The Grunder, a thing of horror which, if defeated, restores love... The Noise-Eater, created by a child out of his fevered imagination, gobbles up anything--or anyone--that makes a sound... The Coveti, residents of an alien world poisoned by the intrusion of the stranger from Earth... The Beast Hill, an ordinary mound of earth, except that its grass resembles fur, and--doesn't it move?

    The Stars My Destination is a classic of technological prophecy and timeless narrative enchantment by an acknowledged master of science fiction.

    For millennia its protective dome shut out the creeping decay and danger of the world outside. Once, it held powers that rule the stars.But then, as legend has it, the invaders came, driving humanity into this last refuge. It takes one man, a Unique, to break through Diaspar's stifling inertia, to smash the legend and discover the true nature of the Invaders.

    Then, with wild success just within reach, Dan's greedy partner and even greedier fiancée steal his work and leave him penniless, and trick him into taking the long sleep—suspended animation for thirty years.

    It was later collected in Earth Is Room Enough (1957) and The Best of Isaac Asimov (1973), and adapted into an episode of the science-fiction television series Out of the Unknown. Its pattern is that of dystopian fiction, but of a subtly nuanced flavour. It is considered by some people to be one of his best short stories

    She tells them her father will pick her up after nightfall in a certain forest glade, and the children decide to help her.But their troubles start when none of the grown-ups will believe Mo's story. Mo runs away, the children after her, to spend a bewildering day learning about the funny and sometimes frightening ways of Earth's inhabitants.

    It has since been in print for 50 years in paperback, and now returns to hardcover for a new generation. Travel to other planets is a reality, and with overpopulation stretching the resources of Earth, the necessity to find habitable worlds is growing ever more urgent. With no time to wait years for communication between slower-than-light spaceships and home, the Long Range Foundation explores an unlikely solution--human telepathy.Identical twins Tom and Pat are enlisted to be the human radios that will keep the ships in contact with Earth. The only problem is that one of them has to stay behind, and that one will grow old while the other explores the depths of space.Always a master of insight into the human consequences of future technologies, this is one of Heinlein's triumphs.

    

    J. StuartPOWER-MAD DR. MORBIUS MUST BE STOPPED BEFORE HE ENSLAVES THE WORLD!Commander Adams and the crew of Spaceship C-57-D land on Altair 4, the forbidden planet, where they hope to find the survivors of a previous expedition. But the only one they find is Dr. Morbius, a scientist with a deadly plan to take over the universe. Dr. Morbius warns the earthlings to leave at once.But Commander Adams and his crew stay—despite the terrifying attacks on their spaceship. For they know that theirs is the last chance to stop a madman from becoming Master of the Universe.ForewordONE Major (Medical) C. X. OstrowTWO Major (Medical) C. X. Ostrow (continued)THREE Commander J. J. AdamsFOUR Commander J. J. Adams (continued)FIVE Edward MorbiusSIX Major C. X. OstrowSEVEN Commander J. J. AdamsEIGHT Commander J. J. Adams (concluded)Postscript58,400 Words(Update Sep 12 2013 - Numerous typos fixed.)

    And so a "gift" is bestowed, with the best of intentions, and thus begins the adventure of "The Magic Ball From Mars." This long out-of-print classic and its sequel Starboy are sought-after gems for thousands wishing to share their childhood delight with a new generation of young readers. New readers will delight in discovering both classic stories in one volume full of the timeless sense of wonder evoked in Carl L. Biemiller's fascinating tales. For decades The Magic Ball From Mars and Starboy have been available only as hard-to-find and expensive collector's items. Sense of Wonder Press is proud to offer these fine science fiction children's classics to old friends as well as to a new generation of the young and the young at heart.

    Ackerman Human Error • novelette by Raymond F. Jones The Executioner • shortstory by Frank Riley Life Hutch • shortstory by Harlan Ellison Atom Drive • novelette by Charles L. Fontenay Chrome Pastures • novelette by Robert F. Young Love Story • shortstory by Irving E. Cox, Jr.

    Their new world is remarkably like the earth, except that it has two moons and it intercepts rather more meteorites. The party have, between them, a great deal of modern knowledge of the useful arts and sciences, and God, for his own inscrutable reasons, has set them the task of making a wireless set - a seven-valve all-wave superhet-in one generation, starting naked from the sea. They begin by putting back the flesh and blood on some of the bare bones of archaeology. They make their first fire, catch their first rabbits with their own hair, smelt their first button of iron, and find the first wild plants for the establishment of their agriculture. And then? In the course of a wonderfully human story, told with scrupulous veracity and attention to detail, they retrace step after step of discovery and invention, all the way from flint implements to high-vacuum technology.

    L. Gold The Native Problem • novelette by Robert Sheckley Of All Possible Worlds • shortstory by William Tenn (aka It Ends with a Flicker)For Your Information: Tracking Down the "Sea Serpent" - Part I • essay by Willy Ley Rattle OK • novelette by Harry Warner, Jr. You Go • shortstory by E. C. Tubb The Stars My Destination (Part 3 of 4) • serial by Alfred Bester