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A pilot risks a solo flight to Mars, where a hidden survivor and a silent alien intelligence reveal why Earth’s missions never came home.
A stranded fugitive boards a living spaceship and begins planning how to make its extraordinary power his own.
Telepath Underhill and his feline Partner, Lady May, must destroy an alien predator in the milliseconds between jumps through interstellar space.
Two newly immortal spirits cross the stars while one explains how every word and action continues to shape the universe.
A new star grows brighter each night, and one mathematician realizes that its path will bring catastrophe to Earth.
A man awaiting surgery confronts death, consciousness, and the scale of the universe while his doctors work.
A hungry starship crew buys a hulking Martian animal, then learns its mind may be more civilized than their own.
A dying professor lends his brain to an experimental warship, and the machine begins making decisions its creators never authorized.
Three Terran agents flee Mars with a stolen city hidden among office supplies, but one fellow passenger asks too many questions.
Explorers land on a dead planet and discover that one weapon has outlived the civilization it was built to defend.
After a Mars-based spiritual grifter strands a group of elderly women, their leader decides they will take the promised journey anyway.
A terrified Mars-bound crewman is given a mental refuge so convincing that his childhood memories become the only world he can see.
An aging, disgraced navigator claims he can guide a vital supply ship through an asteroid belt after its computers fail.
A grieving morgue-ship attendant recovers a scientist who has floated frozen through space for three centuries—and may hold the key to a war.
A burned-out coroner on a space morgue ship gets one last chance to confront the war whose dead he has carried for a decade.
A Venus-bound rocket crew blunders into battle in a delirious send-up of space-adventure pulp.
A freighter’s failed engine sends three incompatible crewmen out of the solar system with no ordinary route home.
A crew guarding Earth against telepathic invaders waits for a detector to reveal the first compromised mind.
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