The Terror Out of Space

The captain was a broad-bodied, heavy-shouldered man with the veined red nose and cheeks of a heavy drinker. The cold-eyed way he looked at Boone, low-lidded, told how he felt.

As for Eileen ... Boone wondered. She had said not a word about their earlier trouble--his desperation-born effort to keep her from making the Titan run; its sudden reversal and...

It was a wondrous world. He walked in halls of polished marble and looked out through colonnades across a bright blue sea. Gentle breezes carried flowers' perfumes to him. Wine...

Boone waited till the guard had left the cell-block to let in the group scheduled to conduct the preliminary inquiry. Then, with one last look out across the darkening ramp to w...

Boone died a thousand times in that one moment. Then, shouting a warning to the four remaining crewmen, he caught up an axe from the rack of emergency equipment and crept toward...

He saw the light-shafts first--two glowing cones of color that speared down from a single halo-source high in this vastest of all the bubble-chambers. The beam on the left shone...