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Roverton, also known as the Captain Volmar stories, are two novelettes and an unfinished fragment of the spacefarer James Roverton and his encounters with alien plants, animals, and intelligent beings. Clark Ashton Smith writes of the utter alienness of alien worlds.

In 1935, Fantasy Magazine was approaching its 3rd Anniversary and editor Julius Schwartz wanted to do something special. He conceived of the idea of a “composite story” (round-robin story) called “The Challenge from Beyond” to commemorate the event.

The Golden Amazon – Four tales of a woman who as an infant was spaceship-wrecked on Venus and was raised by Venusians. She develops a phenomenal strength that avails her when she fights evildoers around the spaceways and becomes known as The Golden Amazon.

The Menace of Mars and Other Stories is a collection of 3 novelettes by Clare Winger Harris, writer of mystical science fiction of universes within universes.

Two great early space opera novels, Brigands of the Moon (1930), and its sequel, Wandl, the Invader (1932) in which Gregg Haljan saves the world first from space pirates and then from space invaders.

In this sequel to “Brigands of the Moon”, Gregg Haljan tries to save the Earth, Mars and Venus from being destroyed by the giant brains of the planet Wandl.

The classic science fiction novel, The War of the Worlds was first serialized by Pearson’s Magazine in the UK between April and December of 1897. It is one of the earliest stories about an invasion of the Earth by extraterrestrials.

The Intelligence Gigantic – With the best of intentions, three scientists come together to make an artificial man with extraordinary intelligence, to run society with efficiency and remove the petty problems people face on a daily basis. However, this artificial man has no soul.

Venhez is a pair of novelettes by Nictzin Dyalhis. Evil beings from the dark side of the Moun, able to control minds, attack Aerth. The men of Venhez must destroy them before they conquer the other inhabited worlds of the Planetary Chain.

Beyond The Aurora is a set of two short serials by Ed Earl Repp. The Captain Wollack serial includes The Invisible Raiders and Beyond The Aurora. The James Dowell serial includes The Radium Pool and The Metal World. All four of these stories are from 1929.

The Covenant – Five famous science-fiction authors pool their talents in this “round-robin” novelette that stretches man almost to the breaking point on the rack of Time and Space. Here is a rare pyrotechnic display of sf writing skills and styles.

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.