Classic Fiction: 284 books

A humorous, but dangerous look into the future of law and order.

Two fantasy/science fiction short stories and two novellas by award-winning Mark Clifton.

They grounded Ramsey’s ship on a hostile planet hoping he would starve to death, so the first thing he did was give most of his money away and lose the rest gambling. Then he picked a fight with the Chief of Police and joined forces with a half-naked dream-chick who was seemingly bent on self-destruction. 

Short Story about a rocket ship.

"I'll give you the cure for the most horrible disease," Songeen said. "The sickness of life itself." Newlin replied, "Fine. But first, give me a couple of minutes to kill your husband. Then we'll go on from there."  A perfectly horrible little novella about life, death, and sanity.

A scientist's theory about the basic nature of the universe and reality has unexpected consequences. Interesting and original.

Five science fiction stories by Alfred Coppel.

The Sound of His Horn is Sarban's best known work, an alternative-history tale taking place a century after Hitler has won World War 2. The protagonist, a WWII prisoner of the Nazi's finds himself thrust forward in time into an alternate reality where he finds himself on a German game farm where he...

Gruesome tale of aliens testing a human on an asteroid, until he finds the cure for what they are doing to him.

The orphan system of Onzar was fuming under its leader's driving, paranoid megalomania. For there was a prize. A vast, grand prize within a parsec of this ambitious domain—the major warp-lines of space crossing the Galaxy between the Allied Worlds and the Darzent Empire. Skyward, hungry legions!

There are two basic kinds of fools--the ones who know they are fools, and the kind that, because they do not know that, are utterly deadly menaces! If you are looking for a clever read that will let you ponder on how different moral values may lead to evolutionary differentiation between "fellow...

Dworn knew that if his machine failed him in battle he would die. For men fought each other viciously, with no bond of brotherhood, in this—World Of The Drone. The denizens of this desert like world clanking around in their various machines which define their "clans" have a pretty hard...

Tom Corbett and his friends, Astro and Roger Manning, participate in the most daring undertaking in all space history. While on an experimental trip in the Polaris to test out some new equipment they and Captain Connel learn of a scheme of a pair of notorious space freebooters to steal the rich mineral...

A million years from now, a strange moon is found orbiting Jupiter. No one knows what it is, or where it came from...