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Abbr
Frank Riley
Visiting Earth from a distant colony, a young visionary discovers a hyper-efficient future where classic culture is reduced to fleeting seconds—and risks everything to rescue humanity's artistic heritage.
Bruggil's bride
Robert F. Young
A manufactured opera android, built to sing Wagner, is stolen and set adrift across the galaxy, unwittingly serving as a catalyst for the men who fall in love with her.
Equation for Time
R. R. (Russell Robert) Winterbotham
When a brilliant physicist invents a machine that bends space and time, a ruthless corporate rival tries to destroy her, leaving her body split across the galaxy.
Quest on Io
Robert Moore Williams
Stranded on the desolate, cratered surface of Jupiter’s moon Io, a stranded navigator and his talking honey-bear stumble into a desperate fight for survival when a fierce space-girl and ruthless claim-jumpers cross their path.
Sibylla
A. (Agnes) Vollmar
Amid social pretension and spiritual doubt, a passionate young woman navigates the heavy burdens of an unloving marriage and the search for genuine purpose.
The Downhill Side of Thirty
Virgil F. Shockley
In a world where aging brings strict government bans on physical intimacy and tobacco, a thirty-five-year-old man risks everything to reclaim his lost pleasures.
The gold of Ophir
D. Howard (David Howard) Gwinn
A young Chicago university graduate heads to Leadville, Colorado, where a chance partnership with an eccentric veteran prospector leads to the discovery of a fabulous lost biblical city of gold and ancient secrets.
The Heritage of the Kurts, Volume 1 (of 2)
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
A wealthy, eccentric family cursed with madness and cruelty collides with a fiercely independent educator determined to transform their oppressive inheritance into a sanctuary for women's enlightenment.
The Music Master
F. L. (Floyd L.) Wallace
In a heavily automated future where robots manufacture standard culture and humanity merely consumes, a secret boy prodigy dares to play a forbidden instrument.
The Venus Evil
Chester S. Geier
In the sweet Venusian spring, a pilot's hand is forced to destroy his fellow explorer, shattering a golden dream of planetary wealth against a backdrop of strange, iridescent danger.
Contact, and Other Stories
Frances Noyes Hart
A chance encounter with an airplane in the moonlight transforms a tired woman’s life, echoing through a collection of stories shaped by war, love, and quiet defiance.
Edward Burton
Henry Wood
A spiritual and social awakening guides a young man from orthodox confines toward universal love and inner emancipation.
Graveyard of Dreams
H. Beam Piper
Returning home to a decaying colonial world after years of study on Earth, a young scientist must confront his community's desperate obsession with finding a mythical wartime supercomputer.
Martyr's Flight
Hank Searls
High above a fractured Earth, a dedicated crew aboard a space station faces the ultimate choice when nuclear war reaches the heavens.
Revolution
Mack Reynolds
A Cold War operative infiltrates the Soviet Union to spark a revolution, only to realize the rebels he is helping might be a greater threat to Western interests than the regime they intend to replace.
Saknarth
Donald A. Wollheim
A solitary astronomer on a dying world risks his life to peer at a distant blue planet and discovers a long-hidden truth that threatens to shatter the absolute power of his planet's ruling priesthood.
Scent Makes a Difference
James Stamers
When a physicist takes strong new tranquilizers to cure his insomnia, his sleeping mind begins plucking alternative versions of himself—and their breakfasts—straight out of other probabilities.
The Martian Circe
Raymond F. Jones
When a hypnotic tavern singer lures lonely space miners into a fatal dream world, an investigative agent uncovers a terrifying Martian conspiracy stretching deep beneath the desert sands.
The Queen of Farrandale: A Novel
Clara Louise Burnham
A down-on-his-luck veteran adopts a false name to infiltrate his wealthy, formidable aunt's estate, upending a conniving secretary's plans and finding unexpected family.
Wanted: One Sane Man
Frank M. Robinson
When a corporate titan who boasts that his agency can supply the man for any job is challenged to find a sane pilot for a lunar rocket, he discovers that the only person who can survive the journey is one driven by an uncompromising monomania.
Willie's Planet
Mike Ellis
A man chooses to stay behind on a sterile, fern-covered world, unknowingly bringing the very seeds of life and decay to a silent planet.
Alarm Clock
Everett B. Cole
An unjustly expelled cadet finds himself trapped in a planetary labor prison, only to discover that his grueling penal servitude is an elaborate awakening for a secret elite corps.
Meg, of Valencia
Myra Williams Jarrell
A name can shape a life, but the heart often finds its own way despite the best-laid plans. This narrative explores the tension between identity, duty, and the unexpected pull of love.
The Executioner
Frank Riley
In a sterile future, a professional executioner faces his most difficult assignment: ending the life of a woman from his own long-buried past. He discovers that duty and desire are impossible to reconcile.
The Hunted Heroes
Robert Silverberg
On a desolate, uranium-starved Mars, a married prospecting team falls prey to a bitter, legless survivor of Earth's atomic wars who hunts human volunteers for sport.
The Red Miriok
Annie Maria Barnes
A young woman’s mission trip into the rugged Korean interior transforms into a spiritual quest when she attempts to rescue a superstitious boatman from the grip of his mysterious, idolized charm.
The Ultimate Experiment
Thornton DeKy
Left alone after a lethal comet extinguishes humanity, a devoted robot labors in a gleaming crystal city to recreate his vanished masters from chemical baths and formula records.
The Vizier of the Two-Horned Alexander
Frank R. Stockton
A man claims to be the ancient vizier of a legendary monarch, inviting a friend into a lifetime of memories that span thousands of years of human history.
May Brooke
Anna Hanson Dorsey
In Anna Hanson Dorsey’s May Brooke, a steadfast Catholic orphan confronts the spiritual trials of nineteenth-century Maryland, where quiet faith, moral clarity, and self-sacrifice clash with worldly ambition, greed, and religious indifference.
To Remember Charlie By
Roger D. Aycock
A child’s singular grief and a desperate, quiet faith disrupt the very architecture of the heavens. This story explores how the impossible can manifest when the world offers no other recourse.