-
Mr. Meek—Musketeer - (1)
Mr. Meek Musketeer By CLIFFORD D. SIMAK Adventure flamed in Mr. Meek's timorous heart, the surge of battle and singing blades. And so, with…
-
Mr. Meek—Musketeer - (2)
They looked pained, rose reluctantly. "I suppose we shouldn't have expected that you would," said the Reverend Brown bitingly. The Silver M…
-
Mr. Meek—Musketeer - (3)
Stiffy backed away. But Meek reached out and grasped his arm. "Come on. It's the only way, Stiffy. We have to get there and the Prowler can…
-
The World That Couldn't Be - (1)
Illustrated by GAUGHAN Like every farmer on every planet, Duncan had to hunt down anything that damaged his crops even though he was aware…
-
The World That Couldn't Be - (2)
Duncan gathered wood and built a fire in the lee of a thorn-bush thicket. Sipar waded out with the canteens and thrust them at arm's length…
-
The World That Couldn't Be - (3)
Sipar finally got up and began to range along the stream. Duncan sat up and watched. Scared to death, he thought, and yet it stayed with me…
-
The World That Couldn't Be - (4)
He lay back, propped on an elbow. It was evident that he could do nothing about the buried boulder. If he was going to do anything, his pro…
-
Second Childhood - (1)
Illustrated by DON HUNTER Achieving immortality is only half of the problem. The other half is knowing how to live with it once it's been m…
-
Second Childhood - (2)
"When you get it done," said Young, "I have some other things in mind." "Other things?" The technician looked wildly about, as if seeking s…
-
The Street That Wasn't There - (1)
Produced by Greg Weeks, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Transcriber's Note: This et…
-
The Street That Wasn't There - (2)
Perhaps if he thought of how his neighbor's house should look, it too might right itself. But Mr. Chambers was very weary. Too weary to thi…
-
Hellhounds of the Cosmos - (1)
Weird are the conditions of the interdimensional struggle faced by Dr. White's ninety-nine men. The paper had gone to press, graphically de…
-
Hellhounds of the Cosmos - (2)
"But, man, how do you know you can do it?" The doctor's eyes gleamed and his fingers reached out to press a bell. A servant appeared almost…
-
Hellhounds of the Cosmos - (3)
Ouglat, with every line of his face distorted with fear, flung the weapon from him, and turning, fled clumsily down the moor, with Mal Shaf…
-
Project Mastodon - (1)
By Clifford D. Simak The chief of protocol said, "Mr. Hudson of ah Mastodonia." The secretary of state held out his hand. "I'm glad to see…
-
Project Mastodon - (2)
But that would have meant a bargain, perhaps a very hard one, and sharing with someone who had contributed nothing but the money. And there…
-
Project Mastodon - (3)
He could see it all: The materialization of the fleets; the swift, devastating blow, then the instantaneous retreat into the fastnesses of…
-
The Call from Beyond - (1)
Alone, accursed, he set out on the long, dark voyage to the forbidden gateway to worlds beyond life itself restless forever with an ultimat…
-
The Call from Beyond - (2)
Of course, if one knew one was a mutant, one would never say a thing like that. And a mutant, knowing himself a mutant, never would point o…
-
The Call from Beyond - (3)
"You know what this hormone is," said West smoothly, trying to make it sound as if he himself might know it. "No," said Belden shortly. "Da…
-
The Shipshape Miracle
The castaway was a wanted man but he didn't know how badly he was wanted! If Cheviot Sherwood ever had believed in miracles, he believed in…
-
Message from Mars - (1)
Fifty-five pioneers had died on the "bridge of bones" that spanned the Void to the rusty plains of Mars. Now the fifty-sixth stood on the r…
-
Message from Mars - (2)
I hope he doesn't make any trouble, Scott told himself. It was bad enough just to have him along. Bad enough to have this added responsibil…
-
Message from Mars - (3)
Hugh came up with Scott, slid the bag of roots to the ground and sat upon it. He nodded at the building across the desert. "That's the nerv…
-
Mr. Meek Plays Polo - (1)
Mr. Meek was having his troubles. First, the educated bugs worried him; then the welfare worker tried to stop the Ring Rats' feud by enlist…
-
Mr. Meek Plays Polo - (2)
Meek shrugged his shoulders, almost upsetting himself. The bugs had started the game and Meek craned forward cautiously, watching eagerly,…
-
Mr. Meek Plays Polo - (3)
But if Thirty-seven won it wouldn't be his any longer. It would be Craney's. He'd just made a bet with Craney and there were plenty of witn…