Traders Risk
Roger Dee
Keeping this cargo meant death--to jettison it meant to make flotsam and jetsam of a world!

The Troubadour
Peter Michael Sherman
There was something odd about the guest attraction, Mr. Fayliss, and something odder still about his songs.

The Ultimate Experiment
Thornton DeKy
No living soul breathed upon the earth. Only robots, carrying on the last great order.

Valley of Dreams
Stanley Weinbaum
Captain Harrison of the Ares expedition turned away from the little telescope in the bow of the rocket. "Two weeks more, at the most," he remarked. "Mars only retrogrades for seventy days in all, relative to the earth, and we've got to be homeward bound during that period, or wait a year and a half for old Mother Earth to go around the sun and catch up with us again. How'd you like to spend a winter here?"

Warning from the Stars
Ron Cocking
Don't believe in flying saucers? Neither do we, but that doesn't necessarily mean that there can be no other way for Earth to get its last....

We Met The Space People
Helen & Betty Mitchell
It all began when my sister, Betty, and I were in a downtown St. Louis coffee shop. We had been shopping and had stopped off to get a coke and refresh ourselves. While in the coffee shop we were approached in a very mannerly way by two gentlemen dressed in grey suits, who managed to interrupt into our private conversation.

Whispering Spheres
R. R. Winterbotham
Something--like an inner eye--glowed for just a moment as the sphere advanced.
An alien life-form--metallic sinister--threatening all mankind with annihilation.

Wind
Charles Fontenay
When you have an engine with no fuel, and fuel without an engine, and a life-and-death deadline to meet, you have a problem indeed. Unless you are a stubborn Dutchman--and Jan Van Artevelde was the stubbornest Dutchman on Venus.

With No Strings Attached
Gordon Randall Garrett
A man will always be willing to buy something he wants, and believes in, even if it is impossible, rather than something he believes is impossible. So ... sell him what he thinks he wants!

A World is Born
Leigh Brackett
The first ripples of blue fire touched Dio's men. Bolts of it fastened on gun-butts, and knuckles. Men screamed and fell. Jill cried out as he tore silver ornaments from her dress.

The Worshippers
Damon Knight
Destiny reached out a hand to Algernon Weaver--but he was a timid man, at first. But on the strange world of Terranova, there was much to be learned--of destiny, and other things....