space pirates

The Five Gold Bands – A galactic treasure hunt for the most important and highly guarded secret of all: the secret of the Star Drive.

Darkside – From Mercury to Ganymede, life wants to survive. In whatever form it takes, in whatever form it is made in, human, alien, demi-god, android, life wants to survive. Five stories of some of the life-forms in Leigh Brackett’s universe.

X-87 – Five stories by Ray Cummings from the early 1940s. These science fiction stories reflect the shock and fear of the reality of the early years of World War II.

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.

The Solar Invasion by Manly Wade Wellman
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! This full length Captain Future novel by Manly Wade Wellman (1903-1986) is from 1946.

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.

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!