A.J. Merak

Earth was threatened with attach from the huge space-fleets of the Hundred Suns of Andromeda - an attack that the Terran Fleet could not hope…

All the known planets had been conquered and colonized. Pluto was the last - as far as man could go into space. Beyond the frozen…

Planet Earth was finished, its surface seared by nuclear heat, its great cities obliterated, its billions of inhabitants dying or dead. Only a few pockets…

The logical outcome of the space race, and the preliminary step towards the Moon, was the manned satellite, the Big Wheel moving in a stable…

The Colony on Rigel IV had been founded seven hundred years earlier but for the past six centuries, they had been forced to exist on…