The first sounds came at midnight – a plaintive scream from an unknown voice in the vastness of space. Within hours the entire world heard the eerie throbbing. And in billions of earthbound minds the horror grew. Hours later, to the ears of a helpless world, the second message came…Earth's days were numbered. A horrifying epic science fiction novel! ...
William P. McGivern, a popular and prolific science fiction writer in the 1940s and 1950s (under his own name as well as the pseudonyms Gerald Vance and P.F. Costello), later achieved fame as a noir and hardboiled mystery author of such classics as «The Big Heat.» The First William P. McGivern Science Fiction Megapack collects 25 of his early science fiction stories, including: <P> JOHN BROWN'S BODY<BR> THE VISIBLE INVISIBLE ...
It was Earth's darkest hour. Weak, backward, prey to attack, it could only be saved by the Vigilantes. Sci-fi writer Thane Smith and his beautiful, adored wife had the task of discrediting UFO stories. But how can they – after they run up against a playboy-monster who could only have been created by an alien race? ...
Island One, the U.S.'s first space colony and symbol of an American Renaissance, is in trouble. Low morale, shoddy workmanship, unexplained malfunctions, and avoidable accidents have become a way of life, and nobody seems to know why. Is in the Russians? Home-grown anti-technologists? Arabs afraid of cheap solar power from Space – or something even more sinister? <P> When the President ordered secret agent Peter Kapitz to find out w ...
Life under a Deathwish policy was fun while it lasted, but for Deathwisher Roy Cox it was far more than that. For him, gaining access to great wealth in exchange for becoming a target for hired killers was a political act: you can buy a lot of media attention with a million pseudobucks, and Roy had a cause worth dying for. <P> Already Roy has survived twice the term of the average Deathwisher, and people are getting interested in what he ...
A step in an odd direction – a moment of dizziness – and archaeologist Dan Fielding was thrust through an invisible barrier found hundred years into the past. He was still in the Mexican desert – but it was the desert of the 16th century, and Mexico was in the grip of the conquistador Hernando Cortez. <P> Inevitably, Cortez captured Fielding – and learned of the rich territory north of the Rio Grande. The land that would one day become t ...
"It came to Earth very quietly one evening from an alien planet. It was a mind, a free mind separated from any brain. A galactic mind that had taken one million years of superscience to create. <P> Dr. Thule Hillory of Serendipity Labs was the only Earthman able to feel the alien presence. Through his PSI experiments, he had already discovered the phenomenon of Psychokinesis. <P> But now time was running out, and Hillory mus ...
In 2050 A.D., the Earth spaceship Tycho lands on the eighth moon of Saturn, nine hundred million miles from the sun. Hugh Benning, a mineraologist, and his men explore the deserted world. When they come to a natural cave, the men begin to stagger and fall. Benning disappears into the mouth of the cave. <P> The pilots gather up the limp forms of Benning's men and return them to Earth. The team isn't dead – but isn't quite a ...
May 23, 2440 A.D. Around Jay Bruce's spaceship, the sky is an impenetrable blanked of opaque gas, typical of this region on Jupiter just north of the Red Spot. Bruce is puzzled. Why has the lovely young woman seated next to him chartered his ship to cruise an uninhabited area? Then it appears…a massive Martian warship unlike any he's ever seen before, forcing him to land – and perhaps to die – in the barren Jovian wilderness! ...
