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Hugo Award Finalist Author!

Here's a lost, novel-length pulp classic out of print over 60 years. Lin Carter, engineer engaged in top-secret research, was shaving when he heard the knock at his apartment door. It could mean an interruption that would make him late for work, he feared—and his fears were realized with a vengeance as a beautiful woman—out-of-this-world beautiful!—pushed the door open before he could reach it.

Carter's apartment door was the first of many doors she would open for him in the rapid succession of incredible adventures taking Carter through the dangers and breathtaking wonders of realms undreamed of by science, yet described with amazing accuracy by works that were supposed to be pure fiction! Worlds within worlds, through door after door, as his love for this woman drew him on.

But the last door of all was already open and through it was coming the living cold of outer space, on invisible wings. To close that door Lin had to close his heart against his love in a solemn pact with a woman of another world who held, for one awful moment, the power to doom all mankind...but was willing to bargain it for Carter's soul.

An innovative thinker, Rog Phillips was nominated for the 1959 Hugo Award for Best Novelette for his story, "Rat in the Skull." His specialty was mind-stretching tales of the "thought-variant" type. These were stories intentionally constructed to give their readers conceptual breakthroughs, to awaken new ways of seeing and thinking about the universe  that mentally shifted them from an old, conventional paradigm to a dazzling new one. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction hailed Phillips' work as "ingenious exercises in paradoxes of perception."

With an Introduction about the author and his inspiration for this book. Never reprinted before.

"Rewrites the meaning of evil. A chilling read, it will have readers screaming for more."—Shelley Russell Nolan, author of Freak.

The grisly discovery of the body of an angelic child, washed up on the beach one hundred years after the great Galveston storm of 1900, involves a pair of ghost hunters and District Attorney Callie Geisler in a terrifying struggle for survival.

When an elderly woman is found dead in her home, baffled police enlist the D.A., not realizing the dangers she will face. The ghost hunters, on the trail of a demonic presence, discover it has a strange attraction to the D.A.—forcing them into an alliance and plunging them into a world of unholy horror that links past with present.

Tracking the origin of the entity, they find the trail starts in nineteenth century New Orleans and leads to Galveston at the dawn of the twentieth. Together, D.A. and ghost hunters must free themselves of the evil presence before they become the next victims of The Angel Baby.

Michael Swanson is the author of over one dozen books including Farlight and Evil Heights. He is always at work on his next book.

His Discovery Shed Farlight on History's Greatest Secrets!

What really happened to JFK? Did Roosevelt know about Pearl Harbor in advance? Does Iran have a nuclear weapon? When scientist Lesli Quisp finds a way to intercept light from earth far out in space, he inadvertently discovers a way of using this "farlight" to see the past. The secret of farlight enables its possessor to penetrate the mists and learn the truth surrounding many of recent history's most controversial historical events.

Reality proves to be stranger than fiction, however, and the events Quisp sees prove to be far different from the official version. But when he teams up with Marion Fish, a psychologist and an expert in nonverbal communication, romance blooms—and so does government interest.

Using Farlight to search for lost treasures, Quisp and Fish become too successful too fast. Soon the FBI is on their trail and after the secret of their success. The pair realize what a tool for oppression farlight could become, and that the government will stop at nothing to get it from them. Fleeing the feds, they finally discover that the only thing that can save them from the danger farlight has created—is farlight itself.

Here is an original and thought-provoking novel that test readers at the Del Rey Writer's Workshop hailed as "Vividly voyeuristic." Reading Farlight is the closest thing to being on scene for history's greatest mysteries!

"Fast-paced, attention-grabbing, intriguing characters!"

That's how Ayden Delacroix, writing for In the Library Reviews, describes the work of Jac Eddins. She also calls Eddins' books, "Alive, vibrant and full of surprises."

Jason is the first book of an enthralling new fantasy series with science fictional overtones. Jason, a soldier, and Arthur, a minstrel, are impressed into service by the Guardian, Lord of Druids and Magicians. The Guardian has discovered that an impending wedding will lead to a devastating war. So, he sends Jason and Arthur to prevent the planned nuptials.

