PDF Books in Space Opera Fiction
The Oakdale Affair
by Edgar Rice BurroughsThe Oakdale Affair is a short contemporary mystery novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It was written in 1917 under the working title of "Bridge and the Oskaloosa Kid," and is a partial sequel to The Mucker (1914/1916), Bridge, the protagonist, having been a secondary character in the earlier work. It was first published in Blue Book Magazine in March 1..
Space-Trap At Banya Tor
by W.J. MatthewsSpace-Trap At Banya Tor, by W. J. Matthews. Exciting entertainment, these telecasts of dashing pirates, gorgeous victims and the always stupid Space Patrol, but Jeff Thorne, famed Derelict of Mars, was grimly bent on stopping them—in all their ghastly reality!.Wheelwright was not impressed. "You know best, then I know him as a sot who stumbled on a..
Design For Doomsday
by Bryce WaltonDesign For Doomsday, by Bryce Walton. Slogging through Venus' reeking muck and groping horrors toward the forbidding dome of Solar Science City—treasure-vault of the best brains in the System—Guardsman Venard remembered the frightened whispers: "An evil god rules there!"The tone of the slurred, emotionless voice was cold and deadly, as were the ton..
The Green Dream
by Bryce WaltonThe Green Dream by Bryce Walton. Owen Baarslag had brought terror to the swamp people. Joha, the little Venusian maid, was determined that he should not leave without it.Joha, who was part Venusian, twined her translucent fingers through the Earthman's matted hair. She smiled. Strangely, from her light green face, red eyes shone with a terrible hat..
Goma's Follicles
by Dorothy De CourcyGoma's Follicles, by John de Courcy. The Franklin was the newest and best ship of the Morgan Interstellar Transportation Corporation. It was plain from the Captain's pouter-pigeon stance that he too was aware of this fact. The only jarring note in Captain Webster's mind was the unscheduled stop at Procyon IV. He glanced again at the yellow blank in..
When the Spoilers Came
by Robert Moore WilliamsWhen the Spoilers Came is a space science fiction story written by Robert Moore Williams. So they came to the Holy City of Sudal, primed for loot and murder! Larkin, the old Terran trader, warned them. But there was no convincing these space-scarred Pizarros that the simple, dream-bound Martians were not quite as defenseless as they seemed. To..
Who Goes There?
by Charles H. DavisThrough the outer limits of our solar system, two great ships flashed through the void. Light from distant Sol gleamed feebly on their dark hulls, paled to insignificance by the flare of pure energy that blasted each ship through space at inconceivable velocity. Sol's illumination was just enough to pick out the jagged gash near the base of the lea..
Machine of Klamugra
by Allen Kim LangKlaggchallak, his fur nose-flaps pulled tight against his nostrils, stumbled up to the gleaming pinnacle of steel that seemed to offer shelter against the night. He felt a dust-storm gathering in the west, and knew that not even the tough skin of a Martian priest could withstand the angry whippings of sand lashed up by the wind-warlocks of the dese..