Search Worlds Without End

Is the entire universe just one of the atoms of some even greater cosmos? Such was the conception of one scientist - and his effort to prove this theory was to take a party of Americans on an expdition to a place that was literally "Beyond the Stars".

Some super-science is developed which will make a spaceship far exceed the speed of light, and expand at the same time, and at a fantastic rate. The goal is to find the next level UP, wherein our universe is composed of their atoms.

Maybe there is no hope... or is there? Through an instrument called the myrdoscope, Brett Gryce sees a girl in a distant world, menaced by a giant. Her world is so vast that a second of Time there takes whole years of Earthly measure. During three years he catches glimpses of the girl and her peril, the giant about to bring down a huge tree on her head, and the girt awakening to a sense of terror, but all this has taken but a second of Time on that vaster world.

Brett and Martt Gryce set out to rescue the girl. In a space-ship invented by their father, Dr. Gryce, which can change its position in Time and Space. They increase their size to fifty million times what it was on Earth, and penetrate beyond our universe faster than the speed of light, until they are lost in the black immensity of Space.

Tarrano, intoxicated by the conquest of two worlds--Venus and Mars--urged on by the power lust, came to Earth to bring it under control, also. But Earth didn't wish outside supervision, thereby precipitating, in the year 2430, the most terrific conflict known to man.

His campaigns were featured by scientific atrocities, but the stubborn resistance of Earth forced Tarrano to abandon his plans and flee to Venus where he received a none too warm welcome in his stronghold, the Gold City. Encouraged by his failureto win the Earth, the Venusians revolted. Even a man of destiny must meet his Waterloo, and Tarrano met his with unflinching courage and daring.

Positively the most unique story of the future ever written!

When a girl who said she had been kidnapped from the year 1777 appeared in modern New York, she was either deluded or the victim of an incredible time-spanning plot. And when it turned out the strange man with a mechanical servant who had kidnapped her had been seen in other centuries, it became clear that a super-scientific plot was afoot that must reach far into the unknown cities of the future.

The Insect Invasion takes place on Earth, sometime in the twenties. Kent Livingstone has received a letter from Mary Blake, saying: "You must come! It is something nameless-gruesome-" Mary is working for a Mr. Prince in the mining village of Princeville, in Central America.

Livingstone arrives to find Prince, his assistant, Sydney Hope, and Mary in the grip of terror.

There is trouble with ants, they say; ants bother them in Prince's bungalow-nowhere else.

"In the night," Sid says, "you light a lamp suddenly. On the floor you see a line of ants.

Little orderly rows like an advancing army. And when you move or make a noise, they run.

Scamper. Disorganized like the rout of an army. I say, did you ever see an ant run?"

No! Ants do not run. Ants are not frightened by the sound of a human voice, or by a simple motion on the part of human beings. And there was more. The screens around Prince's bungalow were being tampered with, on the outside; but there was never any sign of any one outside to make these tiny holes, cut into the screen, the wire bent back.

What was the explanation? What was the purpose of this insect invasion?

The answers to this riddle led Kent Livingston, Sydney Hope, Mary Blake, and

Mr. Prince into the most fantastic adventures that anyone ever imagined.

Wandl the Invader

There were nine major planets in the Solar System, and it was within their boundaries that man first set up interplanetary commerce and began trading with the ancient Martian civilization. And then they discovered a tenth planet - a maverick!

This tenth world, if it had an orbit, had a strange one, for it was heading inwards from interstellar space, heading close to the Earth-Mars spaceways, upsetting astronautic calculations and raising turmoil on the two inhabited worlds.

But even so none suspected then just how much trouble this new world would make. For it was WANDL THE INVADER and it was no barren planetoid. It was a manned world, manned by minds and monsters and travelling into our system with a purpose beyond that of astronomical accident!

Wandl the Invader is the second in the Gregg Haljan series.

I Speak for Earth

'One citizen of your planet shall go to the capital of the Federation of Worlds. He shall live there for thirty days. If your representative can survive and demonstrate his ability to exist in a civilized society with creatures whose outward appearance and manner of thinking differ from his own, you will pass the test. You will be permitted to send your starships to other planets of the galaxy.

'If he fails the test, if prejudice, fear, intolerance or stupidity trip him up, then you world will be sealed of from the stars for ever!'

This was the ultimatum from space. The task before the world then was - who shall go? What man or woman could be found to take this frightening test for the whole of humanity and be certain not to fail?

Beyond the Vanishing Point

THEY OPENED THE PANDORA'S BOX OF ATOMIC TRAVEL

When George Randolph first caught sight of Orena, he was astounded by its gleaming perfection. Here were hills and valleys, lakes and streams, glowing with the light of the most precious of metals. And, more astonishing than that, it was a world of miniature perfection--an infinitely tiny universe within a golden atom!

But for Randolph it was also a world aglow with danger. Somewhere in its tiny vastness were the friends he had to rescue. Captives of a madman, they had been reduced to native Orena size; to return to Earth, they needed the growth capsules Randolph was bringing them. It was up to Randolph to find them--and quickly--for the longer they stayed tiny, the closer they came to passing BEYOND THE VANISHING POINT!