It's a doomed match anyway; the high-born bride, Reina, is an amazon, and the groom a scheming Duke, a tool in the hands of a near-immortal black magician. When Arthur falls for Reina, he and Jason devise a scheme to make it appear Reina has been compromised. Soon the Duke has rejected her and, due to misunderstanding between the temperamental minstrel and strong-willed amazon, Reina is married to Jason.

When the evil sorcerer discovers the trick, he sends the Duke to kill Jason and Arthur and to capture Reina. While Rena and Arthur bicker, the three desperately attempt to defend their own lives against the Duke and his men. The sorcerer looses a plague on Reina's country, and Jason takes her to a druid stronghold to protect her, while Arthur goes in search of the one plant that will provide a cure.

Will Jason tame the willful amazon or vice-versa? With the Duke's army between him and success, how can Arthur possibly get the cure back in time? And will Jason and Reina make their sham wedding a reality, or will Reina still hold to her love for Arthur? And just why does the sorcerer want Reina so badly anyway? The story continues in The Minstrel's Song Book II: Arthur.

Cover: Matthew Kammert

Never-Reprinted Short Novels by the #1 Bestselling SF Author!

Golden age pulpster Stuart J. Byrne's magnum opus, Star Quest, was a number one science fiction eBook bestseller, and the first ever collection of his never-reprinted stories from the 1950s pulps, Music of the Spheres, was the number two bestselling sf eBook for weeks. Now comes this last pair of his unreprinted shorter works, two "book-length" novels (we call them novellas today) from the pages of Other Worlds and Imagination.

"Children of the Chronotron" tells the gripping story of the reactions of a cross-section of humanity snatched from their familiar environment and hurled a million years into the future. The story was a huge hit with readers. Jonathon Gossage wrote that "the author got hold of a really good idea and did it justice." Don Wilson said the story "held me until the end, a rare thing." And the soon to be world famous agent Henry Morrison, still a young fan, hailed it as "good adventure, science fiction, not space opera. It's tops."

Then, in "The Ultimate Death," Byrne tackles a trio of subjects revolutionary for the sf of its time and still controversial today: religion, faith, and the role of science. As usual with Byrne's work, it's a thought-provoking story you won't soon forget.

Find out why the young Harlan Ellison called Stuart J. Byrne's work "terrific!"

The first ever collection of science fiction and fantasy from the widely published author. Greco writes of this dazzling assemblage of tales: "Considering the many subgenres of science fiction, I have attempted to keep this collection focused on stories of a more 'out there' nature. Even when the action takes place on Earth, aliens (either in body or concept) are responsible for or involved with the action to such a degree they're be no story without them. A few are light-hearted (at least I hope you'll think so), some a tad bit darker and there are those time travel ones (did I mention those?) but I hope you will be entertained by them all. Enjoy this short little batch of stories, some far out and some within."

Includes:
Blue Bass Guitar Blues
An Unexpected Visitor in the Mirror
The Very Last Reaction of the Positive Negative Man
The Body of...
The Seam
The Humming Place
Bombastic Christ
A Matter of Waiting
Universal Appeal
To Look but Not to See
The 'C' Factor
and others!

Romantic Science-Fantasy as She Follows Her Love Beneath the Sea...

Gina Taylor, who scouts tropical getaways for the rich and famous, goes for a swim on a tropical island and is caught in a riptide. She fears she's lost when a powerful swimmer manages to reach her in time and save her.

She discovers the swimmer is the friend of a dark-eyed admirer she has just met, a man named Dano. On shaking hands with her savior she notes the blue of his complexion and fears he has a breathing problem. He and Dano try to pass off this strange skin tone as a genetic anomaly and distract Gina from further questions by telling her they're officers on a historic sailing ship, inviting her to lunch aboard.

