Fourteen Killer science fiction short stories from some of the best sci-fi authors of the 1940s, 50s and 60s.
- Slay-Ride by Winston Marks
- Wreck Off Triton by Alfred Coppel
- Retribution by George T. Spillman
- The Skull by Philip K. Dick
- Prison of a Billion Years by C. H. Thames
- The Misplaced Battleship by Harry Harrison
- Monsters That Once Were Men by Robert Silverberg
- Seventh Victim by Robert Sheckley
- Birkett's Twelfth Corpse by August Derleth
- Hero From Yesterday by Robert Silverberg
- The Foxholes of Mars by Fritz Leiber
- Watchbird by Robert Sheckley
- Cry Silence by Fredric Brown
- The Power by Fredric Brown
Sci-Fi Space Ships and Nothing But Sci-Fi Space Ships 2 - Fifteen Lost Sci-Fi Short Stories from the 1930s, 40s, 50s and 60s
- The Planet Of Illusion by Robert Silverberg
- The Flight Of The Eagle by Alfred Coppel
- Madmen of Mars by Erik Fennel
- Jonah of the Jove-Run by Ray Bradbury
- Space-Lane of No-Return by George Whittington
- Invader From Infinity by George Whittington
- Rocket Summer by Ray Bradbury
- Rabbits Have Long Ears by Lawrence F. Willard
- Glow Worm by Harlan Ellison
- The Misplaced Battleship by Harry Harrison
- Distress Signal by Ross Rocklynne
- The Star Mouse by Fredric Brown
- Survey Team by Philip K. Dick
- Home is the Spaceman by George O. Smith
- The Creatures That Time Forgot by Ray Bradbury
Lost Sci-Fi Books 71 thru 75 - Five Lost Sci-Fi Short Stories from the 1940s, 50s and 60s
The Skull by Philip K. Dick - Conger agreed to kill a stranger he had never seen. But he would make no mistakes because he had the stranger's skull under his arm.
Alien Equivalent by Richard R. Smith - Martians were weak, sensitive, a dying race, frail and impotent before the superiority of master Earthmen. Only in the sly and mentally skillful game of Duchal might sons of the red planet emerge gloriously from their shells.
The Flight Of The Eagle by Alfred Coppel - It was a new and mysterious plant. It could make its own weather; it was sentient, and it prospered on Venus. But Earth needed it desperately. And Bat Kendo, the radar-mutant, was told to bring it in.
Prison Of A Billion Years by C.H. Thames - Adam Slade was a man who had nothing to lose by making a break for it. The trouble was, he knew that no one had ever escaped from the—Prison Of A Billion Years
Day Of Wrath by Bjarne Kirchhoff - The men of the Norgan System had a tough decision to make concerning the planet in A93. Yet there was no hesitation. Can you blame them?
Space Travelers and Nothing But Space Travelers 2
Seventeen Lost Sci-Fi Short Stories from the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s
Morgue Ship by Ray Bradbury
Paradise Planet by Richard S. Shaver
Asleep In Armageddon by Ray Bradbury
Sales Pitch by Philip K. Dick
Defense Mech by Ray Bradbury
The Old Martians by Rog Phillips
Wreck Off Triton by Alfred Coppel
Lazarus Come Forth by Ray Bradbury
Planet of Doom by C. H. Thames
The Planet Of Illusion by Millard V. Gordon
The Last Plunge by S. J. Sackett
The Monster Maker by Ray Bradbury
Fee Of The Frontier by H. B. Fyfe
The Flight Of The Eagle by Alfred Coppel
Madmen of Mars by Erik Fennel
The Monster That Threatened The Universe by Russ Winterbotham
A Little Journey by Ray Bradbury
Lost Sci-Fi Books 41 thru 60 - Twenty Lost Sci-Fi Short Stories from the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s
Foster, You're Dead by Philip K. Dick
Wreck Off Triton by Alfred Coppel
Asleep In Armageddon by Ray Bradbury
The Old Martians by Rog Phillips
Stop, You're Killing Me! by Darius John Grange
Sales Pitch by Philip K. Dick
Morgue Ship by Ray Bradbury
Defense Mech by Ray Bradbury
Paradise Planet by Richard S. Shaver
Forsyte's Retreat by Winston Marks
Small Town by Philip K. Dick
Lazarus Come Forth by Ray Bradbury
Until Life Do Us Part by Winston Marks
Planet of Doom by C.H. Thames
The Last Plunge by S.J. Sackett
Prominent Author by Philip K. Dick
The Monster Maker by Ray Bradbury
Fee Of The Frontier by H.B. Fyfe
Monster by William Morrison
The Planet of Illusion by Millard V. Gordon
The Flight of the Eagle by Alfred Coppel- It was a new and mysterious plant. It could make its own weather; it was sentient, and it prospered on Venus. But Earth needed it desperately. And Bat Kendo, the radar-mutant, was told to bring it in.
