7 results for "Adventure"

Fantastic Stories Present the Galaxy Science Fiction Super Pack #1

Isaac Asimov
Galaxy Science Fiction hit the scene in1950 edited by H. L. Gold and quickly became the leading science fiction magazine of its time. Galaxy gave a home to writers that didn't fit into Astounding and F&SF, and readers rejoiced. In this first Galaxy Science Fiction Super Pack we bring you more than five hundred pages of fiction. These are the stories that helped Galaxy Magazine carve it's name on the Mount Rushmore of Science Fiction. If you enjoyed this book, you'll want to search on "Positronic Publishing Super Pack" and check out all our other Super Packs! Doorstep by Keith Laumer The Chasers by Daniel F. Galouye Blueblood by Jim Harmon Bad Memory by Patrick Fahy Beach Scene by Marshall King The Reluctant Heroes by Frank M. Robinson Kreativity for Kats by Fritz Leiber Perfect Answer by L. J. Stecher Jr., Dumbwaiter by James Stamers The Ignoble Savages by Evelyn E. Smith Angel's Egg by Edgar Pangborn Survival Type by J.F. Bone Misbegotten Missionary by Isaac Asimov The Business, as Usual by Jack Sharkey No Substitutions by Jim Harmon Prime Difference by Alan E. Nourse Delay in Transit by F. L. Wallace My Lady Greensleeves by Frederik Pohl A Little Journey by Ray Bradbury Med Ship Many Murray Leinster Spoken for by William Morrison A Pail of Air by Fritz Leiber Contagion by Katherine MacLEAN Pen Pal by Milton Lesser Delayed Action by Charles Vincent De Vet ... and it Comes out Here by Lester del Rey
Wilder Publications, Incorporated 2018-04-03 522 pages

Space Science Fiction Super Pack

Philip K. Dick,Isaac Asimov,Poul Anderson
Space Science Fiction was launched in may of 1952. During it's impressive run it published many of Science Fictions top writers. Collected here in this massive six hundred plus page anthology are all of the most important stories that were published during its distinguished run. If you enjoyed this book, you'll want to search on "Positronic Publishing Super Pack" and check out all our other Super Packs! Included here are: Second Variety by Philip K. Dick Youth by Isaac Asimov To Each His Star by Bryce Walton Security by Poul Anderson Divinity by William Morrison The Hour of Battle by Robert Sheckley Instant of Decision by Randall Garrett Let 'em Breathe Space! By Lester Del Rey The Ultroom Error by Jerry Sohl Infinite Intruder by Alan E. Nourse Collectivum by Mike Lewis The Adventurer by C. M. Kornbluth Decision by Frank M. Robinson Pursuit by Lester del Rey Exile by H. B. Fyfe Stop Look and Dig by George O. Smith The Worshippers by Damon Knight The Hunters by William Morrison The Ego Machine by Henry Kuttner The Variable Man by Philip K. Dick Ullr Uprising by H. Beam Piper
Wilder Publications, Incorporated 2016-02-19 618 pages

Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids (The Lucky Starr Series)

Isaac Asimov
Reissued after seventy-five years out of print -- and in hardcover for the first time in a generation -- Lucky Starr and the Pirates of Asteroids is the second book in the Lucky Starr series written by the legendary Isaac Asimov, author of Foundation, the Galactic Empire series, and I, Robot. Twenty-five years before, Lucky Starr's parents had been destroyed during a pirate raid on the Terrestrial Empire. Now Lucky was a man, and an officer of the Council of Science. His ship was heavily armed and the pirates were at hand. The time for sweet blaster vengeance was near! Lucky Starr's Ergometrics probed space with widely stretching fingers. It detected many ships, but Lucky watched only for the one which he would recognize with certainty the instant it appeared. Nor did he fail. At a distance of twenty-million miles, the first quiverings roused his suspicions. At 100-thousand miles, his telescope showed it as a faint dot. At ten thousand, it had form and shape -- it was the flagship of Anton, the pirate chieftain! At a thousand miles, Lucky sent out his first message -- a demand that Anton return to Earth. At one hundred miles, Lucky received his reply -- a blast of energy that made his generators whine and rocked his ship as if he had collided with another. Lucky's tired face took on a drawn look. Anton's ship was heavily armed. It was not what Lucky had expected ...
Blackstone Publishing, Inc. 2026-06-09 198 pages

Youth Original and Unabridged

Isaac Asimov
"Youth", a science fiction novelette by Isaac Asimov, first appeared in 1952 and is one of the rare Asimov stories with alien characters.Slim is a boy whose astronomer father is visiting the country estate of an important industrialist. The industrialist's son, Red, has found two strange animals, and he enlists Slim in a plan to turn the animals into a circus act. The astronomer, meanwhile, tells the industrialist that he has been in contact with space aliens who want to open up their world to interstellar trade. Their world needs help, the astronomer says; for ever since the atomic wars that destroyed their old civilization, their world has been regressing. Unless something is done, their culture may face total collapse.
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2017-12-07 58 pages