That worlds may live

A voice roared, "All clear! Lower away!" The great ship rocked and quivered as its jet rockets flared, forming a solid, cushioning pillar on which the _Spica_ lowered itself to...

Nora Powell was frankly out of her depth. It showed in her eyes, and in the petulant protrusion of her lower lip. She asked, cool gaze studying her new superior, "Would you be k...

Silence, like the brooding hush of impending doom, fell over the chamber as the significance of his words drove home. For a breathless moment all speech seemed to falter in abey...

"Gary, you mean?" Dr. Boris Anjers, having placed his opponent destructively _en prise_, leaned back in his chair. "Have patience, my boy. These things take time, you know, and...

A coldness gripped Lane's heart; his breath caught in his throat. In a moment the sentry's flashlight would dart its questing beam upon their group. Their shoddy disguise could...

In exactly three days, one hour and forty-five minutes Solar Constant time, the _Liberty_ dropped to a perfect landing in a cradle on the rocketdrome of Sun City, seat of the Ve...

And he pushed back the quartzite helmet of his bulger, exposing the whitest smile, the handsomest face, the laughingest pair of eyes, all topped by the most unruly mop of cinnam...

Flick eased himself from his chair, flexed arms and legs gingerly. "They _seem_ to be all right," he admitted cautiously. "I'll study them for defects when the goose pimples go...

Thus it was arranged. Dr. Kang Tsao and his daughter, beautiful Kang Pen-N'hi, moved kit and equipment aboard the _Liberty_ that very day. The events of the following week were...

So time sped by. And outward, ever toward the fringes of Sol's empire, flashed the _Liberty_ on her all-important mission. The sun which but a few short weeks ago had been a bla...

As in a dream, Gary Lane heard those solemn words fall from the lips of his Jovian judges. Execution! Immediate execution! This, then, was to be the end of their adventure; this...

The worst enemies make the staunchest allies. That old truism never proved itself more surely than to Gary Lane and his comrades in the ensuing days. Those same Jovians who, con...

Gary Lane's immediate reaction to these incredible words was a swift and regretful commiseration. The little man plainly did not know what he was saying. The rigors of the long...

As Borisu's hand depressed the fateful button, a sort of sick paralysis seemed to fall upon almost everyone in the control turret. It was as though all realized that a moment he...

The audio clicked off. Gary turned to his companions. "Whatever we're going to do, we've got to do fast. Now they've got wind of our scheme, we may _never_ accomplish it. And if...

"Or," chuckled O'Day, "really learn how to play a good game of tri-chess.[10] But this is no time to be talking about things like that. The first problem is: how are we going to...

A full week's time, as measured by earthly watches, had passed since the _Liberty's_ fortunate landing near the Gogean camp. In that time all the space venturers, and particular...

Standing there in the slave mart of Imperial Khundru, Gary Lane realized--as millions of his human brethren had discovered in past ages--that it is one thing to experience an em...

There is a limit to which human impassivity can be constrained. Gary Lane had now surpassed his ability to play the ignoramus. The name burst from his lips with explosive force....

"Quickly!" crisped the Martian scientist. "Pick up their guns! Daughter--" As Lark and Gary and Nora scrambled to the task of collecting the astonished Magogeans' fallen weapons...

Gary Lane shook his head. "No, Tsalnor. Someday we may return. But now our duty is to go to our own system, there tell them what we have here learned."