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The Lost Adventures of Agent of T.E.R.R.A.'s Webley, Alien Symbiote!

Before everyone's favorite, acerbic symbiote joined forces with Hannibal Fortune and T.E.R.R.A., "he" starred in three stories about the doings of Creatures, Inc.

This trio of Webley tales has never been reprinted, and since it appeared in a poorly circulated British science fiction magazine and remained virtually unknown for more than four decades. Filled with the same delightful wit as the Agent of T.E.R.R.A. novels, these early Webley outings were introduced by the British editor this way when presenting "Creatures, Inc.," the first of these stories (see the Related Products tab): "Humor in science fiction is more often that not conspicuous by its absence. It is therefore more than a pleasure to introduce a new author who presents a strong streak of satire in his first story."

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An alien shapechanger to the rescue! Take one genius alien and one befuddled Earthman, mix well and the result is hilarity. When Webley and Bill Grant hire out a rainbow-hued gaggle of aliens, they don't dream of the political firestorm the resulting orgy will set off.

Don't miss this third and final Creatures, Incorporated story, featuring the exploits of that lovable, curmudgeonly symbiote, Webley, before he joined Hannibal Fortune as an Agent of T.E.R.R.A. Another sidesplitting 1960s Larry Maddock sf classic!

"Lively fun" —Analog

To Save One World, They Had to Destroy Another!

Hannibal Fortune, archeologist turned debonair secret agent for the Temporal Energy Restructure and Repair Agency, found himself in 1500 BCE facing the worst assignment of his career: Wreck the great and beautiful civilization of Mohenjo-daro.

The tyrannical forces of EMPIRE were tampering with the timelines again, trying to alter history so that Hannibal and T.E.R.R.A. never came into existence! History showed that Mohenjo-daro had fallen to an invading horde of barbarians from the west. So the bad guys were trying to save this earliest of civilizations, while the good guys schemed to destroy it. Whether he liked it or not, Fortune had to aid the barbarians in their attack on every value he held dear.

Meanwhile, his partner, Webley, the caustic shape-changing symbiote, finds himself working with another of his kind from T.E.R.R.A., leading to a competition between the two aliens played by the strangest rules in the galaxy. Here is another delightful romp through time from the pen of the legendary SF humorist, Larry Maddock (penname of Jack Owen Jardine).

"Lively fun" —Analog

The Alien Shape-Changer and the Time-Traveling Secret Agent!

Meet Hannibal Fortune, the classic time-traveling secret agent for the Temporal Entropy Restructure and Repair Agency (T.E.R.R.A.) whose James Bondian adventures are back in print for the first time in 30 years! Aided by his sneering, superior, shape-changing, 15-pound fellow agent, Webley (an irascible alien whose comments on Earth people and their customs are incendiary), Hannibal Fortune, granted the special "License to Tamper," tries to foil the plots of Gregor Malik, who seeks to control the future by changing the past.

In The Flying Saucer Gambit, Hannibal and Webley travel from the year 2572 to Kansas in the year 1966 to investigate the death of a fellow T.E.R.R.A. Resident Agent. Soon they discover he has been killed by the sinister legions of Gregor Malik's E.M.P.I.R.E. to keep him from reporting their new secret weapon, a device that turns people into babbling lunatics. With this weapon, Malik could conquer Earth and change history—overnight!

It's up to Fortune and Webley to foil E.M.P.I.R.E. so that the timelines will remain intact and Earth unconquered. It's a tough assignment, and Gregor Malik's plans were already far advanced and well protected. But E.M.P.I.R.E. is about to find why Hannibal and his fifteen-pound playmate have been ranked the most dangerous of T.E.R.R.A. agents of all...

"Speedy time operas, creative." —The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.

Larry Maddock is the pen name under which science fiction author Jack Owen Jardine wrote the Agent of TERRA series.

"Lively fun" —Analog

To Conquer the Future, They Tried to Change the Past!

When T.E.R.R.A.'s Resident Agent in ancient Crete discovers an inscription written one thousand years before any Ancient Cretan languages came into existence, he immediately suspects time-tampering by the minions of E.M.P.I.R.E.

Webley, the sardonic fifteen-pound shape-changing symbiote, and Hannibal Fortune, both Special Agents for the Temporal Energy Restructure and Repair Agency, are sent back to investigate. What they find daunts even this dauntless pair. For, far to the west and ten thousand years before even the semi-legendary Crete arose, lies a thriving civilization ruled by an enigmatic god-king named Kronos. Here, on an Earth still young enough to be molded to whatever destiny its ruler has in mind, Kronos, whoever or whatever he is, has become the creator of a mighty race—a race poised to stamp out all future humanity by destroying the ancestors of homo sapiens!

Fortune, one of the few agents with the coveted License to Tamper, must restore Earth's history—no matter what it takes. Failure means Kronos will change the shape of things to come and shatter Earth's timeline forever!

But Webley has a suggestion or two that just might save humanity's bacon—if only he can distract the debonair Fortune from the beautiful young priestess he has just met!

Save big on the first three volumes in the spellbinding chronicles of Morgaine the Witch!

Get started on this irresistible saga of a modern witch who couldn't free herself from an ancient love. When he and Morgaine had been lovers hundreds of years earlier, Michael had sold his soul to the devil for immortality. Now that they are lovers once again, Morgaine has to outwit the master trickster by offering him the pure soul of a woman named Melody. But when Michael falls in love with Melody, Morgaine unleashes a fury on them the likes of which even hell has never seen, which threatens to shatter even the will of its King.

