Young Readers Books

Ultimatum

Roger D. Aycock

The old man stood in the center of Winant's hotel room, the sheriff's ill-fitting denims hanging on his slight frame like the castoff clothing of a scare-crow. "The box," he said. His voice, after tal..

The Warlock of Sharrador

Gardner F. Fox

The McCanahan let the breath from his lungs in a sudden relief. He sat with his back propped against the leg of the chair, and the hand that held his own Thorn shook so that he put his wrist on his na..

Little Mary's Saturday's walk

Lady Maria Callcott

A little patience, my dear, and I will.  I need not say that palm-trees do not grow in all the countries where there are Christians.  Even in Italy the climate does not suit them.  Ther..

Alpha Say, Beta Do

Alfred E. Maxwell

Tindar had never ceased to wonder at the startling work done in this massive building, which most people, over the course of the last hundred years of its use, had come to consider a natural part of t..

In the Sphere of Time

Ray Palmer

Rising silently, the massive columns hung from the roof like green fangs. The fish drove the raft on, and the columns descended with a watery whisper. The cavern widened. From the right bank, fields a..

The Sun-Death

Stanley Whiteside

The interphone tinkled and Ray heard McVane's broad accents. "Ye can rip the bottom off her, Mister!" Yes, McVane was drunk again. He'd been out in the space rays too long perhaps, but the indicators ..

Valkyrie from the Void

Basil Wells

Dandu Mot, a gray-maned sarif, stepped forward. "No," he said simply. "We will not go back. The innocent would die with the guilty. And our children and women would be driven out of the settlement str..

Collision Orbit

Clyde Beck

I threw the butt on the deck and mashed it with my heel before it could bounce off and go adrift in the cabin. I never had liked the taste of the weedy stuff anyway. Smoking quabba is the prime attrib..