Humans are a strange breed. Forgetful. They grow accustomed to the wonders they live among so easily that they never really figure up the cost. A little time passes and the bright memories tarnish and are covered over with newer ones. And the men who picked up the check and maybe paid with their lives? Forgotten.
For example, when you're sitting comfortably in the New York to San Francisco stratojet, and you take the trouble to look down at the lush verdure of the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada, do you ever remember that a few short years back that lovely fertile parkland was a rocky, barren waste? Or when you taste the delicious tropical fruits that are brought to your table from the Mojave Basin, do you think of Bat Kendo, the man who made all that possible? Like fun you do! I'll give you ten to one you never heard of Bat Kendo. Maybe you don't even know that the reason those once sterile wastelands are now the larders of the North American continent is ... weather-plant. And I'll give eight to five you don't even know where that weather-plant came from, or how it got here, or what it cost. Not in money ... in lives.
Well, I know, and for once I'd like to have someone stand still long enough so I could tell the story. The minute anyone sees an old spaceman like me coming, they jet the hell out of there fast. 'Old Captain Morley's got another shaggy dog to comb out!' they say, and beat it. My stories, it seems, are too old fashioned for this modern age.
Lost Sci-Fi Books 41 thru 50 - Ten Lost Sci-Fi Short Stories from the 1940s, 50s and 60s
Foster, You're Dead by Philip K. Dick - Almost everyone had a bomb shelter. You needed the latest model because the Russians were always developing new weapons that could penetrate the old bomb shelters
Wreck Off Triton by Alfred Coppel - Every risk had been closely considered. Ron Carnavon ruthless convict was ready to loot the wrecked spaceship of its sapphire treasure.
Asleep In Armageddon by Ray Bradbury - Avoid Planetoid 787. Lush and sunny with fine air and no dangerous beasts it’ll tempt you to curve in for some nice solid-ground sleep. DON’T!
The Old Martians by Rog Phillips - They opened the ruins to tourists at a dollar a head but they reckoned without The OLD MARTIANS
Stop, You're Killing Me! by Darius John Granger - As a private eye I get a lot of screwballcases but nothing to match my own; my wife and kid trying to kill me—and neither aware of it!
Sales Pitch by Philip K. Dick - There are pushy salesmen and then there are PUSHY salesmen who refuse to give up…
Morgue Ship by Ray Bradbury - This was Burnett’s last trip. Three more shelves to fill with space-slain warriors—and he would be among the living again.
Defense Mech by Ray Bradbury - Halloway stared down at Earth, and his brain screamed, How’d you get in a mess like this in a rocket a million miles past the moon shooting for Mars and maybe death?
Paradise Planet by Richard S. Shaver - It was a nice little world; everything about it reminded Steve of Earth—except for the people.