Lunch, however, brings further discoveries. After briefly losing consciousness, Gina wakens to discover that Dano and his friend are two of several aliens who have been living in secret undersea domes for centuries—along with thousands of humans they saved at sea and their descendants. Soon Gina finds herself involved in politics and revolution and romance in the amazing world beneath the sea, as she falls in love with Dano. But is the handsome alien all appears to be? Who is behind the attempts to kill her, or a plot to lead the Aquans to conquest of the surface world? When the time comes, will Gina have the courage to take the desperate chance that will save her friends among the Aquans—and her own world?

Here is a novel that will thrill romance and fantasy lovers alike. Ayden Delacroix, writing for In the Library Reviews, hails the romances of Jac Eddins as "Fast paced and attention-grabbing, changed my thoughts on [this type of] Romance. The characters weren't flat or predictable, they were alive, vibrant and full of surprises—detailed descriptions and intriguing secondary characters."

Three Classic Science Fiction Greats in One eBook!

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, The Mysterious Island, From the Earth to the Moon in one ebook—for one low price. Here are three legendary science fiction novels by the father of futuristic prediction, Jules Verne.

Twenty Thousand Leagues tells of the Nautilus, the first submarine, helmed by Nemo, a vengeful scientist who hates war and munitions manufacturers. The Mysterious Island brings a group of castaways face to face with a dying Nemo. From the Earth to the Moon combines tongue-in-cheek humor with hard scientific thinking (for the era) in describing the first flight to Luna.

All three books complete and unabridged—over 2,000 pages in hardcover.

Cover: Frank R. Paul circa 1929

Discover why, when the Science Fiction Writers of America voted for the best science fiction short stories of all time, "A Martian Odyssey" came in second!

The field's best writers, past and present, sing his praises. "Incomparable science fiction," said E.E. Smith, Ph.D. "His original treatment of aliens, his emphasis on psychology, philosophy, maturity in the handling of men-women relationships, versatility and craftsmanship have become the fundamental ingredient in modern science fiction," declared Sam Moskowitz. According to H. P. Lovecraft, he possessed the "imagination to envisage wholly alien situations and psychologies and entities, to devise consistent events from wholly alien motives … a light touch—and genuine suspense…"  And even Isaac Asimov described Weinbaum's effect on the sf world with awe: "Hidden in this obscure magazine, A Martian Odyssey had the effect on the field of an exploding grenade. With this single story, Weinbaum was instantly recognized as the world's best living science fiction writer, and at once almost every writer in the field tried to imitate him."

Discover Weinbaum for yourself in this unique collection of six novelettes and a short novel that showcase his talents at their finest. Included are such masterworks as "A Martian Odyssey," "The Valley of Dreams," "Tidal Moon," "Pygmalion's Spectacles," "Circle of Zero," and "The Dictator's Sister."

With introduction by Jean Marie Stine.

What price his status as a superman if there was no place in the world for the woman he loved?

At 3:10 A.M. the clocks stopped and the calendars became meaningless. The record of man's days on earth came simply and finally to an end... At what would have been 3:10:01, the record of a new time, a new earth, a new man, began. His name: MAGNANTHROPUS!

After the Earth he knew disappeared one night, Jeff Jarvis found himself in a new world of carnal butterfly people and six-legged creatures with triple-jointed limbs. Then a voice in his head told him to go west and find a man named Eamus Brock. When Jeff, after many experiences, finally found Brock, the man told him the following story: "In the beginning, Man had been born of beast because of a slight shift in genes. More recently, a similar shift had occurred—and a new race had been borne of Mankind, the race of Magnanthropus! The new race differed from homo sapiens only in relative mental ability. Man's brain from the beginning had been capable of reasoning, imagining, and creating. Mags could read minds, broadcast their thoughts, and even teleport. Man's swansong had been inexorably begun."

Jeff's first thought was of Jo. She was not a Mag. She had not demonstrated telepathic ability. What price his status as a superman if there was no place in the world for the woman he loved?

From the Hugo Award nominee author of The Scarlet Saint.