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Between the frozen wastes of the night side and the searing inferno of the dayside, the Twilight Belt held all that was Human on the tiny world of Mercury, Hell Planet of the Solar System. A strange world, airless, subject to the alien distortions of Einsteinian mathematics, Mercury was both a promise and a challenge, for here could be found torrents of cheap power essential to the ships and men in space. Lee Correy, Commander of the Station, ...

Margaret St. Clair (1911-1995) was an American fantasy and science fiction author who published about 130 stories in the pulps, mostly in the 1950s. She also wrote eight novels, four of which were published in the Ace Double series. St. Clair's pioneering role as a woman writing science fiction was noted by Eric Leif Davin in his book Partners in Wonder: Women and the Birth of Science Fiction, 1926-1965This collection assembles six great tales...

He was an ex-con torn between going straight and having his revenge on the man who sent him up the river for four years. Out of prison, he abandons his wife for his Cuban mistress...who soon ends up dead. Can he clear himself before it's too late?

WHO ARE THE WARBIRDS? Misfits mostly. Men who sought in the rush and tide of battle, an outlet for violent emotion. Society condemned them, yet admired their necessity. Cultures shunned them - yet gladly used their services. Wars there were, and wars there would be, but technology had forced war to become a thing apart. Nations, planets, dared not to fight. Gone were the days of indiscriminate killing. The dross from atomic piles was too plent...

Louisiana Purchase examines the personalities and events that contributed to America's acquisition of the Louisiana territory and discusses its economic and political impact on the nation. By Donald Barr Chidsey, one of the most popular history writers of his generation.

As "Jean d'Enneris, " Lupin finds himself engaged in a curious duel with his old opponent, Chief Inspector Béchoux. The Mélamare Mystery finds Lupin working both for and against the police-rather in his "Barnett" manner. But whereas in previous cases of the kind he has had no personal interest in the protagonists, this time he finds himself losing his heart to the delightful little mannequin, Arlette Mazolle. At once, the case is much more tha...

Di Filippo is a joyful writer...insightful...skillful." -Washington PostThis collection presents PAUL DI FILIPPO at his best and most creative-an astonishing, multiverse-spanning selection of 19 of his very best tales, from humorous to serious, from otherworldly to in-your-backyard (and in-your-face)! Here are:ProvidenceArgus BlinkedLife in the AnthropoceneBombs Away!Cockroach LoveWaves and Smart MagmaTo See Infinity BareThe End of the Great C...

The author, drawing equally upon his experience and his fancy, brings together six men, including himself, at a hunting lodge in the Catoctin Mountains on an evening in 1943. They are Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Winston Churchill. "Putzi" Hanfstaengl, Bernard Baruch, Harry Hopkin, and John ("Jay") Franklin Carter.The main topics of conversation are the fate of Germany, the future of Russia, the role of thg British Empire, the problem of Asia, t...

Willard Marsh's collection of short stories presents a consistent theme of 20th-Century Middle America's values in decline. These values, Christain faith, family, a tradition of carrying on from past to future progress, are increasingly abandoned by Americans themselves. who turn towards the ideas of money and power as a means of escape from the more negative aspects of the old values. As the stories and their subjects progress, we see them in...

Bob Wilson, a student of language science, is hurtling through space on the greatest spaceship ever built. Just before landing on a satellite of Jupiter, it is mysteriously hit.On Ganymede, Bob and his biochemist father find their resourcefulness challenged by a deadly plague which threatens the population of the small colony. A little girl's strange tales of friendship with beings from Jupiter lead Bob to the real test of his interrupted stud...

Every year, WEIRDBOOK Magazine publishes a collection of short stories to thrill and delight readers worldwide. This year, we challenged authors to come up with memorable takes on the zombies, and the result is this fantastic collection of 34 new stories. Included are:The Meddler, by Matthew JohnTiger Girls vs. the Zombies, by Lucy A. SnyderDead Between the Eyes, by Adrian ColeAlive Again, by Franklyn SearightThe Night Hans Kroeger Came Back, ...

Since 1977, The Wolfe Pack has published The Gazette, chockful of articles and tales of America's greatest sleuth, Nero Wolfe, who prefers beer and orchids to working at his West 35th Street brownstone. But thanks to Wolfe's wisecracking associate Archie Goodwin and his agent REX STOUT, Wolfe's seventy-two cases are mystery classics.THE NERO WOLFE FILES is a generous collection of Neronian reading delights selected from over twenty-five years ...

G-7, emissary of an alien race of energy-beings, is sent to Earth to explore for energy sources his race needs. But when G-7 takes over the body of Johnny McCloud something happens-instead of exercising total control, G-7 is changed, involved in McCloud's personality and emotions.And Johnny McCloud, the amoral gunfighter, is changed too.ANDROMEDA GUN is the story of a strange symbiosis of man and alien, and of crucial events upon which the fut...

Meet Trygve Yamamura-judo expert, Samurai sword connoisseur, and private detective. He is a triple threat to San Francisco crime. These combined skills enable him to keep his own head attached while finding out who removed someone else's with an honorable Japaneses weapon. An old-fashioned detective story, a genuine whodunit, with a good deal of suspense thrown in.

This book is a reprint of two articles written by Upton Sinclair for Cosmopolitan magazine on the subject of fasting for health, together with the most interesting of the numerous replies they brought forth, and the most significant letters written to him by private individuals asking his advice and detailing their own experiments along similar lines. There are also extracts from some of the author's articles in Physical Culture magazine on th...

When they were fourteen years old, Dick and Doc were attending an excellent English school where there were a great many future dukes and earls and arch-bishops and lord mayors, who, when they saw how much Dick and Doc resembled one another, called them "The Twins." Later, when they learned that Dick's father was distantly related to Lord Greystoke, who is famous all over the world as Tarzan of the Apes, the boys commenced to call Dick and Doc...

Recently demobilized and down on his luck, Major Owston becomes the bodyguard of Martin Hews, a deformed (and thoroughly amoral) art collector, just as Hews is plunged into a bitter rivalry with a gang leader simply known as "Joseph.

A facsimile reprint of the Second Edition (1994) of this genealogical guide to 25, 000 descendants of William Burgess of Richmond (later King George) County, Virginia, and his only known son, Edward Burgess of Stafford (later King George) County, Virginia. Complete with illustrations, photos, comprehensive given and surname indexes, and historical introduction.

Without a doubt, Raphael Aloysius Lafferty (1914-2002) was one of the most quirky and unusual authors every to work in science fiction. That's saying a lot. His stories are often unusual, challenging, uncategorizable, and brilliant. This collection assembles 18 of them, including his very first story. Included are: ALOYSADAM HAD THREE BROTHERSSEVEN-DAY TERRORDAY OF THE GLACIERSODOM AND GOMORRAH, TEXASTHROUGH OTHER EYESTHE WEIRDEST WORLDTHE SIX...

The definitive critical guide to the life and works of H.P. Lovecraft, the premier writer of horror fiction in the first half of the 20th century, written by the world's foremost Lovecraft scholar. (Horror Fiction / Literary Criticism)