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The Universe Wreckers – A serial novel by Edmond Hamilton about the attempt by the beings of Neptune to explode the Sun into a double star which would destroy all of the inner planets of the Solar System. Men of Earth must fight to save the Earth from utter immolation.

Early science fiction stories and collaborations by Fletcher Pratt.

Hugo Gernsback, editor of Air Wonder Stories, called Cities In The Air by Edmond Hamilton (1904-1977), “one of the most extraordinary stories that it has been our good fortune to read.” Cities In The Air was published in two parts in the November and December, 1929 issues of Air Wonder Stories.

Alibi in Red — Eight short stories of murder, robbery, fraud, kidnapping and attempted frames by David X. Manners.

The Petals of Lao-Tze – The eighth “petal”, is the final piece needed to recreate the complete golden talisman that is said to have given Lao-Tze long life, perhaps even immortality. Retrieving it from a dead man deep in the Himalayas is the easy part. Bringing it back to a wealthy benefactor is another story.

Rawhide Vengeance Six Stories by Gunnison Steele
From desiccating desert heat to bone crushing blizzard cold, the six stories in Rawhide Vengeance by Gunnison Steele tell of honor, treachery, vengeance and fate in the Old West.

The Artificial Man and Other Stories – two stories of ambitious men attempting to become more than human and three stories regarding the nature of time.

Red Harvest – The Original Poisonville Stories – Poisonville is the original set of four novelettes from 1927 and 1928 that were edited together to become the novel Red Harvest. The Continental Op is sent on assignment to a mining town in Montana to do “some business.” The man he was supposed to meet was murdered before he got to meet him.

The Last Half Mile and Other Stories – New settlers plus gamblers and outlaws make for some dangerous situations and only men who can defend themselves and their families will survive.

These ten early stories by Ray Bradbury were written between 1942 and 1944, during the height of World War II. Mostly from Weird Tales, they show Bradbury’s early interests in questions of coming of age, the power of childhood innocence, and death.