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Inferno!

Inferno!

In the year 2150 A.D. immortal Atlanteans living underground on the planet Saturn help a stranded astronaut and his girl friend overthrow the ruthless Earth…

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The Micro Men

The Micro Men

An intense human quietness was upon the laboratory. Annexed though it was to the rambling reaches of the Research Council Building, wherein experimental analyses from…

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Wanderer of Space

Wanderer of Space

John Russell Fearn writing as Vargo Statten. An SF variant of Alexandre Dumas's The Man in the Iron Mask.

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Inferno!

Inferno!

In the year 2150 A.D. immortal Atlanteans living underground on the planet Saturn help a stranded astronaut and his girl friend overthrow the ruthless Earth…

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The Cosmic Flame

The Cosmic Flame

Another classic tale from British SF pulp author John Russel Fearn, here writing as Vargo Statten. Originally published in 1950.

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The Sun Makers

The Sun Makers

A dangerous experiment in physics to create a sun in miniature results in a strange invasion from the fourth dimension.

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The Petrified Planet

The Petrified Planet

A super computer asked to answer the question "what is time?" freezes Earth and everything on it in a single moment in time.

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Born of Luna

Born of Luna

A deadly meteor swarm approaching the Earth activates ancient Lunar technology buried beneath Earth's surface that results in the birth of Raquilo, the last Selenite,…

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The Renegade Star

The Renegade Star

When the Solar System is doomed to absolute destruction by the close passage of a renegade star, super scientist Evelyn Stokes is Earth's only chance…

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The Catalyst (Vargo Statten)

The Catalyst (Vargo Statten)

The planet Mercury. Forty million miles from the Sun, following his eccentric orbit, one side of him solid with the frost of untold cycles of…

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The Eclipse Express

The Eclipse Express

Herbert Broadbent - 'Bart' to his colleagues of the Astronomical Photographic Division - frowned at the cryptic official radio message which had just been sent…

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The Last Martian

The Last Martian

Originally published in 1952, John Russell Fearn writes another classic pulp SF novel as Vargo Statten.

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Man of Two Worlds

Man of Two Worlds

What happened to Walter Cardish, epicenter of a freak storm in the Lake District? The source of the strange lightning that struck him was a…

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The Lie Destroyer

The Lie Destroyer

Did it ever occur to you what might happen if you found yourself compelled to tell the truth for the rest of your life, because…

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The Grand Illusion

The Grand Illusion

Dudley Carnforth, gifted beyond the average with the 'gift of the gab', and also a 'jack-of-all-trades' scientific and master of none, decides that the time…

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Wealth of the Void

Wealth of the Void

That a planetoid of solid gold might exist in the Solar System is not beyond scientific possibility, insofar that our own Earth is basic nickel-iron,…

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Pioneer 1990

Pioneer 1990

From the ether came mysterious messages announcing that a hitherto unknown Englishman had conquered space, flown to Venus, and is now on his way back…

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Cataclysm

Cataclysm

Troubled Martin Clegg has always suffered from dreams which seem intensely real. In them, bizarrely, he's another person not of this Earth! He's finally forced…

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Earth 2

Earth 2

Into a world armed to the teeth there suddenly comes a strange gospel of disarmament. Briefed to investigate the intrigue is Sidney Boyd of MI5,…

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2000 Years On

2000 Years On

Jeremy Clyde is a young scientist who discovers that Time is a circle, and that deep within the human brain is a memory 'hangover' of…

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The Avenging Martian

The Avenging Martian

A cosmic atrocity of the ancient past-the murder of the planet Mars by Venusian super-scientists who strip the planet of its air and water, leaving…

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Deadline to Pluto

Deadline to Pluto

The remains of an exploded radio-active planet reach the outer solar system in the course of their plunge across interstellar space. A massive fragment crashes…

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The Devouring Fire

The Devouring Fire

The advent of space travel with a prototype spaceship using atomic propulsion ignites the Earth's upper atmosphere, causing hot invisible gases to sweep down and…

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The New Satellite

The New Satellite

The mysterious disintegration of the planet Mercury presaged mutational changes in the solar system. Next, the Moon followed Mercury into oblivion, bombarding Earth with giant…

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Inner Cosmos

Inner Cosmos

Another story novelized from the pages of Astounding Stories, telling of the experiments of an alien race who have migrated to the solar system to…

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Laughter in Space

Laughter in Space

Dr. Cranley is sentenced to exile in space for murdering a rival scientist, and swears revenge... Later, across the world people suddenly start behaving like…

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Worlds To Conquer

Worlds To Conquer

Claire Escott had ignored her father's warning against involvement with her fiancé Mark Rowland. However, she little realised the extent of the scientist's corroding ambition…

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Decreation

Decreation

When Dr. Mark Haslam encounters Esau Jones, he's astonished to learn that Jones can perform apparent miracles. But despite his amazing gift of complete mastery…

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To The Ultimate

To The Ultimate

The universe a creation of thought, a series of mathematical equations being worked out against a background of figurative abstract ether! Three men set out…

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Ultra Spectrum

Ultra Spectrum

Under the cover of darkness and a violent storm, electrical engineer Sidney Cassell thought he'd committed the perfect murder. But immediately after pushing his rival…

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Black-Wing of Mars

Black-Wing of Mars

Max Harborn and his wife Eva, the first space explorers to visit Mars, discover an almost dead world of endless deserts. Lifeless, that is, except…

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The Interloper

The Interloper

Warfare between Earth, Venus and Mars is brewing, their hates being fanned by the sinister intrigues of a power-drunk armament baron, Chester Candris. Candrris is…

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Black Bargain

Black Bargain

Earth is enveloped in what seems at first to be to be a harmless cloud of cosmic dust. But it leaves behind a deadly disease,…

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A Time Appointed

A Time Appointed

On her maiden voyage to Venus, the space liner Cosmic Cloud encounters a mysterious voice speaking through the void. The language is alien-but it is…

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I Spy

I Spy

Television experimenter Curtis Drew sets out to combine the X-ray with television to aid surgery. However, he discovers instead 'pure' television-invisible 'Z-rays' which have the…

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Earth 2

Earth 2

Into a world armed to the teeth there suddenly comes a strange gospel of disarmament. Briefed to investigate the intrigue is Sidney Boyd of MI5,…

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Man in Duplicate

Man in Duplicate

Playboy millionaire Harvey Bradman is set an ultimatum by his fiancée: before she marries him, he must carry out some significant, courageous act. Amazingly, the…

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The Black Avengers

The Black Avengers

Dayton Raslor, owner by inheritance of a successful spaceship corporation, is imprisoned in a penal colony on Jupiter for a crime he didn't commit. He…

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Odyssey of Nine

Odyssey of Nine

Ward Jackson and his wife make an incredible spaceship journey, exploring every planet in the solar system from Mercury to Pluto, in an attempt to…

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