Phil Chenevert
Skylark Three (Version 2)
Book 2 of the Skylark of Space series. More pulp daring do and the clash of inconceivable vast forces across the galaxies as only Doc Smith…
Gambler's World & The Yillian Way
Here are two stores starring the always unconventional Terrestrial Diplomat, Retief. As a diplomat, Retief does not always follow procedure…
4 SF Stories by Mack Reynolds
4 Science Fiction Stories by the quirky Mack Reynolds from the golden age of SF, the 1950s - Summary by phil chenevert
The Canterville Ghost (version 2)
A modern American family move into a traditionally drafty and very haunted English mansion. So far so good but anyone knowing Wilde can expe…
Little Wizard Stories of Oz (version 2)
Six stores of OZ and it's wonderful inhabitants, told by the official Historian of Oz, L. Frank Baum. Lots of adventure here!! Dorothy and …
Pagan Passions
'Adult' Science Fiction? Well, why not? Science Fiction deals imaginatively with odd and unsettling subjects, why not sex? In this novel,…
The Variable Man (Version 2)
Philip K. Dick wrote some great Science Fiction and here is an example. Published in 1953, in Space Science Fiction, t his story explores a…
Common Sense (version 3)
Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 that inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for indepen…
A Thousand Degrees Below Zero
The War to End All Wars has ended and the world has taken a deep breath and is trying to recover normal life in 1919. But a super Villan in…
Four Science Fiction Stories by G.L.Vandenburg
G.L.Vandenburg wrote quirky and funny Science Fiction stories for Amazing Science Fiction Stories, and similar magazines in the 1950's. The…
The Call of the Wild (version 4)
The Call of the Wild is a novel by Jack London published in 1903. The story is set in the Yukon during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush—a period…
The Ambulance Made Two Trips
Big Jake Connors is taking over his town through violence, inimidation and bribery but Detective Sergeant Fitzgerald can only grind his teet…
Hellhounds of the Cosmos
From Astounding Stories of 1932. Earth is being attacked by horrible black monsters that appear from nowhere and destroy and kill everythin…
The Little Match Girl
The Little Match Girl is a poignant tale by Hans Christian Andersen that captures the essence of hope and despair through the eyes of a youn…
Queen Of The Martian Catacombs
This is the very first story with the Conan-like barbarian hero, Eric John Stark. There were more written by Brackett and all just as exciti…
The People of the Crater (Version 2)
Now that the latest world wide war has ended, Captain Garin, the hottest fighter pilot of the American force, is reduced to poverty and hung…
Voodoo Planet (Version 2)
A Free Trader space ship visits the planet Khatka where magic and Voodoo are threatening to destroy the promising civilization that has been…
The Tunnel Under The World
This famous Pohl story explores cybernetic robots and implanted personalities in a way that certainly expanded my way of looking at reality.…
The Push Of A Finger
Science fiction from the 50s by one of the masters, Alfred Bester. Society has committed itself to complete stability. Nothing is allowed …
The Call of Cthulhu
The worshipers of this ancient tentacled horror are still with us, waiting for this terrible being to awake and take vengeance again on an e…