Science fiction: space opera

"e;But-why us?

Even after dark it was hot here.

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

Darkness and the chill glitter of stars.

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

Those crazy, sloppy, frog-like Narakans .

Idiotic pets rate idiotic masters.

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

"e;Why don't you find yourself some nice little American girl,"e; his father had often repeated.

When Peer and Channok grappled the derelict Ra-Twelve, they hooked a death-prize-haunted by the Yomm, stalked by the Mysterious Nine!

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

Grimly Eric John Stark slogged toward that ancient Martian city-with every step he cursed the talisman of Ban Cruach that flamed in his blood-stained belt.

Child, it was, of the now ancient H-bomb.

Among the metal-persons of Phobos, robot B-12 held a special niche.

All space was electrified as that harsh challenge rang out .

Planet Stories was an American pulp science fiction magazine, published between 1939 and 1955.

Temple faced leaving Earth-and the girl he loved-if his country drafted him.

To some passengers a maiden voyage was a pleasure cruise; to others it meant a hope for new life.

What made the mass of this tiny asteroid fluctuate in defiance of all known physical laws?

There was a reason why his scripts were smash hits-they had realism.

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

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

Nobody knew very much about the Sargasso area of the void; only one thing was certain: if a ship was caught there it was doomed in The Graveyard Of Space.

Ellaby's society was a perfect democracy, where all men were equal.

Holloway was used to big game hunters and their expeditions to other worlds.

Early morning deliveries were part of the Honeychile Bakery Service.

Adam Slade was a man who had nothing to lose by making a break for it.

Greg tried desperately to find an illegal method of joining his family on Mars; for the law said that no healthy man could land on a Cancer World.

Being one of the richest men in the world, it was only natural that many people anticipated the day he would die.

What defense could she raise against mutant science-telepathy, invisibility, teleportation-especially since Earth was not aware of its danger!

Erd Neff wanted as little to do with his fellow men as possible.

Elvin wasn't sure how it had started-maybe it was the Schermerhorn twins-or the mysterious "e;meteorite"e;-or else the world had gone crazy .

Imagination' was one of the most successful science fiction magazines of its time.

Anders was pretty sure he was going to die.

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

What would it be like to live in a world which has conquered the near planets but abolished all literature?

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

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

Septimus Spink didn't need to read Jules Verne's "e;Journey to the Center of the Earth.

A world had collapsed around this man-a world that would never shout his praises again.

It didn't matter that he had quit.

Roger Arcot explores the fringes of a really never forgotten world, the introduction to which is an aged manuscript De Necromantiae, and the wish, not too repressed, to pledge your soul to the Devil!

"e;Now this here planet,"e; he said cautiously, "e;is whacky in a lot of ways.

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

Fra Rafael saw strange things, impossible things.

From ancient Martian records came the grim song of a creature whose very existence was long forgotten.

Once these irritating farewells were over with, he could begin to live as he wished and as he'd dreamed.

Minor Planets was the one solid account they had.

Revolution is not necessarily a noble thing.

When he opened the door to the shed that day, and saw the axe suspended in mid-air, he understood what was wrong.