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C.O.D. Mars

Three explorers returned to Earth after nine long years en route to Proxima Centauri and back. You would have supposed that they would have been greeted as the heroes of the century, feted, honored, rewarded. But Earth was rewarding the trio in a strange and terrible manner-with permanent exile in orbit, never to touch any planet's surface again.

If Earth wanted that crew isolated so badly, it ought to be worthg a lot for someone to learn the reeeason, because the powers that ruled the world were not talking.

The Scorfu -- the Martian equivalent of a Mafia -- had the idea that the three exiles might prove winning pieces in their endless competition with Earth. And therefore the somewhat unscrupulous but absolutely fearless operative, Slade, could be persuaded that the three from Centauri might mean a million for him-Cash on Delivery, Mars

Alien Sea

Venus and Earth contend - while Hydro's secrets wait for D-Day.

Danger from Vega

Shot down on an ennemy-occupied planet.

Clash of Star-Kings

The night the stars fell and the spacemen rose.

Dark Planet

Planned death vs. unwanted birth in the Overpop Era.

The Herod Men

Step Two was Space Navy's Siberia - until one man learned of a third step.

Earthstrings

Its prize space-colony had grown siltent - and Earth wanted to know why.

The Chariots of Ra

The chariots came on at great speed and there was no mistaking their purpose. Tulley wondered if they were using this place as a base... Then an arrow plunked into the parapet of his chariot. Oolou lashed the reins. The nageres sprang forward. With suicidal speed the two chariot groups closed on each other.

Tulley swallowed down, feeling the dryness in his throat, loosed a shaft at the oncoming mass. There must be twenty chariots out there...

He glanced at Oolou, shouting. She stared back at him with a ghastly grin, the blood pouring from her neck above the corselet where an arrow stood, stark and brutal.

Electric Sword Swallowers

Delilah was beautiful. Delilah was sexy. And Delilah was to blame for all of Ferdie Foxlee's problems. She had let him down at the crucial moment by falling apart. Literally. And in pieces.

Her right eye popped, dangling on multicoloured cables. Her right breast spun around and flew off into the distance. As her fuses blew, her smile melted in a blaze of sparks.

As an expert in ectoplasmic electronic creations, Ferdie had clearly failed. But eepee experts - even one like Ferdie - are in very high demand. So when he panicked and ran, he ran into the waiting arms of the underworld...

Beyond Capella

They gave him an expendable ship, a screwball crew, and an enemy nobody could locate.

Final War and Other Fantasies

Barry Malzberg's first collection, published under the pseudonym "K. M. O'Donnell", and including the stories:

• Final War - (1968)
• Death to the Keeper - (1968)
• A Triptych - (1969)
• How I Take Their Measure - (1969)
• Oaten - (1968)
• The Ascension - (1969)
• The Major Incitement to Riot - (1969)
• Cop-Out - (1968)
• We're Coming Through the Window - (1967)
• The Market in Aliens - (1968)
• By Right of Succession - (1969)

Treasure of Tau Ceti

Think unearthly - and the world's wisdom is yours.

Flower of Doradil

Amazons are out of bounds for Earthlings.

A Promising Planet

Talk to me Thunder and Lightning.

Ipomoea

Science is never neutral - and neither are the stars!

The Brass Dragon

It's bad enough for a teen-age boy to wake up with amnesia, strange burns on his legs, and even stranger nightmares. But when a creepy stranger claiming to be his father tried to remove him from the hospital, his adventure was just beginning -- unless, of course, the adventure had already happened.

The Beasts of Kohl

Were they cavemen, supermen, or both?

A Planet Of Your Own

One man to a world - or was one man too many?

The Man Without a Planet

Who holds this nebula can sway the galactic imperium.

Time to Live

To conquer death, learn to live again.

The Proxima Project

They took the "pop-star" route out of this world!

Target: Terra

Beware the beserk satelite.

The Winds of Darkover

Dan Barron was a rational and efficient member of the Terran space-force - until nightmare visions drove him from the safety of the trade city into the unmapped heart of the Darkovan mountain ranges. Into an ancient battle that would shape the destiny of more than one world.

The Anything Tree

On Jensen's wold, the Tree is master and man the servant.

These Savage Futurians

Don't think new thoughts, don't improve anything, don't wander over the next hill.... These were the commandments for the men and women of the experimental village - one of those carefully nurtured settlements established after the collapse of world civilization.

The rules were made by the benevolent Masters of the Island - and they had to be obeyed. To disobey was to be destroyed. But Robert Ventnor, villager with a dangerous high quotient of curiosity, was the exception. He fled - and evaded liquidation.

But he fled right into the hands of These Savage Futurians and thereby supplied the key that could blast apart civilization's second chance and destroy the world once and for all.

The Double Invaders

The invasion of Scarta in the all-powerful name of the Space Empire of Zorgan was on. Everything went as predicted. The cities were taken, there was no opposing spacefleet. And yet everything went wrong.

For Scarta was a planet different from any other the arrogant Earthmen had invaded. Its peaceful people were tougher, its unarmed cities more impregnable, and its blue skies less placid than any world had any right to be.

We, the Venusians

Venus and its natives are exploited by humans.

The Water of Thought

One explorer had already disappeared on the primitive planet, Kappa. So the day that a second Terrestrial, Jones, ran away after drinking the sacred Kappan water that he had coerced the natives into giving him, the remaining planetologists meant to find out just what was going on.

Questioning the aliens only deepened the mystery. For they said that what Jones had drunk would enable him to communicate with his animal ancestors. It was their most precious and sacred possession.

But how could it affect a person never born on Kappa, a person without such "animal" ancestors? What had really happened to Jones and the other man - and what would happen if either of them managed to bring this incredible liquid back to Earth?