Search Worlds Without End

Dr. Winfield Costigan had designed his "Needle" as a boon to medical research. But few men are able to let well enough alone, and when the Inland Electronics Company puts up a huge sum to finance the project, Costigan constructs a needle big enough to allow a man to step inside. At a secret testing, Glenn Basher of Inland Electronics draws the short straw and passes through the eye of the needle. Trouble is, he does not reappear.

Naturally, the police begin to show interest in the case of the missing man. Interference by the press and finally the meddling of a fanatic bring things to a most eerie climax on "the other side" of the needle.

It was too nightmarish to be real... All of them, the whole town, wordlessly climbing into trucks in the middle of the night and going off--where? And now, his own wife had joined them, and she seemed not to hear when he screamed his pleas for her to come back. None of them heard.

It had to be a dream.

He closed his eyes. I'm in bed. In a moment I will wake up and Marjorie will be beside me.

It didn't work. He was alone. Alone in a ghost town.

And even if he could find anyone to tell, they would think he was crazy.

He stopped short, the word sticking in his mind. CRAZY. Is that what I am? The accident, the operations, the eyes that watched him, waiting for--what? For this? Was this delusion the end product? Had he truly gone over the edge?

Welcome to the future where the Enemy rules the world. Resistance is futile: The Enemy maintains control by having released a lethal virus, then forcing everyone to get a monthly antidote injection, lest they die a horrible, painful death without it.

Resistance is never entirely futile, and freedom-loving men, women, and children attempt to sneak their way to the secret "Point Ultimate" where they can be free. But the Enemy wants to know: Where is Point Ultimate?

Far beyond the searching eye of any creature, in the darkness and emptiness of space itself, the ship dispatched a capsule. No sooner had it effected this than it vanished among the stars, lost in the outer reaches.

Then suddenly the capsule exploded without a sound, without a flash, and a billion captive motes, suddenly free, spread over vast distances in the upper air. Some floated aimlessly; others drifted toward Earth.

But the planners knew this would happen. Some, they knew, would survive this day. Few would survive many days. None would survive more than a week--unless...

Seven college buddies meet for their annual reunion — then suddenly the members begin to commit suicide in the most peculiar ways. Or is it suicide? One of the men sets out to investigate, and suddenly the nicest guys become feared and hated. What's happening to the group, and why?

The story of a man and a woman who wake up one morning to find that they had inexplicably lost all memory of the past eleven years including any memory of how they ever came to meet and become married to each other, and who embark on a quest to find what happened and to trace back these eleven lost years. Aside from the science fiction aspects, the book captures the atmosphere of late 1950s America.

Before he joined Project Ephialtes, Gary Carmody found the idea incredible. How could anyone capture characters from dreams---mere figments of the imagination? But any doubts Gary had about the existence of the dream people were dispelled when he watched a colleague brutally murdered by one of them. Then he had to convince the rest of the world. But the dream people took over---Gary's mind was controlled by the vile Aleppo who vowed to destroy Project Ephialtes and everyone connected with it.

One Against Herculum

LEGAL ASSASSIN OF THE STARWAYS

Corruption was the rule of order on the domed planetary colony of Herculum. Earthman Alan Demuth, for instance, couldn't get the job he had rightfully qualified for without paying a kickback to the man he hated, Jack Bohannen. Alan thought he could simply report Jack's graft, until he learned none would listen.

There was one desperate recourse. Under provision of the law, Alan could ask for a crime license. His crime would be homicide, and the victim Jack Bohannen. The law gave him twenty-four hours to make good his murder.

Failure would mean Alan's death. Success would mean the clean-up of graft and dishonesty. But Alan never realized that in a graft-ridden society, even a license to kill is liable to prove a backfiring fraud!

Secret of the Lost Race

The Constellation of the Wolf was an area of the galaxy few spacemen wanted to visit, for its sparse worlds were home only to the outcasts of the civilized worlds. But now it had been learned that there was one among its runaway refugees who was more than just a misfit--one who was a definite danger to all humanity.

The Man Who Lived Forever

His first thousand years were the easiest.

The Mars Monopoly

Find your fortune in the sky - by permission of the Mars monopoly.