e-books in Galaxy Sci-Fi Novels category
Twice in Timeby Manly Wade Wellman - Galaxy Publishing Corp. , 1958
While vacationing in Italy, 19-year-old Leo Thrasher rashly experiments with a radical new science. The result: he reflects himself 500 years back in time and must deal with life in the middle ages as he strives to return to the present.
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Mission of Gravityby Hal Clement - Galaxy Publishing , 1957
An exciting hard science quest on a thoroughly alien world. Mesklin is a vast planet, so cold that its oceans are liquid methane and its snows are frozen ammonia. It is a world spinning dizzyingly, a world where gravity can be a crushing 700g ...
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Four Sided Triangleby William F. Temple - The Galaxy Publishing Corporation , 1951
This is the story of how two men and one woman reach a solution to the eternal love triangle through the use of a secret scientific device. And then this situation turns savage. For there is no escape from the net of the four-sided love triangle.
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The House Of Many Worldsby Sam Merwin, Jr. - The Galaxy Publishing Corporation , 1951
In this classic science fiction novel the New York Times called 'a fast-moving adventure, told with engaging humor', reporter Elspeth Marriner's nose for news leads her into a world of trouble. Make that, in worlds of trouble ...
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The Last Spaceshipby Murray Leinster - The Galaxy Publishing Corporation , 1949
Kim Rendall will not yield to the tyranny of the power-madrulers of Alphin III. Branded an outlaw, he is in danger of psychological torture worse than death from the Disiplinary Circuit. His one hope lies in the Starshine, an outmoded spaceship.
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Sinister Barrierby Eric Frank Russell - World Editions , 1950
This story by Eric Frank Russell was first serialized in 1930, then published in book form in 1943. The story of a future where the human race is owned and operated by the invisible Vitons, parasites that feed on human pain and anguish.
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Prelude to Spaceby Arthur C. Clarke - The Galaxy Publishing Corporation , 1951
The world's first lunar spacecraft is about to launch. The ship is built from two separate components -- one designed to travel from Earth's atmosphere to the Moon and back, and the other to carry the first component through Earth's atmosphere.
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The Mating Cryby A. E. van Vogt - The Galaxy Publishing Corporation , 1950
He was still in the coffin, but a cool draft of fresh air was blowing across his face. In the blackness, Tannahill put out his hand. He touched cushiony satin, but after a minute the air was wafting as coolly as ever into his nostrils...
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Pebble in the Skyby Isaac Asimov - The Galaxy Publishing Corporation , 1953
One moment Joseph Schwartz is a happily retired tailor in Chicago, 1949. The next he's a helpless stranger on Earth during the heyday of the first Galactic Empire. Earth, as he soon learns, is a backwater, just a pebble in the sky, despised by all...
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Virgin Planetby Poul Anderson - The Galaxy Publishing Corporation , 1960
He is Davis Bertram, a space-explorer. But how can he convince them he really is a man? Their legends have built Men into gods. Trying to be worthy of the Coming, the women imitate masculine virtues. They are warlike, ambitious, ruthless.
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Fleshby Philip Jose Farmer - The Galaxy Publishing Corporation , 1960
Space Commander Stagg explored the galaxies for 800 years. Upon his return, the hero Stagg is made the centerpiece of an incredible public ritual, one that will repeatedly take him to the heights of ecstasy and the depths of hell.
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The Male Responseby Brian Aldiss - The Galaxy Publishing Corporation , 1961
Written at the peak of the swinging sixties, this is an ironic, hilarious and frank investigation of sexual politics and the male sex drive. Brian Aldiss is a fiction and science fiction writer, poet, playwright, critic, memoirist and artist.
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Double Jeopardyby Fletcher Pratt - The Galaxy Publishing Corporation , 1952
The story 'Double Jeopardy', invented in 1952 by American writer Fletcher Pratt, features his detective hero George Helmfleety Jones and consists of two adventures dealing with the ramifications of a newly discovered matter-duplication process.
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Shambleauby C. L. Moore - The Galaxy Publishing Corporation , 1954
One of the strangest, and surely one of the most imaginative stories ever written, C.L. Moore's first novel 'Shambleau' was hailed by readers, authors, and editors as the debut of a truly gifted writer during the golden age of science fiction.
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Killer To Comeby Sam Merwin Jr. - The Galaxy Publishing Corporation , 1953
Dr Julius Conrad of the Wellington Institute for the Study of the Humanities has developed a radical hypothesis: Namely, that the work of most geniuses, past and present, has been directed by minds from a ruthless future ...
