PDF Books in Science-Fiction
Warrior-Maid of Mars
by Alfred CoppelThe small room was dark but for the flickering light of a single ef-lamp that burned on the bare table between the two long rows of black-hooded figures. The thin dry air was surcharged with the tenseness of a tautly drawn cord ... a strangler's cord. A sentence of death had been passed in silence. Now, the executioners balloted, still in silence, ..
Madmen of Mars
by Erik FennelAll this time we've kept quiet as a whole cageful of mice. And with good reason. During the Big Scare, while everyone was afraid that the Exclusion Ultimatum meant the Martians wanted an interplanetary war, the Earth Governments would have been only too ready to hang, shoot, stab, gas, electrocute, freeze, burn, poison, impale and/or defenestrate t..
Bratton's Idea
by Manly Wade WellmanOld Bratton, janitor at the studios of Station XCV in Hollywood, was as gaunt as Karloff, as saturnine as Rathbone, as enigmatic as Lugosi. He was unique among Californians in professing absolutely no motion picture ambitions. Once, it is true, a director had stopped him on the street and offered to test him for a featured role, but old Bratton had..
Lord of the Silent Death
by Robert Moore WilliamsSamuel Morton found the box in Asia Minor, in a niche in the tomb of a forgotten Sumerian king, and not being able to open it, brought it back to this country with him. Morton was an archeologist, on the staff of the Asia Museum, located in South Chicago.After months of effort, he succeeded, one hot August afternoon, in opening the box. But the dea..
Tickets to Paradise
by D. L. JamesIt all started at Bandar Shahpur. You see, I'm a railroad construction man. Our job was finished, and the whole outfit was waiting at Bandar Shahpur, which is on the inlet Khor Musa of the Persian Gulf, for a boat to take us back to America.And there, out of nowhere, this Dr. Champ Chadwick showed up. He seemed to be starving for a little good old ..
In the Earth's Shadow
by John L. ChapmanIt took a few minutes for Ferris to recover. Replacement! After six years of service at the number one fuel station between the Earth and Moon. Why, he was the only man who could handle Station 12! And Galsworth was sending Brooks, a green kid barely out of SM school. What was the guy thinking of?Angered, Ferris got up from his stool and paced the ..
The Oversight
by Miles J. BreuerJohn C. Hastings, senior medical student in the Nebraska State University Medical School at Omaha, looked out of the window of the Packard sedan he was driving down the road along the top of the bluff, and out in the middle of the Missouri River he saw a Roman galley, sweeping down midstream with three tiers of huge oars.A pang of alarm shot throug..
The Ultimate Image
by P. Schuyler MillerThe Ultimate Image is a science fiction short story by P. Schuyler Miller. It was Bill Porter's voice. I put one hand on the balustrade and vaulted into the garden. From behind a mass of shrubbery came sounds of a struggle, and Bill's voice rose again.I plowed through where someone had gone before. Bill, his shirtfront awry, his coat-tails torn and..