Galactic empires. Mighty heroes blasting their way to victory. Galaxy-spanning quests. They're all essential ingredients for a space opera! Here are 6 classic novellas from the pulps, showcasing galaxy-spanning adventures. Included are: "Thunder to Venus," by Joseph J. Millard "The Last Outpost," by Nelson S. Bond "Martian Adventure," by Robert Moore Williams "A Planet Named Shayol," by Cordwainer Smith "The Superstition Seeders," by Edward Wellen "And...

Vintage Sci-Fi 11 - 26 Science Fiction Classics from Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Voltaire, Philip K. Dick and more • Ring Around the Sun by Isaac Asimov • The Veldt by Ray Bradbury • The Masked World by Jack Williamson • The Small Bears by Gene L. Henderson • Accept No Substitutes by Robert Sheckley • Two Weeks in August by Frank M. Robinson • Dance of the Dead by Richard Matheson • Savage Galahad by Bryce Walton • Death-Wish by...

From a multiple Hugo winner and Science Fiction Grand Master: Three mind-bending stories featuring future worlds, space travel, and aliens. Author Philip José Farmer blasts into space, races into the future, and travels back in time in three astoundingly original and thrilling science fiction adventures. The Lovers: Linguist Hal Yarrow catches a lucky break with an assignment on planet Ozagen, allowing him to escape the theocracy on thirty-first-century...

"Enter the mysterious realm of Robert Hichens. These stories and eight more tales of mystery, intrigue and the unexpected--set in the by-gone world of Northern Africa--await you..." --

Santiago is a Cuban fisherman who encounters a giant marlin in the Gulf Stream and the battle for his catch becomes one of survival against a band of marauding sharks.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar celebrates birthdays, from presents and balloons to cake.

Introduces more than two hundred words, including foods, number, shapes, colors, and feelings.

Bathsheba Everdene inherits her uncle's farm, then surprises the villagers of Wessex by deciding to run it herself rather than hire a manager. Three men vie for the affections of this independent young woman.

At the end of the nineteenth century, nine-year-old Almanzo lives with his family on a big farm in New York State where he raises his own two calves, helps cut ice and shear sheep, and longs for the day he can have his own colt.