When man tackles the first really long journey - across twenty-six trillion miles of uncharted space - to the nearest star, it will take him two hundred years to complete the flight. Not until the sixth generation nears maturity will the starship reach its destination. Around this fascinating theme, Milton Lesser has woven a tale of the first starship's final days of flight. He pictures the ship as a hollowed-out asteroid composed of four concentric circles - a world in which civilization has deteriorated and superstition risen to a high pitch, making those within unaware of the fact that they are traveling through space or that their journey is destined to end. All Mikal knew when he embarked on the "Journey of the Four Circles" was that every eighteen-year-old from Astrosphere, the outermost circle, must visit each of the other circles if he hoped to become an Enginer. But before he completed his trip, he unearthed startling truths that threw the four circles into a state of chaos. Gradually Mikal discovered that unless the people of the four circles took immediate action the ship was doomed to crash. Mikal's desperate efforts to unite the four circles in order to save their world is a story of rising tension and clashing interests. Not only is this a tale of man's triumph over the barriers of space, but a fabulously exciting epic of civilization's victory over superstition and complacency. With subtle satire the author has written one of the most realistic and unforgettable stories ever to appear in the science fiction field.

The Star Seekers (Winston Science Fiction)

Teen & Young Adult

Lesser, Milton

Literature & Fiction

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

En route to the Center of the Galaxy for the Interstellar Olympic Games, the HELLAS, carrying Earth's team, intercepts a mysterious space ship, apparently derelict. Steve Frazer, champion spacesuit racer, volunteers to investigate. Once aboard, he discovers astonishing evidence of an intelligent nonhuman race that can speak by telepathy and disappear at will - a race superior in some ways to human beings. Stunned, Steve returns to the HELLAS to find that no one believes his startling story. His attempts to prove that he is telling the truth plunge Steve quickly into the midst of interstellar conflict and intrigue. Disqualified from the Games on a trumped-up charge, Steve soon realizes that someone very powerful thinks he knows too much. Tightly written and intensely dramatic, the story sweeps to the outermost reaches of the galaxy. Its picture of the Games with their brilliant color and keen competition is entirely new to the pages of science fiction.

Stadium Beyond the Stars (Winston Science Fiction)

When the moonship "Tycho III" comes into the landing pit at the New Mexico Spaceport, Andy Marlow has his first look in more than a year at the planet Earth. Instead of proud launching gantries and gleaming ships, he sees empty firing pits and the broken hulks of a few old spacetubs. Earth's brief two hundred years in space is now past history; man has been exiled for a violation of inter-galactic law. A short time after landing, Andy and his best friend despondently accept a mysterious job offer that takes them to a secret spaceport deep in the jungles of Central America. Here a ruthless ex-space captain, Reed Ballinger, plans to blast his way back into the galaxy. Andy, torn between loyalty to his friend and a growing awareness that Ballinger's way means war, finally flees the spaceport. He joins Project Nobel, a brilliant and dangerous scheme to thwart Ballinger and to convince the Star Brain, the machine that rules the galaxy, that Earth deserves to regain its place in space. Milton Lesser skillfully evokes the world of tomorrow in a dramatic story certain to appeal to all science fiction enthusiasts.

Spacemen, Go Home (Winston Science Fiction)

"We'll thunder off to Io, Out in the Jovian Moons. We'll feast our eyes and seek the skies And plunder Martian ruins!" 
The "Spaceman's Chant" turned from a spirited to a heartbreaking refrain when Cadet Peter Hodges learned that he would never be allowed to "thunder off to Io." 
Bitter disappointment, to a youth whose father had been one of the first space captains, motivates this gripping tale of the future. Studded with detail of the spaceports, ships and men that handle interplanetary flight, Earthbound is the very human drama of a disillusioned cadet forced by circumstances to help plunder the very space liners he was trained to protect. 
How Pete Hodges became involved with interplanetary racketeers, his dramatic escape, his flight to the asteroids on a mission the authorities knew could not succed, is a finely wrought drama that only an author of Milton Lesser's stature could write. Fired with suspense and action, this story of one young man's determination to face the speckled blackness of outer space is science fiction at its best!

Earthbound (Winston Science Fiction)

Children's Books

Science Fiction & Fantasy

The Graveyard of Space

Fantasy

Positronic Publishing

Fantastic Stories Presents the Imagination Super Pack (Positronic Super Pack)

HAMILTON, EDMOND

Reynolds, Mack.

