features the following tales: Missing Link, by Frank Herbert The Great Nebraska Sea, by Allan Danzig The Valor of Cappen Varra, by Poul Anderson A Bad Day for Vermin, by Keith Laumer Hall of Mirrors, by Frederic Brown Common Denominator, by John MacDonald Doctor, by Murray Leinster The Next Logical Step, by Ben Bova The Nothing Equation, by Tom Godwin The Last Evolution, by John Campbell A Hit...

When the office door opened suddenly I knew the game was up. It had been a money-maker—but it was all over. As the cop walked in I sat back in the chair and put on a happy grin. He had the same somber expression and heavy foot that they all have—and the same lack of humor. I almost knew to the word what he was going to say before he uttered a syllable. "James Bolivar diGriz I arrest you on the charge—" I was waiting for the word charge, I thought it made a nice touch that way. As he said i...

Hugo Award Finalist: A mystery at the heart of a desert planet and its ruling class must be solved in this thrilling tale from a Grand Master of Science Fiction.Brion Brandd has just triumphed in the planetary contest called the "Twenties, "a series of physical and mental trials meant to push contestants to their limits. But before he can fully recover from these tests, he's recruited by former Twenties champion Ihjel for a mission of utmost importance.Brandd...

It's more than a little careless to lose a battleship, even in interstellar space. Enter Slippery Jim diGriz, better known as the Stainless Steel Rat, the fastest talking con-man in the galaxy. Jim will need to go undercover to find the missing battleship and make sure it doesn't fall into the wrong hands. A fast paced comical science fiction romp!

A gifted gambler fights to survive on a hostile planet in this classic novel from the creator of science fiction antihero the Stainless Steel Rat.The gravity is twice that of Earth. The weather is an unpredictable maelstrom. All species of life, both plant and animal, monstrous and microscopic, are lethal. And the environment is drenched with radioactivity.This is planet Pyrrus, where telepathically gifted gambler Jason dinAlt has ended up after scamming a g...

A detective hunts down a killer in a dystopian, overpopulated NYC in this classic science fiction novel that inspired the film Soylent Green.Originally published in 1966, Make Room! Make Room! imagines a world at the end of the twentieth century where Earth is so overwhelmed by rampant population growth that it teeters on the edge of self-destruction. In New York City alone, thirty-five million people are squeezed into its packed boroughs, scrambl...

The Fourth Science Fiction Megapack selects 25 more modern and classic science fiction stories, by talented authors new and old. Authors in this volume include: Mary A. Turzillo, E.C. Tubb, Murray Leinster, Philip K. Dick, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Jason Andrew, Henry Kuttner, Cynthia Ward, George H. Scithers and John Gregory Betancourt, Milton Lesser, John Russell Fearn, Harry Harrison, Isaac Asimov, Ayn Rand, and many moreComplete contents"Zora and the Land Ethic Nomads," by Mar...

The mind-melting sci-fi journey continues, with the ultra-awesome Science Fiction Archive #5! Edited by the enigmatic Rey Bertran, this archive features: All Day Wednesday, by Richard Olin Blind Spot, by Bascom Jones Double Take, by Richard Wilson Field Trip, by Gene Hunter Larson's Luck, by Gerald Vance Navy Day, by Harry Harrison One Martian Afternoon, by Tom Leahy Planet of Dreams, by James McKimmey Prelude To Space, by Robert Haseltine Pythias, by Frederik Pohl Show Business, by Boyd E...