Halcyon Press Ltd : 195 books

Burma is the scene of the quest of Jack Haydon, prefect of Rushmere School and captain of the first fifteen. The quest is not rubies, as the reader might expect, but Jack's father, who mysteriously disappears at Brindisi when returning from the East. Jack, having discovered that his father has been...

Will Barrent could choose--exile on a nightmare planet, or life under the tyranny that had taken over Earth! THE STATUS CIVILIZATION is the stunning story of a future Earch when one vast and stratified society threatens all who fail to conform. Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) was an American science...

Beneath dense gray clouds through which no sun shone lay a forgotten planet. It was a nightmare world of grotesque and terrifying animal-plant life. Gigantic beetles, spiders, bugs and ants filled the putrid, musty earth—ready to kill and devour anything in sight. There were men amidst this...

THE BILLIE BRADLEY MYSTERIES feature girl detective Billie Bradley, a young woman who solves mysteries in the vein of Nancy Drew.  Billie Bradley was part of a popular trend in "girls' novels" which were read widely from the 1880s well into the 20th century.  These include such...

THE MASKED WORLD AND OTHER SCIENCE FICTION STORIES includes seven exciting stories by noted scifi writer Jack Williamson. • The Masked World • The Doom from Planet 4 • Salvage in Space • The Cosmic Express • The Pygmy Planet • The Lake of Light • The Meteor Girl John...

Jules Verne's THE GREEN RAY follows the life of a young girl who resists her uncle's efforts to marry her off.  Before she can find true love, she must first witness the mysterious green ray. Jules Gabriel Verne (1828-1905) was a French author who, along with British writer H. G. Wells,...

GODFREY MORGAN tells the story of a young student and adventurer Godfrey Morgan and his teacher who are shipwrecked on a deserted island.  There they must learn to survive the elements and hostile native with the help of a freed African slave, Carefinotu. Jules Gabriel Verne (1828-1905)...

THE PURCHASE OF THE NORTH POLE (also known as TOPSY-TURVY), is a sequel to FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON, set twenty years later in the 1890s.  One of the last unclaimed regions of the Earth is the Arctic, the ownership of which is to be settled through an international auction.  While several...

In the not-so-distant future, humans have colonized much of the solar system and discovered that dangerous life abounds on Venus, Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn, and some of the comets.  In THE ADVENTURES OF THE INTERPLANETARY HUNTERS, Earth adventurers Tommy Strike and Gerry Carlyle hunt the most...

Meet Emmeline Lucas, known to her friends as Lucia, the undisputed social leader of the town of Riseholme, and her husband Phillip, writer of prose poems. Risholme is also home to Georgie Pillson, who plays duets with Lucia and collects bibelots, Daisy Quantock, who has discovered an Indian Guru...

MISS MAPP is the second book in the 'Mapp and Lucia' series by British author E.F. Benson. Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was an English writer and novelist.  Benson's literary calling developed while he was a student at Marlborough College.  He later based his novel DAVID...

WINESBURG, OHIO is a series of interlinking stories set in the fictional Ohio town of Winesburg.  This psychological novel follows the life of George Willard as he grows up and his connection to the town fades.  As Willard's life becomes more complex, so do the stories surrounding him. ...

Just speculate for a moment on the enormous challenge to archeology when interplanetary flight is possible ... and relics are found of a race extinct for half a million years! A race, incidentally, that was scientifically so far in advance of ours that they held the secret of the restoration of life! One...

When the Queen of the Spaceways meets the King of the Interplanetary Wilds, there's a checkmate in the stalking of Saturn's most dangerous game! Arthur Kelvin Barnes (1909-1969) was an American writer of popular science fiction from the 1930s to the early 1960s.  He was noted for his vivid and brilliant descriptions of alien life.