The starship Space Beagle is a big ship bound for deep space. With a crew of hundreds, cargo space for a mind-boggling array of alien artifacts and shipments of precious objects, it ventures to planets never before visited by humans, risking destruct...
THE SILKIE -- A living spaceship, impervious to heat and cold, virtually indestructible and capable of travelling at supersonic speeds. THE SILKIE -- Similar to a human being, but not the same. Highly intelligent. THE SILKIE -- Able to li...
Meet a terrifying creature on a remote pacific island whose soule is atomic fire. Observe the first man on Venus encounter a can of paint - a maddening test of his capasities for survival. Red the bizarre correspondance between two interstelle...
The Book of Van Vogt containing interstellar classics never before anthologized, such as Lost:Fifty Suns and The Barbarian, and all-new Van Vogt stories such as The Sound of Wild Laughter, The Timed Clock, and others never seen in print before....
Turning torture and brainwashing inside out, Ruxton combated his cruel oriental captors with their own subtle techniques. The Violent Man is the startling novel of a man who pitted himself against the brains of a nation, the might of an army, and the...
The story of Captain Hedrock, Earth's immortal man-up against one force-the outlawed Weapon Makers-who could make that immortality end abruptly if they could but find him. In the world of the lsher Empire a titanic struggle is taking place. An inters...
- To avoid confusion: this is NOT a retitling of *Mission To the Stars*. It's a short story collection, the title story of which is the first portion of that novel as it originally appeared in *Astounding*. OK?
- The collection was originally publ...
The classic novel of non-Aristotelian logic and the coming race of supermenGrandmaster A. E. van Vogt was one of the giants of the 1940s, the Golden Age of classic SF. Of his masterpieces, The World of Null-A is his most famous and most influential....
When A.E. van Vogt wove several of his classic stories of The Rull into a novel, he created a work of enduring popularity in the science fiction field. Now back in print for the first time in the 1990s, this Tor edition includes "The First Rull," a s...
Empire of the Atom and The Wizard of Linn: Global war smashed civilization-or so the legends told-but not all of its machines. A caste of ¿scientists¿ arose who knew how to repair and operate the ancient machines-but not how they worked-and worshippe...
It came to Earth to find a genius mathematician . . . the one human in the solar system capable of understanding the ultimate prime number. Time is running out. The time-lock on the Beast's millennia-old Martian cage is about to open, and mankind wil...
The alien was deadly, dangerous and inhuman-but he was not the most feared enemy on the ship! Lesbee recognized that his plan to take control of the ship had been discovered. But what other options did he have? What else could he do? And then, of cou...