Science Fiction

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The Pirate Planet (1930) by Charles Willard Diffin (1884-1966) was a four part serialized novel in Astounding Stories of Super Science. This classic science fiction novel pits telepathic Venusians and their lust to conquer Earth against the indomitable courage and willpower of the U.S. Army Air Corps.

Children of the Sun – Two Captain Future Novelets by Edmond Hamilton
These two stories by Edmond Hamilton (1904-1977), The Harpers of Titan and Children of the Sun are a particularly beautiful and haunting rumination about the nature of death, life, and eternal life.

The Solar Invasion – Captain Future, Joan Randall and the Futuremen cruise to a strange world in a different dimension, peopled with weird pallid inhabitants on the quest to find the Moon which was mysteriously plucked from the sky!

One of the early great space opera novels, Brigands of the Moon by Ray Cummings (1887-1957) was serialized in four parts in Astounding Stories of Super Science in its March through June 1930 issues. Gregg Haljan, Third Officer of the Planetara, must fight Martian pirates and Earth traitors to protect the precious radium ore found on the Moon from being hijacked.

These are the original Buck Rogers novels. Caught in a mining accident in 1927, Anthony “Tony” (Buck) Rogers fell into a state of suspended animation and only came back to consciousness 492 years later. He awakens in a world where Americans are mere back woods gangs “not worth the trouble of subduing” by the ruling Han Airlords. And so the stage is set for the “Second War of Independence.”

The Chessboard of Mars and Other Stories by Eando Binder
Three stories from Pulp Fiction Master Eando Binder: The Ring Bonanza (1947), Teacher From Mars (1941), The Chessboard of Mars (1937)

The Stars, My Brothers – This classic Science Fiction novella by Edmond Hamilton (1904-1977) from 1962 explores what it means to be human when the reptilian rulers of the planet are more humane than humans themselves.

Outlaw World – On the trail of malevolent space pirates, Captain Future (Curt Newton) and the Futuremen combat the evil machinations of the Uranian Ru Ghur, who plans the total destruction of the Universe!

The Scourge Below and Other Stories by Sam Merwin Jr.
Four science fiction stories by Samuel Merwin Jr. (1910-1996)

The Shadows and Other Stories by Leigh Brackett
The Shadows (1952), Quest of the Starhope (1949), RUNAWAY (1954)

Son of the Stars – four stories of space and time by Eando Binder.
Son of the Stars (1940) , A Comet Passes (1937), Static (1936), And Return (1941)