Henry Carter Hull

Encased in the 700 pound spacesuit, Barlow was rolled into the first rocket to the moon-and he expected to die. He was on a mission to promote peace and his life would be the sacrifice. In bravado he claimed, "To me, the only important thing is that I'm the first man into space. That's enough for anyone to know." But standing on the vast, lonely expanse of the moon would life-his life-mean more?

Being, trapped in the steaming h-l of Venus is no excuse for forgetting one's manners-but anyone abducted, marooned, tricked, kept from tea might well crack under the strain! A wonderful and amusing satire of the modern cosmetics industry. Evelyn E. Smith is best-known as the author of the Miss Melville mysteries. From 1952 to 1969, she wrote dozens of science fiction and fantasy short stories that appeared in magazines such as The Magazine of Fantasy...

A Deadly Adversary. A Clash of Interests. A Colony at Stake. Bound by a vow of vengeance against the murderous and psychopathic Dr. Hayashibara, a fortuitous message from his cousin on her whereabouts takes Xerx and his crew to the distant orbital colony of Tophanavar. A charity Gestalt tournament becomes the cover for his crew's investigation into the colony's seedy dives to find his prey, who has left a trail of occupied hospital beds in her...

The trilogy that began with Outside reaches its dramatic conclusion as it spans the stars and visits worlds both physical and virtual.Virtual Emily and Rome have returned to Earth's simulation where they find all the people have vanished.Revolt is brewing in the Tau Ceti colony, as Mira Heine refuses to accept defeat, and a mysterious crime boss eliminates all who ask the wrong questions.Touk, physical Emily, and the Sextus colonists try to establish...

Strap into the Cockpit!Proudly carrying the battle standard for BattleTech short fiction, the first year of Shrapnel: The Official BattleTech Magazine continues the tradition of explosive, hard-hitting stories set in the war-torn, BattleMech-dominated interstellar future of the 31st century. In this collection of issues #1–4, you will attempt to escape from a bandit king's stronghold, ally with longtime enemies on the front lines of the swift and...

Follow the military career path of Max Morgan, an Avionics Troop performing maintenance on bombers and cargo ships. See all the struggles, shenanigans and memories as all his fellow maintainers attempt to succeed on the Flightline. Feeling trapped on a space station far from home, they do all they can to maintain the spaceships and endure the insanity of it all. Experience the madness of roll-calls, redballs and deployments to foreign moons. No career...

Children's Book in rhyming story for kids from 3 to 8 years. Tale in verse. 60 pages with text and colorful picture.Max's Time-Travel Adventure is a thrilling children's fairy tale that follows the journey of Max, a curious and brave boy who stumbles upon a time machine that propels him into a post-apocalyptic future. Max discovers that an evil sorcerer named Emir is using a time machine to travel back in time and steal human souls, threatening the...

Kendra can't end the war against Artemis playing by the rules. Good thing she's never met a rule she wouldn't break. Kendra Cassidy never wanted to go to war, but she learns fast. For a year, Artemis has tried take down her Terran Federation and failed. The Solarian Union is in danger of fragmenting as the tide of war turns. Worse, there are rumbles of discontent from within their population. But Kendra's never seen an advantage she wouldn't take. She...

The 1922 discovery of King Tut's tomb is one of the most important ancient Egyptian finds in history. People have told stories about it ever since. Are there rooms in King Tut's tomb yet to be discovered? Did clues point to King Tut being murdered? Read the stories. Then see if you can separate the truths from the myths!

A NEW BEGINNING…Hank Mallory runs the Wolfhounds, an elite, self-sufficient company of the fabled Kell Hounds mercenary unit. But when Callandre Kell gives the order for the Hounds to scatter in the wake of vicious attacks from the Jade Falcons, Mallory and his unit must transform overnight into a brand-new unit or risk being hunted down themselves.Naturally, they head to the Mercenary's Star, Galatea, to eradicate their previous identity and do...