"A fine, original new work of dark fantasy," raves Horror Sagas.

This special ebook bundled set gives you all three of the first books in the series for only $3.99!

Never Reprinted Before, the SF Pulp Magazine Classic of a Female Space Pirate!

A huge hit with readers when it was first serialized in Amazing Stories during the early 1940s, Golden Age pulp editor and author Raymond A. Palmer's masterwork mixes romance, interplanetary conflict, space piracy, and exotic alien worlds into the unique blend that is so emblematic of the science fiction of the period.

Black World begins when John Carver of the Stellar Patrol falls for playgirl heiress Ina Malden on the luxury spaceliner Josephine, en route to the outer worlds. After Ina disembarks at Titan, the ship is attacked and looted by a mystery ship, and John realizes the pirates' masked leader is Ina. John is ordered to capture her, but when he learns the motives behind her piracy, John falls more in love with her than ever.

He also discovers another secret, one that would make Earth helpless before a superweapon that could not be stopped. To warn Earth, he knows he will have to betray his love for Ina; and to save someone else she loves, Ina knows she will have to betray her love for John. Battling space fleets, interstellar espionage, futuristic glamour, the tough men and even tougher women of the planetary frontiers, Black Planet is a Pulp Age masterpiece reprinted for the first time in more than six decades!

From Chicago to Seattle to Paris. From haunted mansions to vampire-ridden castles to ghastly catacombs. The Traveling Vampire, Karl, has to put some miles behind him to save himself and Sally, his farmer's-daughter love, from vampire hunters and other, more demonic enemies.

Captured and sentenced to imprisonment in a metal escape-proof box while Sally is turned into a vampire, Karl still manages to escape and take Sally with him. But the greatest dangers are from himself as he lies in a coffin, being shipped to Paris, and relives the terrors and memories of his past life—and all the evil he has ever done.

Ahead lies a meeting with Karl's greatest enemy and a crazed Nosferatu, a former servant of the Prince Dracul, who has inherited all his evil powers. Will Karl and Sally survive to consummate their relationship someday? They will only know their fates when it's Twilight Time in the Catacombs.

"A Wonderful Fantasy Romp!"

...raved David McDaniel, author of several The Man from UNCLE books, about the original magazine publication of this never-reprinted fantasy classic from the legendary pulp, Imagination.

Punished by the Djinn, Harold Godwin, rightwise King of England, found history changed, with his halfwitted friend Richard the Lionheart now king in his place. But having won the love of the sorceress, Ramizail, and the loyalty of the Saracen, El Sareuk, Godwin was content to trade the cares of the throne for a life of light-hearted adventure.

Then a dying man gasped out the details of a horrific plot to unleash a ship filled with plague rats on England, and Godwin finds himself on another crusade, to save the land he loves from destruction. With magic and swords against him, and magic and swords to aid him, Godwin finds his only hope is to change bodies with an ape and then learn to pilot a flying carpet! But the longer he remains an ape, the more Godwin finds himself becoming one! The odds against him are growing every day! And that's just the way a crusader like Godwin likes them!

Crusaders and Saracens Against the Djinn!

It's the Third Crusade. King Godwin of England and his loyal knight, Richard the Lion-heart, are battling against the Saracens for possession of the Holy City. That's just the beginning of this uproarious, rousing lost fantasy epic out of print for over half a century.

When Godwin meets Ramizail, descendant of Solomon, the stormy mistress of the good Djinn, she wheedles one little favor out of the British monarch. But when Godwin agrees to destroy Dar el Baida, sinful city of the evil Djinn, little does he dream just how radically the venture will change his life. For Ramizail has plans of her own for Godwin's future—if he lives to have one!

Making common cause with Ramizail, the Saracen leader, El Sareuk, and the Djinn, Mihrjan, Godwin and the faithful Richard ride into a hell's brew of magic. Soon it's siege-engines versus spells, with only Ramizail to protect them. A giant battle of the Saracens and Crusaders against the evil Djinn looms. Yet, if Godwin wins this battle of men and magic, Ramizail has it planned that he'll lose the battle of the sexes!

Two Novels of Supermen and Cosmic Peril from the Greatest of Space Opera Pulps!

From the famous Superman, Batman, and Justice League writer Gardner F. Fox comes a tale of an amazing superman—"The Man the Sun Gods Made". From the original magazine blurb: To the vassal remnants of Lyallar, this man was a God. They called him a god and worshipped him. He neither ate nor drank, nor breathed the wild free air, yet he was mighty beyond belief. To the Ardth hordes he was Tyr the Terrible. But grief bowed those superbly muscled shoulders, for he knew he was all too human.

Then Leigh Brackett's fictional superman, Eric John Stark, meets the most dangerous warrior on Mars—"The Black Amazon". Original magazine blurb: Grimly Eric John Stark slogged toward that ancient Martian city—with every step he cursed the talisman of Ban Cruach that flamed in his blood-stained belt. Behind him screamed the hordes of Ciaran, hungering for that magic jewel—ahead lay the dread abode of the Ice Creatures—at his side stalked the whispering spectre of Ban Cruach, urging him on to a battle Stark knew he must lose!

Cover: Original Planet Stories cover art by Allen Anderson