Science fiction: apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic

It was a proud day when Dr.

When they touched down on the alien planet Minos, the last thing the crew of the Explorer expected to find was other humans.

Tam returns home to Earth after years of working in space.

They were a charming family and everybody loved them to death-especially Amanda

Turnabout may not always be fair play in the gulfs between the stars.

Granthan's mission was the most vital of the war.

Guy Burckhardt wakes up screaming, but can't remember the nightmare that caused his fright.

Unfortunate castaway!

Many writers of science fiction, who have not given the matter much thought, assume that a man of intelligence from one planet would meet a cordial and sympathetic welcome on another world.

A Konv cylinder was the key to space-but there was one power it could not match!

What will happen when the alien ships strike Earth?

Elected a god, Zen the Omnipotent longed for supernatural powers-for he was also Zen the All-Put-Upon, a galactic sucker!

He came to her handsome and youthful in appearance.

Being two men rolled out of one would solve my problems-but which one would I be?

It was nearly winter when the ship arrived.

It was nearly sundown when Ravdin eased the ship down into the last slow arc toward the Earth's surface.

A team of scientists are sent to Mercury aboard the Albireo to find out why it's developing an atmosphere.

It was almost dark when he awoke, and lay on the bed, motionless and trembling, his heart sinking in the knowledge that he should never have slept.

Drew Rennie fought valiantly for the South during the Civil War.

When a slightly mad robot, drunk on AC, wants you to join an experiment in optimum ecology-don't do it!

Minor Planets was the one solid account they had.

Arthur made it alive through the Third World War.

'Thuvia, Maid of Mars' is the fourth novel in Edgar Rice Burroughs' amazing Barsoom series.

You do not always have to go looking for a guardian angel.

Eighteen men and two women in the closed world of a space ship for five months can only spell tension and trouble-but in this case, the atmosphere was literally poisoned.

Wysten Turner is a Brit visiting America after it's great war with Russia.

The flight into space that made Pilot-Capt.

The captain had learned to hate.

Collected here are five fantastic stories by Algis Budrys, Frank Herbert, Robert Sheckley, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

The Solar Queen and her crew have the trading rights to the wealthy planet Sargol, but to take advantage of them and see any return on their investment they must fight the Reptilian Gorp, negotiate with the cat-like Salariki, and find a cure for the sleeping sickness that has caused the Solar Queen to be called a plague ship and which has other ships looking to destroy them on sight.

A gripping tale of the planet Mars and the terrible monstrosity that called its victims to it from afar-a tale of Northwest Smith.

The moon is not only the most prominent object in our heavens, but also an integral part of the Earth.

Eleven o'clock came.

Advanced races generally are eager to share their knowledge with primitive ones.

Jack Berry is told not to take his boat out into deep waters.

Nobody could figure out how Kettering had shot his realistic scenes on Mars.

He was a scientist spurned by the scientific establishment.

It's more than a little careless to lose a battleship, even in interstellar space.

From the lamppost something was hanging.

(Note: The following excerpts from Amy BAlantine's journal have never actually been written down at any time before.

A lean wind wails through the age-old avenues of Dawningsburgh.

An army doctor at a garrison on Earth is puzzled by a case of a soldier who returns from the asteroid Y-3, and claims that he's a plant.

He wondered, with a brief giddiness, if the dark witch before him could be as evil as her enemies said.

This is a story that they tell on the solitary farms on the borders of the Catskill mountains, where I grew up.

An unprovoked, meaningless night attack is terrifying enough on your own home planet, worse on a world across the Galaxy.

The Ralestones were once a prestigious family, but now only three young Ralestones are left, all their money squandered by a guardian.

"e;Nothing around those other suns but ashes and dried blood,"e; old Dunbar told the space-wrecked, desperate men.

He was afraid-not of the present or the future, but of the past.

One man, alone, could not stand off the irresistible march of nothingness.

We know that as soon as interplanetary travel is possible, expeditions from the Earth will be ranging the length and breadth of the solar system searching out the thousands of wonders that are to be discovered.