1. Blood on My Jets
Algis Budrys (1931 - 2008)
They were the hired gun-rabble of the System, engaged
in the dirtiest, most thankless racket in all
the worlds. But Ash Holcomb was doing all right,
until the girl walked out of his past with high
stakes in her pockets and murder in her eyes! - Summary by Rocket Stories, July 1953
Genre(s): Crime & Mystery Fiction, Science Fiction
2. A Drop in Infinity
Gerald Grogan (1884 - 1918)
This 1915 sci-fi book is possibly the first work to use in its plot what we would now call a parallel universe. Jack Thorpe and Marjorie Matthews are walking along the beach in Cornwall when they run into an odd man. Their interactions with him begin their adventure. Will they ever return from the parallel world they call Marjorie-land, into which they are swept? This story, told by one of their descendants, will reveal the answer. - Summary by Verla Viera
Genre(s): Science Fiction
3. The Dream: a novel
H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946)
The story is set in a Utopian future. On an excursion, Sarnac, relates his vivid dream to his friends and recounts how he lived the entire life of one Harry Mortimer Smith, an Englishman from times past, in his dream. - Summary by Sonia
Genre(s): Historical Fiction, Science Fiction
Language: English
4. The Man Who Staked The Stars
Katherine MacLean (1925 - 2019)
A business mobster under investigation is slowly turned against himself by an internal doppelgänger. - Summary by Paul Hampton
Genre(s): Science Fiction
Language: English
5. Slaves to the Metal Horde
Stephen Marlowe (1928 - 2008)
Johnny Hope knew the robot armies had been created to serve Man. But war and a plague had destroyed civilization, leaving humans as - slaves to the metal horde! - Summary by Original Gutenberg text
Genre(s): Science Fiction
6. Mr. Zytztz Goes to MarsNoel M. Loomis (1905 - 1969)
Strange vegetable creatures from the Red Planet were puzzling Earth's rulers until Healey and Browne took the salvaged derelict Phoebus on a mad space journey! - Summary by Thrilling Wonder Stories, August 1948
Genre(s): Science Fiction
Language: English
7. Twelve Times Zero
Howard Carleton Browne (1908 - 1999)
It was a love-triangle murder that made today's headlines but the answer lay hundreds of thousands of light years away! - Summary by If: Worlds of Science Fiction, March 1952
Genre(s): Crime & Mystery Fiction, Science Fiction
Language: English
8. Lost On Venus
Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875 - 1950)
When Carson Napier, Californian, pierced the mist-laden cloud blanket that shrouded the mysterious planet Venus, he embarked on an unparalleled adventure. For this planet was peopled by several antagonistic civilizations—none of whom believed his fantastic tale of the far-distant Earth he had come from. To them he was just a spy from another Venusan city—deserving only death. - Summary by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Genre(s): Science Fiction
Language: English
9. Technical Error
Hal Clement (1922 - 2003)
The ship had been built by aliens and though the basic principles of engineering held, their "know- how” methods were utterly — disastrously! — different. - Summary by Original text
Genre(s): Science Fiction
Language: English