Dick,Philip K

Cox Jr., Irving

Worlds of If was a three time winner of the Hugo Award for best science fiction magazine. Worlds of If discovered many talented writers who would go on to dominate genre fiction. This is the second in our Worlds of If series with even more memorable stories from its tremendous run. <ul> <li>2BR02B by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.</li> <li>Do Unto Others by Mark Clifton</li> <li>Robots of the World Arise by Mari Wolf</li> <li>Disqualified by Charles L. Fontenay</li> <li>Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly? by Kenneth O'Hara</li> <li>Vital Ingredient by Charles V. De Vet</li> <li>The Polite People of Pudibundia by R. A. Lafferty</li> <li>Let There Be Light by Horace B. Fyfe</li> <li>High Dragon Bump by Don Thompson</li> <li>Time Enough At Last by Lynn Venable</li> <li>The Test Colony by Winston Marks</li> <li>A Mixture of Genius by Arnold Castle</li> <li>Brain Teaser by Tom Godwin</li> <li>The Ambassador by Sam Merwin, Jr.</li> <li>She Knew He Was Coming by Kris Neville</li> <li>The Small World of M-75 by Ed M. Clinton, Jr.</li> <li>Generals Help Themselves by M. C. Pease</li> <li>The Planet with No Nightmare by Jim Harmon</li> <li>No Strings Attached by Lester del Rey</li> <li>Star Performer by Robert J. Shea</li> <li>Say Hello for Me by Frank W. Coggins</li> <li>The Junkmakers by Albert Teichner</li> <li>The Huddlers by William Campbell Gault</li> <li>Skin Game by Charles E. Fritch</li> <li>Masters of Space by E. E. Doc Smith & E. Everett Evans</li> <li>The Smiler by Albert Hernhunter</li> <li>Field Trip by Gene Hunter</li> <li>McGonigal's Worm by R. A. Lafferty</li> <li>The Terrible Answer by Arthur G. Hill</li> <li>A Bottle of Old Wine by Richard O. Lewis</li> <li>The Frozen Planet by Keith Laumer</li> <li>The Barbarians by John Sentry</li> <li>Tabby by Winston Marks</li> <li>One Martian Afternoon by Tom Leahy</li> <li>The Link by Alan E. Nourse</li> <li>Celebrity by James McKimmey, Jr.</li> <li>Black Eyes and the Daily Grind by Milton Lesser</li> <li>Gambler's World by Keith Laumer</li> <li>The Worlds of Joe Shannon by Frank M. Robinson </li> </ul>

Fantastic Stories Presents the Worlds of If Super Pack #2 (Positronic Super Pack)

Lafferty, R.A.

Robinson, Frank M.

Vonnegut, Jr., Kurt

Nourse, Alan E.

Laumer, Keith

Smith, E.E. Doc

Armchair Fiction presents extra-large editions of classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. The first novel, "Citadel of the Star Lords," is a time travel tale about a lonely aircraft and its pilot who are thrown into the future when they are caught in a nuclear blast over the Nevada desert. In this futuristic time, mankind has been reduced to stone age levels and Earth is now controlled by an advanced alien race. To make matters worse, a space invasion from another alien world is imminent. The second novel, "Voyage to Eternity," is the tale of a space cadet who is drafted for a long space voyage from which no one is expected to return. The first stop is Mars, but after a series of intrigue-filled events the cadet is launched into a world far, far into the future. Lots of time travel thrills are featured in both of these exciting novels, penned by two top-of-the-line sci-fi authors, Edmund Hamilton and Milton Lesser.

Citadel of the Star Lords/Voyage to Eternity

Science Fiction

Armchair Fiction & Music

Armchair Fiction presents extra large paperback editions of classic science fiction double novels, complete with original illustrations. The first novel, “Somewhere I’ll Find You,” is a parallel worlds tale by sci-fi great, Milton Lesser. She was kidnapped into a parallel world. Snatching Ed’s girl was certainly bad enough, but when the “little men” told him flat out that she had no right to be born, it really made him blow his top! Somewhere in the myriad parallel worlds was this lovely girl from Earth…but where? So it was up to Ed to find her, to rescue her—even though the science and knowledge of a Universe opposed him every step of the way! The second novel, “The Time Armada” is a tale of time and space by Fox B. Holden. When parallel worlds collide things can get dangerous. Politics and science don’t mix–except that Congressman Blair had the habit of dabbling in physics. That was how it all started, the beginning of an incredible journey through time and space—but it ended on a parallel world in another dimension… Trapped in this parallel time world, Douglas Blair came to play a key roll in a society that killed children to discourage wars—not knowing that his own two sons were scheduled to die!

Somewhere I'll Find You & The Time Armada

Holden, Fox B.

For the first time in paperback, Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic science fiction double novels. The first novel, "Slaves to the Metal Horde," is another engaging science fiction thriller from Milton Lesser. A terrible war and a great plague had all but destroyed civilization. This left many of the surviving humans as slaves to an army of robots. The same metal creatures they had once been masters to. Would mankind ever be able to regain its supremacy? The second novel, "Hunters Out of Time," is a great sci-fi fantasy by Joseph E. Kelleam. Catapulted into caverns deep within the Earth, Dr. Jack Odin has an adventure equal to his newly acquired title "Nors-King."

Slaves to the Metal Horde & Hunters out of Time

Kelleam, Joseph E.

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