Starting with the February, 1946 issue, every issue of the <i>Captain Marvel Adventures</i> comic book included a 2-page short story by «Eando Binder» (Otto O. Binder). All featured Lt. Jon Jarl of the Space Patrol. These juvenile space operas – designed to appeal to kids – featured the daring adventures of a two-fisted young member of the Space Patrol. In a solar system where seemingly every planet and moon can support life (and the ...
For most of his life, Newton McClintok had lived in the Americal flapper era. He might have been an ancient Roman or a Victorian Englishman. He could have lived his life in any time or place he chose – or at least, an almost perfect replica of it. But for Newton McClintok, life in this dream world brought only discontentment. After an unsuccessful suicide attempted, he embarked on a journey through the ages to find his own special Utopia – only ...
Frederick Merrick White (1859-1935) was a pioneer in many fields – the spy story, the detective story, and most especially the epic disaster story. His «Doom of London» series (1903), consisting of six tales in which various catastrophes beset London (including diphtheria, killer smog, and a devastanzing freeze), proved quite popular. The Yorkshire Observer wrote of him: “Mr. White is a master of the breathless pace which whirls a reader along w ...
Arthur Leo Zagat was one of the most versatile pulp writers in the 1930s-1950s, the author of more than 500 short stories in many different genres. His work appeared in most of the top science fiction, mystery, and adventures magazines, including Astounding Stories, Planet Stories, Weird Tales, Thrilling Wonder Stories, Argosy, and many, many more. Wildside Press is preparing multiple volumes assembling his classic fiction, and we are pleased to ...
Survival to Jonnath Gri was merely a word droning incessantly in the ancient rites from mother Earth. His parents had been slaughtered by the Star Guards; his fiancee had been abducted; and now Jonath would be forced to fight in the blood-soaked arena for the amusement of the citizens of the Ten Star Complex. Weaponless and naked, he would battle the most treacherous and deadly animals found on 50 worlds…and the most advanced weaponry ever devel ...
It was an alien world of infinite peace…or was it? <P> He awoke as from some misty, prolonged, vaguely disturbing dream, yet somehow he knew that what had happened and what was happening had a strange reality. It was not the kind of reality his disciplined mind would have accepted in the past, though his consciousness rejected the concept of present and past. This reality seemed to exist outside thought and apart from emotion. <P> ...
Benjy Tyler…idiot mind in a beautiful body. Jailyn Rose…one very rich, and very clever, woman. Joe Winslow, multi-wave expert – caretaker and attendant on Asteroid 770. Whether they know it or not, these three are linked – and in a way no humans have ever been before. Only time will tell whether the link destroys them… ...
Dr. Wayne Durk lived through two miracles. The first was a rescue from space after his craft had been wrecked by a stray meteorite. The second miracle brought him up against a second «Wayne Durk» who had completely taken over his laboratory, his beloved wife, and his family. And, in the meantime, the dread menace of «The Bug» moved in on Earth, threatening the total destruction of all… <P> A thrilling science fiction adventure by the aut ...
In an authoritarian dystopia controlled by scientists, eugenics laws control breeding....and the brains of the dead are reactivated to run machinery! <p> A thrilling science fiction novel by the author of NIGHT OF THE SAUCERS and SECRET OF THE RED SPOT. ...
