13 Chapters
CRY CHAOS! By Dwight V. Swain The dark star held a dread secret that Gar Shane had to discover before our solar system was destroyed. But to go there meant certain death.... They got the great silver…
The walls and floor and ceiling and door of Shane's windowless cell all had the cold green glitter of pure telonium. So did the handcuffs and leg-irons that shackled him. But the bare metal cot …
"Now!" Shane clipped. The slave girl screamed—shrilly, piercingly. Shane poised, the cross-strap mace drawn back and ready. A dim whisper of running feet echoed from the corridor outside. T…
The doors were protected by rigid barriers of projected force, and the light-pistol burned out before Shane had quite finished cutting through the wall. But he had taken a long knife from the dead Pe…
This room was large, and luxuriously furnished with the treasures of a score of satellites and planets. Here were rich tapestries from Orlon, a thousand blinding years in the making. Here, a table fr…
They were singing in the dungeons—a wild Chonya song that had echoed down through the reckless years since that fateful day when the first great raider ship blasted off from the asteroids across the…
Now they were hurtling through the utter blackness that was space, away from the bleak moon that had been their prison. To port, Jupiter loomed monstrous, overwhelming, its great Red Spot weirdly agl…
"This is the place," the Chonya said. "This is where the silver woman came." Shane studied the structure. It was a house—a sort of fortress-dwelling in the ancient Fantay style, …
This was Amara's great arena. The oval pit was full twenty feet deep and floored with sand ... sand that here and there was churned and trodden, stained dark brown with men's life blood. Ab…
"Here Is Life!" the vendor cried. "Fresh life from new planets! Young slaves, with the hot blood surging through their veins! And all yours—yours for the asking, going for the price yo…