Frank Carlson Library

The crew go adventuring. They discover the Freenz and experiment with the new TTH14 drive.

Harry Thorne had lost everything: his business, the love of his life, even his own self respect. As he's contemplating suicide he's made an incredible offer. He can go back in time and switch places with a look alike who lived on Mars millions of years ago when it was a lush, beautiful planet full of promise and adventure. Seizes his last chance at salvaging his life is transported millions of years into the past to a Mars peopled with beautiful women,...

Will the first to uncover the aliens' secrets control the world? Or destroy it?Jaxon Mortina is already in the fight of his life to hold on to his asteroid mining empire - not to mention his sanity - as the world's tyrannical leaders, radical cultists, and mysterious alien visitors threaten to take it all. Now, he and his business partner, Arlin White, along with new-hire Tisa Evans, wake to a reality they could never have dreamed up - the entire...

Battle to save a doomed planet. When the Concordian colonists finally reached Earth after years lost in space they expected a short visit. All they needed was bio-material to reseed their world. What they hadn't anticipated was the arrival of the Scythians. They learn the deadly aliens attacked the planet once before, devastating the burgeoning civilization. Now they're here to stay. Earth is weak. Humanity has barely begun to climb back to its...

A Galaxy Reborn It is the 43rd century and humanity occupies a substantial chunk of the Orion Spur, the small galactic arm in which Sol is located. Homo sapiens Terra has become Homo sapiens Galactica. Following the invention of faster-than-light travel in 2530, the Great Hegira went from a trickle to a flood as human-occupied space expanded at an exponential clip. Over the centuries, rivalries grew, as did star system navies. When widespread war...

A twisting journey through the fourth dimension leads Tashon through perils and wonders to a place he never thought he'd see again. Something cries for help from across the universe. With Aethera settled into its two new nations, Tashon sets out across the fourth dimension to find the source of the plea and, if he can, help it. Back on Earth, an attack has killed nearly all of the planet's vegetation. The Gaines family struggles to find their way...

For ages Mankind labelled Mercury a dead world-a red-hot, seething outpost of hell. Too late Rawley learned of the hideous life that molten, steaming planet spawned! Frank Belknap Long was best known for his horror and science fiction short stories, including early contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos. He received the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement, and the First Fandom Hall of Fame Award (1977)....

Examines 12 of the most engaging ancient mysteries. Each spread provides information about a mystery and its ancient and recent discoveries paired with interesting sidebars and questions to consider.

Teenage orphan Lucy Daz is carving out a busker's life on Damyadi Space Station, saving what credits she can for passage to one of Nearspace's new colony worlds. But when a hawker turns up on the station selling a "miracle cure" for space sickness, Lucy is faced with a tough decision: try to ignore to the problem and the pricking of her conscience, or take a big risk to protect the unsuspecting colonists who come to her shows…

Sin and virtue. Man and nature. Price and penance. Expedition Remus is sent to assess Planet 7355264Z for human colonization only to discover more than they bargained for. Previously thought desolate, their destination reveals a harrowing secret. The unprepared crew finds themselves stranded not only with each other but with the bloodthirsty creatures that rule the land they seek to claim. The ghaengste are the primitive and cannibalistic but intelligent...