Three complete Sci Fi novels with Table of Contents, About the Author, and illustrations. This edition is optimized for the Kindle. TWO PLANETS CLASH FOR LUNAR TREASURE - Gregg Haljan was aware that there was a certain danger in having the giant spaceship Planetara stop off at the moon to pick up Grantline's special cargo of moon ore. For that rare metal - invaluable in keeping Earth's technology running - was the target of many greedy eyes. But nevertheless he hadn't figured on the special twist the clever Martian brigands would use. So when he found both the ship and himself suddenly in their hands, he knew that there was only one way in which he could hope to save that cargo and his own secret - that would be by turning space-pirate himself and paying the BRIGANDS OF THE MOON back in their own interplanetary coin. Here is a science-fiction classic, as exciting and ingenious as only a master of super-science could write.

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This Halcyon Classics ebook contains eleven science fiction and other works by Raymond King Cummings, including his most famous book 'The Girl in the Golden Atom.' Includes an active table of contents for easy navigation. Atom Boy Beyond the Vanishing Point Brigands of the Moon Jetta of the Lowlands Tarrano the Conqueror The Fire People The Girl in the Golden Atom The Scalpel of Doom The White Invaders The World Beyond Wandl the Invader

A beautiful girl comes from nowhere to warn a world against a dreadful peril - Giants rise up out of the sea to threaten unsuspecting cities and towns - And two young men battle an Atomic Napoleon to save their girls from his lustful clutches and a world from his greedy ambitions. AMAZING - the journey through smallness to a world of the atomic hidden in the heart of a meteor! STARTLING - the destruction of a planet by one man's wrath! ASTOUNDING - the invasion of America by an army of giants tall as the Empire State Building! PRINCESS OF THE ATOM is a long-sought masterpiece by a leading imaginative writer, Ray Cummings.

A doctor is not supposed to use his knowledge to slay. Yet there came a time when this small-town medico had to operate with... short story excerpt Lots of things, particularly unpleasant ones, can get crowded into an hour. I’ve had it happen to me often, but never quite like that hour which began at about midnight, one evening last summer. And I never thought I’d have occasion to kill a man. Every doctor worries that sometime he might make a little mistake, or even just an error of judgment; his patient would die—and the doctor would forever after blame himself. But this wasn’t anything like that. I wanted to kill this fellow, and I did. I can’t say I’m exactly sorry, but it gives you a queer feeling just the same. I was alone in my office, that summer night. I live in a little stucco house near the edge of Pleasant Grove Village, with my office and reception room occupying about half its lower floor. My wife and young daughter were away for a week at the beach. I was alone on the premises, that night at midnight. I’d had quite a tough day at the hospital—two operations, one of which had turned out to be more serious than I had anticipated, and a long steady grind of routine calls that had kept me going until about eleven-thirty. I had just decided to go to bed when a car stopped outside. Hurried footsteps came up the walk; my night bell rang.

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Retired and rusticating Pete McLean, former policeman, sees something new in crime-fighting in a rural setting! short story excerpt My name's Pete McLean, and I’ve been mixed up in a few gunfights in my time as a member of the police force in a big city. But when a fellow gets to be seventy, even though he’s still hale and hearty, the idea of taking things easy is pretty attractive. So I retired and brought my granddaughter Effie along to this quiet little Vermont place. Effie, who is twenty-three, was married at twenty, and after about a year she had to call it quits. After her divorce, she came back to me; so she was in the mood, too, for peace and quiet. You can rusticate grand up here with the Green Mountains all around. If that’s what you want. It came hard for me, at first. You know, the captain of a precinct in a big city gets used to action. The nearest village is Hewlett Corners, hidden from us behind a hill. There’s nothing here but woods, a field, a brook, and an undulating white stretch of highway with our little house beside it. It didn’t take me long to discover that farming wasn’t in my line. I had to do something, so this being one of the main highways through Rutland, I put in a little gas station. The new cars were all coming in now; there was quite a bit of traffic and I did nicely.

This Halcyon Classics ebook contains eleven science fiction and detective works by Raymond King Cummings, widely considered to be one of the 'fathers' of the modern science fiction genre, including his most famous book 'The Girl in the Golden Atom.' Includes an active table of contents for easy navigation. Contents: Atom Boy Beyond the Vanishing Point Brigands of the Moon Jetta of the Lowlands Tarrano the Conqueror The Fire People The Girl in the Golden Atom The Scalpel of Doom The White Invaders The World Beyond Wandl the Invader This unexpurgated edition contains the complete text, with minor errors and omissions corrected.