Fiction

Intelligence is a great help in the evolution-by-survival—but intelligence without muscle is even less useful than muscle without brains.

Dead Man's Planet is presented here in a high quality paperback edition.

I am the last of my type existing today in all the Solar System. I, too, am the last existing who, in memory, sees the struggle for this System, and in memory I am still close to the Center of Rulers, for mine was the ruling type then.

The Ethical Way is presented here in a high quality paperback edition.

General Webb had a simply magnificent idea for getting ground forces into the enemy's territory despite rockets and missiles and things like that. It was a grand scheme, except for one Minor Detail.

These twelve stories are told by the old soldiers of the Runagates Club as they reminisce. Richard Hanny, hero of ‘The Thirty-nine Steps’, reappears recounting a trek into the bush in ‘The Green Wildebeest’.

“The Magic Walking Stick” is a fantastical children's story about a pair of magical walking sticks; one that will cease to function if it is used for any practical purpose, and another that will cease to function if it isn't.

John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, GCMG, GCVO, CH, PC , was a Scottish novelist, best known for his novel The Thirty-Nine Steps, and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada.

The Devil he sang, the Devil he playedHigh and fast and free.And this was ever the song he made,As it was told to me.Oh, I am the king of the air and the ground,And lord of the seasons' roll,And I will give you a hundred pound,If you will give me your soul!The Ballad of Grey WeatherThe cattle market of Inverforth is, as all men know north of the Tweed, the greatest market of the kind in the land.

Vernon Milbourne, orphaned since childhood and haunted by a recurring dream, is friends with the protective lawyer and MP Sir Edward Leithen.

The creatures on the little planet were real bafflers.

Attrition is presented here in a high quality paperback edition.

The prison's warden -- Halloran -- smiled slightly. "You expect to have criminals on Mars, then?" he asked. "Is that why you want me?"

The twenty-nine of us were E.T.I. Team 17, whose assignment was the asteroids. We were four years and three months out of Terra, and we'd reached Vesta right on schedule. Ten minutes after landing, we had known that the clod was part of the crust of Planet X -- or Sorn, to give it its right name -- one of the few such parts that hadn't been blown clean out of the Solar System.

This anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks.

Rough Translation is presented here in a high quality paperback edition.