The story of the fellow who had seen the columns of light might have been believed if he had stuck to his first yarn of seeing but one. But when he mentioned five ... well, he didn't have any too good a reputation for veracity and wasn't regarded as being overly bright. Besides, he had stated that the thickness of the columns of light seemed to be the same from the ground as far as his eyes could follow them upward. Everybody knew that a searchlight's beams spread out a bit. Had they only paid more attention to his story, and those of the others. Now it was too late as structures rose into...

Lee and Ellen brave the horrors of Barter's own laboratory in a tash attempt to crush the omnipotent scientist The Mind Master is a sequel to the science fiction novel Manape the Mighty. Three months after the events in Africa, Lee Bentley and Ellen Estabrook are back in New York - so is Professor Barter, who is not dead, but is very much alive and equipped with heat and disintegrator rays, a far viewer, and brain implants that permit long-distance hypnotic control.

The Anthology of Sci-Fi V8 is a collection of five si-fi stories from some of the most prolific writers of the past century. Included are: Monsters of Moyen by Arthur J. Burks, The World Behind the Moon by Paul Ernst, Phantoms of Realityby Ray Cummings, Vortex Blaster by Edward E. Smith, The World Beyond by Ray Cummings.

Despite the fact that for centuries the Secret of Life had been the possession of children of men, the Earth was dying. She was dying because the warmth of the sun was fading; because, with the obliteration of the oceans in order to find new land upon which men might live, her seasons had become stormy, unbearably cold and dreary: and the very fact of her knowledge of the Secret of Life, in which men numbered their ages by centuries instead of by years, was her undoing.
Out of her orbit sped the teeming Earth--a marauding planet bent on starry conquest.
The earth-strange paradox-was dying...

Arthur J. Burks, one of the great science-fiction authors, paints a vast canvas, creating a lurid, thrilling vision of the devastation and rebirth of the earth's greatest nation A science fiction epic reprinted with its amazing sequel for the first time In "Survival," David Haslup leads his people in flight from an invading army - deep into the bowels of the earth, carving out an interior world of supermen and super-science Centuries later, in "Exodus," David Haslup's descendant, 39 generations later, leads his people in battle to reclaim the surface world -- a world their generation has...