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Barlo, from the planet Raamz, is the sole survivor of the wreck of an interstellar spaceship. In his pod -- lifeboat -- he reaches a planet which has the atmosphere he needs to survive -- Earth. Befriended by young Toby Adam, Barlo is hunted down by a vigilante group, the U.S. armed forces, and Russian agents who are after Barlo's advanced knowledge of a star drive. Barlo manages to outwit the bumbling hunters, who merely succeed in obstructing one another and themselves. Barlo's eventual departure leaves both a surprise and a promise for Toby and all earthmen.

SUSPENSE IN SPACE...

They were hurtling over it, hurtling and dropping. ?He fought his harnessing to lean closer to the port...

There a small crater, here a hill, a crevice, a milky rectangle that looked absolutley smooth and rock hard -- this was an inferno without fire, a hell, the architecture of a maddened nature. The House of Lucifer....

"Zero percent fuel," Kovac rapped out edgily.

"Max says zero on the fuel. Still going down, Trying to hold steady but can't Ash looks deep, deep... Rocks right next to us jagged and -- Oh, there she goes... main engines off. Small jets can't... We're falling..."

Mission: Delivery of the first permanent station to the moon and putting it into operation. It should have been Go all the way. Lift-off was perfect. Moon orbit a-ok. But then Chuck Logan got sick from the weightlessness and Apollo 2 had to get back to earth fast, Big Lander, the space station was swinging in yaw, cartwheeling in the horizontal plane. A hundred million dollars' worth of complex equipment functioned perfectly, then a fifty-cent part failed. Would they have to abort? Tension mount s as Martin Clay, command pilot of Apollo 1, has to make some quick and startling decisions.

SPACE FROGMEN!

Officiall there was no war. Yet men were dying, planes were battling, and the struggle for the conquest of space was going on day and night on a life-or-death basis. For it was common -- though unpublicized -- knowledge that when one of the two great powers got into a position to strike a total blow without risk, the Cold War would be over.

Now the Russian space lead had taken a fatal turn -- they had three controlled H-Bomb Sputniks circling the Earth ready to drop when and where they wished.

America could be wiped out in a matter of minutes, unless those BOMBS IN ORBIT could be disarmed. There was only one way to do that. Send men up in a satellite of our own to pull the Red fangs.

The story of that attempt, one fo the most tensely exciting ari-space adventures of the very near future, is a novel that cannot be put down until the last taut page.

The four men had been scrutinized, watched, investigated, and intensively trained for more than a year. They were the best men to be found for that first, all-important flight to the Moon--the pioneer manned rocket that would give either the East or the West control over the Earth. Yet when the race started, Adam Crag found that he had a saboteur among his crew... a traitor! Such a man could give the Reds possession of Luna, and thereby dominate the world it circled. Any one of the other three could be the hidden enemy, and if he didn't discover the agent soon--even while they were roaring on rocket jets through outer space--then Adam Crag, his expedition, and his country would be destroyed!

"Gentlemen, the Nation is on Red Alert One," the President said grimly.

He was speaking at an emergency meeting with the Secretary of State, the Director of the CIA, the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman fo the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

"The Russian premier denies emphatically that Russia has launched anything into orbit during the last week, much less a nuclear bomb. But we know a bomb is up there, even though we can't be sure which nation put it there. And we know it has to be used against us within five days.

"We must find out immediately who is threatening our country, and why! And we must stop them!"

Danny grew up alone on an alien planet guided by the telepathic thoughts of unseen Zandro. Finally he makes mental contact with humans on another world and learns he is being used in a plot to conquer the universe.

Gulter, lord of the stars is determined to conquer the universe. Gulter had already owned many worlds, but he didn't own all of them.

EVERY NINETY MINUTES THEY WERE A TARGET FOR THE REDS

The United States was tossing the parts of Project Spacehive into orbit like bits of a jigsaw puzzle, and then orbiting astronauts to fit the pieces together and make the first spaceship. It wasn't science-fiction -- just putting into operation a scheme that had been on the drawing boards since the first firings at Cape Canaveral.

But while they'd figured the mechanics involved, they hadn't counted on an unexpected problem -- how do you get any work done when you're a sitting duck every ninety mnutes for Russian rocket snipers?

There shall be no atomic research! That was the basic law upon which the Empire of Earth was founded and on which it had kept the world peaceful and prosperous right up to 2449 AD.

And then an atomic plot was discovered. Who was behind it? What motivated it? Was Earth to face the one challenge it feared most?

Max Krull, secret agent of the future, was given the case. And that itself was the first mystery he had to solve -- because he was no James Bond, he had to work alone (why?), and he only had an average rating (or so it seemd).

An agent, sent to a distant planet where those with telepathic powers are banished, and ordered to find the person with the ability to move objects by thought, discovers to his horror that he is telepathic.

A boy who has lost his memory is a herder on a remote planet until a mysterious man gives him a beautiful stone to help him remember.

THE FISH EYE!
THE DISTORTED SKY!
THE BLOB THAT ATE THE STARS!

Those were the first memories he had when he opened his eyes in a strange room in a strange sector of the city. Who he was he did not know, where he came from was an enigma. Bith in those nightmare visions lay the only clues to his past.

There were mighty forces and dangerous agents seeking him -- this he learned quickly enough. There was a hospital in orbit missing one patient -- that added to the crisis that involved all the powers that contended within the 22nd Century's intricate society.

But was there anybody on his side? And was he good -- or was he really everyone's enemy?

Jeff Sutton, atuhor of AFTER APOLLO, FIRST ON THE MOON, and other great aerospace science fiction, now presents a startling mystery of the centuries to come and the space colonies to be.

The Programmed Man tells the story of Daniel York, an Empire Intelligence agent who is rushed aboard an Imperial Navy destroyer in response to an emergency after an Imperial starcruiser unexpectedly goes missing while on patrol. The outcast mutants of the hellish Zuman worlds and the arrogant upstart Prince Li-Hu are suspects, but neither York nor his gruff companion, Captain Daniel Hull of the Empire destroyer Draco, truly know what to expect when they go in search of the missing cruiser.

Nights are the worst.

Those cloudless nights when a thousand eyes look down, mocking me. Because I know that Man, in some form other than my own, quietly has taken over the universe.

I know because I've lived and died and lived again.

Worse yet is when the whisper comes.

It some from beyond the blaze of lights, from beyond the gulf of darkness which separates the burning suns.

"We are here," the whisper says.

"We are here."

The Man Who Saw Tomorrow

This man must die - or the futre wil never be!

So Bright the Vision

Collection containing:

• The Golden Bugs - (1960) - novelette
• Leg. Forst. - (1958) - novelette
• So Bright the Vision - (1956) - novelette
• Galactic Chest - (1956) - novelette

The Ships of Durostorum

WANTED: ONE ENGINEER

FOR MANAGERIAL POSITION IN IRUNIUM.

WAGES HIGH. DEATH BENEFITS SUDDEN.

"I am the Contessa Perdita di Montevarchi. Here in Irunium the only law is my will.

"I shall seek out another engineer. But this time he will be a real engineer from a dimension that understands these things, from Slikitter, probably from Earth. He will be treated with respect because his function is valuable to me. Almost inevitably he will terminate as this offal terminated, but that is to be expected of imperfect tools.

"He will not at first see the slaves in the mines and I do not with him treated as a slave. My mines must continue to produce gems for my trace across the Dimensions. An engineer is needed so I shall find one...."

Alton's Unguessable

Beware the one-of-a-kind world!