Science fiction: space opera

Like pioneers in Earth’s past, Terry and his wife came to the red planet seeking their fortune.

Three Martian-duped Earth-men swing open the gates of space that for so long had barred the greedy hordes of the Red Planet.

The greatest cracksman in the Galaxy—The Nebula .

She spoke in a tongue dead a thousand years, and she had no memory for the man she faced.

Strange gods were worshiped on Mars.

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

A ray of fire, green, mysterious, stabs through the night to Dan on his ship.

Jery Delvin had a most unusual talent.

Fifty-five pioneers had died on the “bridge of bones” that spanned the Void to the rusty plains of Mars.

Two families fought for the title to Eros, and only one could win.

The colony on the red planet had no need for heroes.

To translate writings, you need a key to the code—and if the last writer of Martian died forty thousand years before the first writer of Earth was born .

< b>Jerry Morgan, is a man with no future on Earth, he is offered a new life on Mars and he takes it.

Invaders from Mercury!

Being expelled from an air lock into deep space was the legal method of execution.

Arthur Chamberlain, is an engineer who works at the Metropolitan Tower in Midtown Manhatten.

Set on a Mars that never was.

The idol was shaped like a handsome young man.

This was no place for these aliens.

There was something subtly different about them.

All the world’s a stage, so there was room even for this bad actor .

As the vastly advanced guardians of mankind, the Belphins knew how to make a lesson stick—but whom?

Nobody knew where the weegil came from, why it came or what it was made for.

Johnson knew he was annoying the younger man, who so obviously lived by the regulations in the Colonial Officer’s Manual and lacked the imagination to understand why he was doing this.

Discovering intelligent life was the last thing Fleet Captain Iversen wanted to happen to his watch.

No one, least of all Martin, could dispute that a man’s life should be guarded by his kin—but by those who hadn’t been born yet?

Snaddra had but one choice in its fight to afford to live belowground—underhandedly pretend theirs was an aboveboard society!

Many of the formerly underprivileged terrestrials apparently felt that one vote was not quite enough for them.

One thing Man never counted on to take along into space with him was the Eternal Triangle—especially a true-blue triangle like this!

I was psick of Psi powers, not having any.

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

Sometimes a job comes after the man .

He was quite the most important man in all of human history.

“Come down to Earth—and stay there!

“Nuts to you!

Being trapped in the steaming h—l of Venus is no excuse for forgetting one’s manners—but anyone abducted, marooned, tricked, kept from tea might well crack under the strain!

Coveting someone’s wife and place in the world is an old, old story—except that the woman and the place Philip coveted were his own!

Incubus won every race but one.

Trading with the natives was like taking candy from a kid—but which were the natives?

Evelyn E.

Hugh Starke had died, he was absolutely certain of that.

He had been born on a mad, impossible world!

It was a Gypsy world, built of space flotsam, peopled with the few free races of the Solar System.