8 Chapters
FINAL FOE The Friendly Killers By S. M. Tenneshaw How do you fight an alien race invisible to Terran eyes? Particularly when you suspect your enemy is really masquerading as an ally! " Mankind n…
THE LUCKY ONES Outside the space-warp chamber, Rizal's great green sun had already set. Thick olive dusk eddied through the interplanetary transit center. I swore under my breath and slammed shu…
PRESSURE PLAY I locked the door behind Gaylord. Then, crossing to the rack beside the psychostructor, I began hunting down city charts, transport and communications guides, specifications for the pla…
CELESTE There was a musty smell about this place, and it was deathly still. Beyond that— I sighed, a sigh that was almost a groan, and shifted. My groping hand slid over something rough, like a coars…
THE KINDLY KILLERS "Sometimes you just don't know." Celeste's voice was strangely flat and lifeless in the black. "Sometimes there's nothing you can do but hope and try.…
SHIP OF DEATH This prison room was like the inside of a great, glowing, metal sphere. Light seemed to radiate from its very walls—strange scarlet light that washed over us in pulsing waves. Yet weird…
THRILL-MILLS, F.O.B. The first three Kel Celeste rooted out were loyal to their species. Unto death. The fourth, it seemed, felt differently about it. Even life in the FedGov's interplanetary zo…
FINAL FOE It was still as death inside the space-warp chamber. But the indicators showed that I'd now reached the Interplanetary Center. Grimly, I shoved shut the switch that released the heavy …