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Gourmets all agree that nothing can beat oysters on the half-shell-not even the armed might of the Terran Confederation!

The outcasts; the hunted of all the brighter worlds, crowded onto Yaroto.

'The Moon Maid' was without a doubt Edgar Rice Burroughs' best book.

The creatures on the little planet were real bafflers.

The fleet came in at four o'clock.

There wasn't a woman left on earth.

A small group of intellectuals from a primitive culture of modified monkey-like humans are banished from the treetops for heresy.

No mortal had ever seen the Martians, but they had heard their whisperings-without knowing the terrible secret they kept hidden.

The barn turned out to be a spaceship in disguise, and that was only the beginning.

"e;What kind of university do they have on D'Land?

Invading Earth was going to be a cinch, the Triomed scout decided.

All Earth needed was a good stiff dose of common sense, but its rulers preferred to depend on the highly fallible computers instead.

Old Thaddeus McIlvaine discovered a dark star and took it for his own.

Even after dark it was hot here.

If this story has a moral, it is: "e;Leave well enough alone.

Mankind finds itself in a fight for its very survival when invaders from Mars land on Earth.

This was love, and what could be done about it?

"e;But-why us?

Progress is relative; Senator O'Noonan's idea of it was not particularly scientific.

Strumming a harp while floating on a white cloud might be Paradise for some people, but it would bore others stiff.

As I sit down to write here amidst the shadows of vine-leaves under the blue sky of southern Italy, it comes to me with a certain quality of astonishment that my participation in these amazing adventures of Mr.

What is more frightening than the fear of the unknown?

For all his perfection and magnificence he was but a baby with a new found freedom in a strange and baffling world .

Dakta death, horrible beyond the weirdest fever-dreams of Earth-men, faced Space Ship Commander Gerry Norton.

Idiotic pets rate idiotic masters.

Anders was pretty sure he was going to die.

'The Moon Maid' was without a doubt Edgar Rice Burroughs’ best book.

The world of the new race was peaceful, comfortable, lovely-and completely static.

Totem poles are a dime a dozen north of 63(deg) .

Spud, world-famous dummy, talks to Mars with surprising results.

What would you do if your best robots-children of your own brain-walked up and said "e;We want union scale"e;?

For the most part, Godwin's stories-however grim the situation-are really about triumph in the face of adversity.

All space was electrified as that harsh challenge rang out .

It was a race between the tortoise and the hare.

Venus was the most miserable planet in the system, peopled by miserable excuses for human beings.

The Masters had ruled all space with an unconquerable iron fist.

Blue Boy's rating was high and his fans were loyal to the death-anyone's death!

Who, but the imaginative young, shall inherit the stars?

Shure and begorra, it was a great day for the Earth!

He got the lock open as they retreated for another charge.

"e;And that is why you will take us to Earth, Lieutenant,"e; barked the Ihelian warrior.

Once upon a time life was perfection.

Mary might have learned a more ladylike trade, but one thing is certain: she had a shining faith in that space guy from Earth.

This was a world where minding your manners was more than just a full-time job-it was murder!

The People That Time Forgot is the second installment of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Caspak trilogy, set on the the large Antarctic island of Caprona, whose tropical interior is home to prehistoric fauna of all eras.

Though he carried with him the loot of the ages, who in The Pass-that legalized city of vice and corruption-would dare risk his neck to help Russell, the Hard Luck Man of the Swamps?

New neighbors are always exciting.

The remarkable thing about Atummyc Afterbath Dusting Powder was that it gave you that lovely, radiant, atomic look-just the way the advertisements said it would.

Once he had been a tall, straight spaceman, free as the galaxies.