Bauchman was a small god in his own way--the richest man of the richest planet the worlds had ever known. Certainly he had a great deal of power--and he used it wisely. After all, there was that research sphere, presumably serving mankind. Or if not ...
Rick Massey, newly-appointed as executive on the space freighter Zenobia, finds that there are more than simple navigational problems ahead. The ship is carrying the daughter of the fabulously powerful chairman of a commercial empire as his represent...
Visiting a scene of his childhood Mark Savage was minding his own business and soaking up what nostalgia could be found on the automated landscape. When Barbara Lisle appeared at his elbow, barefoot and in an operating shift he was off on a sequence ...
Once upon a future century, a young man with both feet firmly planted on the ladder of Establishment success discovered that the powers that be - the powers he served--were plotting to lock the planet into a suicidal course for their own profit. For ...
In the troubled politics of the Rim, the Inter Galactic Organisation's peace-keeping force had a hard row to hoe. Adam Dalton, trading in and out of Outer Galactic Alliance space in his small starship had a clearer view than most of the problems. Whe...
Violence breeds violence. A chain reaction. An ever widening circle of inevitable cause and effect. As an observer, in one of the small communities in a desert of ash left by a new wave of volcanic disturbance, Boyd Lassen could condemn it. But event...
Dave Pitman was at rock bottom in emotional stasis. After a gruelling mission, that left his ship in a heap of charred ash, he took the co-pilot slot in the I.G.O. frigate Diomed to fill time that no longer meant anything to him. He was on search and...
In the wasteland of thirteenth century Wirral, Wallasey, the old Island of Strangers, was a forgotten corner of a struggling kingdom. Some liked it that way. Safe, out of reach of the King's law. A tough-minded man like Sir Guy of Barndon could r...
Because Mike Finnigan was a natural-born trouble-maker, it made him wonder how come all the well-intentioned androids got to be more and more while all the happy humans got to be less and less. Which was all very well, but it is extremely difficult t...
Russ Playfer tangled with the Establishment when he criticised computer justice. He was in trouble again when he intervened in a move to assassinate Debra Gilbert--a personable experimental psychologist. He had a hard row to hoe, but, aided by a plum...
There was no hiding place in Carthage either physically or mentally. And the power crisis didn't help the situation. The monitoring complex had a big reserve setup, but the authorities were making stringent economies right now. Every last watt had to...
When the Roman peace was a memory and the Conqueror's peace a distant murmur, the land was in limbo. There was an uneasy calm and the jackals were in. It was a waiting time, with a swirl of undercurrents and secret power moves. There was space en...
Search of an identity had more problems for Dr. Mark Brant than for most. Programmed at a deep level as an agent and then talked into accepting a dangerous mission, which on the surface level he knew he was being two-faced even to himself. The double...
Chris Pitman's liked his aged American convertible. He knew he was taking a risk running it along country lanes, but he wanted to avoid the motorway. Minding his own business, he became entangled in a scene which is played out every day in all co...
For many centuries, Earth Planet had been under observation from the dying world of Typhon. There was nothing the Typhonians did not know about its physical properties and the life style of its people. From where they stood, they reckoned it was gift...