The Big Blow-up left huge radioactive sores (the graves of cities) all over the face of the Earth. In time, from some of the women who had been near these shunned areas, the first totally hairless babies began to be born. Their difference was not at first noticeable. But eventually, they became known as "Baldies," with another new and terrifying difference: the Baldies were telepathic! From then on they were hated by normal humans, and sometimes hunted like animals. These five stories are the saga of their struggle for survival and their desperate search to find a safe means to give the power of telepathy to humans, so both kinds might live peacefully side-by-side. NOTE: The original Gnome press version lists Lewis Padgett as the author which is the pen-name for the writing team of C. L. Moore and Henry Kuttner. Contents: The Piper's Son (1945) Three Blind Mice (1945) The Lion and the Unicorn (1945) Beggars in Velvet (1945) Humpty Dumpty (1953)

"Four humans from the Twentieth Century are hurled forward a billion years in time by a being from an alien galaxy. They have been brought to a dying Earth--to Carcasilla, Earth's last citadel--where the mutated remnants of humanity are making their final stand against the monstrous creations of a fading world.Thrust in the middle of this desperate struggle for survival, the last humans search for a way to break the deadlock in the Armageddon at the end of time....Earth's Last Citadel"-- Back cover.

Earth's second satellite harbors the secret of the eternal quest. Stephen Court welds the scientific forces of today with the wizadry from time's dawn!

Contents: Raider of the Spaceways (Weird Tales, Jul 37) Avengers of Space (Marvel Science Stories, Aug 38) The Time-Trap (Marvel Science Stories, Nov 38) The Lifestone (Astonishing Stories, Feb 40) Monsters of the Atom (Super-Detective, Apr 41) Red Gem of Mercury (Super Science Stories, Nov 41) The Crystal Circe (Astonishing Stories, Jun 42) War-Gods of the Void (Planet Stories, Fll 42) Thunder in the Void (Astonishing Stories, Oct 42) We Guard the Black Planet (Super Science Stories, Nov 42) Soldiers of Space (Astonishing Stories, Feb 43) Crypt-City of the Deathless One (Planet Stories, Win 43) The Eyes of Thar (Planet Stories, Fll 43) What Hath Me (Planet Stories, Spr 46) Carry Me Home (Planet Stories, 50) The Interplanetary Limited (First Time in Print)

Far beneath the turbulent seas of Venus lived all that remained of humanity. Earth was gone -- a fast-fading atomic noval in the evening sky. But can Reed's daring plan to colonize the surface of Venus possibly work.? Originally published as "Fury."

The Time Axis by Henry Kuttner Called to the end of time by a being known as The Face of Ea, four adventurers face a power that not even the science of that era could meet -- the nekron, negative matter, negative force, ultimate desctruction for everything it touched! We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

"[A] pomegranate writer: popping with seeds--full of ideas." --Ray Bradbury We are all part of some cosmic pattern, and this pattern works toward good and not evil. It builds and does not destroy. So I shall go on in my search for a race where I can find kinship and happiness." ―Henry Kuttner COSMIC TERROR STRIKES AS A MESSENGER OF DEATH SWEEPS THROUGH THE UNIVERSE. Like a great, lethal snake, plague creeps through the galaxies. No conscious entity can halt its progress, and life is slowly draining from planet after planet. Only one super-intelligence is capable of preventing cataclysm. To do it, he must penetrate far beyond infinity - to the formless, deathless creatures out to kill the universe.

Clifford Sawyer, investigating ghosts in a mine, finds ancient beings from another world -- and gets swept up in a titanic struggle for control of a parallel dimension. Henry Kuttner (1915-1958) was known for his literary prose and worked in close collaboration with his wife, C. L. Moore. They met through their association with the "Lovecraft Circle," a group of writers and fans who corresponded with H. P. Lovecraft. Their work together spanned the 1940s and 1950s, mostly published under pseudonyms such as Lewis Padgett and Lawrence O'Donnell.