The Secret of Zi

For something like two hundred and fifty years Earth had been dominated by humanoid aliens from the star world of Alishang. But man's spirit refused to be conquered. There was a world-wide underground planning for the day of final liberation. And there were four leaders who knew the secret that would guarantee victory - the secret of Zi.

Rupert Clinton, intelligence man for this underground, was not one of those four; yet somewhere deep in the recesses of his subconscious mind, he knew Zi's secret.

The Man Who Mastered Time

It took what seemed but half a day's traveling to traverse the 28,000 years that separated Loto Rogers from the most beautiful girl he had ever seen. He had expected to find mighty cities and a flowering civilization in that future world, but instead he found only ice and snow--and Azeela.

Overlords From Space

Beware the planet-wreckers! The regime of the Zarles had turned Earth into Hell. Possessing strange unearthly perception, weapons of cosmic destruction, and motivated by an inhuman cruelty, these overlords from space had enslaved the Earth in a feudal terror. Then, one day, Jeff Gambrell, a human slave, defied his particular tyrant once too often and found himself facing the impossible challenge - how to escape. It had been done before, therefore he knew what had always seemed impossible was not...

Jeff's life and death struggle against the fiendish cunning of the Zarlesis is set against a startling background of unleashed interplanetary fury. Joseph E. Kelleam's new novel explores the frightening depths of man's inventive powers with brilliant detail and breath-taking power.

A classic work of science fiction, this novel was one of the first to explore the world of the atom.

The Girl in the Golden Atom is the story of a young chemist who finds a hidden atomic world within his mother's wedding ring. Under a microscope, he sees within the ring a beautiful young woman sitting before a cave. Enchanted by her, he shrinks himself so that he can join her world.

Having worked for Thomas Alva Edison, Ray Cummings (1887–1957) was inspired by science's possibilities and began to write science fiction. The Girl in the Golden Atom was enormously successful at its publication in 1923, and Cummings went on to write an equally successful sequel, The People of the Golden Atom.

Brigands of the Moon

A startling glimpse into the future--the year 2070. An intimate revelation of the world of our great-great-great grand-children. Told by the foremost pseudo-scientific writer of the day--Ray Cummings.

Greg Haljan--reliable, faithful, competent--is navigator of the space-flyer, Planetara. Because of these qualities and his experience he is not abandoned on a planetoid with the rest of the crew and passengers, by the Martian brigands who seize the ship in mid-space and head it toward the Moon, there to rob Johnny Grantline fo his precious radium ore.

Haljan, attempting to frustrate their plans, wrecks the Planetara in landing, killing most of the Martians but escaping uninjured himself. He immediately dashes to the Grant-line and his followers prepare to defend the radium--and their lives--with their pitifully inadequate weapons but their hopes are dashed to the ground when reinforcements from Mars, bearing death-dealing devices of the most ultra-modern type, arrive on the scene.

Here we have a glorious, imaginative story that sweeps us to new, strange and adventurous thoughts about our future world and its relations with the other planets, as well as a wholly new conception of what may lie beneath the surface of the Moon. Good to the last page!

In the 1990s mankind faces annihilation at the hands of an advanced humanoid race dwelling in caverns beneath the Pacific ocean.

The new planet came out of the infinite deeps of insterstellar space, moved in towards the sunlike a comet, and stayed -- a new member of the Solar System, between Earth and Venus. Xenephrene it was named and it made a pretty vision in the evening sky... until other things began to appear in the heavens. flying things, strange visitants, myterious lights -- and people knew then that they were no longer alone. Xenephrene was inhabited, and its inhabitants were discovering the Earth. But were they coming as friends or as invaders? For trade or for conquest?

Fans of Burrough's Barsoom will Love this Lost Classic! Here is a science fantasy adventure from the 1930s that has it all, kidnapped Earth people, aliens, two intrepid and daring heroines, the first manned mission to other worlds, warrior-princesses, despotic villains, and a brave rebellion. Set on Mercury as they thought it might be in the early part of the 20th century, Tama of the Light Country, tells of a winged princess from what was thought to be the habitable portion of Mercury, a belt of twilight that circled a world too hot on one side and too cold on the other to support life anywhere else. In rebellion against a repressive, male-dominated society, Tama meets Guy Palisse, who shares her outrage at the way women are mistreated on Mercury. Together with like-minded women and men, they lead a fight for freedom for the women of Mercury that will have tragic, unintended consequences for Earth. Published in the same magazine that gave birth to Tarzan and Barsoom, Tama, is one of the great pulp sagas from the early days of science fantasy.

Originally serialized in Argosy (1930).

Guy and Tama's triumph at the end of Tama of the Light Country is about to turn to disaster, for barbarian hoards from Mercury's dark side have seized spaceships, followed them, and even now are sweeping down on the unsuspecting Earth. To prevent the people of the twilight belt from joining the battle on our planet's side, the barbarian leaders' plan is to kidnap Tama and use her as a hostage. And, Tama is alone, pirouetting through Earth's evening sky.

Originally published in Argosy (1931).