Forsyte's Retreat by Winston Marks - Sextus Rollo Forsyte had his trouble with the bottle, but nothing out of a bottle ever produced such a hotel as the Mahoney-Plaza: only 260 rooms but accommodating 5200 guests!
Lost Sci-Fi Books 41 thru 45 - Five Lost Sci-Fi Short Stories from the 1940s, 50s and 60s
Foster You’re Dead by Philip K. Dick - Almost everyone had a bomb shelter. You had to have one, in fact, you needed the latest model because the Russians were always developing new weapons that could penetrate the old bomb shelters.
Wreck Off Triton by Alfred Coppel - His plans were thorough. Every risk had been closely considered. Now Ron Carnavon, ruthless convict, was ready to loot the wrecked spaceship of its sapphire treasure, and thrust his warped power around the entire, antagonistic EMV triangle.
Asleep in Armageddon by Ray Bradbury - Avoid Planetoid 787. Lush and sunny, with fine air and no dangerous beasts, it’ll tempt you to curve in for some nice solid-ground sleep. DON’T!
The Old Martians by Rog Phillips - They opened the ruins to tourists at a dollar a head but they reckoned without The Old Martians.
Stop, You’re Killing Me! by Darius John Granger - As a private eye I get a lot of screwballcases, but nothing to match my own; my wife and kid trying to kill me—and neither aware of it!
Wreck Off Triton by Alfred Coppel - His plans were thorough. Every risk had been closely considered. Now Ron Carnavon, ruthless convict, was ready to loot the wrecked spaceship of its sapphire treasure, and thrust his warped power around the entire, antagonistic EMV triangle.
Ron Carnavon had been the skipper of the late Thunderbird, and it was common knowledge in every port of the EMV triangle that he had scuttled her. There was a price on his head, and the High Space Guard was combing the spacelanes for him—and for the Thunderbird. For the Thunderbird was a treasure ship.
But Carnavon was a cautious man and no fool, for all that he'd committed barratry. He left the Thunderbird in a Trojan orbit a million miles off Triton, ruptured and spilling corpses into space. He took a spaceboat and jetted sunward to the Holcomb Foundation Outpost on Oberon. Then he stowed away on the mail ship to Canalopolis, still carrying the chart that showed the Thunderbird's position. In the Canal City, Carnavon evaded the lax Guard cordons and found himself a renegade Martian hypnosurgeon to change his face and fingerprints.
From then on it was easy. Across Syrtis Major by sand-ski to Marsport posing as a prospector. And from Marsport down the Grand Canal to the spaceman's boneyard at Yakki. It was there that he met and hired Pop Wills and the Carefree.
Ron Carnavon acted with characteristic caution when he chose Pop and the Carefree to do the ghoul work on the ship he had murdered. Pop's ship was a rusty bucket, but well enough fixed to reach Triton where the Thunderbird's corpse orbited, her vault heavy with Plutonian sapphires. And Pop needed work badly. He was almost too broke to outfit his ship for the flight. Carnavon noted with curling lip that most of Pop's assets had long ago been liquidated to buy gin.
Sci-Fi Space Ships and Nothing But Sci-Fi Space Ships - Sixteen Lost Sci-Fi Short Stories from the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s
The Fifty-Fourth Of July by Alan E. Nourse
The Voyage of Vanishing Men by Stanley Mullen
Three Spacemen Left to Die! by Russ Winterbotham
Zurk by Richard O. Lewis
Danger in the Void by Charles E. Fritch
Wanderlust by Alan E. Nourse
Slay-Ride by Winston Marks
Journey For the Brave by Alan E. Nourse
WANTED: One Sane Man by Frank M. Robinson
The Pioneer by Irving Cox Jr.
Asleep in Armageddon by Ray Bradbury
Morgue Ship by Ray Bradbury
Sales Pitch by Philip K. Dick
Defense Mech by Ray Bradbury
Paradise Planet by Richard S. Shaver
Wreck Off Titan by Alfred Coppel
