City at World's End

Author	H. Beam Piper
ISBN	0843959118

The chartered Zarathustra Company had it all their way. Their charter was for a Class III uninhabited planet, which Zarathustra was, and it meant they owned the planet lock stock and barrel. They exploited it, developed it and reaped the huge profits from it without interference from the Colonial Government....

Author	Philip José Farmer
ISBN	0517098733

So I recently picked up some oldies: Farmer, Pohl, Norman, and this one I picked up rather curious by the cover. Now the only other thing I've ever read by Farmer was Venus on the Halfshell, you know, the one "supposedly" written by Kilgore Trout, and I had like that book, so why not? It seemed like a good gamble,...

Author	John W. Campbell Jr.
ISBN	1557429316

THREE AGAINST THE STARS! A sky pirate armed with superior weapons of his own invention...

First contact with an alien race dangerous enough to threaten the safety of two planets...

The arrival of an unseen dark sun whose attendant marauders aimed at the very end of civilization in...

Author

Frederik Pohl

"The Tunnel under the World" was first published in 1954 in Galaxy magazine. On the morning of June 15th, Guy Burckhardt woke up screaming out of a dream. It was more real than any dream he had ever had in his life. He could still hear and feel the sharp, ripping-metal explosion, the violent heave that had...

Author

Philip K. Dick

He knew what she was thinking. Once in the very first weeks of the war, before everyone had been evacuated from the surface, they had seen a hospital train discharging the wounded, people who had been showered with sleet. He remembered the way they had looked, the expression on their faces, or as much of...