Selling a whole town, and doing it inconspicuously, can be a little difficult … either giving it away freely, or in a more normal sense of “selling”. People don't quite believe it…....
Set back in time to kidnap Sheherazade, narrator of the "Arabian Nights," the hero snatches a lovely lady from the sultan's harem only to discover that he has stolen the wrong woman, Sheherazade's little sister...
THE HOUSE THAT TIME FORGOT and Other Stories is the third collection of space adventures from the SF digests in John Pelan's new series: Classics of SF and Fantasy. John introduces Robert F. Young and calls him the "Poet Laureate of the Spaceways" fo...
Robert F. Young published frequently in major markets from the 1950s to his death in 1985. Disney even optioned film rights to one of his books. However, probably because he wrote few novels, he was never widely known. His better stories, many collec...
The worlds of Robert F. Young are unlike any others, and they are all stamped with the hallmark of excellence that is distinctively his own. Some of these worlds are strange and alien, distant in time and space; some are as familiar as your own ba...
Sugardale three miles, the state highway sign said. Dexter Foote turned into the side road that the arrow indicated. He had no way of knowing it at the time, but by his action he condemned his new convertible to a fate worse than death. The side road...
She came off the Androids, Inc., production line in September, 2241. She was five feet, seven inches tall, weighed 135 pounds, had flaxen hair and pale blue eyes. Her built-in batteries were guaranteed for ten years, her tapes were authentic Kirsten ...
Melanie learns the perils of being a witch in the suburbs. Neighborhood wives, gossip, insipid social gatherings... These are the perils she must face. Is magic really worth it?...
Ryan is a member of a tribe of post-apocalyptic primitives. Each night, the tribe chants about how their ancestors were "the putrefiers of the lakes and the rivers; the consumers, the destroyers, the murderers of the living land; the selfish, the...
For want of a better name, she called them Obbly-Gobblies. Thus for, the only evidence of their presence in the house had been an occasional flapping of their wings, but just the same she was certain that the term fitted them.Robert F. Young was a Hu...
A man under sentence of marriage would be lucky to have a girl like Julia assigned to him--or would he?Robert F. Young was a Hugo nominated author known for his lyrical and sentimental prose. His work appeared in Amazing Stories, Fantastic Stories, S...
To love a saint is hard. To be one, that is harder. But rejoice, now in the search of Capt. Nathaniel Drake for Saint Annabelle Leigh. For you will read this story many times in the future, as it assumes what will be its rightful reputation as a clas...
Here is the Robert F. Young collection you’ve been waiting for: over 200,000 words and more than 600 pages long, making it the largest collection of Young’s work ever released. Robert F. Young was a Hugo-nominated author known for his lyrical and...
Men have fought and died, sung and cried, stolen and lied for love. Christopher Stark did all of these--and more. Over his life loomed two gigantic images: that of the beautiful Priscilla, and that of the mysterious fisher-figure in the reaches of sp...
When he saw the school teacher in the window, he had to have her. Not only would the robot be a great help for his son's lessons, but she could also help with the housework. He never dreamed what trouble his impulse buy would unleash... Classic scien...
We’ve often wondered what would happen if Robert Young should cease to be a lyrically intense writer for a story or two, forsaking the bright, poetic worlds of miss katy three and the first sweet sleep of night to become dispassionately analytical ...
When scifi writer Harold Worthington Smith imagines himself on Mars, rescuing a buxom princess from green-skinned aliens, the fantasy suddenly becomes all too real. Harold finds himself stranded on the red planet's dead sea, facing down an army o...
Lt. Comdr. Guest is alone aboard the spaceship Helios 5, orbiting close to the sun, when he spots a strange ancient Egyptian funeral boat. On the boat lies a mummified figure wearing the mask of Osiris. As Guest watches, a man appears reading from a ...
But the Knyght was a little less than Perfect, and his horse did not have a metabolism, and his "castle" was much more mobile - timewise! - than it had any business being! A fantastic science fiction tale of action and adventure, created by t...