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Chessboard Planetby Lewis Padgett - The Galaxy Publishing Corporation , 1954
It concerns Robert Cameron, trained in applied psychology, who finds himself being driven insane by a strange, unfathomable force. As an experienced psychometrician he fights the terrifying hallucinations. He knows his job is vital ...
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Murder in Spaceby David V. Reed - The Galaxy Publishing Corporation , 1954
There is a place in the asteroid belt called the Hive. It is a deadly whirl of destruction filled with thousands of spiraling asteroids -- where no spaceship can enter and return in one piece. And deep within it lurks an unsolved murder.
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The World Belowby S. Fowler Wright - Gerard Arthus , 1949
When George is transported to a far-future Earth, he finds himself caught between two very different species of humanity --the Amphibians, dwellers of the deeps, and the giant Dwellers, rulers of the large island that constitutes the major land mass.
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Jack of Eaglesby James Blish - Gerard Arthus , 1952
Danny was an average copywriter, until he suddenly found he had ESP. His knowledge of the future is astonishing, and the rest of Danny's powers are just beginning. But someone has plans for Danny: a group of sinister men bent on world domination ...
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Sin in Spaceby Cyril Judd - Gerard Arthus , 1961
A rocketing, sensational expose of sin in space: a story about a drug deadlier than heroin, more vicious than morphine -- this was the Martian narcotic that drenched a planet in crime and perversion! This is Galaxy Science Fiction novel number 46.
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Empireby Clifford D. Simak - Gerard Arthus , 1951
Mankind is united under the rule of a single corporation and has begun to explore and settle the stars. The corporation maintains its monopoly on energy. But that's about to change and the corporation will do anything to hold onto its power ...
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The Forever Machineby Mark Clifton, Frank Riley - Gerard Arthus , 1958
The government ordered it built: a thinking machine that could foresee catastrophe and eliminate human error. Research trainee Joe Carter sees another possibility -- create a machine that will make ordinary people telepathic -- and immortal.
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Fearby L. Ron Hubbard - Gerard Arthus , 1940
Professor James Lowry doesn't believe in ghosts, the supernatural, the surreal, or any type of dark fantasy. Not until a gentle spring evening when his hat disappeared, and suddenly he couldn't remember the last four hours of his life.
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The Humanoidsby Jack Williamson - Gerard Arthus , 1954
A brilliant scientist creates the humanoids - sleek black androids programmed to serve humanity. But are they perfect servants - or perfect masters? Slowly the humanoids spread throughout the galaxy, threatening to stifle all human endeavor.
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The City in the Seaby Wilson Tucker - Gerard Arthus , 1951
This is the story of an expedition, a strange and exciting expedition of one man and an army of women. He had come into the land of the women suddenly and without warning. Tall, bronzed, muscular, he stood out among their pale skins and meek spirits.
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Well of the Worldsby Lewis Padgett - Gerard Arthus , 1952
Clifford Sawyer, investigating ghosts in a mine, finds ancient beings from another world -- and gets swept up in a titanic struggle between for control of a parallel dimension. This novel was originally published in 'Startling Stories', in 1952.
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Three Go Backby J. Leslie Mitchell - The Galaxy Publishing Corporation , 1932
When their transatlantic airship is destroyed, three survivors find themselves in a lost world 25,000 years in the past, a world peopled by Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons. Claire Stranlay must somehow survive and does so in the only way she knows how.
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The Black Galaxyby Murray Leinster - Gerard Arthus , 1949
Rod wanted to have the first real spaceship capable of putting up a fight. He believed it might need to fight. But anyhow he was still in command of the construction of the space-ship now building and he'd command it when it took off from Earth ...
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The Amphibiansby S. Fowler Wright - Gerard Arthus , 1950
I looked upward, and the three great stars of Orion's belt showed through the fog. If I were indeed transported to some remote and future time, at least the same stars were there, without fundamental change, even of their positions in the heavens.
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The Warriors of Dayby James Blish - Gerard Arthus , 1951
Tipton Bond was a man who lived for challenges - and Earth had no more challenges for him. But on Xota: One of the giants' faces bent over him, sardonically benign. You are a denizen of a planet which the Warriors of Day will reach and engulf ...
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The Legion of Spaceby Jack Williamson - Gerard Arthus , 1950
This is Jack Williamson's early 'space opera' science fiction tale, first serialized in Astounding Stories in 1934, and published in book form by Fantasy Press in 1947. 'Galaxy Science Fiction Novels' were published for distribution to newsstands.
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The Rat Raceby Jay Franklin - Crowell-Collier Pub. , 1950
Lieutenant Jacklin is blown up in a thorium bomb explosion while on the battleship Alaska. He awakens in the body of Winnie Tompkins who had perpetrated the explosion. As Tompkins, he learns of a plot by German agents to poison Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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